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Darmstadter Big Band / Alon Yavnai–NDR Big Band / Red Bank Jazz Orchestra
by Jack Bowers
Dartstadter Big BandKentomaniaSelf Published2010 Of all the recorded tributes to the legendary Stan Kenton released during the centennial of his birth (2011), the Darmstadter Big Band's Kentomania (it's spelled that way on the jacket cover and disc) is unequaled for one reason alone: it has former Kenton ...
This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: A Conversation With Benny Carter Biographer Ed Berger
This week Riverwalk Jazz recalls the 9-decade career of saxophonist, trumpeter, composer, and arranger Benny Carter with music and memories from the maestro himself and an interview with Ed Berger, Associate Director of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University. Berger was Carter’s road manager and one of the authors of the definitive biography, Benny ...
Salute to The Rhythmakers This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, New Orleans-based trumpeter Duke Heitger, along with Bay Area guitarist Clint Baker, join the Jim Cullum Jazz Band for a tribute to the remarkable set of hot 1932 recordings known today as The Rhythmakers. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Tommy Dorsey
All About Jazz is celebrating Tommy Dorsey's birthday today! Trombonist Thomas “Tommy" Dorsey was born in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, the younger brother of famed jazz clarinetist, Jimmy Dorsey. In early years he was equally well-known as both trumpet and trombone player, recording several hot jazz solos on trumpet in 1920s, including “The Spell of the Blues" with ...
Tribute to Red Allen This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
This week, Riverwalk Jazz pays tribute to Henry 'Red' Allen, one of the last great trumpeters to come out of New Orleans in the 1920s. Joining the Jim Cullum Jazz Band on the bandstand at The Landing in San Antonio are Bay Area multi-instrumentalist Clint Baker, New Orleans clarinetist Evan Christopher, New York clarinet legend Kenny ...
Graham Collier, 1937-2011
Written by Duncan Heining Composer, bassist and bandleader Graham Collier left town on Friday, September 9,, 2011. He was holidaying with his partner, John, in Crete, when a sudden heart failure took his final breath. It was quick, relatively painless but unexpected. We all felt sure Graham had too much sparkle, too much music in him ...
Tom Everett: Jazz at Harvard
by Andrew J. Sammut
It's no accident that forty years of jazz at Harvard coincides with forty years of Tom Everett at the esteemed university. Everett founded Harvard University's first student jazz band, taught its first jazz history course and welcomed the campus' first visiting jazz artist. He now leads two jazz bands at the prestigious university, continues to teach ...
Kenny Shanker: Steppin' Up
by Dan Bilawsky
Alto Saxophonist Kenny Shanker is proof that an artist's direction isn't always reflected in their tonal personality. Shanker possesses a sleek-and-sweet tone that has served him well on dates with big name ghost band, like the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and the Nelson Riddle Orchestra, as well as smooth-leaning pianist David Benoit, but his own music operates ...
Take Five With Laura Ainsworth
by AAJ Staff
Meet Laura Ainsworth: I was born in Los Angeles but came to Dallas as a tot when my dad, jazz sax/clarinetist Billy Ainsworth, relocated to become a part of the growing commercial recording industry. Came up in the music biz (details to follow!). Graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.S. in Radio-TV-Film. ...
Kenny Shanker: Steppin' Up
by Bruce Lindsay
Kenny Shanker has worked extensively since graduating from the Manhattan School of Music in 2001, playing with the New World Symphony, and the Tommy Dorsey and Nelson Riddle Orchestras, among others. The young alto saxophonist recorded his debut album as leader, Steppin' Up, in April 2009 but it's taken almost two-and-a-half years for it to be ...
