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Randy Weston Returns to the Berkshires for Career Retrospective in May
“Berkshire Blues" composer will perform in concert, and meet the press, at Pittsfield's Berkshire Museum PITTSFIELD, Massachusetts, April 15, 2010 Berkshires Jazz, Inc., today announced that pianist/composer Randy Weston will appear in a special concert in Pittsfield on Saturday, May 29 at The Berkshire Museum. After nearly a 10-year absence, the NEA Jazz Master returns to ...
Ahmad Jamal: A Quiet Time
by Greg Camphire
Ahmad Jamal A Quiet Time Dreyfus Records 2010 Pianist Ahmad Jamal continues his career-long winning streak with A Quiet Time. The album expands on a stream of superb, post-mid 1990s releases made with largely the same working band: the Verve label's three-part The Essence series (1996-98), followed by ...
Monkadelphia: All Monk, All the Time
by Victor L. Schermer
Over the past several years, there has been a revival and reconsideration of the music of Thelonious Monk. No one embodies this trend better than Monkadelphia, a group of Philadelphia-based jazz musicians who play his music exclusively--a difficult challenge which they embrace with vitality, panache, and sophistication. With Chris Farr on saxophone, Tony Miceli on vibes, ...
Masters of American Music Series: Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Billie Holiday
by Eugene Holley, Jr.
The Story of Jazz Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker Thelonious Monk: American Composer The Many Faces of Billie Holiday Naxos 2010 These four DVDs--separate broadcasts of the Masters of American Music TV series, originally released in eighties--seem by today's standards, like some ...
Todd Barkan: Continuation and Augmentation
by Wayne Zade
Todd Barkan has been one of the most important and versatile producers of jazz concerts and records around the globe for almost 30 years. The list of artists whose projects he has produced reads like a veritable Who's Who of jazz. Barkan has managed many artists, including the Boys Choir of Harlem, Chico O'Farrill and Freddy ...
Pianist Vijay Iyer Interviewed at AAJ
New York-based pianist and composer Vijay Iyer is a rhythmic explorer whose piano trio album Historicity (ACT, 2009) is a cohesive and vibrant record that carries its creator and his colleagues firmly into the mainstream of modern music. The album stems from, among other sources, a succession of striking piano trio influences such as Duke Ellington's ...
Vijay Iyer: Into The Mainstream
by AAJ Staff
New York-based pianist and composer Vijay Iyer is a rhythmic explorer whose piano trio album Historicity (ACT, 2009) is a cohesive and vibrant record that carries its creator and his colleagues firmly into the mainstream of modern music. The album stems from, among other sources, a succession of striking piano trio influences such as Duke Ellington's ...
Thelonious Monk: Pianists Riff on Monk
by George Kanzler
This month, over a dozen pianists will participate in a free concert, Thelonious Monk at 92, at the World Financial Center in lower Manhattan. Seven of them, and two other pianists with an abiding interest in Monk, answered questions about Monk's music and more specifically, his piano playing, as influence and inspiration. Jazz ...
Giants of Jazz 12 Set to Honor Pianist Randy Weston on October 17
GIANTS OF JAZZ 12Randy Weston 2009 Jazz Master Honoree SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2009 7:30 PM SOUTH ORANGE MIDDLE SCHOOL 70 North Ridgewood RoadSouth Orange, NJ 07079 This one-night concert is hailed by The New York Times as “New Jersey's premier jazz festival." The Newark ...
A Jazz Piano Plus
When some things in jazz have been in retrenchment mode this year - festivals, magazines - here's a positive note for the future.Randy Weston will be featured in a solo piano concert October 12 at the Somerville Theater in Somerville MA, kicking off a series of annual concerts celebrating the legacy of Thelonious Monk ...
