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Former President Clinton receives the Thelonious Monk Institute’s Maria Fisher Founder’s Award
November 12, 2014Phil Gallo Billboard Herbie Hancock, Kevin Spacey, Quincy Jones and a litany of major jazz musicians saluted President Bill Clinton on Sunday at L.A.’s Dolby Theater for his efforts in using jazz as a ...
NYT: Bill’s Place in Harlem Bringing Bebop Back Home
November 11, 2014Phillip Pantuso NY Times Around 8 p.m. on a recent Saturday, a few dozen people were gathered in a narrow, dimly lit Harlem brownstone. Couples smoked in the backyard beneath Christmas lights; a group of Chilean ...
The Telegraph: Review of new book- Blue Note: Uncompromising Expression – 75 Years of the Finest in Jazz
November 1, 2014By Martin Gayford The Telegraph It is well known that the Nazi regime denounced modernist art as “degenerate”, but not so well known that the Third Reich also proscribed “Entartete Musik” or “degenerate music”. ...
Herbie Hancock Honored at Great Night in Harlem Concert at Apollo
October 29, 2014By CHARLES J. GANS Associated Press Herbie Hancock enjoyed “A Great Night in Harlem” with a look to the past and the future as the legendary jazz pianist received a lifetime achievement award from the ...
The Atlantic: Why Did This Band Recreate Jazz’s Most Famous Record Note-for-Note?
October 28, 2014David A. Graham The Atlantic If you’re unfamiliar with the band Mostly Other People Do the Killing, the first sign that they might have an offbeat sense of humor ought to be the name. That hasn’t stopped plenty of ...
The Guardian: Why pop-turned-jazz stars just ain’t got that swing
October 27, 2014by Philip Clark The Guardian Of all those rubbish ideas dreamt up by major-label record honchos frantically trying to balance their ailing books, the pop star – often fading, but not necessarily – sings jazz ...
MPR: Drummer Kevin Washington: ‘You have to change the music’
October 24, 2014Anyone who has seen Kevin Washington play the drums knows that he is among the most versatile of jazz musicians – as adept at playing straight-ahead tunes as he is incorporating Afro-Latin rhythms or hip-hop ...
MPR: Jazz radio legend Leigh Kamman dies at 92
October 18, 2014Leigh Kamman, the former host of the long-running “The Jazz Image” on Minnesota Public Radio and whose broadcasting career spanned more than six decades, died Friday evening. He was 92. Kamman is ...
Manhattan Transfer Founder Tim Hauser Dies at 72
October 16, 2014By Bruce Weber/NY Times Tim Hauser, a singer and showman who founded the Manhattan Transfer, a Grammy-winning vocal group that brought four-part harmonies to several decades’ worth of American popular songs, died on ...
Fullerton’s Steamers Jazz Club celebrating 20 years of all that jazz
October 15, 2014FULLERTON – On Friday evening after the sun has set, but before the doors have opened for a night of music, Terence Love sat on the back patio of Steamers Jazz Club and Cafe and remembered 1994. The area was little ...
