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Ageless Jazz Icons for the Ages -- Brubeck and Wein.
Blessing to those who have spent their lives doing what they love. For most of those people, even that ends at some point, eventually relegating those activities to “the good old days." But there are a fine few for whom it doesn't end. Those people are inspiring. Recent experiences in the jazz community brought to of ...
Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival is Killer
Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival (check it ouuuuut ) in Saratoga Springs, NY, is a great event every year, the ultimate jazz picnic, good-time hang of any festival you'll find. Anywhere. People who show up year after year, are great music fans with great loyalty to the fest. They'll enjoy it no matter what. This year, producer ...
Passing It On
Colleges are among the major supporters of jazz across the country, not just because there are many schools now where musicians can study jazz. Major, and not-so-major, jazz musicians supplement their income teaching. But colleges are also routine sites for jazz concerts—good gigs. And very often when someone comes to play, they put on some kind ...
Sonny Rollins Honored at the Whitehouse
The Man, who personified art, gets a medal for it. At last. “Jazz is life," the legend, Sonny Rollins, told me a couple of years back. “It's what happens every minute of every day. It's fresh and new. Creative, just like life itself." It's kind of a summary, and yet the tip of the iceberg with ...
Eric Harland: Circle in the Round
The sublime drummer Eric Harland brought a band into Skidmore College's Zankel Music Center in Saratoga Springs New York on Feb. 17 and put on a show that potentially will rank among the region's best for 2011 by the time December rolls around. The musicians —Taylor Eigsti, piano; Chris Potter, sax; Julian Lage, guitar; Harish Raghavan, ...
Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival Should Be Stellar
Fest Creator George Wein returns to perform and be honored on Walk of Fame Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival has announced its lineup for 2010, a marked improvement over last year's edition, though there was plenty of good music last year. At the two-day, two-stage event, there is always good music, even if there are acts scattered ...
Joe Lovano Investigates Bird
Joe Lovano's musical curiosity seems endless. Creativity is his credo. No what part of the forest he chooses to investigate, he's always looking for creativity. It's what he learned listening to the masters growing up, and playing with many of them over the years. Now, of course, he is one of today's elite jazz musicians, one ...
Grammys to Honor the Man: Roy Haynes
The annual Grammy Awards are a funny thing. Sometimes one wonders from what fishbowl they pulled out names to nominate for the awards. Sometimes real deserving folks win. But so much great music never any notice. And yet everyone would like one on their mantel, it only for the cachet. But dammit if they didn't do ...
Best of 2010
It's that time again for being pestered about Top Jazz Albums of 2010 lists. I say “pestered" because it seems like a chore that doesn't accomplish much other than give a tip of the hat to SOME of the outstanding music of the past year. So much music comes out these days that it's impossible to ...
Wein's Perseverance Will Keep Newport Fest Strong
Newport Jazz Fest Seeks Sponsorship Somewhat sad news of late that CareFusion, a health care outfit that works to improve hospital patient safety and care, has pulled its sponsorship from George Wein's Newport Jazz Festival after just two years. The group also helped fund the return of Wein's jazz festival in New York City last June. ...
