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Jazz Legends Return to Historic Bohemian Caverns in Washington, DC
Washingtonians and visitors to the nation's capital can feel the past and glimpse the future of jazz music by visiting historic Bohemian Caverns, where a rich jazz experience awaits. A jazz spot whose roots date back to 1926, Bohemian Caverns is the city's oldest jazz club and a must-hear see jazz destination. It's located on Washington's ...
Dana Hall: Into The Light
by John Barron
Chicago-based drummer Dana Hall makes his debut as a leader with Into the Light, a provocative quintet recording featuring trumpeter Terell Stafford, saxophonist Tim Warfield, Jr., pianist Bruce Barth, and bassist Rodney Whitaker. Herbie Hancock's “I Have a Dream" opens the session with an explosive punch. Hall's uncompromising intensity makes clear exactly who is ...
"Chaography": A New Kind of Jazz Film To Be Made
by R.J. DeLuke
Who wants to see a movie about jazz musicians that tells a good story, accurately portrays the lives of musicians and contains good, happening music? Show of hands not necessary. Skepticism understood, based on past history. Yet that's exactly the lofty goal of young filmmaker Doug Chang, a jazz fan who is ...
Take Five With Vinson Valega
by AAJ Staff
Meet Vinson Valega: Vinson grew up in a musical family near Washington, D.C., studying classical piano from age seven until switching to the drums when he was 12. He played drums for three years in the All-County Jazz Ensemble during high school and subsequently held the drum chair in the University of Pennsylvania Big ...
Chris Potter / Steve Wilson / Terell Stafford / Keith Javors / Delbert Felix / John Davis: Coming Together
by Edward Blanco
Brendan Edward Romaneck was a young twenty-four-year-old saxophonist and composer preparing for his first recording date in the spring of 2005, when on April 20th he passed away just two weeks after his birthday. Coming Together was to be Romaneck's debut disc, containing eight original compositions and three covers. It now serves as a tribute to ...
Dick Oatts: Bridging the Gap & Saxology
by Fred Bouchard
Terell Stafford/Dick OattsBridging the GapPlanet Arts2010 Jerry Bergonzi/Dick OattsSaxologySteeplechase2009 You can't call Dick Oatts a 'fixture'--he's peripatetic and bouncy on his alto sax and ebullient, energetic and sprightly as a person--yet he's surely been a Gotham mainstay since arriving from ...
Strike Up the (Unsung) Bands
by Jack Bowers
The big band era is known for producing a number of enormously successful ensembles whose leaders were household names: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Fletcher Henderson, then on through Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, the brothers Jimmy Dorsey and Tommy Dorsey, Charlie Barnet, Artie Shaw, Harry James, Cab Calloway, Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie and, ...
Gerald Wilson Orchestra: Detroit
by Robert J. Robbins
Commissioned by the Detroit International Jazz Festival and premiered on the occasion of the composer's 91st birthday, Gerald Wilson's six-movement “Detroit Suite" demonstrates that after nearly seven decades in the music business, the nonagenarian composer and arranger still has a great deal to offer in terms of musical creativity. Wilson spent the latter part of his ...
Gerald Wilson Orchestra / Dallas Original Jazz Orchestra / University of North Texas Two O'Clock Lab Band
by Jack Bowers
Gerald Wilson Orchestra Detroit Mack Avenue Records 2009 Composer / arranger / ageless wonder Gerald Wilson, most of whose recent albums (Monterey Moods; New York, New Sound; Theme for Monterey; State Street Sweet) have been built around sectional themes, returns “home" on Detroit to paint an earnest musical ...
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 ...
