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2013 Playboy Jazz Festival: LA Times Review
June 18, 2013 / No CommentsChris Barton, Los Angeles Times Jazz Critic June 16, 2013 There was a moment at the Hollywood Bowl on Saturday night when a question came to mind that felt a little like a Zen koan: If you hear a guitar solo but can’t see a guitar, did the solo really happen? It’s the sort of […]
Harry Connick Jr. releases “Love Wins” in honor of Ana Grace Marquez-Greene
June 14, 2013 / No CommentsNEWTOWN, Conn. — Harry Connick Jr. has written a song in honor of a 6-year-old girl killed in the Newtown, Conn., school shooting. Connick this week released the song “Love Wins,” dedicated to Ana Grace Marquez-Greene. He says proceeds will go to the Ana Grace Fund set up to help ...
Chucho Valdes – Jazz Great Carries On Tradition
June 4, 2013 / No Comments / Tags: chucho valdesFamily dynasties are the backbone of Cuba’s rich musical history. Big bands that were formed during the golden age of Cuban music – the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s – are still performing today, with the son of the founder at the helm (and sometimes the original bandleader as well). Latin-jazz ...
Pianist Mulgrew Miller Dies at 57
May 30, 2013 / No Comments / Tags: mulgrew millerNATE CHINEN (New York Times) Mulgrew Miller, a jazz pianist whose soulful erudition, clarity of touch and rhythmic aplomb made him a fixture in the postbop mainstream for more than 30 years, died on Wednesday in Allentown, Pa. He was 57. The cause was a stroke, said his longtime manager, Mark ...
Seattle-Born Jazz Singer Sara Gazarek Comes Home To Give Back
May 21, 2013 / No CommentsHanna Brooks Olsen (KOMOnews.com) SEATTLE — Singer Sara Gazarek didn’t grow up with a lot of exposure to jazz — after all, Seattle is really known more for grunge (and, recently, hip-hop) than for crooning voices and downtown piano bars. But when she joined the jazz choir in ...
Don Was, Making ‘Authentic’ Music at Blue Note Jazz Label
May 17, 2013 / No Comments / Tags: don wasDan DeLuca (Philadelphia Inquirer Music Critic) There’s a jazz man’s adage, attributed variously to Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Miles Davis, that goes something like this: “There are two kinds of music, the good and the bad. I play the good kind.” Don Was, the ...
Tineke Postma
March 2, 2010 / No Comments / Tags: Tineke PostmaA conversation with saxophonist Tineke Postma on her career and latest recording. [audio:http://www.dreamsmanifest.com/TheJazzPage/tjp360/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/tpostma.mp3]
