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| Norwegian Jazz Star Releases New Album Ellen Andrea Wang is one of the most recognizable jazz artists in Norway. Wang studied classical violin for ten years before switching to the bass at sixteen and studying jazz at the Norwegian Academy of Music. Music reviewer Michelle Mercer says her sophomore album Blank Out reflects 1980s art ...
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| All that jazz: Hearst concert series to feature Steph & Tom "I've been listening to jazz since I was 16 and reading jazz history, but actually doing it, I never got anywhere with it because of the horn," says Tritle, who also is the Courier's music critic. "There's no room for improvisation in an orchestra. You can't just go off on your own, or it would be your last job," he ...
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| New Year's resolutions for Chicago jazz It would be difficult to overstate the role that WDCB-90.9 FM now plays in Chicago's jazz culture. With WBEZ-91.5 FM having long-since turned its back on the music, and with other stations offering scattered jazz programming with limited wattage, WDCB stands as an on-air nexus for jazz music, ...
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| Where jazz takes center stage: Club Saratoga maintains loyal following with Saturday music tradition A Saturday afternoon crowd listens to jazz at Club Saratoga. The weekly jazz sessions have attracted a loyal following. (Steve Kuchera / Forum News Service)1 / 8. Arlone Chapinski and Rich Williams dance to jazz music at Club Saratoga on a recent Saturday. (Steve Kuchera / Forum News Service)2 / 8.
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The Healing Power of Jazz The jazz drummer Phil Young turned seventy last year. He still plays every Thursday, at the Lenox Saphire, in Harlem, from seven until eleven, at an event he calls "The Gathering of the Harlem Hip." "Music has a very healing energy," he tells the filmmakers Jay Dockendorf and Kenny Sule in this short ...
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| 'The great equalizer': Program fights lack of diversity in jazz education The program seeks to expand access to music education, and specifically jazz, said Rebeca Mauleon, SFJazz director of education. "Jazz is our American classical music," she said. "It's the great equalizer." Yet access to jazz, an art form rooted in the African American experience, is not equal, she said.
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| 'Gypsy jazz' swings into Portage Center for the Arts on Saturday Attendees on Saturday might, for example, learn something about Django Reinhardt, "one of the legends of early jazz guitar," Ruppenthal said. Reinhardt was a Roma musician playing French Musette music in the late 1920s when he heard the music of Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, providing ...
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| Jazz has history in Tahlequah Jazz music brings talented musicians to perform and aspiring Northeastern State University students to compete in Tahlequah every year at the NSU ... According to the "History of Jazz at NSU" on the NSU website, Lehman, now a professor emeritus of music at NSU, is credited with founding the Green ...
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| All that jazz: Our music critic picks best albums of 2017 As we bid adieu to 2017, it is time for our annual list of the Best Jazz Albums of the Year, with the usual disclaimer that we don't get to hear everything, but we do still get quite a few jazz albums, and there always seems to be plenty of worthy contenders to choose from. We're lucky in the Boston area, ...
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| Winter Blues Jazz Fest return brings heat But CultureFix is bringing the Winter Blues Jazz Fest back for a fourth year of live music and fun to help keep the community warm Jan. 11-14. "We try our best to try and bring in some fresh and creative musicians," said music coordinator and blues artist Bobby "BlackHat" Walters. "We have a lot of talent ...
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