The Lobby from SPG (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Niall Twamley is the Branded Experience Analyst at the Starwood Cork CCC office. Jazz music has its roots in the Southern states of the US, but over the years has built up a substantial following around the world. In Europe,...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
Three Benny Green Licks Benny Green is a hard swinging and intense modern jazz pianist built from the hard bop mold. Influenced by Bud Powell, Phineas Newborn and Oscar Peterson, his solos are both technically challenging yet harmonically straightforward, adhering closely to the underlying chord progression. An overflowing font of bebop licks, his solos are an unending source of material for beginning...
all kinds of stuff (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
Hey John, I've been reading all the comments on your recent post about specific vs generic designs as they apply to Indians in cartoons. I had been planning to write up something similar myself, only in regard to blacks and the art of cartoons and caricatures. About a week ago I'd even sketched a few faces from this series of mug shots you'd posted recently of the "Baggy Pants Gang", with the
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Nanaimo: Legendary jazz pianist Oliver Jones is one of Canada’s finest musicians.Piano, drums and bass switch effortlessly between bebop, Gershwin showtunes, swingin’ Duke Ellington & friend Oscar Peterson.
megfowler.com (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
My top officially decided today would be a good day to get hooked up in my foundational garments without me noticing UNTIL I STOOD UP ON THE TRAIN IN FRONT OF NINE MEN. Well, hello stomach! How are you? QUICK EVERYONE LOOK AT HOW WHITE IT IS! OH, YOU’VE BEEN BLINDED? SORRY. That’s the kind of beginning my [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
Tanglewood Jazz Festival Lenox, Massachusetts August 29-31, 2008 Tanglewood, in Lenox, Massachusetts, is the summer home of the Boston Symphony, and it's also home to events like an annual James Taylor concert, an annual recording of A Prairie Home Companion, and the annual Tanglewood Jazz Festival, which ran this year from August 29-31...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Arts council puts jazz on display Canadian pianist Oscar Peterson plays piano at the Newport-Belgrade Jazz Festival in the former Yugoslavia in 1973, wearing a checkered suit and a smile on his face. Duke Ellington blows kisses from a white convertible to an enamored crowd at the Tamil Union Oval before a performance in 1972 in Colombo, Sri Lanka...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Jimmy Cleveland, a trombonist whose recording credits included work for Quincy Jones, Lionel Hampton, Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughan, James Brown, Oscar Peterson, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Lucky Thompson, Oscar Pettiford and others, died August 23 in Lynwood, Calif. He was 82...
Article Archive (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008
From his early love of music to his last years, Oscar Peterson's life was full with accomplishments and support from his family. The decision to become a professional pianist led to a weekly radio show and many performances in hotels and music halls for Peterson.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
The ultra cool musician (and DJ) might be catching rays in LA but his soul is pure Detroit. The artist's homecoming includes an afternoon session at jazz fest and a DJ set Saturday night at Confidential.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
All About Jazz has re-launched its contest feature giving MY AAJ members an opportunity to win quality jazz products. Enter two Mosaic Records box set giveaways! We're giving away one box each of the Lester Young/Count Basie Sessions 1936-1940 4-CD set and the The Complete Clef/Mercury Recordings Of Oscar Peterson Trio 7-CD set. Winners will be announced in September. See our active contests page for...
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 17/08/2008
Film animation married to jazz improvisation goes back to the 1930s and the advent of sound films. This collaboration of the cartoon figure Betty Boop and the real Louis Armstrong is one of the most famous early examples. Social sensitivity...
LA Times (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
Lee Young, a jazz drummer who served as Nat King Cole's musical director for nearly a decade and broke barriers as the first African American hired for a staff position with a Hollywood studio orchestra, has died. He was 94.
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
West Valley residents get a chance to see a Valley musical treasure on Aug. 13 as piano prodigy Nicole Pesce performs at the West Valley Art Museum.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Award-winning jazz vocalist and brother of Nat King Cole to perform one night only at the OC Pavilion in Santa Ana, near the artist district Santa Ana, CA (PRWEB) August 5, 2008 -- The OC Pavilion is pleased to welcome jazz great Freddy Cole on August 29 at 8 p.m. Doors to the OC Pavilion and Ambrosia Restaurant open at 6 p.m. for pre-show dinner and cocktails...
