Jonah Berman
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07/31/02 News
Smithsonian Tours With Latin Jazz
Jazz occupies a relatively small niche in the larger music world, and within that pocket, Latin jazz represents perhaps an even smaller community. This fall, a new exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service looks to change that...
07/30/02 News
Joshua Redman Gets Elastic
It's hard to believe that it was 11 years ago that Joshua Redman burst onto the scene, winning the Thelonious Monk Saxophone Competition and landing a major record label deal with Warner Bros. Since then, Redman, 33, has been one of the busiest jazz artists...
07/29/02 News
Matt Dennis Dies
Singer, songwriter and pianist Matt Dennis, who composed the standards “Angel Eyes” and “The Night We Called It a Day” and who worked with Tommy Dorsey as an arranger and vocal coach passed away June 21 in Riverside, Calif. He was 88. Born in Seattle on...
07/27/02 News
Soweto Kinch Wins White Foundation Competition
Since 1999, when the Monk Competition stopped handing out recording contracts to its winners, up and coming jazz musicians have had their ears perked up, looking for new competitions where they can score a contract. One such musician is Soweto Kinch (pictured...
07/26/02 News
Stan Kenton Newsletter Moves to Web
A somewhat controversial bandleader, Stan Kenton (pictured)was into change, updating styles and creating new sounds. Were he around today, it’s likely he would approve that his biggest fan publication, The Network , will cease to be a printed publication...
07/25/02 News
Classical Jazz
In the past, classical music purists often assumed jazz artists had no knowledge of Western classical music, and were therefore inferior musicians. The image of the classical-music ignorant jazzman has long since been proven wrong, from Ellington pouring...
07/24/02 News
BMI/Charlie Parker Composition Winner
On July 11 bassist and composer Noriko Ueda (pictured) was named the winner of the BMI Foundation/Charlie Parker Jazz Composition Prize for her piece “Castle in the North.” The award, which was given at the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop’s annual showcase concert...
07/23/02 News
Recent Deaths in Music
The music community has suffered several losses in the past several weeks. Alan Lomax (pictured), a musicologist who made thousands of recordings of traditional folk, blues and jazz musicians, died on July 19 in Sarasota, Fla.; he was 87. On July 13, jazz...
07/22/02 News
Sarah Vaughan Boxed
How is it that a singer who entered the Apollo's amateur night on a whim went on to become one of the most famous vocalists in jazz history? Perhaps it’s because the 19-year-old happened to be Sarah Vaughan, who possessed one of the most soulful and identifiable...
07/19/02 News
Etta James Burns Down House on DVD/VHS
Etta James will be starting fires in homes throughout the country this fall. No, the singer has not begun a career as an arsonist, but if the title of her upcoming release is any indication, fans will be feeling the heat, so to speak. On August 6, Burnin...
07/18/02 News
Herbie Hancock on TechTV
Piano legend Herbie Hancock has always been at the forefront of electronic experimentation in jazz, and his longstanding love of gadgetry is well known. It's appropriate then that Hancock will be spotlighted this week on TechTV's AudioFile program, a 30...
07/16/02 News
JazzReach's Fresh Air Fest
On July 20 and August 14, JazzReach Performing Arts and Education Association will present the Fresh Air Jazz Festival II, a series of live performances benefiting Fresh Air Fund Children, an organization that works with underprivileged children and gives...
07/15/02 News
New Jimmy Scott Movie, Book
Little Jimmy Scott is not so little anymore. No, the petite singer didn’t have a growth spurt recently, but on July 17 Scott will turn 77. The singer will celebrate his birthday with an appearance at the Hollywood Bowl as part of a Billie Holiday tribute...
07/13/02 News
Ray Charles, What a Doll
This fall, Ray Charles will be making appearances in retail stores throughout the country. Well, not the man himself, but an animatronic likeness. The Ray Charles Animatronic Doll will hit stores in September, and it will be full of robotic swing and soul...
07/12/02 News
RCA Continues Bluebird First Edition Reissues
The RCA Victor Group continues its Bluebird First Editions series with three new reissues. The latest releases include Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli's Djangology , Louis Armstrong's Louis Armstrong and His Friends , and Lonnie Liston Smith's Astral...
07/11/02 News
Adelaide Hall Bio Out in August
British author Iain Cameron Williams' new biography of singer Adelaide Hall, recently released in the U.K., will hit U.S. bookstores this August. Published by Continuum International Publishing Group, the biography is entitled Underneath a Harlem Moon...
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