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Litchfield Jazz Camp Announces Teach the Teacher: 2 Day Professional Development Training
Kent, CT: Teach the Teacher was developed by Litchfield Jazz Camp to help music teachers at all grade levels develop or expand effective strategies for educating their students about America's national music Jazz. Held on the campus of Kent School in Kent, Connecticut, July 20 and 21, the workshop is open to music teachers and undergraduate ...
The Checkout May 11: Featuring Yours Truly
As a part of my M.A. degree at Rutgers, I have had the pleasure of interning at WBGO, the NYC areas leading jazz radio station. Working closely with producer Josh Jackson, I have begun to learn the ropes for putting together their weekly showcase for new jazz trends, The Checkout. Since its finals week and all, ...
Hal McKusick: Cross Section-Saxes
Hal McKusick was and remains a jazz musician's musician. Even in his earliest days in Boyd Raeburn's band in the mid-1940s, Hal's distinct sound on the alto saxophone was admired by bandmates Lucky Thompson, Oscar Pettiford and Dizzy Gillespie as well as contemporaries like Charlie Parker, Claude Thornhill and Quincy Jones. Hal's ability to navigate the ...
Lena Horne, 1917-2010
Lena Horne is being remembered with the respect and admiration that her talent and tenacity won her in decades of struggle and refusal to compromise. Her travails and triumphs are recounted in dozens of obituaries on the air, on web sites and in publications around the world. This one from The New York Times has the ...
Yuko Ito is Reviewed by Latin Beat Magazine
YUKO ITOMania De Voc(Funny Baby Face Records) A native of Tokyo, Japan, Yuko Ito started her early music career when she founded the female rock band “Sissy Boy" in Tokyo and produced two CDs- Marcy's Factory, and Kick Off Boys. In 1994, she relocated to the U.S. to continue her music education, earning a ...
Joseph Patrick Moore Releases "To Africa with Love"
Composer, producer and performer Joseph Patrick Moore weaves tribal rhythms into funk, pop and jazz melodies on his eighth solo release, To Africa With Love. Mr. Moore connects with some old friends and new ones in this dedication to the Land of the Sahara. The work itself contains 13 songs that range in genre from Contemporary ...
Bassists Anthony Jackson and Yiorgos Fakanas Interviewed at AAJ
It may come as a surprise to anyone wading through bass guitar giant Anthony Jackson's discography, which mind bogglingly totals over three thousand recordings, that he has never recorded a solo album. The legendary bassist--who has played with an astonishing variety of artists of the caliber of Chick Corea, Roberta Flack, the O'Jays, Buddy Rich, Paul ...
Saxophonist Paul Carr to Release "Straight Ahead Soul," His 4th CD as a Leader, on May 25
Straight Ahead Soul, the new CD by Paul Carr, is the most personal musical statement to date from the tenor saxophonist and educator, who's been a mainstay of the Washington, DC jazz scene for the last 25 years. It's a meditation on Carr's Southern roots and “the influence a Southern upbringing has had on my musical ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Carla Bley
All About Jazz is celebrating Carla Bley's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Carla BleyCarla Bley was born in Oakland, California in 1936. Her father Emil Borg, a piano teacher and church organist, began giving her music lessons when she was three years old and she was soon ...
The Jazz Session #167: Paul Pines
Paul Pines is a poet with roots deep in the jazz world. In the 1970s, he opened and ran the Tin Palace, a bar in the Bowery where he booked many of the great jazz names of the day and others who would get some of their earliest gigs at the Palace. Pines has published several ...
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