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Stanislaw Soyka & The Roger Berg Big Band Release "Swing Revisited"
American swing played with bravado by leading Polish jazzman Stanislaw Soyka and the Roger Berg Big Band. In their rendition, recorded at sessions in Malmö and Warsaw, the artists refreshed jazz standards by Duke Ellington and Ray Charles among others. Swing Revisited is an album by Stanislaw Soyka, a noted Polish jazz singer, and the Roger ...
Mitch Shiner and the BloomingTones Big Band: Fly!
by Angelo Leonardi
Una splendida sorpresa! Il debutto di Mitch Shiner a capo della BloomingTones Big Band è un'ulteriore dimostrazione che il lavoro orchestrale negli Stati Uniti attrae molti giovani talenti e si configura come una vera tendenza. Abbiamo già considerato alcune ragioni in precedenti articoli ma possiamo aggiungere il prezioso apporto dato dalle università sparse nel ...
Brilliant Corners Jazz Festival 2015
by Ian Patterson
Brilliant Corners Jazz FestivalBelfast, Ireland March 25-28 , 2015 Brilliant Corners may not be the biggest jazz festival in Northern Ireland--that accolade belongs to the City of Derry Jazz and Big Band Festival--but in just three editions it can already lay claim to being the best. Eschewing the populist ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Thad Jones
All About Jazz is celebrating Thad Jones' birthday today! Thaddeus Joseph Jones (March 28, 1923 - August 21, 1986) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader. He was born in Pontiac, Michigan to a musical family of ten (an older brother was pianist Hank Jones and a younger brother was drummer Elvin Jones). Thad Jones ...
Lew Soloff, 1944-2015
The sad notes keep coming. Trumpeter Lew Soloff died early today. His daughter, Laura Solomon, reported on her Facebook page that Soloff was with her and her family on their way home from a New York restaurant when he collapsed with a massive heart attack. He was 71. Born in New York City, a trumpeter from ...
Verona Jazz Winter 2015
by Angelo Leonardi
Dopo il debutto dello scorso anno, Verona Jazz Winter si conferma un appuntamento centrale per la città e riscatta le delusioni che da tempo offre la rassegna estiva. Con l'eccezione del cantante flamenco Diego El Cigala, il nuovo cartellone jazz del Teatro Ristori era dedicato a musicisti italiani (Bollani, Rava, Bosso, Lanzoni, Chiara Civello, ...
Darrell Katz and the JCA Orchestra: Why Do You Ride?
by Angelo Leonardi
Con i suoi 30 anni di attività, la Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra è un'istituzione della scena musicale di Boston e uno dei suoi fondatori, il compositore e arrangiatore Darrell Katz, ha legami con le due rinomate scuole musicali cittadine, il New England Conservatory e il Berklee College of Music. L'orchestra è composta da una ventina di ...
The View From The Back Of The Band: The Life And Music Of Mel Lewis
by David A. Orthmann
The View From The Back Of The Band: The Life And Music Of Mel Lewis Chris Smith 399 pages ISBN: #978-1-57441-574-2 University Of North Texas Press 2014 “Good drummers were a rarity and that's all there was to it. There's no ego problem involved, it's just there weren't ...
Vance Thompson's Five Plus Six: Such Sweet Thunder
by Edward Blanco
Knoxville-based Trumpeter, arranger and band leader Vance Thompson formed The Marble City Five quintet over a year ago and when thinking about recording their first album, decided to augment the band by adding a six-piece horn section comprised of some of the city's younger rising talent. The resulting new Knoxville, TN-based group is now known as ...
Tony Mastrull: The Tony Mastrull Project
by Nicholas F. Mondello
In the late 1960s, the story circulated in Las Vegas that Elvis Presley caught aural wind of an original composition written by a young arranger and which piece was used in the Vegas production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. The King was so taken by the tune's emotional power that he offered to buy ...
