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Sugar Blue sweetens genre with jazz additions
South Bend TribuneSugar Blue hears mold growing on the blues these days, and he doesn’t like it. “If you can’t add anything to the canon,” the harmonic virtuoso says, “if all you can do is regurgitate another man’s ideas while...Tags: Music Theater, Genres, Entertainment Events, Theater, Music
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New tunes and a few surprises from pianist Benny Green
Pianist Benny Green took a few chances Thursday night at the Jazz Showcase, and the risks paid off handsomely – for both him and his listeners. The move was significant because Green typically plays with so much polish, precision and control...
Tags: Music, Entertainment, Music Industry, Joe Segal
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Review: Jazz guitarist Larry Coryell flashes back with exciting Eleventh House reunion
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGIt was quite a celebration for Larry Coryell. The pioneering jazz guitarist just had his 70th birthday last week. But his reunion with two members of his 1970s fusion group, The Eleventh Hour, was thwarted by the hospitalization of keyboardist Mike... -
The exuberant spirit of pianist Eric Reed
In the world of jazz, there aren't many things you can count on, but one of them is that Eric Reed will swing. Hard. He reaffirmed that tenet from his first robustly stated notes Thursday night at the Jazz Showcase, the pianist digging deeply into the...
Tags: Thelonious Monk, Music, Dave Brubeck, Entertainment
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Art, rhythm rock UCF Jazz Fest
It never has been easy to define jazz, but the task won't be any simpler at this weekend's UCF Orlando Jazz Festival, which aims to introduce music fans to the scope of the genre's influences. At concerts Friday and Saturday, March 22-23, at the...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Teaching and Learning, Artists, Orlando, Colleges and Universities
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Remembering Fred Anderson: Chicago salutes a fallen jazz giant
On stage, he was a volcano, torrents of sound pouring from the bell of his tenor saxophone. In person, he couldn't be gentler, a soft-spoken jazz giant who nurtured generations of musicians and, therefore, enhanced Chicago's stature as a nexus of...
Tags: Music Theater, Entertainment Events, Old Town School of Folk Music, Theater, Howard Reich
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Downers Grove South ensemble ready to swing
The Jazz Ensemble from Downers Grove South High School was selected to compete at a nationwide jazz festival this spring. The group is one of 12 bands from 10 states that will square off in the eighth annual Swing Central Jazz competition in Savannah,...Tags: Arts and Culture, Music Theater, Entertainment Events, Theater, New York City
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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: Thelonious Monk, John Lennon, Liz Phair, Real Art Ways, Genres
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Jazz bass legend Charlie Haden yearns to perform again
The revered jazz bassist Charlie Haden hopes he can give a brief speech when he picks up his Lifetime Achievement Award from the Recording Academy the day before the Grammys are broadcast on Feb. 10. But Haden sometimes has difficulty speaking, and...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Music Theater, Redman, Polio, Entertainment Events
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43rd annual S.D. Jazz Festival Thursday
When: 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Where: Johnson Fine Arts Center. Admission: Tickets will be available at the door. They are $7 for adults and $5 for seniors, Northern State University students and high school students. Younger kids get in free. Aberdeen...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Teaching and Learning, Sundance Film Festival, Entertainment Events, Colleges and Universities
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The gentle art of trumpeter Bobby Lewis
Each January, the Jazz Showcase turns its spotlight toward Chicago artists, enabling the club to bypass costlier touring attractions at a time of year when audiences typically are small. That's a boon not only to the city's musicians but to listeners,...
Tags: Jim Ryan, Peggy Lee, Music, Entertainment, Music Industry
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Trumpeting legend Arturo Sandoval to play at the Alex Theatre
No one taught a young Arturo Sandoval more about the mysteries of bebop and how to approach a life in music than Dizzy Gillespie. At times during their long friendship, the jazz trumpeters referred to each other as father and son. “He was more...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Staples Center, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), United Nations, Havana (Cuba)
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