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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 ...
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 ...
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