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New York Jazz
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Written by Ronaldo Oregano
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Sunday, 06 April 2008 |
 Wycliffe Gordon & Jay Leonhart
Wycliffe Gordon & Jay Leonhart present Voices of Jazz as part of Dizzy's "Sing into Spring" Festival at Dizzy's in New York on Tuesdy, April 8th through Sunday, April 13th. The quartet will be featuring Wycliffe Gordon on trombone, Jay Leonhart on bass, Ted Rosenthal on piano and Alvin Atkinson on drums. [Click here for a review of Wycliffe Gordon & Jay Leonhart CD This Rhythm on My Mind ].
Wycliffe Gordon enjoys an extraordinary career as a performer, conductor, composer, arranger, and educator, receiving high praise from audiences and critics alike. Gordon tours the world performing hard-swinging, straight-ahead jazz for audiences ranging from heads of state to elementary school students. His trombone playing, hailed as "mixing powerful, intricate runs with sweet notes extended over clean melodies," has been universally hailed by jazz critics. Gordon received the Jazz Journalists Association 2002 and 2001 Award for Trombonist of the Year, the Jazz Journalists Association 2000 Critics’ Choice Award for Best Trombone and has been nominated for the Jazzpar Award. |
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Monday, 31 March 2008 |
 Sarah McLawler
International Women In Jazz (www.internationalwomeninjazz.com) and Midtown Arts Common will present their second annual jazz festival honoring super jazz legends Celia Cruz, Ella Fitzgerald, and Peggy Lee (displaying their history in photographs and music), and living jazz legends Sarah McLawler, Marian McPartland, and Carline Ray (featuring the living legends in a panel discussion). The festival will include: live jazz jam with college students and other musicians, business management panel discussion, "What Is Jazz?" workshop for youth, concerts featuring dynamic bands led by women jazz musicians, and major concerts Saturday and Sunday evenings.
International Women in Jazz and Midtown Arts Common (of which Saint Peter’s Church/Jazz Ministry is a member) are continuing their partnership. They are presenting this festival to recognize the achievements and significance of women jazz musicians and to give women jazz musicians the opportunity to share their talent with other members of the jazz world.
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Saturday, 29 March 2008 |
 Michael Weiss Weiss first gained international exposure with the release of his debut recording, Presenting Michael Weiss (Criss Cross). It was awarded Stereo Review's "Best Recording of the Month" and was "Jazz Pick of the Year" on National Public Radio's Morning Edition. In 1987 Weiss began touring the USA regularly as a member of Johnny Griffin's quartet. Weiss' fifteen year association with the "little giant," which includes four recordings, has earned the pianist widespread critical recognition as a soloist, accompanist and arranger. In the Chicago Tribune, Howard Reich wrote that "whether playing ferociously fast right-hand lines or two-fisted blues chords, Weiss matched the tenor and tone of Griffin's work." |
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Sunday, 23 March 2008 |
 Geoff Keezer and Joe Locke © John Abbott
Henry Mancini was one of the most loved and best known film score composer of the 20th century. His best known songs include "Moon River", Days of Wine and Roses", "Peter Gun", and "The Pink Panther Theme". Mancini was nominated for 72 Grammys, winning 20. He was also nominated for 18 Academy Awards, winning four. He also won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for two Emmys. He was first nominated for an Academy Award in 1955 for his original score of The Glenn Miller Story. Mancini received two Oscars in 1962: one in the same category, for the song "Moon River" (shared with lyricist Johnny Mercer), and one for "Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture" for Breakfast at Tiffany's. The following year, he and Mercer took another "Best Song" award for "Days of Wine and Roses". He won his final Oscar working with Leslie Bricusse on the score for Victor/Victoria, which won the "Best Music, Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score" award for 1983. |
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