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The Jazz Session #59: Gary Burton
Listen After three decades, vibraphonist Gary Burton reunited with Pat Metheny and Steve Swallow and added drummer Antonio Sanchez to record Quartet Live! (Concord Jazz, 2009), an album celebrating the music of the original Gary Burton Quartet. Originally conceived as a one-time-only performance at the Montreal Jazz Festival, the band quickly realized that the music was ...
River to River Festival 2009: Junior Mance, King Britt, Chuck Brown, Emmet Cohen, and Flix Lajk
June 01, 2009 7:30pm Summer Stars: Flix Lajk with Antal Brasny 3 Spruce Street Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts Pace University Hungarian violinist Flix Lajk fuses folk, jazz, Gypsy, and Jewish klezmer music to create a unique and energetic musical style. Known for his charismatic performances, Lajk ...
NYC Summer Saxophone Workshops, Presented by New York Jazz Academy, Now Enrolling Students
NEW YORK CITY -- The New York Jazz Academy, the city's newest music school, will soon be opening its doors, and is now accepting summer and fall 2009 registration inquiries from all interested parents and students. The New York Jazz Academy 2009 Summer Saxophone Workshops, open to aspiring saxophonists, ages 11-19, are offered the weeks of ...
Jazz Pioneer Set to Forge 1st Jazz Twitter Nation!
Ever wonder what happens in a day in the life of a pioneer jazz master, who's worked alongside some of the top names in music history, including famed band leaders Count Basie, Lionel Hampton, Duke Ellington and countless other legends of jazz and American popular music such as Dizzy Gillespie, Quincy Jones, Aretha Franklin, Sarah Vaughn, ...
Irene Atman: New York Rendezvous
by Woodrow Wilkins
Every once in a while, a fresh voice comes along that's worthy of notice. Or, in the case of Irene Atman, it's an experienced voice with a fresh interpretation of classics. When other children wanted to hear bedtime stories or have parents sing them to sleep, Atman sang to herself. By the age ...
Barry Guy: Ode to a Bassist
by A. Henkin
In 2007, just in time for bassist Barry Guy's 60th birthday, Intakt Records released Portrait, equal parts compilation, introduction, overview and mere glimpse into the musical world of this instrumentalist, composer and bandleader. There are tracks from several editions of Guy's colossal London Jazz Composers Orchestra (LJCO), pieces done with longstanding collaborators like Evan Parker and ...
Wadada Leo Smith
by Marc Medwin
“Since 2007, I see America changing, becoming not a divided multi-cultural society, but a pluralistic cultural society where everybody has a chance. Creative music announced the change in the '60s, but the music had been democratic since New Orleans, with its collective improvisation., where the collective had value and every individual had equal value. This is ...
The Marcus Roberts Trio at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola
The Marcus Roberts Trio with Roland Guerin on bass and Jason Marsalis on drums will perform a six-night run at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Center July 21 through the July 26. Roberts and company have a long association with Jazz at Lincoln Center and with Wynton Marsalis, dating back to Roberts' joining Marsalis' ...
Joan A. Stanton, Radio Voice of Lois Lane, Dies at 94
Joan A. Stanton, who was known as Joan Alexander in the 1940s when she was the voice of Lois Lane on the radio version of The Adventures of Superman, died on Thursday in Manhattan. She was 94 and lived in Manhattan and East Hampton, N.Y. The cause was an intestinal blockage, said her daughter, Jane Stanton ...
Jazz Giant Billy Taylor Inspires Philadelphia Music Students
A man sits at the piano and - across seven decades - the magic happens: Master imparts wisdom to student. Jazz giant Billy Taylor, 87, is giving pointers to budding pianist Dont Ford, 17. Taylor spreads his famous left hand over a dozen keys and ripples off a chord. “That looks like it hurts," says Steven ...
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