NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Students in five New Orleans public schools will be treated to live jazz on a regular basis starting in the fall of 2003. The University of...
Hey For the heck of it, heres some info on Jazz here in BC, Canada. This next week (4th to the 12th) I'll be leaving for California. The Vancouver Dixieland...
Thats very good to hear I think jazz aughta be taught everywhere not just in NO. Jazz encourages creativity amd of course it keeps kids off the street. Andrew...
Here's a funny thing I posted in the club when I first started it: A little HR humor. To: All Employees From: Management In order to assure the highest levels...
Augst 8th will be the 95th birthday of the great alto saxophonist, composer, arranger and bandleader Benny Carter! Many of his songs have become jazz...
Thank you very much for the update and for breaking the silence in here. Benny Carter was a very popular musician who kind of lost attention over the years to...
Hi man. This club has gone a tad dead. but someo f us are still here. Warning the next part of this message is complete opinion and I'll be shot down for this....
Yes this club is a tad bit dead but I can't help it theres not much I can do. I try to post and reply to whoever wants to say something in here it's just ppl...
Ok, what do you consider the latter years? Post fifties? Post sixties? If I remember correctly, he'd been touring internationally since the forties. Even iron...
Actually I consider his later years to be the forties and later. You get my
point on this I'm just trying to say Satch was considered an ambassador of
jazz and...
Andrew Waber
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Aug 10, 2002 6:25 pm
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I haven't gone back to Bech yet. I really need to. I'm preparing to pick up soprano and I plan on listening back to Bech, who was actually Trane's main...
I'm trying to make a study *learning every recorded solo I can find* of every major tenor player starting with the early cats and going to young guys from the...
He supposedly went through a brief bop phase but never recorded during that time. The differences between advant garde and free are not as great as they seem....
What? Kenny G played a postmortem duet with Louis Armstrong? Man Louie would be spinning in his grave right now. There'd be no way in hell he'd ever agree to...
Yeah. It is creepy. It was on What a Wonderfull world. He butchered the tune. I don't know. Louie was a very unpredictable person. Kenny G reminds me of louie...
OH GOD!!!! It makes me queesy thinking about Kenny G butchering a song with Louis Armstrong in it. I'm sure Louie woulda killed him if he found it out lol (I...
Brainiac1082
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Aug 11, 2002 4:35 am
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... bop ... the ... Well, I think that the same can be said for most any jazz player who is lucky enough to have a decades long career. Take for example Benny...
... You get my ... ambassador of ... countries. I ... in English ... can't ... movement. PS ... has a long history of jazz musicians and having been able to...
Yes Rolf thats my point. The fans in the Mexico City concert, or at least a huge majority of them, didn't understand English well enough to know the lyrics of...
... he ... jazz ... There have been quite a few musicians who have had careers of 40 years or more. Goodman is mentioned as one who tried to get modern with a ...
Off the topic of Armstrong again, I know, sorry! I know we have a lot of vintage jazz fans here. Does anyone know the title of the selection by the John Kirby...
Does anyone know the title of the ... Prelude ... Yep. Trumpet Prelude arranged and played by Charlie Shavers. Years later, the same Chopin prelude was also...
-Talk about a coincidence.... last night I was listening to Jazz After Hours on NPR and they played Chucho Valdez's take on the Chopin Prelude. The DJ said...
Hey guys whatve you all been up to? Anything spectacular? Well anyways I would just like to put my two bits in on a style of music that although its popular...
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