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Concerts for good causes are not news, but the upcoming jazz program headlined by Jeff Golub and Rick Braun caught our attention for several reasons. Golub's previous appearances in town as part of the popular "Guitars and...
Electronic music can sometimes suffer from a lack of development and too much repetition. This could be helped by adding some jazz style improvisation to electronic compositions. Electronic music is a broad categorization that...
Art D'Lugoff, who was widely regarded as the dean of New York nightclub impresarios and whose storied spot, the Village Gate, was for more than 30 years home to performers as celebrated, and diverse, as Duke Ellington, Allen...
He is known by his knickname. His voice is incomparable. He shared the stage with the greatest music stars. And has become an advocate for social issues. See? If you like rock n'roll, you will surely like jazz. I Love Jazz...
Mr. Crane is among the gradually growing posse of emerging leaders of Jazz Media support entering the strange new world growing from the cooling ashes of the Gutenberg model. By the time I came around in the 1970s, he had a...
Meet Justin Kauflin: At the piano, Justin Kauflin has an improvisational zeal matched by a technique that is equal parts lyrical and emotional. His sound can be best described as dynamic and vibrant, with a genuine sense of...
Louis Armstrong The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions (1935-1946) Mosaic Records 2009 Presumably everyone knows that {{Louis Armstrong = 3483}}'s greatest and most important work was done in the '20s with and around the...
The Charles Tolliver Big Band Iridium October 18, 2009 Trumpeter {{Charles Tolliver = 10839}} likes to keep his big band well-drilled. His arrangements are concerned with a cutting, eagle-swoop precision, built up from portable...
What's been happening to jazz? There's hardly a sharp-suited bopper to be seen in the line-up for the 17th London Jazz Festival, which begins on Friday. The great tradition is there if you want to look for it, with appearances...
Readers of this blog can win 2 tix for JALC's November 14 shows by Maceo Parker or the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra playing Mary Lou Williams , or autographed Wynton-Willie Nelson Play Ray Charles dvds. But in keeping with the...
