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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 ...
The Kimmel Center's Dobson Organ: The Inside Story
by Victor L. Schermer
Anyone who spends time with jazz musicians or attends their educational conferences knows how much they are preoccupied with their instruments. It's as if they are seeking the Holy Grail that will give them perfect sound and articulation. They compare brands of horns, even have models custom built. They switch reeds, string gauges, and mouthpieces. They ...
Amy Banks: When the Sun Comes Out
by Victor L. Schermer
Women jazz vocalists come from one of two styles or personae. One is that of vulnerability, the sense of innocence betrayed or wounded, the hurt that is always there even in joy. Billie Holiday, Irene Kral, and June Christie, however much they differ stylistically from one another, are examples of that genre. The other is of ...
Bill Hughes: Director of the Count Basie Orchestra
by Victor L. Schermer
The Count Basie Orchestra is a “big band phenomenon that has become a tradition. Their unique sound, combining blues and swing with an intensity and rhythm all their own, is and always has been immediately recognizable. For over half a century they have been generating thrills in concert halls, universities, nightclubs and festivals around the globe. ...
Take the Col'Train with Conrad Herwig, Brian Lynch, Danilo Perez and Ravi Coltrane
by Victor L. Schermer
Take the Col'Train Conrad Herwig, Brian Lynch, Danilo Perez and Ravi Coltrane Mellon Jazz at the Kimmel Center May 14, 2005 The virtues of melding different musical forms vs. adhering to the rigorous jazz tradition were thoughts that weighed heavily on my mind as I attended a very ...
