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Stan Getz: Apasionado
by Chris May
Tenor saxophonist Stan Getz's neo-big band album Apasionado has been consigned to minor league status since its original release in 1990. It does, indeed, look unpromising: recorded in fall 1989, when Getz was undergoing treatment for the cancer which would kill him less than two years later; with a pair of synthesizers replicating a string section; ...
How Jazz May Have Influenced The Beatles
by AAJ Staff
Introduction A publication from the French general knowledge “Tu Sais..." book series ("You Know..."), entitled “Tu Sais... Jazz," contains a final chapter on rock bands such as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. It states that both the Beatles and the Stones “knew and loved old jazz and blues." From Paul McCartney's long familiarization with George ...
Pianist Fred Hersch Interviewed at AAJ
From the start of his career as a sideman in the 1970s for such jazz luminaries as Joe Henderson, Art Farmer and Stan Getz to his own ensembles and solo projects, there has always been a great diversity and intensity to Fred Hersch's art. Having won a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for composition (2003) and having been ...
Fred Hersch: No Limits
by Maxwell Chandler
From the start of his career as a sideman in the 1970s for such jazz luminaries as Joe Henderson, Art Farmer and Stan Getz to his own ensembles and solo projects, there has always been a great diversity and intensity to Fred Hersch's art. Having won a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for composition (2003) and having been ...
Three Pairs of Aces - Wild!
by Chris M. Slawecki
Corina Bartra & Her Azu Project Afro Peruvian Jazz Celebration Blue Spiral Music 2009 Corina Bartra does more than compose and sing in a style that merges music from North and South America--she lives this style by splitting her days between her native Peru and adopted hometown of New York ...
Stanford Jazz Workshop Video Clips
LEADING JAZZ EDUCATOR STANFORD JAZZ WORKSHOP DEBUTS WORKSHOP VIDEO CLIPS STANFORD, CA: Stanford Jazz Workshop (SJW), the jazz education non-profit founded in 1972 at Stanford University, has produced six educational video clips which have just gone live on its website, StanfordJazz.org. These videos, which were filmed at the Workshop’s flagship Jazz Camp & Jazz Residency summer ...
Take Five With Benny Reid
by AAJ Staff
Instrument(s):Alto saxophone.Teachers and/or influences?Starting with my alto sax teacher in high school, Andy Fusco of Buddy Rich Band fame, and throughout college at Indiana University I studied with Tom Walsh, who is a great jazz and classical player that really knows how to bring out the individualism in each student. ...
Ron Horton/Tim Horner Little Big Band Plays the Music of Andrew Hill in Teaneck, N. J.
by Ralph A. Miriello
The Ron Horton/Tim Horner Little Big BandPlay the Music of Andrew HillThe Puffin Cultural ForumTeaneck, New JerseyAugust 29, 2009 It was a warm, overcast evening, within a few short miles of the George Washington Bridge, in suburban Teaneck, that offered the rare opportunity to make the trek to the Puffin Cultural ...
A Question of Time
by Alan Bryson
Imagine you were given the chance to go back in time and witness four musical events (one each from jazz, blues, classical, and rock history.) What would they be? That's an after-dinner topic friends might discuss by candlelight. If your inner-child has completely matured, perhaps you could approach it as a potential film: if you were ...
Jed Levy: One Night At The Kitano
by George Kanzler
Some live jazz albums transport the listener. If you shut your eyes, you can picture the dim lights of the candles on the tables, the clinking sound of ice cubes falling into glass tumblers... you might even find yourself looking around for someone to take your drink order. One Night at The Kitano makes you feel ...
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