Duke Ellington - Three Classic Albums and More (Historically Speaking - The Duke / Duke Ellington Presents / Ellington 55)
Adventures of Hoogrrl! (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Pink Panel @ The Fridge: Conflict and Identity Meet the Iranian artist of "I Ran Home" Sunday, November 22 1 to 4PM @ The Fridge 516 8th Street, SE (rear alley) Panelists: Erice Robert Parnes, artist Hadieh Shafie, artist Philippa Hughes, moderator **1:30 PM Special performance** Students from the Duke Ellington School of the Arts This performance from the "R Street Collective",...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
As Latin-jazz legends go, saxophonist Ray Santos ranks high on the list. Few living Latin-jazz artists today can claim to have played in and arranged for the bands of Machito, Tito Puente and Tito Rodriguez. To give you an idea of what this trifecta means, it would be akin to a saxophonist playing in the Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Woody Herman bands. In addition, Ray is one of only a handful of...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
We try to be helpful to groups that come to town, but it wasn't until yesterday that I finally got confirmation of Quartet San Francisco performing at CAPA tonight. It was far too late to get it in the listings, but here is the info on this quality ensemble: November 18, 7 pm CAPA, Downtown $20 adults, $10 students (free for CAPA students) Here is some of the program Tango Toscana. Jeremy Cohen The...
Power Line (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Today is the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Johnny Mercer. With the publication of The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer last month, Mercer's place in the pantheon of artists responsible for the great American songbook seems more secure than ever. Among the more than 1,000 songs for which Mercer is known to have written the lyrics are "I Remember You," "That Old Black Magic,"...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
European Jazz Jamboree Berlin, Germany September 18-24, 2009 20 years after the Berlin Wall came down, the global appreciation of Germany's jazz is arguably finally getting its due, with no small help from the European Jazz Jamboree (EJJ). In its sophomore year, EJJ has quickly garnered attention throughout Europe, and now the States, too, is (and/or should be) taking notice. Founded and run by entrepreneur...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Once, as they were jamming, {{Duke Ellington = 6521}}'s drummer {{Sam Woodyard = 12796}} called out to Danish violinist Svend Asmussen, "Man, you play your ass off," to which The Fiddling Viking replied, with that charmingly naively innocent wit so typical of his homeland, "From now on then my name is only Mussen...
The White Bench (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Since I've been working for about 14 hours a day for 6 months-weekend included, without a single day of rest or vacation and after I've lost about 15 kgs/33 lbs, yesterday I was about to faint at a friend's house! (... And before you ask, no babies are on the way! LOL). Only after a glass of water with a generous spoonful of sugar, a croissant, a cup of tea and some fruit my friend kindly offered me,...
bebop spoken here (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
I'm still trying to decide on my Gig of the Year. So far I've short-listed: Patrick Kunka Quartet - Cluny. Ryan Quigley Sextet - Corner House/Scarborough. Robert Mitchell Trio - Cluny. Simon Spillett - York. Tony Kofi - Highfield Hotel. Lighthouse Trio - N'cle Uni. Joshua Redman - The Sage. Steve Waterman/VOTNJO - Sunderland. Joscho Stephan Trio - Customs House. Claire Martin/Sir Richard Rodney Bennett...
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Some of NASCAR's newest marketing efforts are being carried out on a college campus in Northwest Washington, up the street from where Duke Ellington played jazz and a short hike from where Bill Cosby stops for his half smokes. Howard University isn't exactly a hotbed of pistons and pit stops, but five of the school's students will travel to Miami this week to present to NASCAR officials their latest...
Wolfgangs Vault (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Download for $9.98. Listen to Johnny Dankworth & His Orchestra performed at Newport Jazz Festival on July 3, 1959
the depository (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
a response to this article (and some discussion) can be found HERE . "The fact that so many books still name the Beatles "the greatest or most significant or most influential" rock band ever only tells you how far rock music still is from becoming a serious art. Jazz critics have long recognized that the greatest jazz musicians of all times are Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, who were...
UPTOWNflavor (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
‘The Black Nutcracker’ is a modernized rendition of the holiday classic ‘The Nutcracker’. The ‘Black Nutcracker’ will feature an eclectic blend of music from the original Tchaikovsky score, Duke Ellington, The Commodores, and live African drummers. The dance styles will be equally as eclectic showcasing a range of styles from classic ballet to the Cha-Cha Slide....
JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Downbeat: The Great Jazz Interviews: A 75th Anniversary Anthology. Edited and Compiled By Frank Alkyer. In July of 1934 the first issue of DownBeat magazine hit newsstands in Chicago. For the next seven-plus decades and counting the publication has been synonymous with jazz. DownBeat has chronicled every facet of jazz; every trend; every new and emerging sound. They have charted the birth and rise...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Jazz at Lincoln Center is bringing classic American popular song into its fold with the appointment of the singer and pianist Michael Feinstein as director of its new popular music series.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
This album's subtitle is The Music of Thelonious Monk and Duke Ellington, and it's refreshing to find the two pianist/composers united in a single conception, pointing out that they probably have more similarities than differences. This selection's other strong point (and this is all before its players even strike a note) is that the repertoire avoids almost all of the accustomed tune choices. From...
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