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Relaxin' at the Mellon at the Kimmel
by Victor L. Schermer
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 ...
Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Cafe Society and an Early Cry for Civil Rights
by Victor L. Schermer
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 ...
The Musical World Of J.J. Johnson
by Victor L. Schermer
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 ...
As Though I Had Wings: The Lost Memoir
by Victor L. Schermer
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 ...
John Coltrane: His Life and Music
by Victor L. Schermer
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 ...
Jim Ridl: Door Openings
by Victor L. Schermer
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 ...
Ridl & Martino: Duets at Tin Angel
by Victor L. Schermer
On Saturday evening, December 13, 2003, Philadelphia was blessed to have two international jazz greats perform at a small, local venue, The Tin Angel . Of course, Pat Martino is a Philadelphian, and Jim Ridl lives near Princeton, so in that sense they are “local,” but the set that I attended was a world-class event, a ...
Live From Zanzibar Blue: Diane Schuur
by Victor L. Schermer
Zanzibar Blue Philadelphia, PA December 11th, 2003 Second Set | 9:30PM This is one 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 Zanzibar ...
Pat Martino: To Renew A Life In Jazz
by Victor L. Schermer
CAUTION! This interview may positively change the way you think about and experience music, yourself, and even your life. You risk growing and changing! Pat Martino is not simply a master guitarist and jazz icon. He is insistent on being a whole human being, insistent on being himself, insistent paradoxically on playing and enjoying life to ...
Think Tank
by Victor L. Schermer
It could be said that Pat Martino most fully represents the evolution of jazz guitar artistry from the 1960's to the present day. His playing displays a striking continuity over time, even though disrupted in mid-stream by his well-known bout with a brain aneurysm that led to nearly total amnesia, and from which he more than ...
