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Tom Everett: Jazz at Harvard
by Andrew J. Sammut
It's no accident that forty years of jazz at Harvard coincides with forty years of Tom Everett at the esteemed university. Everett founded Harvard University's first student jazz band, taught its first jazz history course and welcomed the campus' first visiting jazz artist. He now leads two jazz bands at the prestigious university, continues to teach ...
Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho, It's Off To Jazz We Go . . .
by Jack Bowers
Just west of Albuquerque, across the Rio Grande River, lies the picturesque village of Corrales (population around 7,500). Among its residents (and natural resources) is world-renowned jazz trumpeter Bobby Shew. With a musician of his caliber within arm's reach, it would have been imprudent not to call upon him to take part in the village's Music ...
"David Baker: A Legacy in Music" By Monika Herzig, with a Foreword by Quincy Jones
From Studio to Stage with One of the World's Best-Loved Living Legends in Music BLOOMINGTON, Ind. A Living Legend, musician, educator, and composer David Baker has made a distinctive mark on the world of music in his nearly 60-year career—as performer (chiefly on trombone and cello), educator, composer, and conductor. In this richly illustrated volume accompanied ...
"Stan Kenton: Artistry in Rhythm- Portrait of a Jazz Legend" wins two EMPixx Awards
The EMPixx Awards has honored Jazzed Media with two 2011 EMPixx Awards for the documentary film Stan Kenton: Artistry in Rhythm- Portrait of a Jazz Legend. The film has received a Platinum Award in the Documentary Category and an additional Platinum Award in the Use of Music Category. The documentary film was produced and directed by ...
BuJazzO: That's German for Swinging Big Band Jazz
by Jack Bowers
On August 8, my friend Wes Pfarner and I drove to Santa Fe for a once-in-a lifetime event: a performance by the German Federal Youth Jazz Orchestra, better known to big band enthusiasts by its more condensed and colorful name, BuJazzO. The twenty-piece ensemble, directed by Jiggs Whigham, an American trombonist and educator from Cleveland, Ohio, ...
Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band / Gerald Wilson Orchestra / Knoxville Jazz Orchestra
by Jack Bowers
Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat BandThat's How We RollTelarc2010 After more than a decade of making beautiful music at home, on the road and in the studio, Gordon Goodwin's irrepressible Big Phat Band keeps rolling merrily along, burning rubber on its sixth free-wheeling recording (and first for Telarc Records). ...
Big Band Jazz: It's Not Just for Guys Anymore
by Jack Bowers
Back in the early '90s, Stanley Kay, one-time back-up drummer for the incomparable Buddy Rich, later a manager of such artists as Maurice Hines, Michelle Lee and Paul Burke and the entertainment director for the New York Yankees, had a good idea: the time had come, he reasoned, to assemble an all-woman big band that would ...
Jack's Gone! No He Isn't; Yes He Is; No He Isn't...!
by Jack Bowers
As I sat down to write this month's column, word came that trumpeter Jack Sheldon had died. No sooner had I written a few words about that when word came that trumpeter Jack Sheldon had not died. After some back-and-forth on the internet (is he or isn't he?), the last report, it seems, was the true ...
Jazzed Media's Stan Kenton Documentary Honored with Videographer Award
The Videographer Awards has honored Jazzed Media with a 2011 Videographer Award of Excellence for the documentary film Stan Kenton: Artistry in Rhythm- Portrait of a Jazz Legend. The documentary film was produced and directed by multi-Grammy nominated producer and award winning filmmaker Graham Carter, founder of Jazzed Media. Jazzed Media produces jazz CDs and documentary ...
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 ...
