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"Tickler's Town" Spirit of Jazz Returns to Newark, New Jersey
The 5th Annual Lincoln Park Music Festival “Afternoon of Jazz" Celebrates Newark's Influence on the Genre Newark, N.J., July 20, 2010--The Jazz All-Star Newark Arkestra hosted by Amiri Baraka will open the 5th Anniversary Lincoln Park Music Festival with an afternoon concert on Friday, July 30, 2010 from 12pm--2pm. The All-Star Newark Arkestra will invoke the ...
Duke Ellington Tames The Savage Beasts: Lions and Tigers and Bears (and Gazelles!)
by Dan Bilawsky
I begin this edition of Old, New, Borrowed and Blue with a confession. I have an unabashed love for the music of Duke Ellington. From his brilliantly scored compositions, to the singular instrumental personalities in his band(s)--with Ellington, Jimmy Hamilton and Johnny Hodges ranking at the top of my list--Ellington seems to transcend the “big band" ...
Steve Colson: Doing Jazz Justice
by Gordon Marshall
As well as being a great music educator, Steve Colson is one of the most versatile jazz pianists of the last forty years, with a grasp of idioms ranging from swing to free, and from European romanticism to new music. What's more, he is a master of compression, incorporating these sources into solos and compositions with ...
North Coast Brewing Up Some Monk
by Mark Corroto
In 1931, industrialist John D. Rockefeller, Jr. donated two million dollars to the Save-The-Redwoods League to purchase some 10,000 acres of virgin redwood forests in Northern California from logging companies. These companies had already cut nearly 90% of the world's tallest trees, some of these redwood trees had stood on the coast of California since the ...
Robin D.G. Kelley on Thelonious Monk: The Man, the Myth, the Music
by Victor L. Schermer
Robin D.G. Kelley is the author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (Free Press, 2009), the already definitive biography that has received rave reviews in the press and is the topic of conversation of Monk fans and musicians everywhere. Kelley offers the rich perspective of an African-American historian ...
Five Piano Duos
by Ken Dryden
Chick Corea & Hiromi Duet Concord 2009 Joachim Kühn & Michael Wollny Live at Schloss Elmau ACT Music 2009 Aki Takase & Alexander Von Schlippenbach Iron Wedding: Piano Duets
Stride Piano Duets. Live In Toronto 1966
Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Relaxin'; Blue Skies; I Found A New Baby; Tea For Two; Charleston; You're Driving Me Crazy; Here Comes The Band; Sweet Georgia Brown; Georgia On My Mind; Linger Awhile/Shine; If I Could Be With You; Just You, Just Me; Squeeze Me; Twelfth Street Rag.
Stride Piano Duets—Live in Toronto, 1966
Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Relaxin’; Blue Skies; I Found A New Baby; Tea For Two; Charleston; You’re Driving Me Crazy; Here Comes The Band; Sweet Georgia Brown; Georgia On My Mind; Linger Awhile/Shine; If I Could Be With You; Just You, Just Me; Squeeze Me; Twelfth Street Rag.
