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News: Performance / Tour

The New England Conservatory Youth Jazz Orchestra Conducted By Ken Schaphorst Presents Spring Concert On Tuesday, May 19 In NEC’s Jordan Hall

May 6, 2015

Orchestra Includes 17 Members from 12 Massachusetts Cities and Towns The New England Conservatory Youth Jazz Orchestra conducted by Ken Schaphorst, presents a program at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 19 at NEC’s Jordan Hall, 290 Huntington Avenue, Boston. The free concert will feature music of Thad Jones, Ken Schaphorst, Kenny Dorham, Horace Silver and Dizzy ...

News: Recording

Thelonious Monk "Complete Riverside Recordings" Coming from Concord on May 19

May 1, 2015

CONCORD MUSIC GROUP TO REISSUE GRAMMY AWARD-WINNING THELONIOUS MONK COLLECTION: THE COMPLETE RIVERSIDE RECORDINGS Reconfigured box set features monk’s entire output for Riverside label, extensive liner notes by compilation producer, the late Orrin Keepnews LOS ANGELES, CA: Concord Music Group is pleased to announce the reissue of its GRAMMY Award-winning Thelonious Monk anthology, The Complete Riverside ...

Article: Catching Up With

John Engels: Looking Back, Moving Forward

by Joan Gannij
April 28, 2015

Drummer John Engels has the energy of two forty-year olds, which is pretty impressive, since he will soon be turning 80. He will celebrate this auspicious occasion with the Vogel Vrij (Free as a Bird) tour, a series of concerts at diverse venues throughout the Netherlands (with saxophonists Benny Golson and Benjamin Herman) which began in ...

News: Recording

Stanislaw Soyka & The Roger Berg Big Band Release "Swing Revisited"

April 16, 2015

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 ...

Article: Album Review

Mitch Shiner and the BloomingTones Big Band: Fly!

by Angelo Leonardi
April 15, 2015

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 ...

Article: Live Review

Brilliant Corners Jazz Festival 2015

by Ian Patterson
April 6, 2015

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 ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Thad Jones

March 28, 2015

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 ...

News: Obituary

Lew Soloff, 1944-2015

March 9, 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 ...

Article: Lyrics

Verona Jazz Winter 2015

by Angelo Leonardi
March 3, 2015

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, ...

Article: Album Review

Darrell Katz and the JCA Orchestra: Why Do You Ride?

Read "Why Do You Ride?" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
February 25, 2015

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 ...