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Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers: Free for All
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers' Free for All was recorded in February 1964 and released in July 1965. Only four tracks were recorded, two per side. And yet the album is one of the hard-bop sextet's finest and most ambitious works. The band is firing on all cylinders. The lineup in 1964 featured Blakey on ...
10 Clips: João Bosco at Birdland Next Week
João Bosco, Brazil's legendary master of bossa nova and post-bossa nova pop known as música popular Brasileira will be making a rare appearance at New York's Birdland club next week, June 4-8. He'll be joined by Ricardo Silveira (guitar), Guto Wirtti (bass) and Kiko Freitas (drums). I don't know how producer Pat Philips does it, but ...
Acclaimed Composer Hyewon Park Appointed To Prominent Music Programs In The U.s.
Acclaimed South Korean composer, pianist, and music educator Hyewon Park is about to make waves in the music industry in the United States. Known for her extraordinary ability to perform, compose, and communicate her musical expertise to students, Park is about to bring her expertise to the next generation of students in the United States, as ...
Lee Ritenhaur and Dave Grusin: Brasil
Just as sunshine pop offered a counterweight to psychedelic hard rock in the late 1960s, soft jazz evolved in the 1970s as a lighter FM alternative to the mystical psychedelic jazz fusion movement. Two artists who helped pioneer soft jazz were guitarist Lee Ritenour and keyboardist Dave Grusin. Mind you, these categories weren't exclusive. There was ...
The Recording Industry's Music Performance Trust Fund Invests $1.1 Million in Grants to Communities to Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month
The recording industry's Music Performance Trust Fund (MPTF), a leading non-profit organization enriching lives and uniting communities through the power of music, wrapped up its annual initiative to present admission-free live musical performances celebrating Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM) in April. Nearly 5,000 professional musicians in 78 markets across North America performed for appreciative audiences from Honolulu ...
Backgrounder: Sonny Stitt's Night Crawler
When I was collecting Sonny Stitt albums as a kid in the early 1970s, my purchases divided into three categories: not bad, meh and perfection. Back then, there was no internet. Instead, I listened religiously to jazz FM radio stations and entered favorites in a small notebook that fit in my back pocket. Everyone I knew ...
Backgrounder: Jazz Sounds From Peter Gunn
One could argue that Henry Mancini picked up where Bill Holman left off. As noted earlier this week, Bill's arrangements for recordings captured the sound of 1950s Los Angeles' jazzy cool, with his charts clutch-shifting like brand-new cars cruising the region's many freeways. Mancini's music, by contrast, was for TV and the movies, and captured the ...
17 Favorite 1950s Clips by Bill Holman
As an arranger, the late Bill Holman} knew how to set 'em up and knock 'em down. His arrangements always began with a relatively simple melodic idea, which he then whipped up into a flaming meringue, holding dear to the original concept. He loved to put the reeds in play, setting them off with call-and-response harmony ...
Pat Senatore: Groovin' in Rome
At the start of his recording career in 1961, bassist Pat Senatore played in Stan Kenton 's band, both on the road and in the studio. You'll find him on Adventures in Standards and Adventures in Jazz for Capitol. In 1962, Pat joined Les Brown's band and played on TV shows. Then in early 1965, Herb ...
Charles Mingus: Peggy's Blue Skylight
About an hour and 45 minutes north of Manhattan sits the village of Millbrook, N.Y. In the 1960s, a sprawling American Queen Anne mansion just outside the village became something of a counterculture landmark. Built in 1912, the house and the 2,500-acre estate was acquired at the start of the 1960s by the twin sons of ...
