Festival review | scar Peterson tribute highlights Jazz Port Townsend
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Festival review | scar Peterson tribute highlights Jazz Port Townsend
Seattle Times
But as the three-day festival neared its peak Saturday afternoon the audience was asked to look to the past. The festival’s artistic director John Clayton took the lead recalling for those who packed McCurdy Pavilion in Fort Worden State Park the first time at age 16 that he ever listened to a recording of pianist scar Peterson. Like most he was astounded and he never looked at jazz music the same way again. He remembered “every note” Clayton said. And with that Clayton introduced to the stage the pianist Peterson named as his protégé Benny Green who had agreed for the first time since Peterson’s death in 2007 to perform a set of Peterson’s music as a tribute to his former mentor. Clayton himself was mentored by Peterson’s longtime bass player Ray Brown who also made Green part of his own trio in the early 1990s. Before Green sat down at the piano Clayton made a phone call to Peterson’s widow Kelly Peterson from the stage so she could hear the audience applaud.
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Lincoln bama linked in two jazz celebrations
Chicago Tribune
Each piece proved deeply affecting in its own way. In “Lincolniana” Barilari merged jazz classical and folkloric music to create a lyrical concerto for trumpeter rbert Davis and instrumentalists. That the piece also featured recitations of texts by. “Sounds of Hope” proved an equally ambitious but generally more rambunctious opus.
“Songs from the Heart: Ramsey Plays Ramsey” on Concord Jazz …
All About Jazz
At the age of 74 Ramsey Lewis has not only continued to be active in the jazz world but he’s also forging ahead with a newly inspired creative instinct as a composer. This re-envisioned artistic sensibility is showcased on his new album which is a remarkable refined collection of 12 new originals that he composed over a period of two years. The collection includes music from two commissioned world premiere performances at the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park Illinois just north of Chicago. Eight songs come from the score of 2007′s ballet To Know Her.
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Jazzing up the spirit on stage
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I was born in Red Tank Canal zone and grew up in Paraiso. Tall dark and mild mannered he closes his eyes while remembering his music beginnings. “I discovered Jazz when we went to the movie theater in Paraiso the projector manager always played jazz music before the movies started. I love jazz music because it allows you to create and improvise while using your imagination. ” Trying to catch up with his rapid new yorker speech I ordered myself the “caballito con leche” concoction. “Why the sax?” I asked. “I fell in love with the saxophone over 50 years now and counting.
Music Review | Dafnis Prieto
New York Times
Prieto had little problem adjusting to the lobby’s lively acoustics. In recent years he has worked often in groups of five or six pieces but here he was leading his Si o Si Quartet an effectively rugged band with the tenor saxophonist Peter Apfelbaum the pianist Manuel Valera and the bassist Charles Flores. The set largely featured songs from “Live at Jazz Standard” a new album due out in September on Mr. Prieto’s own label Dafnison. Among them were “Claveteo” a funk-enlivened tune with a cascading piano part synched to the pulse of rumba clave and “Ilu-Uli” which progressed from a stuttering verse to a streamlined bridge. The group also played two ballads from the new album imbuing each with an unusual enticement. n “Seven by Seven” it was the reedy blend of two melodicas played by Mr.