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Dan Morgenstern: Jazz Master Award
by Tom Dwyer
I first met Dan Morgenstern more than five years ago when I picked him up one Saturday morning outside his Journal Square apartment in Jersey City. Our destination was the Catskill Mountains home of the late George Handy, a genius experimental jazz composer/arranger from the 1940s' and 50s' with whom I had studied piano after getting ...
Swingadelic at Maxwell's
by Tom Dwyer
Swingadelic Maxwell's Hoboken, NJ June 24, 2006 It's a Monday evening around 8:30 pm when a group of musicians wanders into Maxwell's, the venerable music club in Hoboken, NJ and start tuning up. Swingadelic, an eleven-piece little big band has been gigging the front room at Maxwell's every other ...
Barry Harris in New York
by Tom Dwyer
Barry Harris is one of the world's most respected jazz piano players and teachers, considered by many to be the foremost interpreter of the music of Bud Powell, Tadd Dameron and Thelonious Monk. For more than half a century, Harris has played with the giants of jazz including Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon, Cannonball Adderley ...