Home » Search Center » Results: Victor L. Schermer
Results for "Victor L. Schermer"
The Count Basie Orchestra and Vocalist Lizz Wright
by Victor L. Schermer
The Count Basie Orchestra and Vocalist Lizz Wright The Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, PA May 6, 2005 During this past concert season, the Mellon Jazz Festival at the Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, has offered a number of double bills, perhaps to provide variety and contrast, suggest comparisons, and include more artists. The pairing of ...
Fred Hersch: Celebrating Walt Whitman
by Victor L. Schermer
Fred Hersch is a working jazz pianist and composer based in New York City, with an outstanding resume of accomplishments (see his website for full details). In addition to his three-decade long daily fare as a leader and sideman on a multitude of gigs and recordings, he has, over the course of his career, undertaken a ...
Bobby Watson and Horizon at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola
by Victor L. Schermer
Bobby Watson and Horizon Dizzy's Club Coca Cola New York City March 12, 2005 I won't bother you, the reader, with the details of how I wound up at Dizzy's Coca Cola Club on March 12th, just to say that that it was unplanned. I was in New York City ...
Mancini Magic: An Interview with Ginny Mancini
by Victor L. Schermer
Henry Mancini (1924-1994) was much more than one of the greatest songwriters of all time. He was--and will always be--a “sphere of influence." His music--from “Moon River" to “Days of Wine and Roses," “The Pink Panther," “Charade," and “Peter Gunn"--formed the backdrop for the lives and entertainment of several generations of Americans and the wide world ...
Directions in Music: Herbie Hancock, Michael Brecker, and Roy Hargrove
by Victor L. Schermer
Herbie Hancock, Michael Brecker, and Roy HargroveThe Kimmel Center (Verizon Hall)Philadelphia, PAFebruary 23, 2005 It could be said with some justification that Herbie Hancock is the world's greatest jazz pianist. Certainly, at the very least, he challenged the limits of technical virtuosity and musical expression at his Kimmel Center Mellon ...
Jim Ridl Performs Dave Brubeck's "Hold Fast to Dreams"
by Victor L. Schermer
The Jim Ridl Jazz Quartet Performing Dave Brubeck's “Hold Fast to Dreams" Set to the poems of Langston Hughes Nassau Presbyterian Church, Princeton Saturday, February 12, 2005 Sometimes we need to be reminded who we are and what's important in life. The essentials are easily forgotten in the ...
Joanna Pascale: When Lights are Low
by Victor L. Schermer
Joanna Pascale When Lights are Low CAP 2004 The quintessential instrument of jazz, perhaps all of music, is the female voice. While jazz has many personae and “voices" (I think of John Coltrane's “preacher" inflections, Miles Davis' contemplative, moody, and earthy “speaking through the horn," Bill Evans' dreamy, complex, ethereal ...
Trumpeter John Swana
by Victor L. Schermer
In addition to being one of the finest contemporary jazz trumpet players, John Swana is a human being who is spontaneously authentic and refuses to play a false role. Having reached the ripe old age of 38, John has performed side by side with many fabulous musicians, from Benny Golson to Tom Harrell, to Chris Potter, ...
Mary Ellen Desmond and Meg Clifton: The Dynamic Philadelphia Songstress Duo
by Victor L. Schermer
In the jazz arena, as is all too often true in opera as well, vocalists, despite their sometimes fine voices and charisma, often lack true musicianship. This shortcoming is so pervasive, that we no longer expect such musical fine-tuning from them. Billie Holiday and the opera diva Beverly Sills were two great exceptions to the rule. ...
Desmond and Clifton Swing at the Chadds Ford Winery
by Victor L. Schermer
As readers of my other All About Jazz contributions may surmise, I take jazz perhaps all too seriously, regarding it as an art form masquerading as entertainment. (Certainly, this dour quality of mine is no way to win friends and influence people, but there it is ;-). A few years ago, I heard Mary Ellen Desmond ...
