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CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Jutta Hipp in Germany: 1952-'55
Duisburg :: Germany | 23 hours ago
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2013-05-22 Jutta Hipp is another forgotten '50s jazz pianist with an odd past. She recorded briefly but gave up on jazz in 1956 for reasons that remain mysterious. The German-born Hipp spent her teens under Nazi rule and performed in Germany after
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Steve Heckman Quartet / Quintet: Born To Be Blue
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 17 days ago
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May 6, 2013 Saxophonist Steve Heckman often intentionally stands in the shadow of John Coltrane , as demonstrated on With John In Mind Live At Yoshi's (World City Music, 2005), but he's no Coltrane clone. Heckman has absorbed bits and pieces of many
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GENERAL MUSIC INDUSTRY: Weekend Extra: Stan Getz's Model Behavior
Paris :: France | 1 month ago
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2013-04-21 here may have been timesno, there were timeswhen Stan Getz worked overtime to be unpleasant. Zoot Sims had his reasons for describing Getz as an interesting bunch of guys. It is not likely that Sims had in mind moments like those in this
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INTERVIEW/PROFILE: Jazz Musician of the Day: Pete Christlieb
New York City :: NY :: USA | 3 months ago
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Pete Christlieb Published: 2013-02-16 All About Jazz is celebrating Pete Christlieb's birthday today! From the 1970s through the 1990s, the sound of Pete's tenor could be heard on television and motion picture sound tracks and recordings.
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INTERVIEW/PROFILE: Jazz Musician of the Day: Zoot Sims
New York City :: NY :: USA | 7 months ago
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Zoot Sims Published: 2012-10-29 All About Jazz is celebrating Zoot Sims' birthday today!...Growing up in a vaudeville family, Sims learned to play both drums and clarinet at an early age. His father was a vaudeville hoofer, and Sims prided himself on
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EVENT: The All-Star Jazz Quartet to Appear at Chris' Jazz Cafe'
New York City :: NY :: USA | 7 months ago
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The All-Star Jazz Quartet To Appear At Chris' Jazz Cafe' Published: 2012-10-11 Pianist Andy Kahn , drummer Bruce Klauber , bassist Bruce Kaminsky and saxophonist Asher Stein comprise The All-Star Jazz Quartet," a hard-swinging group of veteranssave
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Stars on the Horizon
Las Vegas :: NV :: USA | 8 months ago
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Ken Poston announcing details of next May's extravaganza, also at the Marriott. The theme is Big Band Spectacular, and the bands who have thus far signed up to take part are the Bill Holman Band, Gordon Goodwin 's Big Phat Band, the Tom Kubis Band,
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Jamming For Dollars: The History, Care, Feeding and Booking of the Jazz Jam Session
Kansas City :: MO :: USA | 8 months ago
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It doesn't offend me, but a lot of the soloists sort of sound alike, like they all learned the same licks from the same school. When I was coming up in the 1940s, it seemed that every corner bar had a piano, a set of drums and some kind of jam
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CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Johnny Mandel: 7 Tribute CDs
New York City :: NY :: USA | 9 months ago
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2012-08-30 Yesterday, around 2 p.m., I became stuck on Cal Tjader's The Shining Sea, which was written by Johnny Mandel for The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming in 1966. The track features Scott Hamilton on tenor sax and is one of the
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PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Jack Kleinsinger's "Highlights in Jazz" Series Honoring Saxophonist Sonny Fortune
New York City :: NY :: USA | 1 year ago
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Jack Kleinsinger's "Highlights in Jazz" series honoring saxophonist Sonny Fortune Published: 2012-04-09 New York State's former assistant attorney general has been presenting concerts for four decades For close to 40 years, impresario Jack
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