Billy Strayhorn

Album review: Michael Janisch: Purpose Built

Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009

JAZZ MICHAEL JANISCH: PURPOSE BUILT WHIRLWIND RECORDINGS, £11.74

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Dave Lucas (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009

...there isn't any, anymore. And those days are gone...4EVER! Effective right now, practically all new RCA Victor releases announced in Billboard are on both 45 rpm and 78 rpm records! And that's going to be true of RCA Victor releases from now on! The 45 rpm system is going places fast! A Chicago Tribune newspaper article by Steve Johnson appears in Saturday's Schenectady Gazette, entitled "Top...

Punk rock Shakespeare

Metroblogging Los Angeles (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009

God Save Gertrude, a punk rock musical take on William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, opens this Saturday at The Theater at Boston Court in Pasadena. Borrowing from Shakespeare for musical theater (and just about every other creative pursuit) is nothing new of course; it has spawned iconic shows like West Side Story (Romeo and Juliet,) Kiss Me Kate [...]

"Dave's Whipping Boy"

The Daily Beast (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009

In his new memoir, We'll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives, Paul Shaffer tells how Letterman made him famous. The story goes that when the great composer Billy Strayhorn was summoned uptown by Duke Ellington, Strayhorn heard that the A train was the...

PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Ellington-Horton, Carman Moore and Kirke Mechem at Jazz at Lincoln Center on Oct. 4th

All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009

IT WAS IN 1973 DUKE ELLINGTON CHOSE RANDALL KEITH HORTON TO SUCCEED BILLY STRAYHORN On Sunday, October 4th at 7:00PM, Jazz at Lincoln Center Rose Theater presents the premier of A HREF=http:www.randallkeithhorton.com TARGENT=blank> Randall Keith Horton's Ellington-Horton full-length orchestral tone poem, "Black, Brown And Beige." Hear distinguished composer Carman Moore, and Kirke Mechem,...

Review: Marilyn Maye, a singer's singer

San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009

It would be ungallant to reveal Marilyn Maye's age, but before you go see her at the Rrazz Room - and, boy, should you ever go see her at the Rrazz Room - check the year of her birth on the Internet. Then be prepared to disbelieve. Maye took the stage...

Ernest Brown

News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009

Born: 25 April, 1916, in Chicago. Died: 21 August, 2009, in Chicago, aged 93.ERNEST Brown was the last surviving and most diminutive member of the Original Copasetics, an ensemble of tap-dancing stars formed in 1949 that helped to revive the art of tap.The Original Copasetics was a fraternity of vividly individual tap dancers, each with his own casually authoritative style and speciality. Its shows...

Ernest Brown

Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009

Born: 25 April, 1916, in Chicago. Died: 21 August, 2009, in Chicago, aged 93.ERNEST Brown was the last surviving and most diminutive member of the Original Copasetics, an ensemble of tap-dancing stars formed in 1949 that helped to revive the art of tap.The Original Copasetics was a fraternity of vividly individual tap dancers, each with his own casually authoritative style and speciality. Its shows...

Jed Levy: One Night At The Kitano

All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/06/2009

Some live jazz albums transport the listener. If you shut your eyes, you can picture the dim lights of the candles on the tables, the clinking sound of ice cubes falling into glass tumblers... you might even find yourself looking around for someone to take your drink order. One Night at The Kitano makes you feel like you are out at the midtown jazz spot...

Michel Petrucciani, Billy Strayhorn-"Take the 'A' Train"

Rene's Apple (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009

Extremely hip version of Duke Ellington's Take the 'A' Train (all right, sidekick's Billy Strayhorn's) by the great pianist Michel Petrucciani, with uber-drummer Steve Gadd, and bassist Anthony Jackson. This dates from 1998. Petrucciani had a rare bone disorder and died relatively young-you can see how tiny he was-but he was a phenomenal player. So is Steve Gadd-this is one drum soloist who won't bore...

Verizon Thinkfinity.org Adds 154 New Free Online Educational Resources to Assist Teachers as They Return to School

Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009

If a Body Texts a Body: Texting in the Catcher in the Rye - This lesson from the National Council of Teachers of English and the International Reading Association's Readwritethink.org serves as a review of the novel, exploring Holden Caulfield's character and narrative voice, and offering a study of text messaging. Students compare several forms of communication, then select moments in the novel in...

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DCist Preview: John Surman Quartet @ Blues Alley

DCist (Free subscription) | 08/27/2009

Woodwind artist John Surman is not a name one hears in this country very often, even in jazz circles, despite a career that spans 45 years. This is largely because his journey is centered in Europe, where the native of Devon, England first gained recognition in the fertile London scene of the mid-1960s. There, he played with band leaders like Mike Westbrook , Alexis Korner , and Ronnie Scott , all...

Ernest Brown, Last Member of the Original Tapping Copasetics, Dies at 93

New York Times (Free subscription) | 08/25/2009

Mr. Brown was part of an ensemble of tap-dancing stars formed in 1949 that helped to revive the art of tap.

REVIEW: Stew and The Broadway Problem @ Lincoln Center -- August 19

Bold As Love (Free subscription) | 08/25/2009

Stew always keeps 'em guessing. Stew has made a career out of it - first with The Negro Problem, then later as solo artist. He later confonted all expectations when his first stab at a musical, 'Passing Strange' had a...

A Onetime Sideman, Now Front and Center

New York Times (Free subscription) | 08/22/2009

The pianist Steve Kuhn, who once played with John Coltrane, is adding to his legacy with a new CD and a number of well-received performances.