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“I don’t believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos.” - Oscar Peterson |
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Tuesday, 21 May 2013 |
New York Jazz
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Wednesday, 01 August 2012 |
 Randy Weston © Andrea Canter NEA Jazz Master Randy Weston has spent most of his career combining the rich music of the African continent with the African-American tradition of jazz, mixing rhythms and melodies into a hybrid musical stew. . A living jazz legend, Weston was most recently honored with the ASCAP Jazz Wall of Fame - Living Legend Award, 2009. Randy Weston's African Rhythms will return to Dizzy's where they recorded Storyteller in 2010 [click here for a Jazz Police review] on Wednesday, August 5th through Sunday, August 5th. The ensemble includes Randy Weston on piano, Alex Blake on bass; Neil Clarke on percussion, TK Blue on alto saxophone and flute, and Lewis Nash on drums. IF you can't make it to Dizzy's. the August 2nd performance will be braodcast live on jalc.org/live at 9:30pm EST. |
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Written by Ronaldo Oregano
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Saturday, 28 July 2012 |
 Lou Donaldson © Andrea Canter In the 1950s, Lou Donaldson was a bandleader touring with a band that featured organist John Patton and began using the organ-saxophone format exclusively, which led to his recording on Jimmy Smith's seminal recording of the late 1950s, The Sermon. He has gone on to employ a variety of other great organists through the years, including Lonnie Smith (along with George Benson on the acclaimed recording Alligator Boogaloo), Jack McDuff, Charles Earland, Akiko Tsuruga, and now Pat Bianchi. The organ-sax groove sound -- which Donaldson called "swinging bebop" -- helped, for a time, make jazz as popular as it had been during the swing era. The Lou Donaldson Quartet with Randy Johnston on guitar, Pat Bianchi on B3 organ, and McClenty Hunter on drums will appear at the Jazz Standard on Thursday, August 2nd through Sunday, August 5th. |
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Written by Ronaldo Oregano
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Wednesday, 25 July 2012 |
 Phil Woods The NEA calls Phil Woods a Jazz Master and if you called him the greatest living alto sax player on the planet, few could argue. More than just a purveyor of pure bebop, he is a witty oral historian with a razor sharp band. This is indeed jazz at its finest. A stellar quintet featuring Phil Woods on alto saxophone, Bill Mays on piano, Brian Lynch on trumpet, Steve Gilmore on bass, and Bill Goodwin ondrums perform at Dizzy's on Thursday, July 26th through Sunday, July 29th with sets at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. nightly. Cover charge is $30-40 (Students: $15 select sets with valid student ID). Even if you're not in New York, on July 26th you can watch this performance live at jalc.org/live at 9:30pm EST. |
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Written by Ronaldo Oregano
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Monday, 16 July 2012 |
 Barry Harris © Andrea Canter Piano legend and NEA Jazz Master Dr. Barry Harris will appear for two weeks at the Village Vanguard in New York on Tuesday, July 17th through Sunday, July 29th. Harris is part of an exceptional crew of Detroit-bred jazz musicians, including Tommy Flanagan and Donald Byrd, who rose through the extraordinary arts education program in the public school system during the 1930s and 1940s. Harris' earliest musical mentor was a church piano-playing mother who exposed him to piano lessons at age four. He became seriously immersed in jazz in the mid- 1940s and fell under the spell of Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, and Bud Powell. As a professional, he would become a key translator of Monk's music. Dr. Harris will be joined by his long standing rhythm section of Ray Drummond on bass and Leroy Williams on drums. |
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