DON REDMAN, A MODERN MAN IN TOUCH WITH HIS EMOTIONS: JAMES DAPOGNY, ANDY SCHUMM, DAN LEVINSON, MARTY GROSZ, JON BURR, JOHN VON OHLEN (Allegheny Jazz Party, September 19, 2014).
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18h ago
James Dapogny, our beloved Prof., knew the hallowed jazz repertory was wider and deeper than the expected three dozen “classics,” sometimes worn to shreds. He left us these gems. THE WAY I FEEL TODAY, with its intriguing composer credits: Don ..read more
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LOCKED DOORS and SILENCES
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4d ago
Here are two points of view expressed by poets of unequal stature: Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / Are sweeter . . . (John Keats) Sharing is caring. (Barney the Purple Dinosaur.) Most human beings have some possessiveness ..read more
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MAKING IT NEW, AGAIN: DANNY TOBIAS, JACOB ZIMMERMAN, CHRIS DAWSON, MIKIYA MATSUDA, JOSH COLLAZO (Jazz Bash by the Bay, March 1, 2024)
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5d ago
In the little corner of the jazz world that I call home, happily, some standard or “classic” tunes appear and re-appear. IF I HAD YOU, JUMPIN’ AT THE WOODSIDE, LINGER AWHILE, INDIANA, MY GAL SAL, ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF ..read more
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ETERNALLY NICE: The ALDEN-BARRETT QUINTET with RUBY BRAFF at the NICE JAZZ FESTIVAL, featuring CHUCK WILSON, FRANK TATE, JACKIE WILLIAMS (July 11, 1990)
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6d ago
Ruby Braff was very fierce about who he would and wouldn’t play with, so often he created gatherings of unimagined beauty and synergy. I had read about this magical encounter, and am delighted that the music was recorded by French ..read more
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A “SWING CONCERT” FOR JOE SULLIVAN (April 18, 1937, Congress Hotel, Chicago)
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1w ago
The magnificent pianist Joe Sullivan was diagnosed with tuberculosis when he was thirty, and it put him out of action for almost two years. (Treatment with antibiorics did not begin until 1944.) He had worked with the Bob Crosby band ..read more
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THE STREETS OF CHICAGO (1944, 2024)
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1w ago
In 1944, Art Hodes recorded a blues he called CLARK AND RANDOLPH: his soulful evocation of a jazz band in a piano line. Hear the annunciatory first phrase? That’s a trumpet, announcing the mood. The descending line that answers it ..read more
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STRINGIN’ THE BLISS: THE ALCATRAZ ISLANDERS (Part One): MIKIYA MATSUDA, JOHN S. REYNOLDS, CASEY MacGILL, DENNIS LICHTMAN, MATT WEINER, RILEY BAKER (Redwood Coast Music Festival, October 4, 2024)
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1w ago
This Bay Area group of brilliant lyrical individualists is led by Mikiya Matsuda on lap steel guitar. For this occasion, the “superband” included the inimitable John S. Reynolds on guitar and vocal; Casey MacGill, ukulele, cornet, and vocal; Dennis Lichtman ..read more
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ON WITH THE DANCE: The CLOUD DROPS at the STORMY WEATHER JAZZ DANCE FESTIVAL (JONATHAN DOYLE, JACOB ZIMMERMAN, RAY SKJELBRED, MATT WEINER, JOSH ROBERTS, D’VONNE LEWIS, WALTER CANO, JEROME SMITH)
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2w ago
Thanks to double bassist and videographer Matt Weiner, we can now swing out at a Seattle, Washington dance (December 29, 2024, and January 1, 2025). Here’s the wondrous band, The Cloud Drops, with inspired arrangements by Doyle and Zimmerman: Jonathan ..read more
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TAKE TWO: JAZZ BASH BY THE BAY (Monterey, California, March 6-9, 2025)
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2w ago
A long weekend of inspired music in comfortable surroundings in a congenial California city. There you have it. Details here. From left, Danny Tobias, trumpet and Eb horn; Josh Collazo, drums; Jacob Zimmerman, clarinet and alto saxophone. Just three of ..read more
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WORDS (AND MUSIC) TO LIVE BY: JOHN LEWIS, BARNEY BIGARD, CLARK TERRY, EDDIE DANIELS, KAI WINDING, JIMMIE MAXWELL, VIC DICKENSON, JOE NEWMAN, SLAM STEWART, BOBBY ROSENGARDEN (Nice Jazz Festival, July 15, 1977)
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2w ago
Seventeen minutes of pure Ellington-favored Mainstream joy, performed live at the 1977 Nice Jazz Festival: a new discovery, thanks to our friend Franz Hoffmann. The title? A philosophical statement by Ellington’s short-lived trumpet star, James “Bubber” Miley, who did so ..read more
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