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Maurizio Giammarco: Una musica che ci rende più umani

by Paolo Marra
February 24, 2020

Il sassofonista Maurizio Giammarco ha presentato 11 Gennaio in prima assoluta al Teatro Studio Borgna il suo nuovo lavoro dal titolo Only Human nell'ambito del Recording Studio, la rassegna che dà la possibilità al pubblico di assistere alla registrazione dal vivo dei dischi prodotti dell'etichetta Parco Della Musica Records. Il titolo del disco ...

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Stan Getz

Born: February 2, 1927

Beginnings... Stan Getz was born at St. Vincent's Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Feb. 2, 1927. He had one brother, Robert, who was born on October 30, 1932. His parents had come from the Kiev area in the Ukraine in 1903, tired and fearful of the Pogroms. The Getz family had first settled in West Philadelphia, but moved to New York City after Stan's fraternal uncle told them there were better jobs in New York. They lived first on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and then moved up to the East Bronx.

Stan's father had many jobs, but he wasn't aggressive by nature and was thus often unemployed

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Stan Getz

February 2, 2020

All About Jazz is celebrating Stan Getz's birthday today! Beginnings... Stan Getz was born at St. Vincent's Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Feb. 2, 1927. He had one brother, Robert, who was born on October 30, 1932. His parents had come from the Kiev area in the Ukraine in 1903, tired and fearful of the Pogroms. ...

Article: Under the Radar

Tales of The Mystic Order of the Jazz Obsessed - Jazz Societies, Part II

by Karl Ackermann
January 30, 2020

Part 1 | Part 2 Jazz Societies, Part 1 briefly traced the preservation and interpretation of jazz from the oral history of its West African roots through academic and cultural institutions. The article included an overview of jazz societies and foundations that further the fostering of jazz education. The organizations vary in scope, size ...

Article: Album Review

Chet Baker: Chet

by Karl Ackermann
January 12, 2020

In the early 1950s, the rural Oklahoman Chet Baker established prominent connections in the jazz world; gigs with Charlie Parker and Stan Getz led to his first recordings. The trappings of both musicians' circles were dusted with heroin and Baker's career breaks coincided with his introduction to the disease that would stifle his musical development and ...

Article: Interview

Adam Rudolph: Ragmala and Prototypical Music

by Franz A. Matzner
January 10, 2020

Adam Rudolph has been seeking to push the boundaries of musical creativity for decades, developing a unique concept of composition, ensemble interaction, and conducting. As many writers have commented, his music resists critical commentary due to its prototypical nature. Said another way, Rudolph's music doesn't sound like anything else, and its antecedents are so varied that ...

Article: Album Review

Lisa Hilton: Chalkboard Destiny

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by Doug Hall
January 3, 2020

Not surprisingly, considering the political and social climate existing on the threshold of 2020, pianist and composer Lisa Hilton finds ripe inspiration for material on Chalkboard Destiny. Addressing the point, she writes: “Our future, our destiny, can be continually reshaped—we are not beholden by history or traditional myths, allowing us a freedom in creation." With a ...

Album

Getz At The Gate

By Stan Getz

Label: Verve
Released: 2019
Track listing: CD1: Announcement by Chip Monck; It’s Alright With Me; Wildwood; When The Sun Comes Out; Impressions; Airegin; Like Someone In Love; Woody ’N You; Blues. CD2: Where Do You Go; Yesterday’s Gardenias; Stella By Starlight; It’s You Or No One; Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most; 52nd Street Theme; Jumpin’ With Symphony Sid.

Article: Rethinking Jazz Cultures

Lebanon: Jazz And The Revolution

by Ian Patterson
December 19, 2019

When people's anger and frustration spill onto Beirut's streets, music is one of the first things to suffer. Every few years, it seems, roads are blocked, and crowds swell the downtown area--angry at Syrian intervention or political assassination, enraged by Israeli attack, sick to the teeth of inadequate garbage collection. There's always something to ...

Article: History of Jazz

Coleman Hawkins: Fifty Years Gone, A Saxophone Across Time

by Arthur R George
December 12, 2019

Fifty years ago this past year, Coleman Hawkins, considered the father of tenor saxophone in jazz, passed away. Thelonious Monk was pacing back and forth in the hallway outside Hawkins' hospital room when the saxophonist succumbed at age 64 on the morning of May 19, 1969, from pneumonia and other complications. Monk was holding a short ...