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Newport Jazz Festival: Saturday, August 7, 2010
by Timothy J. O'Keefe
Part 1 | Part 2 CareFusion Newport Jazz FestivalFort Adams State ParkNewport, RIAugust 7, 2010 Sun rays streamed through mostly blue skies, pelting Fort Adams State Park with heat, as the annual jazz festival returned to the Rhode Island peninsula in 2010. Few people attending probably even ...
53rd Annual Monterey Jazz Festival Presented By Verizon Coming in September!
500 Legendary Jazz Icons, Classic Collaborations and Multi-Cultural and International Artists on 8 Stages for 3 Days of Nonstop Entertainment, September 17㬏, 2010 Headliners on the Arena/Lyons Stage Include Dianne Reeves, Freedom Band with Chick Corea, Kenny Garrett, Christian McBride and Roy Haynes; Ahmad Jamal, Harry Connick, Jr., Angelique Kidjo, Les Nubians, Roy Hargrove Big Band, ...
Francis Dreyfus: 1940 - 2010
Music publisher and record producer Francis Dreyfus died Thursday, June 24, 2010, at the age of 70. Through his labels Disques Motors and Dreyfus Records, Francis Dreyfus launched the careers of prominent artists, including Christophe and Jean Michel Jarre. His love of jazz led to the creation of the Dreyfus Jazz label which brought together such ...
Take Five With Daniel Ian Smith
by AAJ Staff
Meet Daniel Ian Smith: Daniel Ian Smith is a saxophonist/flutist and an Associate Professor at the esteemed Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA, where he has taught for the past fifteen years. Daniel has had the privilege to perform in Japan, England, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Canada, and throughout the United States in major jazz festivals ...
Chick Corea and the Freedom Band at Denver's Botanic Gardens
by Geoff Anderson
Chick Corea and the Freedom BandBotanic GardensDenver, COJune 14, 2010The last couple times Chick Corea came through Denver, he was highly electrified. The summer before last, he performed with the reunion tour of Return to Forever. Last summer, he came through with The 5 Peace Band featuring John McLaughlin. Both of ...
Daniel Smith: Blue Bassoon
by Dan Bilawsky
When many people hear discussions about the bassoon, they are far more likely to think of “Peter And The Wolf" than Charlie Parker and Wayne Shorter tunes. While jazz is open to any-and-all-comers in every instrument family, the technical demands of the bassoon--an unwieldy double reed instrument that rarely leaves the confines of classical music--and its ...
2010 Playboy Jazz Festival: A Swingin' Party At The Hollywood Bowl
by Chuck Koton
Hear the name Playboy and in an instant, a parade of “hot" images race involuntarily across the mind's eye. There's Dizzy, bent over and blowin' the hippest sounds through his misshapen horn; Stan Getz' tenor sax pourin' forth cool samba; Benny Goodman and Count Basie leadin' their bands through swing history; Art Blakey and his band ...
I Walked With Giants
by Russ Musto
I Walked with GiantsJimmy Heath/Joseph McLarenSoftcover; 344 pagesISBN: 1439901988Temple University Press2010 The title alone of Jimmy Heath's marvelous memoir speaks volumes about the man. The NEA Jazz Master is himself an acknowledged giant among his peers and his choice to name the book ...
Carol Morgan Trio: Opening
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Opening is an album so rich in the intricacies of melody that it never fails to surprise at every turn. The saddest aspect of the album is that it is all too short. But the biggest surprise of all is Carol Morgan, a trumpeter who seems to have awakened the urge to find parallels in phrasing ...
Jazz Goes Green: Musical Explorations On A Secondary Color Of Note
by Dan Bilawsky
With spring taking hold and summer on the way, it's hard to avoid encounters with the color green. The drab gray and white of winter is now no more and a vibrant green color scheme has taken over. A drive along the Long Island Expressway--which leads to Manhattan and some of the greatest jazz clubs in ...
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