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Alan Chan: Shrimp Tale
by Jack Bowers
Big bands these days are being taken in many directions, one of which is eastward. Alan Chan, born and raised in Hong Kong and educated in part in the U.S. (at the universities of Miami and Southern California), has deftly blended Asian tradition with American jazz on Shrimp Tale, the splendid debut recording by his three-year-old ...
Fats, Hoagy & W.C. Handy: Music Made In America This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
This week Riverwalk Jazz explores the rich legacy of three jazz heroes whose work has inspired The Jim Cullum Jazz Band through the years—Fats Waller, Hoagy Carmichael and the work of W.C. Handy known as the “Father of the Blues." Series favorites Vernel Bagneris, Topsy Chapman and Shelly Berg join the band on the stage of ...
A Triple Crown Of Tunesmiths This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, it’s the music of songwriters Vincent Youmans, Johnny Green and Harry Barris. Special guests Shelly Berg and Dick Hyman join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band on piano and Topsy Chapman, Marty Grosz and Carol Woods handle the vocals. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM ...
Jim Cullum Hosts Austin's Finest This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, Jim Cullum welcomes Austin’s top young traditional jazz artists—guitarist/violinist Erik Hokkanen, guitarist J.D. Pendley and vocalist Albanie Falletta, to the stage of San Antonio’s Pearl Stable on the banks of the San Antonio River. The Band tears it up with piano sensation Shelly Berg, and series favorites Vernel Bagneris and Topsy ...
Dennis Rowland Benefit Concert at the Herberger Theater Center
by Patricia Myers
Dennis Rowland Benefit Concert Herberger Theater CenterPhoenix, AZ November 6, 2013 Monica Mancini headlined a troupe of national and local musicians to perform a benefit concert for former Count Basie Orchestra vocalist Dennis Rowland, raising funds for his stroke rehabilitation and ongoing health care. Nine singers and a dozen instrumentalists delivered ...
Lorraine Feather: I Love You Guys
by Carl L. Hager
The great pianist and composer, Thelonious Monk, is credited with the remark that “writing about jazz is like dancing about architecture." But don't dash off and try to authenticate the quote. One, it'll just take you down a rabbit hole, and two, whether or not he ever actually uttered those words doesn't really matter. Because far ...
Lorraine Feather: Attachments
by C. Michael Bailey
First, there is “who exactly is Billie Jane Lee Lorraine Feather?" Well, she is the daughter of jazz writer and impresario Leonard Feather (1914 -1994) and Jane Feather, a former big-band singer and ex-roommate of Peggy Lee (ergo “Lee"). The Billie in Feather's name is her godmother, Billie Holiday, and the Jane, well that is obvious. ...
Aug. 13: Lorraine Feather Releases “Attachments” Lyricist-Singer’s Intense & Intimate Follow-up To Grammy-nominated “Ages” & “Tales Of The Unusual”
"Attachments" (Jazzed Media - JM 1063, August 13 Release) is lyricist / singer Lorraine Feather’s 8th solo jazz album since the year 2000. On each of these ambitious releases, she has sung only her own lyrics, and received extraordinary press. Her 2010 stages-of-life release Ages and her 2012 Gothic adventure Tales of the Unusual received Grammy ...
Lorraine Feather: Attachments
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Let's get this out up front: Lorraine Feather is a collaborator extraordinaire. Before taking that down a darker path and picturing black op sites, duct tape, and stubbly- faced bad cats, let's spill: take a masterful wordsmith who's also a sublime vocal talent, surround her with highly intelligent soundscapes and wrap with some of L.A.'s usual ...
Keb' Mo' and Arizona Musicfest Orchestra: Scottsdale, AZ, February 22, 2013
by Patricia Myers
Keb' Mo' and Arizona Musicfest OrchestraArizona MusicfestPinnacle Presbyterian ChurchScottsdale, AZFeb. 22, 2013It was a bold step to book bluesman Keb' Mo' to perform with the Arizona Musicfest Orchestra, a performance that could have been constrained by the rigidity of orchestral charts. But Mo' and his trio stayed loose and ...
