David Benoit: All that jazz and more
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- David Benoit: All that jazz and more
- Jazz finds a way today
- A day with Mr. Bat won’t ever be forgotten
- Jazz on the rocks with a twist
- Jazz takes a giant leap with Bellevue Jazz Festival
- Major tobacco label digs into jazz music promotions
David Benoit: All that jazz and more
Los Angeles Times
It is the 65-piece Rolling Hills Estates-based orchestra’s sole full-scale concert of the season. Yet its eclectic mix of genres seems an appropriate way to spotlight Benoit’s growing albeit not well known interest in classical music. Lighthouse dawnsBenoit was born in Bakersfield a place associated more with the country music of Buck wens than the jazz or Asian themes that would shape his adulthood. But Benoit’s early years were informed by his parents’ tastes — his mother’s love of Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland and his father’s fondness for jazz especially guitarists like Tal Farlow. When Benoit was 8 his family moved to Hermosa Beach home of the legendary jazz club the Lighthouse. As a teenager in the ’60s and early ’70s Benoit was not much moved by the Rolling Stones (“not enough melodic content for me”) but saw gigs at the Lighthouse that made him want to commit himself to jazz. Although he was drawn to the piano the instrument’s more intellectual and bebop-oriented masters such as Thelonious Monk Bud Powell and Lennie Tristano didn’t interest him much.
Jazz finds a way today
Atlanta Journal Constitution
“I just don’t think the city should be in the business of producing festivals” Cathy Woolard then City Council president said in 2002. Certainly jazz festivals are in trouble elsewhere. For the first time in 37 years there will be no JVC Jazz Festival in New York this summer according to The New York Times. Jazz music’s threatened status argues for public support said Love as does the special place that jazz holds among American-born art forms. “We think jazz music is as American as apple pie.
A day with Mr. Bat won’t ever be forgotten
2TheAdvocate
Bat really didn’t care how old students were — everyone was welcome as long as they wanted to learn. Which is why a man in his 60s sat among the students taking instruction from a group Batiste called “some of the best clarinet players in the world. ”And the kids? They were boys and girls different races different ages all with one goal — to learn more about jazz music by way of the clarinet. And I was kind of jealous. I didn’t play clarinet at the time. h I do now but at the time I was only a flute player. But when looking back I don’t think Mr.
Jazz on the rocks with a twist
Jakarta Post
php”);}); Be a member & get the benefits! Register or login. Jazz is popular all over the world these days and has the distinction of influencing all other kinds of music. Today even electronic DJs and hip-hop artists include popular jazz music in their repertoires. However sometimes jazz is also overlooked as the kind of music you can dance to with the emphasis instead falling on it being a serious listening experience. In the wake of the decline of fusion jazz in the mid-1970s jazz artists who continued to seek wider audiences began incorporating a variety of popular sounds into their music forming a group of accessible styles that became known as crossover jazz.
Jazz takes a giant leap with Bellevue Jazz Festival
Seattle Times
Live jazz music was lightly scattered on the Eastside so most drove into Seattle to hear it. Several years ago Kramer and her husband Lionel began hosting the Eastside Jazz Club a series of jazz performances held in the showroom of the Sherman Clay piano store on Bellevue Way. Shows were infrequent one or two per month but artists got to play a Steinway concert grand. “It’s getting better here” said Cooksie Kramer. “For a while there was nothing then you had a couple of restaurants trying very hard.
Major tobacco label digs into jazz music promotions
Jakarta Post
php”);}); Be a member & get the benefits! Register or login. Jazz has sometimes been described as offering “a serious listening experience” rather than being the type of music one could dance to but this is not always the case. An annual five-city concert tour has been organized this year aiming to draw bigger crowds to jazz by blending it with other music genres such as hip-hop funk pop rock and even traditional Indonesian music. After its first show last year the Dji Sam Soe Urban Jazz Crossover is back with a tour titled “Music you know with a twist” the first three shows of which took place in Medan (North Sumatra) Bandung (West Java) and Semarang (Central Java). The fourth performance will take place at The Ritz-Carlton Pacific Place in Central Jakarta on Friday and the last will be at The Empire Place in Surabaya on May 29.
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