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Sugar Blue a soaring voice for the blues
Last May, during a conference on "Race, Gender & the Blues" at Dominican University, the master harmonica player Sugar Blue addressed the theme in an impassioned, unforgettable soliloquy. Lamenting that blues increasingly has been expropriated by white...
Tags: James Cotton, Willie Dixon, The Rolling Stones (music group), Howard Reich, Rentals
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When does Joe Segal get his Jazz Masters award?
Until three weeks ago, no jazz club owner ever had been selected to receive the country's pre-eminent jazz honor: the National Endowment for the Arts' Jazz Masters Fellowship, which carries with it $25,000 and considerable prestige. Anyone who follows...
Tags: Savoy (music group), Howard Reich, Sonny Rollins, Ramsey Lewis, Endangered Species
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Von Freeman, Chicago jazz legend, dead at 88
Revered around the world but never a major star, worshipped by critics and connoisseurs but perpetually strapped for cash, the towering Chicago tenor saxophonist Von Freeman practically went out of his way to avoid commercial success. When trumpeter Miles...
Tags: Howard Reich, Billy Eckstine, Theater, Heart Failure, Culture
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Jazz giants Ben Tucker and Lou Donaldson still have the music in them
crystal.schelle@herald-mail.comLouis Armstrong once said, “Musicians don’t retire; they stop when there’s no more music in them.” Jazz legends and old friends Ben Tucker and Lou Donaldson still have the music in them. That’s why the octogenarians are...Tags: Billy Eckstine, College Sports, U.S. Navy, Charlie Parker, Music
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CONCERT REVIEW:Phil Woods' legacy alive in younger wind players...
Lehigh Valley MusicPhil Woods did not play as many notes Thursday night, during his performance in Easton, as he did during his days with Benny Goodman and Dizzy Gillespie. But the notes that he played with pupils, Nelson Hill and Jay Rattman, were precise punches.... -
Ron Carter Trio plays Yale University's Sprague Hall in New Haven on March 23
One of the best jazz re-issues from last year was Columbia/Legacy's Live in Europe 1967, a 3-CD/DVD package that captured Miles Davis' Second Great Quintet — Davis, tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter, pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter and...Tags: Yale University, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Sprague, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk
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Thousands of famed photos ruined
Tribune arts criticThey rank among the world's most iconic images of jazz: Louis Armstrong lost in a reverie; Duke Ellington bathed in a beam of white light; Ella Fitzgerald caught up in a song, a bead of sweat rolling down her cheek. Stored for more than a decade in...Tags: Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Bars and Clubs, Dizzy Gillespie, Gaming
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A sweet mystery
NEW YORK -- Think of Norah Jones as the anti-Mariah. In an age of pop divas, Jones sings with absorbing intimacy and seems refreshingly unaffected by the hoopla around her. On the day her debut album picked up eight Grammy nominations, the petite,...Tags: Career and Workplace, Gramercy, Whitney Houston, Theater, Family
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Top winners from 1986
denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Dexter Gordon as Dale Turner in 'ROUND MIDNIGHT Irwin Winkler Production; Warner Bros. Bob Hoskins as George in MONA LISA Palace/HandMade Production; Island Pictures William Hurt as James in...Tags: Children, Dennis Hopper, Sigourney Weaver, Marlee Matlin, Michael Caine
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Jazz review, Buster Williams at the Jazz Showcase
Tribune arts criticDizzy Gillespie famously observed that the bass stands as the most important instrument in a jazz band, yet few bassists have attained headliner status. The instrument simply does not afford even its best players many opportunities to bask in a...Tags: Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis
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