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Jimmy Owens: The Monk Project
by Edward Blanco
With a career spanning over 45 years, legendary trumpeter Jimmy Owens has had the privilege of performing with many giants of jazz, including trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, pianist Billy Taylor, bassist Charles Mingus, drummer Max Roach and the incomparable pianist Duke Ellington. Though he never had the opportunity to record with pianist Thelonious Monk, he did know ...
Noah Haidu: Carving Out His Place
by R.J. DeLuke
New York-based pianist Noah Haidu came to jazz through the blues, listening to the searing, soulful guitar moans of Buddy Guy and Albert King. But his training, at the age of six, had its advent in classical music. He also likes to experiment with electronics. All these things go into the musical blender of ...
Jimmy Owens' "The Monk Project" Street Date January 3, 2012
NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Owens' debut as a leader on IPO features the legendary trumpeter/flugelhornist leading a stellar septet on a program of his own uniquely original arrangements of Thelonious Monk compositions that are deeply steeped in the feeling of the blues. Owens, who has been heard on countless big band and small group recordings as ...
Annual Jazz Party at Sea Announces Lineup
The Annual Jazz Party At Sea is pleased to announce the lineup for the 12th Annual departure, November 4th through the 11th, 2012. We will set sail from New Orleans for seven nights aboard Norwegian Cruise Line's m/s Norwegian Star visiting Costa Maya, Belize City, Roatan and Cozumel. Featured artists include Renee Rosnes Quartet with Peter ...
The Monty Alexander Trio: Toronto, March 5, 2011
by Alain Londes
The Monty Alexander TrioKoerner HallToronto, CanadaMarch 5, 2011 For a night of swinging blues, in honor of Oscar Peterson, the Monty Alexander Trio was an ideal choice for the continuing series Aspects of Oscar at Toronto, Canada's Royal Conservatory of Music. The regular trio included bassist Hassan JJ Wiggins Shakur and ...
Delfeayo Marsalis: Sweet Thunder Jazz Theatre on The Road
Delfeayo Marsalis is bound and determined to do it his way. That is evident in a risk well worth taking with his new Jazz Theatre production, Sweet Thunder: Duke & Shak. The cleverly named presentation honors Duke Ellington and William Shakespeare. Marsalis, known for wit and charm and chops features a sparkling ensemble including actor, Kenneth ...
Delfeayo Marsalis: Sweet Thunder
by Edward Blanco
Acclaimed trombonist and member of the first family of jazz, Delfeayo Marsalis launches Sweet Thunder: Duke & Shak, an original theatrical jazz production culled from live performances in thirty-six locations across the country. The play was born from Marsalis' affinity for the music of Duke Ellington and the poetry of Shakespeare: first brought to the musical ...
August 2010
by Fradley Garner
Two East Coast Big Bands specialize in music of the 1920s and '30s. Vince Giordano and His Nighthawks share the pre-Swing era with Long Island trombonist Ray Osnato and his South Shore Syncopators, a 10-piece band with five singers whose performances mimic a 1930s radio show, complete with honey-tongued announcer. Like Giordano, Osnato started young, collecting ...
15th Anniversary of the Litchfield Jazz Festival
by Marcia Hillman
Litchfield Jazz FestivalKent, ConnecticutAugust 6-8, 2010 The green hills of Kent, Connecticut resounded once more with the sound of jazz as the 15th Anniversary of the Litchfield Jazz Festival settled in from Friday, August 6th through Sunday, August 8th. This year the main stage was again indoors in the newly air-conditioned hockey ...
Take Five With Tim Veeder
by AAJ Staff
Meet Tim Veeder:Tim Veeder is a professional saxophonist, clarinetist, flautist, composer, arranger and educator based in the New York, NY area. Tim began playing saxophone at age eleven in his small hometown of Gloversville, in upstate NY. He attended The College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY, studying under Paul Evoskevich and Mark Vinci. ...
