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Meg Clifton: You're a Sweetheart
by Victor L. Schermer
Meg Clifton You're a Sweetheart Independent 2005 You may ask, “Who needs another female singer with a great voice and a sophisticated sound who sings jazz standards? Good point--they exist in droves these days. But--if it's Meg Clifton you're talking about, that's another story. She's just special enough ...
Pat Martino at Chris' Jazz Cafe, November 25th, 2005
by Victor L. Schermer
Pat MartinoChris' Jazz CaféPhiladelphia, PAFirst set It is said that when George Benson first heard Pat Martino perform, he was so astounded that he thought of giving up guitar playing. What he heard was a young kid in Harlem playing like a master. Since that time about forty years ago, ...
Third Annual Philly All-Star Night at the Kimmel Center
by Victor L. Schermer
Kimmel Center for the Peforming Arts Verizon Hall Philadelphia, PA November 18, 2005This concert maintained the particular focus on Philadelphia musicians of the Mellon Jazz Festival at the Kimmel. Odean Pope is a Philadelphia legend, who worked with John Coltrane, Max Roach and many other jazz masters. His saxophone ...
Khan Jamal and Chick Corea at the Kimmel Center
by Victor L. Schermer
Khan Jamal and Chick Corea Kimmel Center Philadelphia, PA October 14, 2005 This was a delightful evening of the Past Present-ed. Khan Jamal and Chick Corea are both legendary jazz masters who began their careers in the fateful 1960's and have continued to be productive right down to the New ...
Monkadelphia at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
by Victor L. Schermer
Monkadelphia Philadelphia Museum of Art September 30, 2005Imagine that it's a pleasant Friday evening, with a nip of early autumn in the air. You finish work, maybe meet your hot date, and grab a taxi over to the Philadelphia Museum of Art on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. It's your first attendance ...
Tony Bennett Opens Kimmel Center Mellon Jazz Festival Season
by Victor L. Schermer
Tony Bennett is an icon of popular culture. His ascendance in that pantheon began with his famous endorsement by Frank Sinatra as the nation's best male vocalist, and a string of hit recordings lifted him to the top. Culturally, Bennett and Sinatra came to represent the two sides of the American male of the 1940's through ...
Jim Ridl Quintet at the Deerhead Inn
by Victor L. Schermer
Jim Ridl Quintet Deerhead Inn Delaware Water Gap, PA September 3, 2005 Pianist Jim Ridl's new CD, Your Cheatin' Heart, is a jazz take on some country and western classics along with some standards and original compositions. It is rich with novel ideas and textures and is bound to attract ...
Jim Ridl: Your Cheatin' Heart
by Victor L. Schermer
Jim Ridl Your Cheatin' Heart Dreambox Media DMJ-1080 2005In addition to being a highly skilled and accomplished jazz pianist, Jim Ridl is a creative and resourceful musician, composer, and arranger who draws on a rich legacy of musical and personal resources to develop a wide range of musical ...
Phoenix Rising: A Credo on Behalf of New Orleans Recovery
by Victor L. Schermer
More than 100 years ago, a new form of music emerged. It was based on African American spiritual music, the sound and rhythm of funeral marching bands, touches of American and Acadian French folk strains, and a special blend of joy and sadness that was and remains hard to describe. The new music that came into ...
Miss Justine: The Many Moods of a Philly Jazz Treasure
by Victor L. Schermer
Jazz vocalist Miss Justine (Justine Keeys) is a Philadelphia phenomenon. I first heard her sing several years ago, and was blown away by her unique mastery of the jazz idiom, so completely faithful to the music that it seems to run through her rather than be “performed in any artificial sense of that term. Thus, Justine ...
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