Jazz music fills the air at Lakeside
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- Jazz music fills the air at Lakeside
- David ‘Fathead’ Newman dies at 75; jazz saxophonist
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Jazz music fills the air at Lakeside
Pawling News Chronicle NY
Music was provided by the Jazz Ensemble the Jazz Combo Group Lowry Hamner the Delta Flyers as well as by Matt Taylor as a soloist and with Andrew Ruckel. Hamner once again showed how he is an outstanding member of the community by donating his musical abilities to this cause. The room was beautifully decorated by Ed and Mary Mahaffey of the Annex Florist while refreshments were donated by parents Shannon McKinney of McKinney and Doyle and Betsy Ern of BaklaJava. The Mahaffeys also sold carnations at the event with the help of their granddaughters Summer and Skylar. The proceeds were also donated to the band for its trip south.
David ‘Fathead’ Newman dies at 75; jazz saxophonist
Los Angeles Times CA
24 1933 but grew up in Dallas where he studied first the piano and then the saxophone. He earned the nickname “Fathead” from his high school band teacher because he stubbornly refused to learn to read music preferring instead to take it in by ear. He went off to Jarvis Christian College on a music and theology scholarship but quit school after three years and began playing professionally mostly jazz and blues with a number of musicians including Buster Smith Lloyd Glenn Lowell Fulson and T-Bone Walker. “I was brought up a bebop musician but it wasn’t so acceptable especially in Dallas” Newman told the Dallas Morning News some years ago. “You couldn’t make a living doing that so I had to play rhythm and blues. I adapted to it easily being from an area where blues was prevalent. He was playing in Smith’s band in the early 1950s when he met Charles who was then a piano-playing sideman for Fulson.
Concert review | New rleans Jazz rchestra captures heartbeat of …
Seattle Times United States
Strong disciplined arrangements allowed individual musicians to solo seemingly without tether. It made for moments of beautiful chaos which also helped to transport the audience a bit from the austere setting of the symphony hall. New rleans before and after Hurricane Katrina is a highly creolized intensely flavored culture — Mayfield likened it to its “own Third World country” — which is reflected in its music. The group performed “Beat” acknowledgment of the shared traits between New rleans and Cuban jazz both dominated by percussion and trumpets. The group’s music is also highly topical. “Richie Can Count” which featured singer Leon Brown with the band members providing backup was a satirical blues and commentary on the current financial crisis. “Sweetbread on the Levee” performed Thursday for the first time outside of New rleans featured saxophonist Ed “Sweetbread” Petersen on a song intended to make therapeutic levity out of the calamitous flood that followed Katrina.
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