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Victor Goines has played the clarinet since the age of eight and continued his studies with Carl Blouin, Sr., who introduced him to the saxophone at St. Augustine High School. In 1980, he entered Loyola University in New Orleans where he studied clarinet and saxophone, receiving a Bachelor of Music Education Degree in 1984. As Mr. Goines' interest in jazz increased, he contacted Ellis Marsalis in 1983 to take private lessons. Eight months later, Mr. Marsalis selected Mr. Goines to play saxophone as a member of his quartet. Mr. Goines left New Orleans in 1987 to pursue his graduate studies at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, receiving his Master of Music Degree in 1990. During time off, Mr
Oscar Rossignoli: Expanding His Musical Journey
by R.J. DeLuke
When Oscar Rossignoli was a child in Honduras, he wanted to be a drummer. He was captivated by the instrument and when he went to church services each Sunday with his family, he would scamper to the front row and seat himself close to the drummer. The church services featured a band. His father, ...
Introducing Saxophonist Paloma Ximena
by Sanford Josephson
In May 2022, Rio Americano High School in Sacramento, CA, was a finalist in Jazz at Lincoln Center's Essentially Ellington competition, and sophomore Paloma Ximena won two solo awards: Outstanding Clarinetist and Outstanding Alto Saxophonist. “That was really the start of my career," she said. “That was the moment when I really decided to pursue music." ...
2024 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
by Mark Robbins
The first thing a first time attendee to the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival learns is that no matter how much planning is put into creating a schedule so no favorite acts are missed is impossible. The festival, celebrating its 54th birthday, runs the last weekend of April and the first weekend of May. Historically ...
Wycliffe Gordon: What You Dealin' With?
by C. Andrew Hovan
Privy to the entire history of jazz trombone via the technological age in which we live, Wycliffe Gordon seems to have utilized this information in such a way that his own playing displays elements from various periods and a technical competence that is indeed remarkable. “I was most familiar, at first, with guys who played with ...
Dawn Clement, Elsa Nilsson, Emma Dayhuff, Tina Raymond: Esthesis Quartet
by Paul Rauch
The Covid-19 lockdown of 2020 and 2021 mandated that musicians find ways to connect without gathering in person. The pandemic produced a litany of recordings that along with photos of masked loved ones, will serve as tacit reminders of two years of solitude and isolation. For Esthesis Quartet this meant gathering on Zoom to keep the ...
Transformation
By Ted Nash
Label: Tiger Turn
Released: 2021
Track listing: Creation, Part I; Creation, Part II; Dear Dad/Letter; Dear Dad/Response; Prelude for
Memnon; One Among Many; Rising Out of Hatred; A Piece by the Angriest Black Man in
America; Forgiveness; Wisdom of the Humanities; Reaching the Tropopause.
The Wynton Marsalis Septet at The Sandler Center for the Performing Arts
by Mark Robbins
The Sandler Center for the Performing Arts is a 1300 seat theater that, due to Covid, has been closed to performances for over a year. With Covid restrictions lifting and live music slowly making a come back, what better way to start than with The Wynton Marsalis Septet including Wynton Marsalis, Chris Crenshaw, Victor Goines, Carlos ...
Glenn Close & Ted Nash: Transformation
by Paul Rauch
Transformation is a multi-disciplinary work from saxophonist/composer Ted Nash, and iconic actress Glenn Close, exploring the multi-faceted and abstract theme of transformation. The works included examine the theme from both universal and individual conceptions. Music and literature at its best is clearly transformative for anyone experiencing it. Transformation is by essence, the highest and most illuminating ...
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