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Kurt Elling February 2011 Kurt Elling Is Among the World's Foremost Jazz
Kurt Elling February 2011 Kurt Elling is among the world’s foremost jazz vocalists. He has been named “Male Singer of the Year” by the Jazz Journalists Association on half a dozen occasions in the past ten years, and during the same interval has been the perennial winner of the DownBeat Critics Poll. He is also a Grammy winner, and every record he has made has been Grammy nominated. Elling’s rich baritone spans four octaves and features both astonishing technical mastery and emotional depth. His command of rhythm, texture, phrasing, and dynamics is more like a virtuoso jazz instrumentalist than a vocalist. His repertoire includes original compositions and modern interpretations of standards, all of which are springboards for inspired improvisation, scatting, spoken word, and poetry. Declared The New York Times, “Elling is the standout male vocalist of our time.” Said The Washington Post, “Since the mid-1990s, no singer in jazz has been as daring, dynamic or interesting as Kurt Elling. With his soaring vocal flights, his edgy lyrics and sense of being on a musical mission, he has come to embody the creative spirit in jazz.” He has been featured in profiles for CBS Sunday Morning, CNN, on Ramsey Lewis’s Legends of Jazz, and in hundreds of publications. Elling has recorded and/or performed with an array of artists, including Terence Blanchard, Dave Brubeck, Jon Hendricks, Charlie Hunter, Al Jarreau, Christian McBride, and Kurt Rosenwinkel. He served as the Artist-in-Residence for the Singapore Music and Monterey Jazz Festivals. He has also written multi-disciplinary works for The Steppenwolf Theatre and the City of Chicago. -
Joey Defrancesco with Jimmy Smith Remains #1 Suite
JazzWeek with airplay data powered by jazzweek.com • April 6, 2005 Volume 1, Number 20 • $7.95 In This Issue: Juno Awards for Jazz and Blues Presented . 4 Legends of Jazz on PBS This June . 5 Stamp for Yip Harburg. 9 Feldman Starts Firm . 11 Reviews and Picks. 16 Jazz Radio . 18 Smooth Jazz Radio. 23 Radio Panels. 27 News. 4 JAZZ REMIXED page 13 Charts: #1 Jazz Album – Joey DeFrancesco #1 Smooth Album – Kenny G #1 Smooth Single – Dave Koz JazzWeek This Week EDITOR Ed Trefzger ack in the mid-to-late ’80s, I had friends who wanted to be CONTRIBUTING EDITORS the next New Order, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Keith Zimmerman Kent Zimmerman Bor Depeche Mode, all synthesizer bands from that period. Tad Hendrickson Armed with early versions of the sequencer program Cakewalk CONTRIBUTING WRITER and a pricey AKAI sampler, these guys sampled everything, from Tom Mallison jazz grooves, to grocery store commercials to a syndicated garden- PHOTOGRAPHY ing talk show host. At the time, I thought the stuff was pretty cool Barry Solof (and one of these days, I’ll dig out those LPs and 12 inches and PUBLISHER see if they hold up.) Anyhow, I bring this up because it was right Tony Gasparre about that time that jazz labels started to notice their records be- ADVERTISING: Contact Tony Gasparre ing sampled for dance records – usually without permission. To- (585) 235-4685 x3 or day, those same labels are opening their vaults to DJs to remix email: [email protected] and sample their vast catalogs, a practice that some purists decry. -
Season 6 PR Draft ML
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SFJAZZ Announces 2017-2018 Season Programming September 7, 2017 – May 27, 2018 Tickets on Sale to SFJAZZ Members, June 24 at 11:00amPST Tickets on Sale to Public, July 15 at 11:00amPST SFJAZZ.ORG (SAN FRANCISCO, CA, June 15, 2017) -- SFJAZZ announces artist programming for the 2017-18 season running September 7, 2017 to May 27, 2018 presenting concerts at the SFJAZZ Center’s Robert N. Miner Auditorium and Joe Henderson Lab, Herbst Theatre and the Paramount Theatre in Oakland. Tickets and ticket packages on sale to SFJAZZ Members, June 24 at 11:00amPST and on sale to public, July 15 at 11:00amPST. For more information, visit sfjazz.org. “The SFJAZZ Center was conceived as a community gathering place for artists and audiences to come together in an environment that encourages engagement and dialogue,” says SFJAZZ Founder and Artistic Director Randall Kline. “When that connection occurs we can be witness to something that moves us, something that makes us feel better for the experience and what can be described as a ‘transcendent moment.’ Since the SFJAZZ Center opened in January 2013, we have been fortunate to experience a number of these memorable dialogues and moments. The programming of the new season is presented to create even more of those moments and to continue embracing and encouraging more musical conversations.” The SFJAZZ Resident Artistic Director program was established to give today’s most innovative and influential musicians the chance to curate exclusive programming at the SFJAZZ Center often featuring unprecedented collaborations between world-renowned artists. Every two years, SFJAZZ selects a new group of forward-thinking musicians to participate in the program. -
JAZZ on the TUBE Story Inside! Published by Martin Wahl Communications
may/june 2006 issue 282 free jazz now in our 32nd year &blues report www.jazz-blues.com At Last...After 40 Years........ 25 AMERICAN PUBLIC TELEVISION JAZZ ON THE TUBE story inside! Published by Martin Wahl Communications Editor & Founder Bill Wahl Layout & Design Bill Wahl New Series on Public Television Operations Jim Martin Pilar Martin At long last - after four decades - react and respond to each other. I will Contributors we have a jazz series back on TV. And admit that having the opportunity to jam Michael Braxton, Mark Cole, it includes a bit of blues too. Legends on the closing theme with so many great Chris Hovan, Nancy Ann Lee, of Jazz with Ramsey Lewis began to players and singers was beyond my Peanuts, Mark Smith, Duane air on Public Television stations last wildest dreams.” Verh and Ron Weinstock. month. The much anticipated series, Each show in this ground-breaking produced by LRSmedia, is the first series is theme-based and includes con- Check out our new, updated web weekly network television jazz show versation with and performances by page. Now you can search for CD in 40 years. Each themed episode – some of today’s most important jazz and Reviews by artists, Titles, Record such as The Golden Horns, The Pi- jazz related musicians, including: Tony Labels or JBR Writers. 15 years of ano Masters and American Songbook Bennett, Chick Corea, Al Jarreau, Dave reviews are up and we’ll be going all – features intimate conversations and Brubeck, Billy Taylor, David Sanborn, the way back to 1974. -
Instead Draws Upon a Much More Generic Sort of Free-Jazz Tenor
Funding for the Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program NEA Jazz Master interview was provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. RAMSEY LEWIS NEA JAZZ MASTER (2007) Interviewee: Ramsey Lewis (May 27, 1935 - ) Interviewer: Anthony Brown with recording engineer Ken Kimery Date: September 28-29, 2011 Repository: Archives Center, National Museum of American History Description: Transcript, 87 pp. Brown: Today is September 28th, 2011. This is the Smithsonian oral history interview with NEA Jazz Master Ramsey Lewis, pianist, composer, arranger, media personality, and entrepreneur, conducted in his home in Chicago. Good afternoon. Lewis: Good afternoon. How are you today? Brown: I’m fine. If we could just start by you stating your full name, your date of birth, and your place of birth. Lewis: Ramsey Emmanuel Lewis, Jr. Chicago, Illinois. May 27, 1935. Brown: If you could tell us your parents’ names and any information about their background, where they were originally from. Lewis: My mom’s name is Pauline Lewis. She’s from around Jackson, Mississippi. Her family was born out in the county, but the closest city was Jackson. In fact her brother eventually opened a funeral home in Jackson, Mississippi. My dad is from Georgia. Once again – I heard him talk about Atlanta. I heard him talk about Macon. But I think once again that he was out in the county and never identified the exact place where he was born. For additional information contact the Archives Center at 202.633.3270 or [email protected] Page | 1 They met in Chicago at church. Didn’t know each other, but ended up at the same church. -
Pianist Emmet Cohen ‘Fills in the Gaps’ Between Traditional and Modern Jazz New Release Follows Months of Weekly Online Concerts
THE MAGAZINE OF THE APRIL 2021 NEW JERSEY JAZZ SOCIETY JerseyJazz VOLUME 49 ISSUE 04 EMMET COHEN’S Future Stride TRANSFORMING TRADITION IN THIS ISSUE ARTICLES/REVIEWS COLUMNS 08 Saturdays with 03 All That’s Jazz Ramsey Lewis 05 Editor’s Choice 13 Emmet Cohen’s Future Stride 36 From the Crow’s Nest 17 Jazz History: Scott LaFaro 22 Talking Jazz: John Lee 29 Rising Star: Jocelyn Gould 33 Remembering CORRECTION The bassist who played with Renee Rosnes Carol Fredette at the Paris Philharmonie and the Luxembourg Philharmonie in 2016 was Linda May Han Oh. Her name was misstated on page 14 of the ON THE COVER _ Emmet Cohen. ALL PHOTOS OF COHEN BY TAILI SONG ROTH 38 Other Views March 2021 issue of Jersey Jazz. NJJS.ORG JERSEY JAZZ APRIL • 2021 02 ALL THAT’S JAZZ BY CYDNEY HALPIN pril is Jazz Appreciation it’s potential, summed up and sanc- please contact me at [email protected]. lease join me on Saturday, April Month (JAM). Originally in- tified and accessible to anybody who 17 at 7 p.m. as we present our A tended as a catalyst to encour- learns to listen” — WYNTON MARSALIS osaic™ Box Sets for Sale. P Virtual Social featuring Chris- age people of all ages to actively NJJS has received two in- tian Fabian, Lance Bryant and Ja- participate in jazz, JAM heralds and ersey Jazz magazine is a wonder- M credibly generous dona- son Marsalis in a “conversation and celebrates the extraordinary heri- ful benefit of NJJS membership tions of used Mosaic™ Limited clips” presentation highlighting the tage and history of jazz. -
Mavericks in Music” Highlights All-Women Big Bands of the 1940S
JazzWeek with airplay data powered by jazzweek.com • February 9, 2005 Volume 1, Number 12 • $7.95 In This Issue: IAJE 2005 Draws 7,000 . 4 Grammys Salute Women’s ’40s Big Bands . 5 BET Jazz Black History Month Shows. 6 Juno Award Nominees . 7 Reviews and Picks. 16 Jazz Radio . 18 Smooth Jazz Radio. 23 LEGENDS IN RADIO Q&A: Radio Panels. 27 MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO’S More News . 4 LEIGH KAMMAN . p10 Charts: #1 Jazz Album – Shelly Berg Trio #1 Smooth Album – Dave Koz #1 Smooth Single – Soul Ballet JazzWeek This Week EDITOR Ed Trefzger y comments here last week about jazz stations finding success by fol- CONTRIBUTING EDITORS lowing the Core Values of Jazz Formats study brought quite a few re- Keith Zimmerman Msponses from music directors and program hosts. Each affirmed my Kent Zimmerman opinion that stations that follow the “common sense” approach of treating Tad Hendrickson their listeners with respect and with an understanding of what they expect to CONTRIBUTING WRITER hear are also the stations that succeed. Tom Mallison But that also got me thinking: How is it that we got to a point that we PHOTOGRAPHY needed a study to tell us what we already should have known? Did our prede- Barry Solof cessors, who were inventing jazz radio, need to conduct a study to know how to do good radio? I don’t think so. PUBLISHER Since it does appear that many stations need to reconsider what they are Tony Gasparre doing to improve their listener experience, and since even the best stations ADVERTISING: Contact Tony Gasparre can do better, we’re going to be focusing on some of these issues in the weeks (585) 235-4685 x3 or and months ahead. -
Ramsey Lewis Bio Oct 2013
Ramsey Lewis October 2013 Composer, pianist and jazz legend Ramsey Lewis has been referred to as “the great performer,” a title reflecting his performance style and musical selections which display his early gospel playing and classical training along with his love of jazz and other musical forms. A native Chicagoan (born May 27, 1935), Mr. Lewis represents the great diversity of music for which Chicago is noted. Ramsey Lewis first captivated fans with his first album “Ramsey Lewis And The Gentlemen of Swing” by the Ramsey Lewis Trio in 1956. By 1965, he was one of the nation’s most successful jazz pianists, topping the charts with “The In Crowd,” “Hang On Sloopy” and “Wade In The Water.” He has three Grammy Awards and seven gold records to his credit. Often called legendary, Mr. Lewis concedes “It’s a high honor when someone says so, but I don’t see myself that way. What keeps me enthusiastic and energizes me, is the realization that the more I learn, the more I find there is to know.” He received the industry award for the 2006 Stellar Award for Best Gospel Instrumental Album, “With One Voice” presented in January 2007. He was also the recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Award in January 2007. Mr. Lewis has received four (4) honorary doctorate degrees and numerous other accolades. Ramsey Lewis began taking piano lessons at the age of four, studying the basics and fundamentals. But, “It wasn’t until I started studying with the late Dorothy Mendelsohn that I responded to some of the startling things she was teaching me, such as ‘Listen with your inner ear,’ and ‘Make the piano sing.’ These concepts were revelations!” Soon after, he began learning Bach, Beethoven, Hadyn, Brahms and Chopin, and other basic piano repertoire for the concert pianist. -
Retro's the Thing at 2016 New York Hot Jazz Festival
Volume 44 • Issue 10 November 2016 Journal of the New Jersey Jazz Society Dedicated to the performance, promotion and preservation of jazz. DO I KNOW YOU? If you saw a musician walking along Manhattan’s West Side the last Sunday in September, there could only have been one place he was heading: The fourth edition of the New York Hot Jazz Festival. Bassist Andrew Hall brought to mind Dennis Stock’s iconic shot of Bill Crow crossing Times Square as he made is way across Tenth Avenue on his way to the McKittrick Hotel. Photo by Mitchell Seidel. Retro’s The Thing At 2016 ALSO INSIDE New York Hot Jazz Festival nachronism reigned supreme as producer Michael Katsobashvili’s vision of Central Jersey’s Athe hot jazz world of the 1920s and ’30s came to life at the fourth annual New 3-Day Jazz Festival York Hot Jazz Festival — turning Chelsea’s McKittrick Hotel into a costumed page 12 retro Disneyland for enthusiasts of early jazz and swing. Katsobashvili credited saxophonist Dan Levinson and his band, the Gotham Sophisticats, as being “the Princeton’s JazzFeast culprits” who “took me down the rabbit hole of hot jazz” during a performance at page 28 the Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel some five years earlier. Also tripping down that rabbit hole on September 25 was Jersey Jazz contributing editor Mitchell Seidel, who tells all in words and pictures on page 26. New JerseyJazzSociety in this issue: New Jersey Jazz socIety Prez Sez. 2 Bulletin Board ......................2 NJJS Calendar ......................3 Jazz Trivia .........................4 Editor’s Pick/Deadlines/NJJS Info .......6 Prez Sez Crow’s Nest. -
NORTH by NORTHEAST an All-Star Quintet Whose Members Hardly
NORTH BY NORTHEAST An all-star quintet whose members hardly need any introduction, the members of this unusual band have been major forces in jazz for some forty- five years. What sets them apart from a reunion of older players is this: they all are fully engaged with the music, bringing to it the energy and enthusiasm of much younger musicians. Constantly exploring, composing, playing, participating in new projects, these five friends continue to have something new to say. RANDY BRECKER Born in 1945, jazz trumpeter and composer Randy Brecker has helped shape the sound of jazz, R&B and rock for more than four decades. His trumpet and flugelhorn performances have graced hundreds of albums by James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, Parliament/Funkadelic, Frank Sinatra, Steely Dan, Jaco Pastorius and Frank Zappa. Moving to NY in 1966 after studying at Indiana University, he worked with Clark Terry's Big Bad Band, the Duke Pearson Big Band, the Thad Jones Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra, Blood, Sweat and Tears, Horace Silver, and Art Blakey. He then teamed up with brother Michael, Barry Rogers, Billy Cobham, and John Abercrombie to form the seminal fusion group 'Dreams'. Moving into fusion, he worked with Larry Coryell’s Eleventh House, Stevie Wonder, Billy Cobham and Hal Galper. Forming the Brecker Brothers Band with his brother Michael, he recorded six albums on Arista and garnered seven Grammy nominations between 1975 and 1981; they reunited ten years later for a world tour and the triple-Grammy nominated GRP recording, 'The Return of the Brecker Brothers'. The follow-up, 1994’s ‘Out of the Loop,’ was a double-Grammy winner. -
Jazzed up 2006 NEA Jazz Masters
VOL 2 / 2006 A GREAT NATION DESERVES GREAT ART All Jazzed Up 2006 NEA Jazz Masters 2 HONOR ROLL Awards 6 3 BEYOND BRICKS NEA JAZZ IN THE AND MORTAR SCHOOLS 7 6 FROM THE ARCHIVES COOL JAZZ AND THE COLD WAR 11 CONGRESSIONAL TRIBUTE TO SHIRLEY HORN The NEA and Jazz A Commitment to One of America’s Treasures This special 12-page edition of NEA Arts celebrates the Arts Endowment’s deeply held commitment to jazz, which is best illustrated by the NEA Jazz Masters initia- tive. The NEA’s support for jazz goes back to 1969, when the first grant was awarded to George Russell, who later received an NEA Jazz Masters Award in 1990. Since that first grant, funding has exploded from an annual budget of $20,000 in 1970 to more than $2.8 million in 2005. The Arts Endowment has consistently supported jazz programs over its 40-year history. For example, Milt Hinton, years before he received his NEA Jazz Masters Award, received a jazz music fellowship from the NEA, which he used to not only support his music but also his extensive photography collection, documenting the his- tory of jazz through the 20th century. In collaboration with the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the NEA Youth perform live at basketball games as part of the NEA-supported supported JazzNet, a five-year initiative to support Jazz Sports program. Photo: Courtesy of Thelonious Monk Institute commissions of new music and performances around of Jazz. the country in partnership with local presenters. The NEA also funded Jazz Sports, developed by the Dana Gioia Chairman Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, which provides stu- James Ballinger Don V. -
Kurt Elling February 2011
Kurt Elling February 2011 Kurt Elling is among the world’s foremost jazz vocalists. He has been named “Male Singer of the Year” by the Jazz Journalists Association on half a dozen occasions in the past ten years, and during the same interval has been the perennial winner of the DownBeat Critics Poll. He is also a Grammy winner, and every record he has made has been Grammy nominated. Elling’s rich baritone spans four octaves and features both astonishing technical mastery and emotional depth. His command of rhythm, texture, phrasing, and dynamics is more like a virtuoso jazz instrumentalist than a vocalist. His repertoire includes original compositions and modern interpretations of standards, all of which are springboards for inspired improvisation, scatting, spoken word, and poetry. Declared The New York Times, “Elling is the standout male vocalist of our time.” Said The Washington Post, “Since the mid-1990s, no singer in jazz has been as daring, dynamic or interesting as Kurt Elling. With his soaring vocal flights, his edgy lyrics and sense of being on a musical mission, he has come to embody the creative spirit in jazz.” He has been featured in profiles for CBS Sunday Morning, CNN, on Ramsey Lewis’s Legends of Jazz, and in hundreds of publications. Elling has recorded and/or performed with an array of artists, including Terence Blanchard, Dave Brubeck, Jon Hendricks, Charlie Hunter, Al Jarreau, Christian McBride, and Kurt Rosenwinkel. He served as the Artist-in-Residence for the Singapore Music and Monterey Jazz Festivals. He has also written multi-disciplinary works for The Steppenwolf Theatre and the City of Chicago.