Results for "Mary Lou Williams"

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW June 29, 2020

Swingadelic: Bluesville

Read "Bluesville" reviewed by Jack Bowers

If you're partial to music that is sunny and freewheeling and almost commands a smile, you should have no trouble warming to Bluesville, the eighth recording by New Jersey-based Swingadelic, now twenty-two years old and counting. As its name implies, the orchestra (more often than not a mini-big band a dozen or so strong) re-creates an ...

ARTICLE: LIVE REVIEW February 28, 2019

Documenting Jazz 2019

By IAN PATTERSON

Documenting Jazz Conservatory of Music and Drama TU Dublin jny: Dublin, Ireland January 17-19, 2019 Jazz music, which has pretty much always meant different things to different people, has been comprehensively documented since its arrival in the first decades of the twentieth century. The most obvious form ...

ARTICLE: LIVE REVIEW July 28, 2018

Umbria Jazz 2018 - seconda parte

By LIBERO FARNè

Umbria Jazz Varie sedi Perugia 13-22.07.2018 Umbria Jazz 2018 ha chiuso i battenti: 1 milione 450 mila euro di incassi da biglietti e merchandising con 35.000 paganti. Numeri invidiabili, da capogiro, anche se un bilancio ragionato fra entrate e uscite richiederebbe un'analisi molto più approfondita. Come abbiamo anticipato nella ...

ARTICLE: EXTENDED ANALYSIS October 6, 2014

Nate Birkey: Just a Closer Walk

By VICTOR L. SCHERMER

Nate Birkey is a fine New York-based trumpeter who traveled a biographical route from childhood in Colorado to Boston's Berklee School of Music, then to various parts of the West Coast, living and working in the Los Angeles area for a while, and finally settling into the big-time jazz scene in NYC a few years ago. ...

NEWS: FESTIVAL March 22, 2009

Jazz at Lincoln Center Announces 2009-2010 Season

Jazz at Lincoln Center and Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis, announced the 2009-10 season. Programming featuring concerts, education events, broadcasts, touring and a line-up of guest music directors. This is the organizations 23rd season of programming and begins the sixth season in its home, Frederick P. Rose Hall. Highlights of the season include the Jazz at Lincoln ...
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