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Remembering the 'Little Giant,' jazz saxophonist Johnny Griffin
Ask anyone who loves jazz to the name the top tenor saxophonist of all time, and he or she probably will answer in a flash. To many, it's Sonny Rollins, at 82 still a giant. Or Gene Ammons, the long-gone, soulful player from the South Side of Chicago....
Tags: France, Gene Ammons, Music Industry, Sonny Rollins, Nat King Cole
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Dynamic Duos play it fast and loose at Jazz Showcase
The very loose, somewhat rough, thoroughly enjoyable show that unfolded at the Jazz Showcase on Thursday night did not follow the club's usual format. Instead of featuring a main attraction, the whimsically titled "Dynamic Duos" show featured two...
Tags: Antonio Carlos Jobim, Music Industry, Dizzy Gillespie, Brazil, Dave Brubeck
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Jane Monheit swings into Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale
Jane Monheit knows firsthand the life-changing influence that music can have on a young life. As a schoolgirl growing up in the late 1980s on the south shore of Long Island, where the right jeans and the right sneakers were required, Monheit was all...
Tags: Fine Artists, Teaching and Learning, Fort Lauderdale, Carnegie Hall, Entertainment
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Donald Byrd dies at 80; jazz trumpeter was a funk-fusion experimenter
Jazz trumpeter and band leader Donald Byrd, whose clean, elegant phrasing made his reputation in the 1950s and '60s before he began experimenting in the '70s and '80s with jazz-funk-R&B fusions on discs such as "Black Byrd" and "Thank You ... for F.U.M.L....
Tags: Miles Davis, Nas, Sonny Rollins, Music, John Coltrane
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Taylor Ho Bynum Premieres His Prince Project at Real Art Ways in Hartford
Taylor Ho Bynum Ensemble: The Prince Project World Premiere Feb. 2, 7:30 p.m., $10-$15, Real Art Ways, 56 Arbor St., Hartford, (860) 232-1006, realartways.org Franz Liszt did it. So did Gustav Mahler, the Rolling Stones, John Lennon, Anthony...
Tags: Music Industry, Liz Phair, Ornette Coleman, Steven Bernstein, Entertainment
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Vivid impressions of Russian culture in 'Encyclopedia of a Life in Russia'
Cuban author José Manuel Prieto's playful and fascinating book, “Encyclopedia of a Life in Russia,” is, according to Prieto's narrator, an encyclopedia-style guide to a book the narrator is planning to write about a man named Thelonious Monk...Tags: Chicago Tribune, YouTube, Trine Tsouderos, Russia, Saint Petersberg (Russia)
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3-CD Set Of Saxophonist Thomas Chapin Released Posthumously
The Hartford CourantAlthough struck down by leukemia at40 in 1998, Thomas Chapin, the phenomenal instrumentalist/composer from Manchester, left behind a rich, life-affirming legacy. What is still very much alive are his recordings, compositions and a wealth of memories in...Tags: Glen Campbell, Charter Oak Cultural Center, Vocal Music (genre), Music Industry, Jackie McLean
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'Funkin' With Electric Soul' takes on legends Jimi Hendrix, James Brown
You usually don't hear jazz singers taking on James Brown's "Sex Machine" or Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze." But one brave Chicago vocalist will be plunging headlong into this music Friday night, when the apparently fearless Dee Alexander takes the...
Tags: New Year's Day, James Brown, Culture, Jazz Institute of Chicago, Old Town School of Folk Music
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Jazz pianist John Beasley to have January residency at Blue Whale
The story may be apocryphal, but according to legend (i.e. Wikipedia) the jazz pianist John Beasley put together his first drum kit at age 2, using kitchen pots and pans. History does not record the title of the debut tune that Beasley performed on his...
Tags: Queen Latifah, The Godfather (movie), Steely Dan (music group), Miles Davis, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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Critic's Notebook: Vince Guaraldi's 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' score is a gift
It's here. The holiday season. And with it, an ever-creeping onslaught of music stuffed with enough synthetic cheer to weave a polyester overcoat for Dodger Stadium. Hearing such tidings of great joy seems innocent enough, but repeated exposure could...
Tags: Holidays, Music Industry, Holiday Music (genre), Olivia Newton-John, Santa Claus (fictional character)
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Jazz Scene: Jack DeJohnette in hometown to mark hitting 70
Drummer Jack DeJohnette is having a very good year. In January, he received a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Award, widely considered the country's highest jazz honor. Subsequent accolades from the Copenhagen Jazz Festival in February and...
Tags: Keith Jarrett, Music Industry, Sonny Rollins, Culture, Ornette Coleman
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Pianist Benny Green runs hot and cold with original tunes
Pianist Benny Green tried something different Thursday night at the Jazz Showcase, devoting an extended first set entirely to original compositions. You'd have to be a fairly accomplished composer, however, to sustain interest in 90 minutes of self-...
Tags: Music, Entertainment
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