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Music Review | Charlie Parker Jazz Festival Connecting Dots From …
New York Times
It was one of the plainer parts of the set. Bartz is no strict jazz conservationist. Since the early 1970s funk has fed his music and vice versa: his “Harlem Bush Music” from 1971 has been a club-D. favorite and more recently he’s fallen in with the circle around the hip-hop band.

Volunteer doctors help keep jazz music alive by keeping musicians …
msnbc.com
  And we deserve to give something back to everyone who contributes to that music” she said.      Eleven years ago Bethany and her husband Johann Bultman decided the best way to keep the music alive was to keep the musicians healthy. “The reason we chose to target musicians in New rleans is because they represent a pure American cultural form jazz music” said Johann. “Nothing else in America has its roots and origins here in such a pure world-renowned world-sought-after format and we didn’t want to see the music die on our watch. “And so was born the non-profit. Preventing “death by lifestyle”"When we came on the scene most of them were simply just not going to the doctor ever.

4-day Detroit jazz festival has stellar lineup
Toledo Blade
I wasn’t even really playing. I was just doing the keys of C and F and doing some Ukrainian folk songs. “He practiced diligently however listening to and playing along with recordings of classical and jazz music. Shorter also would go outside with other young musicians and compete to be the best at using their instruments to mimic sounds heard around them. “Like a door closing. We’d see who could go the furthest. r we’d make a sound and say ‘What is this?’ Tonal stuff like crushing paper and cellophane locomotives boat whistles all those kinds of stuff.

30th Anniversary of the Detroit International Jazz Festival …
Reuters
The WeekendThe festival will premiere two major works on its 30th anniversary: “Detroit”- a six movement work for jazz orchestra by Detroiter Gerald Wilson; and “T HE Family Detroit” a three-movement work dedicated to Thad Hank and ElvinJones by 2009 artist in residence John Clayton. The “concerto grosso”funded by the Joyce Foundation will be performed on closing night by theScott Gwinnell Jazz rchestra and the Clayton Brothers Quintet. “It isthrilling to me that both composers have championed Detroit and its rich jazzlegacy through their music” says festival director Terri Pontremoli. “Nowthat I’ve heard the pieces I can’t wait to see the audience reaction. They’reboth awesome and unique. Two tributes to important Detroit jazz musicians include: A treatment ofDetroit trumpeter Donald Byrd’s jazz-gospel recording A New Perspective -which also gives a festival nod to Blue Note on their 70th and showcases MackAvenue artists Sean Jones Tia Fuller Ron Blake and Rodney Whitaker. They’llbe joined by Perry Hughes Rick Roe Chris Kodish Randy Gelispie ChrisKarlic and a 16-piece gospel choir.
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John Surman: From Boy Choirs to Big Horns
All About Jazz
“It was an important time in a way and not just in England but in the way the avant-garde of jazz music was really the popular side of jazz at the time. I forget how many albums Coltrane’s Ascension (Impulse! 1965) sold but it was thousands and if you go back and listen to this stuff this stuff is out there. That’s a pretty unique situation because normally it’s unlikely that the avant-garde is the thing that the people want and to be actually working and being professional at that time was pretty exciting. “I think simultaneously with this very entertaining stuff going on in the UK this sort of thing was happening when we went to the festival in Switzerland with.

All on board for Akron jazz party
Akron Beacon Journal
com – All on board for Akron jazz party. The evening included food drink and jazz music on the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad.

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Edinburgh Evening News
No one could have guessed that. This shouldn’t have gone on to sell more than four million copies. This was jazz music after all the sole preserve of goatee-stroking black beret-wearing beatniks. It’s almost a cliché to say but Kind f Blue is the one jazz album owned by those who don’t like jazz. Some people don’t like to admit that but it’s the way it is. Not without reason this 1959 release is the best-selling jazz album ever.
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Jazz music
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Multi Cultural Music Fest — Doors open at 7 p. Saturday John Hay High School 2075 Stokes Blvd. Featuring Gerald Albright and Kirk Whalum.

Robert Glasper Loves the Groove
PopMatters
There are so many different elements that make it up. You have to have a certain amount of chops to play it correctly because you’re gonna have to play fast at some point. You don’t need to play fast in R&B or in that kind of thing or have the facility as you do when you’re playing jazz music. ” However if asked to elaborate on what kind of music he plays he politely responds “‘h I play other kind of music as well. ’”If the harmonic repetitiveness and lack of solos in R&B or hip-hop music leave some bored Glasper quickly disagrees. “See that’s the thing.

Music Review | Marc Ribot’s Sun Ship
New York Times
It resurfaced on Wednesday night at Rose Live Music in Williamsburg Brooklyn drawing largely from the album. “Sun Ship” was recorded in late August 1965 a time of steep transition for Coltrane. Two months earlier he had made his large-canvas free-jazz album “Ascension. ” He still had his quartet but his music was pulling away from its foundations. n one level “Sun Ship” reflects Coltrane’s attunement to younger saxophonists like Ayler. n another it represents a moment of late grace for his landmark first band. (It was released in 1971 four years after Coltrane’s death.

Willie Nelson goes ‘Classic’
San Jose Mercury News
place_ad_here(”adPosBox”); sound pioneered by Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys. “It all fits together” Nelson says. “Western swing is just jazz. The musicians Bob had the musicians Asleep at the Wheel has “. these are jazz musicians who can play anything; it just so happens they settled in on western swing… these are jazz musicians who can play anything; it just so happens they settled in on western swing. ” Having recently passed the three-quarters-of-a-century mark Nelson decided the time was right to return to that fertile trove of songs in “American Classic” released earlier this month. Nelson is surrounded by a crew of jazz pros starting with Joe Sample the esteemed Crusaders keyboardist who wrote the arrangements. Nelson is nothing if not laid-back about revisiting songs that have been recorded by many of the greatest singers of the last century. He has been down this road before.

Jazz Listings
New York Times
55 Bar 55 Christopher Street West Village (212) 929-9883 55bar. com; no cover with a two-drink minimum. (Chinen)20090827★ JHN SURMAN QUARTET (Tuesday through Thursday) The baritone and soprano saxophonist John Surman has long been a leading figure in British jazz and improvised-music circles and he doesn’t surface here nearly often enough. He’s celebrating the release of “Brewster’s Rooster” (ECM) with that album’s sterling cast: the guitarist John Abercrombie the drummer Jack DeJohnette and the bassist Drew Gress. ) At 8:30 and 11 p.

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Jazz festival mixes ‘big names’ local talent
Wausau Daily Herald
5 and 6 at Pfiffner Pioneer Park. This year’s festival will feature a variety of jazz music from big band and swing to contemporary and Brazilian sounds. “Every act is so extremely different” said Jodi Engum Kryshak executive director of the Riverfront Jazz Festival LLC and the Central Wisconsin Symphony rchestra. “This event introduces people to things they otherwise wouldn’t hear around here.

Jazz Music Not Quite in Critical Condition
New York Press
Adam Schatz runs Search and Restore a website devoted to following the jazz culture of the city and was quick to point out the only good thing to come out of Teachout’s essay: people were talking and writing about jazz. ”I think as the mediums of reaching people with new music have dwindled new more modern techniques haven’t surfaced yet. So what’s happened is that as young people are coming up and getting turned on to music the outlets for new music aren’t including jazz" Schatz pointed out in an interview with.
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Many joints are jumpin’ before jazz fest
The Detroit News
and his trio or Friday night at the Music Hall Jazz Caf?ith vocalist-keyboardist-composer Malik Alston and the Linwood Ensemble. Tonight through Saturday at the Dirty Dog Jazz Caf?ou can hear the venerable saxophonist George Benson and his quartet. Advertisement Benson a life-long Detroiter who recently turned 80 prides himself as a guardian of straight-ahead jazz music that swings and gets your toes to tapping. He likes “playing songs people might know. Not the way-out stuff. ” He laughs about being constantly confused with that other George Benson the very famous jazz guitarist: “I guess the worst mix-up was when the City of Detroit sent the deed to my house to New York — to him.

Making a case for smooth jazz
Ventura County Reporter
”An even better example is adult contemporary darling Diana Krall. She’s a crossover performer who is at the very least respected in the traditional jazz world — but her sound is still very much “smooth. ” She’s one artist of the many surfacing who has found a way to create jazz music with a pop flair that captures the heart of the mainstream while still winning over even the staunchest purists. Jessy J featured artist in the Camarillo Jazz and Art Festival may have similar intentions. She professes love for both. And with her impressive live performances and vocal prowess she’s captured a loyal following.

The spirit of Terence Blanchard
San Jose Mercury News
The music which earned a Grammy Award last year for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album was inspired by Spike Lee’s epic documentary “When the Levees Broke. “While Blanchard has composed scores for nearly a dozen of Lee’s films the documentary was far more personal as it captured the anguished moment when the trumpeter’s mother returned to her home’s wreckage after the water receded. As the title “God’s Will” suggests Blanchard looked for spiritual answers to the tragedy and found succor Find things to do.

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Wednesdays in the Park continues with jazz music
The Bay City Times – MLive.com
open(urlwinnameoptions) newwin. Wednesday in Wenonah Park downtown Bay City. Gates open at 5:30 p.

Seraphic Fire presents pianist Richard Dowling playing Ragtime and …
Examiner.com
Needless to say because of its commercial and ethnic parentage ragtime was decried by religious moralists of time as degenerate music that posed dire consequences for listeners. But the infectiously happy nature of this purely American music easily won the hearts and ears of the entire nation and fears of devilish influences were quickly quashed. Jazz music eventually displaced ragtime by the 1920s and ragtime lay dormant for nearly fifty years until Hollywood revived it with the scar-winning movie The Sting in 1973. Thirty years later ragtime’s resurgence has now pervaded all aspects of today’s society. The ubiquitous popularity of Scott Joplin’s The Entertainer is such that it has become a ringer option on mobile phones world-wide! Ragtime is here to stay forever. We now proudly recognize it as America’s home-grown classical music. ”Dowling studied at Yale University and at the Conservatoire de Musique in Nice with the respected French pianist Jeanne-Marie Darre.

Large Ensembles: Is There a Place in This Large Music World?
All About Jazz
It was a prevalent form in jazz music in the ’20s and ’30s comprising a substantial part of America’s popular music heard on radio spun on gramophones and record players and enjoyed in dance halls. It gave rise to iconic band leaders like.
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Keep jazz fest a Motown sound
Detroit Free Press
The festival’s 17-member board of trustees must create more opportunities for businesses and fans to contribute while continuing to deliver an annual festival and year-round cultural services that inspire community support. If every fan donated even one dollar at “Invest in the Fest” booths the festival could sustain itself. Ultimately it’s up to the fans to support this cultural gem and keep the music playing. To purchase tickets for the Detroit Jazz Fest Maiden Voyage go to.

Too often the music dies in city schools
Detroit Free Press
Unfortunately the decline of music education in Detroit Public Schools means the city will produce fewer artists like trumpeter Donald Byrd bassist Paul Chambers violinist Regina Carter and bassist Ron Carter. It’s ironic and sad that Byrd Chambers Regina Carter and Ron Carter all attended Cass Technical High School a school that no longer has a jazz band.

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LAist
This week it’s the Noble Smash (Casa Noble Crystal Tequila pineapple juice and cranberry juice). Jazz on the LawnThe City of Santa Monica.
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Children’s book melds music and message
News Transcript
Rubin describes the main character Ashti Freeborn as “a multicultural pudgy 9-year-old who is fun mischievous imaginative creative and energetic. ” In “Ashti Meets Birdman Al” Ashti and her mother befriend an elderly and talented jazz musician named Al who enjoys singing to the birds in a park. He explains to the two that he is concerned about the longevity of jazz music because not enough children today are exposed to that genre of music. Birdman Al inspires Ashti and her mom to organize a benefit evening at Ashti’s elementary school to keep music alive and well in the local schools.

Exclusive First Listen: Terence Blanchard
NPR
Bilal a soul singer with a tremendous vocal range contributes songs to the band’s complete set of original music on Choices. Throughout the recording Dr. Cornel West an avowed fan of the “courageous engagement” that makes jazz a music of the spirit functions as the lone voice of a Greek chorus both in his understanding of the jazz musician’s role in society and in his own knowledge of historical linguistics and philology. He’s a true believer. The more times you ingest this record the more it becomes evident that Choices is Blanchard’s compendium of decision-making — the choice to move home to stay there after tragedy to rebuild it to raise a family there to live as a member of the largest definition of community to play music to mentor the brightest young people in music to be a steward for progress to write a narrative to leave a plan for succession and maybe to provide some new soil for the next cycle. As a bonus to the recorded music be sure to listen to the live concert premiere of Choices from New rleans which you can.
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Summer Jazz in Paris
Jazz.com
Second the concerts are not scheduled at night but in the afternoon two (sometimes three) each Saturday and Sunday. Third in spite of its name it isn?t really located inside Paris but in the beautiful Parc Foral de la Ville de Paris just outside of the Bois de Vincennes facing the huge historical Chteau de Vincennes with its famous dungeon?where some 18th century philosophers used to be offered a cool lonely vacation when our beloved kings didn?t find their writings appropriate. Would the kings or the philosophers have appreciated the sound of jazz music coming from the Parc Floral? Maybe not more than the roar of the metro that brings thousands of listeners to the Paris Jazz Festival every weekend and especially so when the sun shines. For the PJF takes place outdoors as you?ll have understood and is free once you?ve paid the 5 ? entrance fee to the Parc Floral. This will allow you to walk along the lanes and enjoy the fragrances of a great diversity of flowers and blossoms or to picnic with your friends or family or to take a nap on the lawns while listening to live music. In a city like Paris where public parks are rare and tiny that?s a bargain you can hardly refuse whether you?re a local enjoying his weekend break or a tourist visiting the capital. This summer the daring new team that was chosen by the Paris Cultural Authority to program the PJF made a bold move as far as musical choices are concerned.

Weekend To-Dos
Gresham utlook
Fridays and Saturdays. Blues and jazz music. John Bunzow Trio 4 to 8 p. Roots rock and blues.

From Ennio Morricone to Patti Smith Music Takes a Hold of …
Balkan Travellers
Also on July 10 as part of a concert series called FFest New York punk rock legend Patti Smith headlined at Universal Hall making her Balkan debut. Although summer is winding down the Macedonian concert series isn’t. The Skopje Jazz Festival is scheduled for this autumn which will be headlined by American jazz pianist Chick Corea. "The leading jazz music journal … last year again proclaimed Mr. Corea as the best jazz musician. He will come with the trio composed by another two famous jazz musicians and his close associates from the time of the group ‘Return to Forever’ — bass guitarist Stanley Clark and drummer Lenny White. This strong trio … will play most of the famous songs of ‘Return to Forever’ in acoustic and electric variant" said festival spokesperson Kostadin Surbanovski.

The Maine man: Jason Ricci makes a case for the blues
Boston Herald
Ricci’s band shows are not strictly blues events although they are “events. ” His music fuses blues rock funk Eastern rhythms and jazz in a surprisingly cohesive “jam band” set. Comparisons to 1990s-era Phish and Grateful Dead extended sonic excursions have been made. “I more or less become infused with supernatural powers during the shows” Ricci says in a telephone interview from his home. “It’s sort of like possession. I’m definitely in the passenger seat and there are other forces at work.

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Jazz Jokes to bring music laughter
Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
“We thought ‘It’s only five of us so let us drive to you guys. ‘”Shawn Scott a local promoter of the event with Positive Images Entertainment said Friday’s event will be a “good way to step out and enjoy yourself. When you’ve been working throughout the week you can relax listen to live jazz music and laugh at the same time. It’s affordable quality entertainment. “Scott said there is limited seating for about 250… It’s affordable quality entertainment. “Scott said there is limited seating for about 250. He expects the show to sell out. Tickets are on sale now. Tickets cost $25 or $40 for VIP.
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Pocono native returns to Deer Head tonight
Pocono Record
In 2008 he received his master’s degree in jazz saxophone performance from William Paterson University and is working on his doctor of musical arts at the University of Miami. He is also an assistant teacher at Frost School of Music in Miami teaching private saxophone lessons assisting classes and small ensembles. “My biggest influence in jazz music would be Dave Liebman a local saxophonist. He was the one really responsible for the whole thing” Vashlishan said. “I met Liebman in the early ’90s while he was performing at the Willow Tree Restaurant in Stroudsburg. I introduced myself to him and he invited me to his master class at East Stroudsburg University. “According to Vashlishan jazz music is usually misunderstood by many listeners.

A World of (Jazz) Music
LA Weekly
Loosely a tribute to Billy Higgins it’s really a tribute to the Leimert Park jazz scene — or what that jazz scene and Leimert Park itself could be if the city began to give a damn about the place. It’s a beautiful slice of town all right and if you’ve never been you’ll be amazed by its charm. Which makes this little jazz festival so important. It puts the place culturally back on the map.

Jazz music
Akron Beacon Journal
Jazz jam session — 7 to 10 p. Sunday Whiskey Dick’s – HUE Bar 1 W. JAZZ MUSICDowntown@Dusk 2009 — 6:30 to 8:30 tonight Akron Art Museum 1 S.

Peekskill plays the blues and jazz
Lower Hudson Journal news
“John Basile of the Fred Smith and John Basile Quartet offered this advice to listeners: Watch the silent – and musical – communication among the players. “For any good jazz musician it’s really listening and letting the ego go to try to complement each other and respond in the moment” the guitarist said. “And that is jazz music at its best. “Johnny Feds of Johnny Feds and Da Bluez Boyz shared the old saying: The blues are the roots and everything else are the fruits. The smooth tones and melodies in blues music has been a jumping off point for many other genres of music in the world today he said. “The audience should listen to see how emotionally the music pours out of a blues player” Feds said. “When a guitar player or a sax player plays a note and the hair stands up on the back of your neck you get the feeling that that note is coming from some place very deep.

Jazz fans up in arms over changes at KUT
Bizjournals.com
5 has given some of its longtime listeners the blues with its latest program changes — and those listeners are coming together online and in a town hall meeting to air their grievances. A few weeks ago the public radio station said that it would be reducing programs from longtime DJs Larry Monroe and Paul Ray’s weeknight jazz shows in order to cut costs and appeal to a wider audience. n Wednesday night a group of concerned listeners hosted a town hall meeting to discuss the changes and whether they would like to take further action to get KUT to reinstate the DJs full schedules.

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A World of (Jazz) Music
LA Weekly
Loosely a tribute to Billy Higgins it’s really a tribute to the Leimert Park jazz scene — or what that jazz scene and Leimert Park itself could be if the city began to give a damn about the place. It’s a beautiful slice of town all right and if you’ve never been you’ll be amazed by its charm. Which makes this little jazz festival so important. It puts the place culturally back on the map.

Jazz music
Akron Beacon Journal
Jazz jam session — 7 to 10 p. Sunday Whiskey Dick’s – HUE Bar 1 W. JAZZ MUSICDowntown@Dusk 2009 — 6:30 to 8:30 tonight Akron Art Museum 1 S.

Peekskill plays the blues and jazz
Lower Hudson Journal news
“John Basile of the Fred Smith and John Basile Quartet offered this advice to listeners: Watch the silent – and musical – communication among the players. “For any good jazz musician it’s really listening and letting the ego go to try to complement each other and respond in the moment” the guitarist said. “And that is jazz music at its best. “Johnny Feds of Johnny Feds and Da Bluez Boyz shared the old saying: The blues are the roots and everything else are the fruits. The smooth tones and melodies in blues music has been a jumping off point for many other genres of music in the world today he said. “The audience should listen to see how emotionally the music pours out of a blues player” Feds said. “When a guitar player or a sax player plays a note and the hair stands up on the back of your neck you get the feeling that that note is coming from some place very deep.
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More live music
Detroit Free Press
Jazz Cafe at Music Hall: Detroit Tonight with M. Liebler featuring the St. Clair Shores Library Poets and Scott Harrison of Battling Siki 7 p.

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Exploring the theory of relativity
Stockton Record
“As a teenager he was a fan of the Bay Area’s Metallica and classic rock but found jazz inspiration in the sax stylings of Adderley John Coltrane and Michael Brecker. “I was always kind of a saxophone head” said Mark who formed his own Eastern Jazz Project in ninth grade. Meanwhile Glenn was getting an early education in Brubeck the 88-year-old Concord native jazz piano legend and Pacific graduate. “The first jazz music I ever listened to was ‘The Dave Brubeck Jazz Collection’ ” Mark said. “I really got into it in eighth grade. I saw him play live in Worcester. He really blew me away.
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Take Five With Quintin Gerard W.
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My style is something of a hybrid of jazz funk blues and gospel. For me the ideas concept and approach to playing are strictly unique in the sense that I intentionally did not put on records to cop solos from them to learn how to imitate. I always said to myself that “This style has already been created so why should I imitate this?”I forced myself to learn how to express and play jazz music differently and although some might consider my style of playing inferior to the jazz tradition they will have to admit that it is executed well and that it is a style that is unique only to Quintin Gerard W. ! Your teaching approach: I teach my students the truth up front. I don’t try to waste their time by teaching them music from a philosophical standpoint. I get them to the scales they need to learn give them the theory with a practical application on how it works and then I require them to play it for me right now! I don’t send them away confused until the next lesson. Your dream band:That’s a loaded question isn’t it? I can’t name names because there are way too many people that I would like to have worked with or would like to currently work with.

Satchmo Summerfest fills French Quarter with lots of jazz
Examiner.com
Activities include all kinds of jazz music a photography exhibit called "Jam Session: America’s Jazz Ambassadors Embrace the World" a dance-off contest featured speakers seminars and special area just for the kids. Music will be performed on two outdoor stages and one indoor stage at the U. Mint building along with numerous food booths scattered through the area. riginal artwork will also be available from local artists.

Harmony Cafe to host jazz music
Green Bay Press Gazette
com | Green Bay Press-Gazette. Thursday at the Harmony Caf?1660 W.

Many styles at All Points West Festival means it’s got something …
New York Daily News
Vincent played songs Saturday that veered between lullabyes and horror movie scores juxtaposing delicate vocals with dissonant instrumentation. Several other sets brought out yet more styles: Q-Tip’s spirited input Friday ushered in a dash of jazz-inflected hip-hop while Saturday.

Teens jazzed about camp
Pocono Record
“This is an incredible program” she said adding that her jazz experience doesn’t go much further than preaching at the jazz festival. “Music is not one of my God-given talents but I love to listen to it. “Camp leaders hope the progress students make translates into an interest in jazz music. It’s how Chamberlain got involved — when he was 14 he went to a jazz camp hosted by local musician Phil Woods. “It made me the musician I am today” he said. Now he thinks it’s his responsibility to keep it going. “Jazz is an art form that’s passed down” Chamberlain said.

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Teens jazzed about camp
Pocono Record
“This is an incredible program” she said adding that her jazz experience doesn’t go much further than preaching at the jazz festival. “Music is not one of my God-given talents but I love to listen to it. “Camp leaders hope the progress students make translates into an interest in jazz music. It’s how Chamberlain got involved — when he was 14 he went to a jazz camp hosted by local musician Phil Woods. “It made me the musician I am today” he said. Now he thinks it’s his responsibility to keep it going. “Jazz is an art form that’s passed down” Chamberlain said.

Best Free August Events
Washington Post
Save to Go ut List. Halley Shoenberg’s music which draws from influences that include Charlie Parker Count Basie and Pat Metheny is that perfect soundtrack for Aug. Save to Go ut List.

Jazz festival gives first Wallingford performance
Meriden Record-Journal
“I play a lot of different kinds of music. This is an all-star band that has a collective energy the audience sends back” he said. Fryer said he first heard jazz music when he was 15 and has played it for about 35 years. “It’s a joyous music” he said. Sugarfoot band member Peter Csere a piano major at Western Connecticut State University said the band plays two or three times a month at a variety of venues ranging from restaurants private events and festivals. He said he most enjoys playing festivals because they have professional sound systems and pianos that are tuned. The youth band is primarily funded by the festival’s board of directors under the direction of Art Hovey of the Galvanized Jazz Band.

Take Five With Quintin Gerard W.
All About Jazz
My style is something of a hybrid of jazz funk blues and gospel. For me the ideas concept and approach to playing are strictly unique in the sense that I intentionally did not put on records to cop solos from them to learn how to imitate. I always said to myself that “This style has already been created so why should I imitate this?”I forced myself to learn how to express and play jazz music differently and although some might consider my style of playing inferior to the jazz tradition they will have to admit that it is executed well and that it is a style that is unique only to Quintin Gerard W. !Your teaching approach: I teach my students the truth up front. I don’t try to waste their time by teaching them music from a philosophical standpoint. I get them to the scales they need to learn give them the theory with a practical application on how it works and then I require them to play it for me right now! I don’t send them away confused until the next lesson. Your dream band: That’s a loaded question isn’t it? I can’t name names because there are way too many people that I would like to have worked with or would like to currently work with.

The Blue People
All About Jazz
The future and the past coalesced into a moment of improvisation. Pianist John Esposito’s The Blue People seems to unite all the aspects of the color blue. The music on the album has the sweep of history while still being able to sound totally fresh. It’s pure challenging jazz music which ought to have a broad appeal to those who have grown tired of straight standards and worn-out clichés but who still want music within a recognizable historical frame. Nevertheless Esposito is a well-kept secret to the initiated few who speak of his music in glowing terms. To those in the know his Sunjump label has become a reliable source for music that connects the threads of past and present with both new and historical recordings being published. The Blue People is one of the label’s most important releases in that it presents all original material from Esposito where diverse influences—ranging from African music modern composition and classical baroque to swing bop and avant-garde—melt together into a forceful coherent expression.

Music Review | Freddy Cole
New York Times
Addressing a dinner-hour crowd at the Jazz Standard on Thursday he described his own show as “an invitation to relaxation” — something to take the edge off after say a long day of shopping or “whatever it is you ladies do. ” Skip to next paragraph.
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AAJ’s Traffic Continues to Climb
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