Jazz History: Death of a Tenor Man
Bill Moody was a jazz drummer and radio host who wrote seven novels featuring a fictional jazz pianist/detective named Evan
Bill Moody was a jazz drummer and radio host who wrote seven novels featuring a fictional jazz pianist/detective named Evan
Jeff Gold, author of Sittin’ In Jazz Clubs of the 1940s and 1950s, is among other things, a collector of music memorabilia. While
At the Morristown Jazz & Blues Festival in August 2019, Frank Vignola teamed with fellow guitarist Vinny Raniolo and bassist
David Miner, Chairman of Benedetto Guitars and Founder and President of Miner Family Vineyard in Napa, CA, was the highest
On Sunday, December 20, 2020, pianist Eric Mintel paid tribute to his mentor and hero, Dave Brubeck, who would have
When the 1981 movie version of E.L. Doctorow’s novel, Ragtime, was being filmed, jazz pianist/composer Stanley Cowell was hired to
For more than seven decades, Bucky Pizzarelli was one of the world’s greatest guitarists. But, in addition to his musical
In April 2019, Columbia University’s Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program won first prize in the College Combo division at the
W. Royal Stokes has had an interesting career spending a decade as a Professor of Greek and Latin Language and Literature and Ancient History at five different universities. After taking to the road for a transitional period, he settled down as a jazz journalist and radio host in the Washington, D.C. area.
Pianists Aaron Diehl and Adam Birnbaum are both winners of the Cole Porter Fellowship of the American Pianists Awards. In
Stanley Crouch met Wynton Marsalis when the trumpeter was a teenager studying at the Juilliard School. He wrote liner notes
In 1977, bassist Gary Peacock recorded his first U.S. album as a leader, Tales Of Another, on the ECM label.
The jazz world is anchored by people like guitarist Vic Juris, musicians possessing such talent they can be counted on to seamlessly lead or support sessions of all sorts. Throughout his career, Juris supported funky organists, boppish horn players and even the ultra-modern saxophonist David Liebman, who in a post-mortem tribute pronounced him “the hardest worker I have known.”
(Continued from September/October 2020 issue of Jersey Jazz Magazine)
The Uptown Jazz Tentet is a terrific example of the small big band, a bridge between the sound of a small group and a full big band. What’s Next (Irabbagast Records) is a 10-tune collection that mixes original material with some jazz standards. The band is co-led by trumpeter Brandon Lee and trombonists Willie Applewhite and James Burton III.
