By chriskelsey on November 30, 2009
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By Music Genre: Jazz & Blues on November 27, 2009
Sheila Jordan’s singing style lights up Piano Jazz with guest host Jon Weber.
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By Music Genre: Jazz & Blues on November 27, 2009
Sheila Jordan’s singing style lights up Piano Jazz with guest host Jon Weber.
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By Music Genre: Jazz & Blues on November 25, 2009
It’s true: Bill Frisell wears glasses, dresses casually and is modest and soft-spoken in person. But instead of stepping into a phone booth to put on a cape, he straps on his trusty Fender Telecaster and strides onstage at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater with his trio.
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By ted on November 24, 2009
What if your great moment in jazz arrived, and you slept through it. Walter Kolosky relates the story below. T.G.
My approach to the appreciation of jazz, and all the arts, has been shaped by a series of illuminating personal exp…
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By # on November 20, 2009
Can the cello swing? Can the cello be as melodically sophisticated as traditional jazz instruments? Is the cello capable of strongly accompanying a jazz band? Since the beginning of jazz, stringed instruments have played an important role in the instrumentation of jazz. Different from early jazz string instruments like the violin and bass, the cello has only recently become a more conventional instrument in the jazz ensemble.
Initial practitioners of the instrument included bassists Harry Babasin, Oscar Pettiford and Ray Brown, who all lauded the cello for its dynamic and stimulating musical range and for its difference in size making more rapid…
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By Jazz on November 20, 2009
In Shearing’s second appearance on the program from 1987, host Marian McPartland reminisces with her fellow countryman about obscure British tunes, and the two have fun re-harmonizing “God Save the Queen.” Shearing also sings and plays Cole Porter’s “After You,” and the two end with a two-piano version of “Indiana.”
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By Jazz on November 20, 2009
In Shearing’s second appearance on the program from 1987, host Marian McPartland reminisces with her fellow countryman about obscure British tunes, and the two have fun re-harmonizing “God Save the Queen.” Shearing also sings and plays Cole Porter’s “After You,” and the two end with a two-piano version of “Indiana.”
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By ted on November 14, 2009
Thomas Cunniffe covers the world of DVDs for jazz.com. His most recent review here looked at Charles Mingus’s Epitaph and Town Hall Concert. Now Cunniffe turns his attention to two videos featuring the late vocalist Anita O’Day. T.G….
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By Music Genre: Jazz & Blues on November 13, 2009
Trumpeter Randy Brecker has been a tireless explorer of all kinds of musical genres, from funk to Brazilian to mainstream jazz. Brecker brought his group along for this Piano Jazzsession with guest host Bill Charlap.
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