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Jazz Bridge Celebrates Jelly Roll Morton on September 24th at Trinity Episcopal Church (Ambler, PA)
On Saturday, Sept. 24th, saxophonist Larry McKenna will be celebrating the life and legacy of one of the progenitors of jazz—Jelly Roll Morton—with a dynamite traditional jazz band that will include trumpeter Al Harrison, trombonist Clarence Watson, pianist Tom Lawton, bassist Ed Wise and drummer Jimmy Coleman. This unique concert, which will raise money for two ...
Ars Nova Workshop | Fall 2011
The summer's coming to an end, which means Ars Nova Workshop—Philadelphia's leading presenter of jazz and experimental music—is back. We concluded our 11th season back in June with the five-concert Great Black Music Festival celebrating the work of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) with performances by Roscoe Mitchell, Henry Threadgill, and Wadada ...
Jazz Bridge Presents Barbara Montgomery in a New Series on October 5th (Kennett Square, PA)
Opening the first season of a Jazz Bridge Neighborhood Concerts series on Wednesday, October 5th at the Kennett Flash, 102 Sycamore Alley, Kennett Square, PA will be singer Barbara Montgomery with pianist Aaron Graves, bassist Lee Smith, and drummer Craig McIver. Barbara has been singing in the Philly area for many years, but her voice has ...
Jazz Bridge Presents the Dukes of Destiny in Cheltenham on October 5th!
Opening up the third season of the Jazz Bridge Neighborhood Concerts Series at the Cheltenham Center for the Arts, 439 Ashbourne Road, Cheltenham, PA will be the Dukes of Destiny. Led by vocalist John Colgan-Davis, this seven-piece group has gained a large and loyal following over 25 years among Philadelphia listeners who know and love the ...
Laff House Comedy Club brings Derrick Gardner to Philadelphia
International jazz trumpeter Derrick Gardner & The Jazz Prophets to perform Sunday, August 14 at 7 p.m. at Laff House Comedy Club located at 221 South St. Laff House Comedy Club features live jazz on the first Sunday of every month in the Jazz on South Street series. Derrick Gardner & The Jazz Prophets will be ...
Philadelphia's jazz elders riff on the golden times
The walls of Conference Room 310 at WRTI are lined with a gray cushion that dulls sound. To the roomful of elderly jazz musicians who came of age in smoky, boisterous clubs, the acoustics can be challenging. “I can't hear a thing in this room!" exclaims Morris “Mo" Bailey, stationed in a motorized wheelchair at one ...
Ortlieb’s Jazzhaus Revival
A close source says Avram Hornik (Drinker's Tavern, Drinker's Pub, Drinker's West, Lucy's Hat Shop, Noche) has acquired Ortlieb's Jazzhaus and plans to reopen it as a jazz club. Records confirm that Hornik's 4 Corners Management shares the same address as ORT JAZZ LLC, the name of the applicant in the just posted liquor license application. ...
Popped! Philadelphia Fest: Pretty Lights, Girl Talk, the Shins
FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FULL LINE-UP TO BE HELD IN PHILADELPHIA SEPTEMBER 23 AND 24 IN FDR PARK The POPPED! Music Festival is back with a vengeance this fall in Philadelphia, PA. To take place Friday, September 23, and Saturday, September 24, this is the first year the festival will be held outside on the lush grounds of ...
Norman David Eleventet: Philadelphia, PA May 27, 2011
by Victor L. Schermer
Norman David Eleventet Little Bar Philadelphia, PAMay 27, 2011 With the closing of Zanzibar Blue and Ortlieb's Jazzhaus, Philadelphia has lost two of its iconic jazz clubs, further diluting an already limited constellation of venues. So it's encouraging to see music coordinators Greg Matthews and Mike Boone taking up some of ...
AACM | John Szwed on the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians
For Ars Nova Workshop's AACM: Great Black Music Festival, we've asked several leading jazz scholars and journalists to engage performers in a series of pre-concert public discussions about the history, present, and future of the AACM. At 6pm on Saturday, June 4 at Philadelphia Art Alliance, Sun Ra and Alan Lomax biographer and Columbia University professor ...
