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The Mike Vax Big Band Featuring Alumni of the Stan Kenton Orchestra: Sounds from the Road
by Nicholas F. Mondello
The traveling autobus--the road to the road--has frequently been used as a symbolic metaphor in movies, books, commercials and, of course, songs of all kinds. Bus travel seems to have an oddly romantic element. In the halcyon days of the barnstorming big bands, bus and car travel were the only direct ways to get to the ...
Stephen Anderson: Forget Not
by Jay Deshpande
Pianist Stephen Anderson is an exemplar of the scholar-musician. Although jazz education is an ever-growing field, it's rare to find someone who succeeds in both disciplines, as a player and an academic. Perhaps because jazz is so fundamentally founded on “feel," it leaves less space open for the rational or analytical. But at least some of ...
Hal Schaefer: How Do You Like This Piano Playing?
by C. Michael Bailey
Hal Schaefer is a Hollywood musician jack-of-all-trades, at one time or another serving as a pianist, arranger, composer, and conductor. He got his professional start in the big bands of the Dorsey Brothers, Benny Carter, and Harry James. However, Schaefer kept the doors open by serving as a vocal coach to celebrities otherwise not singers, including ...
Hal Schaefer: How Do You Like This Piano Playing?
by Dan McClenaghan
File this prosaically-titled How Do You Like This Piano Playing? under the “music discovered in a backyard shed" category.Pianist/composer/arranger/conductor Hal Schaefer's musical journey began with stints in big bands led by Benny Carter, Harry James, and Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, but his most notable gigs--from a fame-gaining perspective--have been as a vocal coach to ...
Ofer Assaf: Tangible Reality
by Dan McClenaghan
Israeli-born, tenor saxophonist Ofer Assaf, who is now New York-based, looks every bit the modern jazz man on the cover of Tangible Reality. He's got the shades, the beret-style hat worn backwards, and--truth in advertising--he's also got the modern jazz man goods.A big percentage of young mainstream jazz artists try to take the “Miles ...
The Memphis Hang
By Jim Shearer
Label: Summit Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: 1. Well, You Needn't; 2. Seduced; 3. Mound Bayou; 4. That Note Costs A Dollar; 5. Can't Take You Nowhere; 6. Secret Love; 7. Not When I've Been Drinkin'; 8. Blue Turning Gray Over You; 9. The Memphis Hang; 10. Goodbye Porkpie Hat; 11. Cool
Vaxuosity
By Mike Vax
Label: Summit Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Hungarian Melodies; Carnival Variations; Trumpeter's Prayer; Josephine; Dramatic Essay; The Man with the Horn; Vaxuosity; Dynamica; Cornucopia; Double Concerto, Allegro; Trumpeter's Lullabye; Braziliance; Yankee Doodle; Danny Boy.
Featuring Slide Hampton and Jimmy Heath
Label: Summit Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: This Is What It Is; Una Mas; I Remember Tangle; Losing Game; Without You, No Me; The Radiator Man Is Well; A Day in Copenhagen; Diana; Get Home Before Dark; Little Rootie Tootie.
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