On this final day of 2009, let's take a look back at some of the most newsworthy, noteworthy and/or interesting items posted here on St. Louis Jazz Notes over the past 12 months: January 2009 Hamiet Bluiett on Freddie Hubbard Bailing out the arts More "Best Jazz of 2008" lists Jim Manley releases new CD St. Louis Jazz Club sets 2009 schedule "Peanuts" Whalum featured in Cincinnati's...
A funky '74 release by Holmes. The bumpin' intro "Red Onion" is an original along with "Good Vibrations" and "Chu-Chu." "How Sensitive" is a rendition of Jobim's bossa nova standard. "No Trouble on the Mountain"" has vocals but the singer is uncredited. One thing is for sure....Purdie's drums are money!! 1. Red Onion - 3:44 2. No Trouble on the...
NPR: Wilson is "One of the Finest Saxophonists in the Business" JAZZIZ: "An Especially Skilled and Sensitive Jazz Saxophonist" Acclaimed saxophonist Steve Wilson shifts from sideman to center-stage in the months ahead, with a series of events celebrating and honoring the work of jazz legends Joe Zawinul, Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman...
When it comes to authentic Cuban Jazz, The Elio Villafranca Quintet brings you only the best. Elio Villafranca first appeared on stage with his quartet in the New Dimensions in Latin Jazz Series in 2007. Since then, this gifted pianist and composer won the first NFA/Heineken Green Ribbon Master Artist Music Grant from the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC)...
Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band I'm BeBoppin' Too Half Note 2009 Dizzy Gillespie The Cool World Philips-Verve 2009 The legacy of {{Dizzy Gillespie = 7040}}'s pioneering bebop big band could not be served better than by the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band, the successor to the Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Star Big Band that featured Jon Faddis. Since his departure the band dropped "Alumni"...
Chicago's Hyde Park Jazz Festival 2009 | Hyde Park Jazz Festival Schedule The Hyde Park Jazz Festival is on Saturday September 26. There will be more than 100 Jazz musicians at the festival. The Jazz musicians include Ari Brown, Von Freeman, Jon Faddis, etc. You can download the Hyde Park Jazz Festival schedule. You can also find out about dining. You can also volunteer or donate. Read More From Orginal
Image from the Hyde Park Alliance for Arts and Culture Wedged in among lawn chairs, trying to tune out nearby conversations so you can concentrate on an amplified band you can't even see is no way to experience a jazz concert. There are lots of good things about the Chicago Jazz Festival -- and it did still manage to pull off a good weekend this year in spite of budget cuts -- but it's better suited...
September 4 - September 6, 2009 The Boston Symphony Orchestra will present its annual Labor Day Weekend Tanglewood Jazz Festival September 4-September 6, 2009 at the Orchestra’s summer home in the Berkshire Hills in Lenox, Massachusetts. Jazz greats highlighting this year’s festival include Paquito d’Rivera, Regina Carter, Nnenna Freelon, Kenny Barron, Mulgrew Miller,...
IN MEMORY OF TANJAH JAMAICA EAST Randy Weston Tanjah Polydor : 1973 RW, piano, Fender Rhodes organ; Ernie Royal, trumpet, flugelhorn; Ray Copeland, trumpet, flugelhorn; Jon Faddis, trumpet, flugelhorn; Al Grey, trombone; Jack Jeffers, trombone; Julius Watkins, french horn; Norris Turney, alto sax, picolo; Budd Johnson, tenor and soprano sax, clarinet; Billy Harper, tenor sax, flute; Danny Bank, baritone...
50, 30, 55. The numbers have been all over the lot this year with significant anniversaries for historic recordings, jazz festival foundings or longevity. You name it, there's been or will be a lot of hoopla.Now you can add 30 and 91 with the Detroit International Jazz Festival to the mix this Labor...
MACK AVENUE RECORDS PRESENTS DETROIT, THE LATEST RELEASE BY THE JAZZ WORLD'S GREATEST LIVING ORCHESTRAL COMPOSER, GERALD WILSON A SIX-PART SUITE COMMISSIONED BY THE DETROIT INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL; TO BE PERFORMED AT THE 30TH ANNUAL DIJF ON WILSON'S 91ST BIRTHDAY To commemorate its 30th anniversary, the Detroit International Jazz Festival called on Gerald Wilson, the preeminent jazz orchestra composer...
Been quite a while since I had the luxury of dipping back into my vinyl for some leisurely listening and reconsidering. As it happens, I had finished up the E's last time around, so... [Curious that I have no Fa's in the waxworks. No Jon Faddis, Gabriel Faure, Nanette Fabray'] I'm guessing I read reviews of Fell's work in Cadence, maybe in early issues of the Wire, and was intrigued by comparisons...
Chicago's Hyde Park Jazz Festival 2009 | Hyde Park Jazz Festival Schedule The Hyde Park Jazz Festival is on Saturday September 26. There will be more than 100 Jazz musicians at the festival. The Jazz musicians include Ari Brown, Von Freeman, Jon Faddis, etc. You can download the Hyde Park Jazz Festival schedule. You can also find out about dining. You can also volunteer or donate. Read More From Orginal