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Frédéric Gomes at les Deux Moulins
by Martin McFie
Frédéric Gomes les Deux Moulins Paris / Montmartre June 13, 2019 To the right of the famous Moulin Rouge dinner show theatre in Paris, a narrow cobbled street rises towards Montmartre. It is rue Lepic, where Les Deux Moulins (the two windmills) is situated. It appears as a ...
Marici Saxes at the London Saxophone Festival
by Martin McFie
Marici Saxophones London Saxophone Festival London June 11, 2019 As part of the second London Saxophone Festival, a number of London jazz clubs and venues featured music played on this quintessentially jazz instrument. Invented by Adolphe Sax in Paris, 60 years before jazz came to life, it was ...
Remi Toulon With Gilles Rea At Chez Papa
by Martin McFie
Chez Papa Remi Toulon & Gilles Rea Paris June 7, 2019 Chez Papa in St Germain des Prés, Paris, is deep in the heart of the Latin Quarter, now one of the most expensive areas in the city. It has an air of 1960s Paris jazz clubs complete with visitor's graffiti, ...
Noel Freidline Quintet At The Jazz Corner's 20th Anniversary Party
by Martin McFie
Noel Freidline Quintet The Jazz Corner 20th Anniversary Party Hilton Head Island March 31, 2019 The All About Jazz worldwide poll to find member's favourite jazz clubs had closed (view results), and The Jazz Corner on Hilton Head Island reached the top 20 clubs in the world. At that same ...
The Ben Paterson Trio At The Jazz Corner
by Martin McFie
Ben Paterson Trio The Jazz Corner Hilton Head Island, SC May 10-11, 2019 The Ben Paterson Trio set off with the lilting Ray Brown tune “FSR" (For Sonny Rollins). By the time they had finished the very first piece the audience was fully engaged in the performance. Paterson ...
The Justin Varnes Orchestra's Rhapsody In Blue At The Jazz Corner
by Martin McFie
The Justin Varnes Orchestra The Jazz Corner Rhapsody in Blue Hilton Head Island, SC May 12, 2019For Mother's Day luncheon, The Jazz Corner presented another in their “Classical meets Jazz" series of concerts, “Rhapsody in Blue."The opening clarinet trill, a scale, then the slowly extruded glissando ...
The Hogtown Syncopators: Rotman's Hat Shop
by Martin McFie
For 75 years, Rotman's hat shop on Spadina Avenue in Toronto was the place for the Jewish community and others still wearing hats to buy a fedora, a beret, almost any kind of hat. More than that, it was the story of one man's life; David Rotman lived and worked there, every day fighting a forlorn ...
Authentic Gypsy Jazz At The Jazz Corner
by Martin McFie
Fredric Gomes The Jazz Corner Authentic Gypsy Jazz Hilton Head Island February 22-23, 2019 Gypsy Jazz or Manouche was the invention of Django Reinhardt whose sound came from old gypsy tunes played with a swing rhythm. During the inter-war years, Django heard Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington in Europe's ...
The Vaché Brothers Quintet At The Jazz Corner
by Martin McFie
Allan and Warren Vache' Quintet The Jazz Corner Hilton Head, SC March 1-2, 2019 Brothers, Allan Vache' and Warren Vache', brought their quintet, their dry wit and, their brotherly banter to The Jazz Corner for their annual visit. Allan played clarinet in the style and with an attack reminiscent of early ...
Ulysses Owens Jr. At The Jazz Corner
by Martin McFie
Ulysses Owens Jr.The Jazz Corner Songs of Love Hilton Head Island, South CarolinaFebruary 15-16, 2019 It was a pleasure to hear a group of skillful, energetic, and highly-educated young musicians at Hilton Head Island's Jazz Corner, led by master musician and two-time Grammy winner (including one for his work with ...
