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Interview: Billy Joel (Part 1)
At about 12:45 pm yesterday, my office phone rang. When I answered it, a voice at the other end said, “Hi Marc? This is Billy Joel." A friend had told me he shared yesterday's post with the famed singer-songwriter in Miami and that Billy might call to talk about jazz and Just the Way You Are. ...
Interview: Phil Woods (Part 3)
Phil Woods is known worldwide as a jazz headliner and leader with a powerful attack on the alto saxophone. He plays with every ounce of energy, as though it's his very last day on the job. And for reasons that probably have more to do with nature than logic, when Phil plays, the urgency in his ...
Interview: Phil Woods (Part 2)
Listen to virtually any Charlie Parker recording and it's immediately apparent why the alto saxophonist had such an enormous impact on jazz musicians coming of age in the early 1950s. But Parker's magnificent tone and improvisational skills were only half the story. As Phil Woods notes today, Parker's personality also had a profound impact on musicians, ...
Making Avant-Garde Jazz in a Mostly Killing Climate
The record business is a sinkhole no matter which way you turn. But in this troubled economy, Moppa Elliott chose an especially tough path: playing in an avant-garde bop band named Mostly Other People Do the Killing, and starting his own tiny jazz label, Hot Cup. Elliott, 30, a bassist/composer born in Factoryville, says, “Look, we're ...
Monsters of Jazz-Influenced Rock
by Jeff Fitzgerald, Genius
And summing up last month's article on jazz as background music in 70's porno flicks, the tumescent Swede did in fact represent the rise of European influence, particularly in Fusion (as obviated by the mustache), while the naive-but-willing coed represented the collective reception of the American jazz audience. The later addition of the Mexican pool boy ...
New Jazz It Up! Episode: Christian McBride, Nicholas Payton, Mark Whitfield and the Lew Tabackin Trio Plus the 2009 NEA Jazz Masters Ceremony with George Benson Performance
New York, NY - The very latest episode of the online jazz TV show, Jazz it Up!, is available now for your viewing pleasure. To subscribe and see a five-minute preview of the new episode. This edition of Jazz it Up! features two trios, both swinging hard: Nicholas Payton, Christian McBride and Mark Whitfield are seen ...
Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola March Lineup
Dizzys Club Coca-Cola March 2009 Lineup Monday, March 2 UPSTARTS! Jonathan Batiste Quintet Tuesday-Sunday, March 3-8 Cyrus Chestnut & Eric Reed: Piano Duets/Trios/Quartets Featuring Cyrus Chestnut (piano) & Eric Reed (piano), Dezron Douglas (bass), Willie Jones III (drums). Monday, March 9 Special Presentation Conversations with Christian: ...
Terence Blanchard: Requiem for Katrina
by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
During a brief period of four years, two events took place that could define how world history will view America during the early part of the 21st century. The first was 9/11 and the other, Hurricane Katrina. But perhaps most surprising from a global point of view, was how powerless America appeared to be in helping ...
Yardbird Suite
By Herbie Mann
Label: Sine Qua Non
Released: 2008
Track listing: Yardbird Suite;
Here's That Mann;
One for Tubby;
Squire's Parlor;
Who Knew?;
Opicana.
Sherman Theater Presents a COTA Christmas
On Monday, December 29, at 7:30 p.m., the Delaware Water Gap Celebration of the Arts (COTA) and the Sherman Theater in downtown Stroudsburg are teaming up to present a program of Yuletide Jazz featuring outstanding artists who’ve performed at the award- winning COTA Festival over the past 31 years. The lineup includes the premiere of the ...
