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Vanguard Jazz Orchestra Summer Residence in Assisi, Italy
THE VANGUARD JAZZ ORCHESTRA ESTABLISHES SUMMER HOME IN ASSISI, ITALY As many New York Metropolitan area residents retreat to their summer homes, The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra will be setting up residence in the hills of Assisi. For the past three years the orchestra has been providing performances and workshops in the historic city as part of ...
Tanglewood Jazz Festival 2009, Lenox, MA
by R.J. DeLuke
Tanglewood Jazz FestivalLenox, MassachusettsSeptember 4-6, 2009 The annual Tanglewood Jazz Festival in western Massachusetts has become an intriguing mix of music over the years, its programming taking into account jazz masters, as well as young talent, and projects that are as new or at least a bit different; something that isn't experienced everywhere ...
The (Modern) Big Band Era: Dave Rivello, James Carney, Joris Teepe
by J Hunter
In an economic climate where jazz quartets are reviving the time-honored “Everybody in one Winnebago" tour strategy, it's amazing that big bands even exist, let alone put out the dynamic, challenging music that's come from Maria Schneider, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra and the assorted large units associated with maintaining bassist Charles Mingus' legacy. What's more, the ...
Gary Smulyan: Low Man Aims High
by Edward Bride
A baritone saxophonist who plays like Bird? And harvests more than a half-dozen Grammy awards in the process? That seeming contradiction characterizes the great successes of Gary Smulyan, one of today's most in-demand jazz performers, educators, and recording artists. To be fair, Smulyan has his own voice, but he cites Charlie Parker ...
JJA's 13th Annual Jazz Awards - Join Us!
Mark your calendar! 13th Annual JJA Jazz Awards June 16, 2009 3:00-6:00pm at The Jazz Standard 116 E. 27th Street New York, NY Join us at the JJA's 13th Annual Jazz Awards as we... Announce our 2009 award winners (see nominees below) Honor winners and nominees ...
Monday Night Live at the Village Vanguard
Label: Planet Arts Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: CD1: Mean What You Say; Say It Softly; St. Louis Blues; Body and Soul; Mornin' Reverend. CD2: Las Cucarachas Entran; Willow Tree; Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing; Kids Are Pretty People; The Waltz You Swang For Me; Little Rascal on a Rock.
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra: Monday Night Live at the Village Vanguard
by J Hunter
"The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra holds sway Monday nights"--so says the Village Vanguard's minuscule listing in the “Goings On About Town" section of The New Yorker magazine. Other acts come and go, but the VJO--the hellacious big band once co-captained by Thad Jones and Mel Lewis--just keeps on keeping on. Monday Night Live at the Village Vanguard ...
Other Places: Friedwald on the VJO
Not long ago in a Recent Listening in Brief posting, I brushed by the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra's new CD. Brevity by no means indicated a lack of enthusiasm for the latest recorded work of that remarkable institution. Will Friedwald, the jazz critic of The New York Sun, is another VJO enthusiast. He attended the band's recent ...
Up from the Skies
Label: Planet Arts Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Up from the Skies; The Life of Riley; In This Moment; Don
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra: Up from the Skies
by Jack Bowers
On its fifth album since the passing of co-founder Mel Lewis in 1990, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra turns for a second time to the music of Jim McNeely, the ensemble's pianist/composer in residence and one of the country's outstanding contemporary composer/arrangers. Even though his music has lost none of its resourcefulness or depth, this is a ...
