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Making Spirits Bright: Surprising Duo Delivers Spirited Musical Cocktail

November 22, 2022

There has never been a more unlikely, nor more compelling, musical mixology for the holidays. And like a truly modern Christmas miracle, it comes complete with irony, humor, and heart. Here’s the recipe: Take one exceptional business executive with a Political Science degree from the American University of Cairo and decades of experience developing telecommunications operations ...

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Jazz Dispensary And Vinyl Me, Please Announce A Second Collection Of Reissues

November 22, 2022

Jazz Dispensary is thrilled to partner with Vinyl Me, Please for a second installment of album reissues, following our inaugural collaboration, in 2020. This latest bundle continues our sonic journey with four cosmically funky catalog gems from the early to mid-’70s. The reissues include Bayeté’s boundary-pushing debut, Worlds Around the Sun; Gary Bartz’s uplifting The Shadow ...

News: Performance / Tour

The joy of piano personified

November 20, 2022

Pianist Bobby van Deusen returned to southwest Florida on Friday, November 22 with a long-overdue performance that celebrated his mastery of virtually every keyboard style—-delivered with joy and enthusiasm. The Pensacola-based keyboard marvel hadn't performed locally in nearly four years, thanks to pandemic and hurricane postponements.That made his performance in Morrie Trumble's South County Jazz With ...

News: Recording

Backgrounder: Freddie Green's Mr. Rhythm

November 18, 2022

Freddie Green, Count Basie's long-time rhythm guitarist, recorded just one album as a leader—Mr. Rhythm, for RCA in December 1955. Green's tenure with Basie date back to March 1937. On Mr. Rhythm, Green assembled an all-star group that was arranged like a pocket version of Basie's band, complete with Nat Pierce on piano: Joe Newman (tp), ...

About Przemyslaw Straczek

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Przemyslaw Straczek

Born: August 15, 1976

Przemysław Strączek – jazz guitarist, composer, producer and band leader. Graduate of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, honored with, among others, the Special Award of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage (2013) and the Award of the Marshal of the Silesian Voivodeship in the field of music (2015). For over two decades, he has consistently pursued his own artistic path, based on dialogue between cultures, styles and personalities. Searches in the sphere of music take place on many levels: in the approach to harmony, aesthetics, sound or tone color

News: Video / DVD

Backgrounder: Count Basie's Have a Nice Day

November 12, 2022

Sammy Nestico arranged nine Count Basie studio albums, starting in 1969: Straight Ahead (1969) Standing Ovation (1969) Good Time Blues (1970) Have a Nice Day (1971) Bing 'n' Basie (1972) Basie Big Band (1975) Prime Time (1977) Warm Breeze (1981) 88 Basie Street (1983) One of his breeziest was Have a Nice Day (Daybreak). As with ...

News: Performance / Tour

Charles Mcpherson's Both Sides Now

November 11, 2022

It took two and a half-years, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic lull, but alto saxophonist Charles McPherson finally got back to Artis-Naples. He appeared with the Naples Philharmonic Jazz Orchestra on Wednesday, November 9 in the quintet's All That Jazz series. His last visit to Naples was about 10 years ago. On this night, he treated ...

News: Recording

Backgrounder: Roberto Menescal - A Nova Bossa

November 5, 2022

Guitarist-composer Roberto Menescal is one of the bossa nova's pioneers. Though his songs were recorded by other artists years earlier, his first leadership album, A Nova Bossa, was released in 1964 and it was a stunner. The album featured Roberto Menescal (g), Henri Ackselrud (fl), Eumir Deodato (p), Ugo Marotta (vib), Sérgio Barrozo (b) and João ...

News: TV / Film

Doc: Dinah Washingon - Evil Gal Blues

November 2, 2022

Back in 2010, the BBC aired Evil Gal Blues, Jill Nichols's wonderful documentary on Dinah Washington. As we wait until TypePad's finishes revamping its functionality so I can resume posting with images, here's the film on the singer known as the “Queen of the Blues." At the end, catch a rare and exceptional video clip of ...

News: Recording

A Holiday Gift, Delivered 50 Years After Its Creation

November 1, 2022

A couple of months before his death on July 6, 1971, beloved jazz trumpeter and popular entertainer Louis Armstrong made what turned out to be his final recording. It's never been heard by the public until now Armstrong turned on the reel-to-reel tape recorded in his home in the Corona section of Queens NY recorded a ...