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Tom Lawton: Co-Creating the Music

by Victor L. Schermer
May 31, 2004

Tom Lawton is a highly respected, gifted, and creative jazz pianist who resides in Montgomery County, PA, and teaches and works actively as a free lance musician in the Philadelphia area, New York City, and internationally. He's had the distinct honor of being the jazz pianist the Philadelphia Orchestra often chooses for its social functions. For ...

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Article: Live Review

Keith Jarrett: Setting a New Standard for Standards

by Victor L. Schermer
April 16, 2004

Keith Jarrett, piano; Gary Peacock, bass; Jack DeJohnette, drums Mellon Jazz FestivalVerizon Hall | Kimmel Center for the Performing ArtsPhiladelphia, PAApril 7, 2004, 8PMThere is little new that anyone can say about Keith Jarrett- and his remarkable, multi-faceted output of music- but some observations are perhaps worth repeating and/or ...

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Article: Live Review

Live From Zanzibar Blue: Kurt Elling

by Victor L. Schermer
April 6, 2004

Zanzibar Blue Philadelphia, PA April 2, 2004 First Set | 8:00PM (This is the second in a series of reviews that we will be doing from the “catbird seat” at Zanzibar Blue, Philadelphia’s premiere jazz club, located at Broad and Walnut Streets in Center City. We are grateful to the ...

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Kathy Kemp Ridl: Creator and Creative Muse

by Victor L. Schermer
March 30, 2004

Kathy Kemp Ridl is the wife of “rising star” jazz pianist, Jim Ridl. In keeping with the expanding role of women in our society, she herself is a gifted and active creative artist both visually and musically. Coming from a musical family, Kathy is not only a skilled classical and jazz violist and bassist, she is ...

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Relaxin' at the Mellon at the Kimmel

by Victor L. Schermer
March 11, 2004

Mellon Jazz Fridays The Kimmel Center Philadelphia, PA March 5, 2003 Well, All Right, OK, You Win. I attended the Mellon Jazz Festival at the Kimmel Center not quite sure what it would be like. Frankly, I’m a sentimentalist who misses the grand Academy of Music atmospherics, at least for ...

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Article: Book Review

Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Cafe Society and an Early Cry for Civil Rights

by Victor L. Schermer
March 8, 2004

Strange Fruit David Margolick Running Press 144pp. Photos 0195100832 This is a book about a song. The song is “Strange Fruit," with a haunting melody and an earth shattering lyric about the abhorrent and horribly common Southern lynchings of African Americans which stand as an ugly symbol of ...

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The Musical World Of J.J. Johnson

by Victor L. Schermer
March 4, 2004

The Musical World Of J.J. Johnson Joshua Berrett and Louis G. Bourgois III Scarecrow Press, Inc. ISBN 0810836483 1999 J.J. Johnson is known to the listening public as a jazz trombonist who has repeatedly won the Downbeat and many other polls, who has played the instrument ...

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As Though I Had Wings: The Lost Memoir

by Victor L. Schermer
March 4, 2004

As Though I Had Wings: The Lost Memoir By Chet Baker St. Martin's Press, 1997 0312167970 Baker, Chet - Chesney Henry Baker. Born Yale, Oklahoma, December 23, 1929. Died Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 13, 1988. Trumpeter and singer.Chet Baker was both an original jazz artist and a ...

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John Coltrane: His Life and Music

by Victor L. Schermer
February 24, 2004

John Coltrane: His Life and Music Lewis Porter Univ of Michigan Press ISBN: 0472101617 This is a great big bear hug of a biography of one of the greatest jazz legends and jazz masters of all time. As with all great and legendary individuals, much has been written about John ...

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Jim Ridl: Door Openings

by Victor L. Schermer
February 24, 2004

Pianist Jim Ridl is emerging as an innovative force in jazz, a pianist of the highest caliber, a creative composer and improviser, and one of those rare musicians who stretches the art form even as he honors the established traditions. Technically and improvisationally formidable in performance and recordings, he is equally comfortable with his own groups ...