[Quincy Hilliard, Composer, In Praise of Autumn ] The Arts and Communication Department Present SUNY Orange Symphonic Band Kevin Scott, Director BIG BA(N)D CHRISTMAS A bodacious selection of unusual offerings for concert and swing band Jesse Ayers: Fanfare for Christmas Morning Quincy Hilliard: In Praise of Autumn Morten Lauridsen: O Magnum Mysterium (arr. Reynolds) Adam Gorb: Yiddish Dances Ralph...
I was relegated to the kiddie's table again this year. Frankly, I preferred it. Sat with the 4 grandchildren, S3 and BIL3 (even though they were hosting this year). It was good to hear their stories about high school and college. And the ridiculous drama going on at both. Ooh!!! I found out that N1 is a Mac convert! Slowly, but surely, world domination.... A strange thing happened at dinner... Since...
The tragic jazz life and death story of saxophonist Art Pepper was similar to that of {{Charlie Parker = 10115}} in many ways. Like Bird's brilliance, Art Pepper's intense flame burned bright, and his genius with the saxophone was subject to fan adoration and critical admiration. Unlike Parker, who died at age 35, Pepper lived into his mid-50s, making an infamous comeback from drugs and prison...
Lennie Niehaus' arrangements for Stan Kenton's band in the late 1950s and early 1960s are superb. So are his too-brief solos with the band. But if you really want to hear Lennie's musical genius at work, you have to dig his small-group recordings of the mid-1950s. Kenton, like many bandleaders in the LP era, was smart enough to know that the best way to hold onto star soloists was to let them record...
My dear friend Margaret B came up with some old photos that need names and a 1956 Stan Kenton program. Stan's first tour of the UK. ----- 1) In this photo Humph is, we assume, giving the girl a trumpet lesson... CAN ANYONE IDENTIFY HER? ----- 2) This one is on a boat but with a grand piano it probably wasn't a riverboat shuffle. CAN ANYONE IDENTIFY THE BASS AND PIANO? ----- 3) Finally - can anyone...
Artistry in Rhythm, the Ken Poston / Los Angeles Jazz Institute's 2009 homage to the renowned bandleader {{Stan Kenton = 8330}}, was held October 8-11 at the Sheraton LAX Four Points Hotel. As always, there was much to see, hear and admire: films, panel discussions, special presentations and, last but not least, no fewer than nineteen concerts by groups large and small including four lunchtime events...
Listening to the Customs House Big Band in an auditoreum is quite an experience; listening to them in the confined space of the New Crown Hotel is positively mindblowing! Imagine being dropped into a massed band session by the Stan Kenton, Count Basie and Woody Herman Bands and it gives you an overall impression of the sound. Simply incredible. Not than I'm suggesting that the CHBB is equal to all...
In the days when I was learning to truly listen, Red Kelly gave me a piece of valuable advice. He told me to close my eyes and in my mind isolate and concentrate on the bass player. He said that when I felt and understood what the bassist was doing, the rest of the music would begin to fall into place. It was a coincidence, of course, that Red was a bass player...
I’m still in a New Orleans frame of mind, peoples. I delivered today a fresh draft of my first “Treme” script, and now I’m cooling out. Found another FREE MP3 from the Preservation Hall Jazz Band , which has been a New Orleans institution for almost 40 years. This version of “Peanut Vendor,” recorded in 1966, was recently reissued in digital format. This configuration...
Over the last few years, {{Terry Vosbein = 18886}}, a Professor of Music at Washington and Lee University and a classically-trained composer of symphonies, operas, and chamber music (not to mention a former bassist with the {{Glenn Miller = 9402}} Orchestra), has been exhaustively researching the unrecorded scores from the {{Stan Kenton = 8330}} Collection at the University of North Texas. Now, thanks...
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