Jimmy Giuffre Imaginative Jazz Artist Dies at 86
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- Jimmy Giuffre Imaginative Jazz Artist Dies at 86
- International Association of Jazz Educators Files for Bankruptcy -…
- JAZZ lovers in East London have one more chance this Sunday to catch…
Jimmy Giuffre Imaginative Jazz Artist Dies at 86
New York Times – Apr 26, 2008
From the mid-’50s on Mr. Giuffre taught music initially at the Lenox School of Jazz the late-summer educational conference in Lenox Mass. which existed from 1957 to 1960. (A remark made the rounds at the time: when told that Mr. Giuffre would be there to teach clarinet among other things the writer André Hodeir joked “Who will be teaching the upper register?”) It was at Lenox that Mr. Giuffre first encountered.
International Association of Jazz Educators Files for Bankruptcy -…
New York Times – Apr 26, 2008
In an e-mail message sent on April 18 the 10000-member organization based in Manhattan Kan. announced that its executive board had decided to file for bankruptcy and that its annual convention which was to be held in Seattle next year had been canceled. The group’s demise is a major disappointment to jazz’s international network of professionals — educators musicians promoters music publishers critics historians — who have few other occasions to meet conduct business face to face or have their music exposed to a discerning public. The conferences offered hundreds of workshops panel discussions and performances by top musicians and far-flung university big bands. At root the annual convention — which alternates between New York and other locations — was a demonstration of jazz’s lifeline to academia: its reliance on students and instructors in the flourishing world of jazz education to keep the music circulating program it for live performances on the university circuit and create its next generation of audiences. “The conference was an indispensable networking opportunity” said Mitchell Feldman who runs a jazz publicity and radio promotion business and is one of the thousands who attend the event every year.
JAZZ lovers in East London have one more chance this Sunday to catch…
Dispatch Online – Apr 26, 2008
The day of rest is reserved solely for the jazz lover. But little did club owner Les de Free know what he and his customers were in for last Sunday night. Harold Anton and Jerome produced a brand of music that jazz fundis in cities like New York and New Orleans take for granted. Imagine the joy when you hear a keyboard solo from Harold that reminds you of the great George Duke playing the blues at the famous Casino Lights live concert. If you closed your eyes and forgot you were sitting in Club Glide it could have been George Benson’s fingers floating across his guitar and not Anton Wynkwardt’s or the Jazz Crusaders’ Joe Sample on keyboards and not Anton’s brother Harold caressing your ear drums. This is really no exaggeration. The way they improvised they made the songs they played their own.