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Gold Medalists Abound at Big Band Olympics
by Jack Bowers
As this is being written, Betty and I are just back from a ten-day visit to California, the first six days of which would be of absolutely no interest to readers of this column. The last four, however, were spent at the Los Angeles Airport Marriott Hotel attending the L.A. Jazz Institute's Big Band Olympics," which ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Shelly Manne
All About Jazz is celebrating Shelly Manne's birthday today! Shelly Manne - drums (1920 - 1984) As a jazz drummer, studio musician, bandleader and businessman, Shelly Manne was one of the most prolific instrumentalists of modern times. “I’ve really had the best of both worlds,” he said in 1983. “I’ve kept busy playing jazz, and between ...
Bud Shank's Last Recording: Jake Fryer's "In Good Company"
If there is still a west coast kind of jazz it's because players associated with the west coast still play music. That's obvious, of course, but even in its heyday the west coast style covered a broad group of stylistic tendencies, from the cool of a Chet Baker to the heat of Hampton Hawes. Bud Shank ...
Why Is Jazz A Dirty Word?
by David Arivett
Why is it that jazz music," and even the word jazz" itself, is so offensive and polarizing to the average music listener today? The word jazz" instantly turns many people off... immediately saying they don't like jazz at all. The fact is, that a very large part of the US population won't listen to jazz, period. ...
Umbria Jazz Winter #18
by Joan A. Cararach
Umbria Jazz Winter #18 Orvieto, Italia 29 de diciembre 2010--2 de enero 2011En el jazz los sueños existen. Uno de ellos se llama Orvieto.Hermano menor del Umbria Jazz Festival que cada verano se celebra en Perugia, el Umbria Jazz Winter de Orvieto complementa de un modo sabio las programaciones de ambos festivales ...
Umbria Jazz Winter #18 Days 3-5: December 31, 2010-January 2, 2011
by Sara Villa
Days 1-2 | Days 3-5 Umbria Jazz Winter #18 Orvieto, Italy December 29, 2010-January 2, 2011 The Alfredo Rodriguez Trio Discovered, produced and hailed by Quincy Jones, Alfredo Rodriguez chose to contradict any potential preconception linked with the highly slippery definition of Latin Jazz to which his Cuban ...
Jan Lundgren celebrates Andre Previn and Cole Porter
by Chris Mosey
What do Andre Previn and Cole Porter have in common? Well, with Saul Chaplin, Previn adapted Porter's greatest hit, the score for the 1953 MGM musical Kiss Me Kate. Apart from this, and with little apparent consequence until now, both men greatly influenced the life of Torgil Rosenberg, a Swedish dentist, amateur flier and jazz enthusiast. ...
Zeno de Rossi / Shtik: The Manne I Love! (Vol. 1 & Vol. 2)
by Mark Corroto
Drummer Zeno De Rossi's tribute to the late Shelly Manne covers the valiant west coast drummer's contributions from swing to bebop, and from soundtracks to Frank Zappa. Recorded over a two-year period, this double-disc set incorporates varying ensembles and diverse styles into an inexhaustible homage to a neglected jazz hero. Shtik'sprevious release--Me'or 'Einayim (El ...
Jon Irabagon: Foxy
by Raul d'Gama Rose
In choosing to craft his tribute to the idiom and energy of hard bop around one of Sonny Rollins' classic compositions, Doxy," but to use the surreal, carnival atmosphere of Rollins' 1957 cover art for Way Out West (Contemporary), young tenor saxophonist, Jon Irabagon has made one of the more memorable tenor saxophone trio records, Foxy, ...
Guitarist Gabor Gado: Two Views from Budapest
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Herewith two records released at about the same time, on the same label (Hungary's Budapest Music Center), both prominently featuring Hungarian guitarist Gábor Gadó. If, however, it's pleasing to play the discs side by side--and it really is--it's as much because of the two records' differences as their similarities.Budapest Concerts is a concert recording ...



