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Gary Burton: Forging Ahead
by R.J. DeLuke
"I got started in Nashville and knew a lot of the country musicians. I got my first record contract from Chet Atkins who saw me playing in a local club in Nashville and who decided to talk to RCA and get them to offer me a long-term contract," says this renowned musician born in a small ...
JJA's 13th Annual Jazz Awards - Join Us!
Mark your calendar! 13th Annual JJA Jazz Awards June 16, 2009 3:00-6:00pm at The Jazz Standard 116 E. 27th Street New York, NY Join us at the JJA's 13th Annual Jazz Awards as we... Announce our 2009 award winners (see nominees below) Honor winners and nominees ...
New Orleans Jazz Fest draws 400,000+
by Sandy Ingham
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival New Orleans, LAApril 22-May 4, 2009There are hundreds of good reasons for jazz lovers to join the crowds at the annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Reasons with names like Marsalis and Jordan, Batiste and Boutte--families whose musical heritage in the Birthplace of Jazz spans several ...
30th Annual Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland
by Matt Marshall
30th Annual Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland Cleveland, Ohio April 23-May 3, 2009 Now in its 30th year, the Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland has always prided itself as much on its educational offerings as its concerts. The festival's Web site touts it as “the largest educational jazz festival in the country." This emphasis on ...
Queens: Home of Jazz and Flushing Town Hall
by Greg Thomas
When most people think of jazz in New York City, Manhattan readily comes to mind. The “East Coast" stride piano style was developed in Harlem, where venues such as the Savoy Ballroom, Small's Paradise, the Cotton Club and Minton's Playhouse presented the big bands and small groups of jazz lore. 52nd Street became known for its ...
Take Five With E.J. Strickland
by AAJ Staff
Meet E.J. Strickland: Drummer E.J. Strickland is currently a member of the long-lived quartet of Ravi Coltrane (along with pianist Luis Perdomo and bassist Drew Gress), and his brother Marcus Strickland's celebrated electric/acoustic quartets and trio. E.J. also leads his own bands, The E.J. Strickland Quintet and The E.J. Strickland Project. His playing has been described ...
Louie Bellson: Tasteful Drummer, Sweeter Guy
by Jack Bowers
To say that drummer extraordinaire Louie Bellson, who left us on February 14, 2009 at age eighty-four, had a remarkable career would be to explicitly understate the record. Bellson's success at age 17 in a nationwide contest sponsored by one of his idols, Gene Krupa, and Slingerland Drums set the talented wunderkind on a path that ...
Roy Haynes at Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival
Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium (CBJC) presents The Roy Haynes Fountain of Youth Band on Saturday, April 4, 2009 at Brooklyn Tech Auditorium, 29 Fort Greene Place, Fort Greene, Brooklyn as part of the 10th Annual Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival - “A Decade of Keeping Our Music Alive". This concert will benefit the not for profit arts ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Roy Haynes
All About Jazz is celebrating Roy Haynes' birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Roy HaynesRoy Haynes was born in Boston, March 13, 1925, and was keenly interested in jazz ever since he can remember. Primarily self-taught, he began to work locally in 1942 with musicians like the Charlie ...
Alex Cline: Free-Spirited Drummer
by R.J. DeLuke
West coast drummer/percussionist Alex Cline is a sensitive player with a strong feel for interesting harmonies, shifting voices and changing moods when he writes music. It's a sensitivity not usually associated with drummers. But what's inside Cline, and comes through in his music, is from an artist and a musician, not merely a drummer. ...
