posted by Robert J. Carmack #blues2jazzguy Happy Birthday Bobby Hutcherson! Jazz vibraphone and marimba player, Maestro Born: January 27, 1941 (age 74), Los Angeles, CA ♡ “THE DEAN OF THE JAZZ VIBRAPHONE”
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BONE SOIR, CONRAD HERWIG EXPANDING THE LEGACY OF GREATNESS
posted by Robert J. Carmack -#blues2jazzguy In an era where the only thing that counts is Butts in the seat and the cling-clang of a CASH REGISTER while musicians struggle to play a solo over the YAMMERIN’ OF PSUEDO-HIPSTERS TALKING ABOUT ANY AND ALL THINGS EXCEPT THE MUSIC?? So what happens is, most musicians just…
COMING FEB 1 EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: ACTRESS/SINGER JEWEL TOMPKINS
posted by Robert J. Carmack CAST from award winning musical HOWLING BLUES DIRTY DOGS!
MICHAEL WHITE & LEISEI CHEN IN CONCERT JAN.24 HARRISON HOUSE JOSHUA TREE CA.
posted by Robert J. Carmack Michael White & Leisei Chen A Performance Collaboration with Artists in Residence with Mirza Todorovich photographer/videographer Saturday January 24th 2015 at 7:30PM @Harrison House 6881 Mount Lassen Ave. Joshua Tree, CA 92252 tel. 760.366.4712 Tickets available at: Joshua Tree Health Foods 29 Palms Hwy at Sunset St. Joshua Tree, CA…
CLIFFORD ADAMS: FORMER BANDMATE OF KOOL & THE GANG SUCCUMBS TO CANCER
CLIFFORD ADAMS (62) has died from liver cancer. The Trenton, New Jersey-native was perhaps most widely appreciated as a longstanding member of Kool & The Gang Band (playing the now classic solo on their 1983 crossover hit, “Joanna”). Adams was also a seasoned jazz player who began his recording career with organist Charles Earland and…
Sonny Criss – Talented But Tragic
Originally posted on Geezer Music Club:
We haven’t featured a jazz musician for a while and today’s spotlight falls on one of the best, alto saxophonist Sonny Criss. A contemporary of Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker — in fact, he played alongside him in the early years — Criss was an early bloomer musically, but his career…
JAZZ JOURNALIST ASSOCIATION’S SPECIAL APRIL
ABOUT JAZZ APRIL 2014 | ABOUT JJA The Jazz Journalists Association‘sJazzApril campaign supports both Jazz Appreciation Month and International Jazz Day (April 30) We use JazzApril to refer to both and to stress that all of “April is Jazz Month. http://www.smithsonianjazz.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11&Itemid=70 On this site, you’ll find ways that YOU, whoever you are, can participate.
TIME TRAVELING DIZZY (REECE) ! HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Happy Birthday, Dizzy Reece …Just revisiting a great Unsung trumpeter; You want a passionate player to interpret your favorite standards or just conjure up the tenacity of those fiery jam sessions of the 40s, Check Dizzy Reece! After spending the 1950s playing in Paris, Jamaican bebop trumpeter Dizzy Reece landed in New York City in 1960. He has…
New Year’s Eve Gig: Raw Sugar Quintet with Dale Fielder
Posted by Robert J. Carmack Happy New Year 2014!!! Veteran jazz saxophonist Dale Fielder, shown on stage with “Doc,” Trumpeter Dr. Richard Allen Williams. Featuring RAW SUGAR QUINTET for a private New Year’s Eve gig at the Double Tree-Hilton Hotel in Culver City,California. Bassist, Jeff Littleton with Giovanni D. Nickens on drums. Rounding out the quintet , though…
PRESIDENT OBAMA JOHN COLTRANE LEGACY CONNECTION
posted by Robert J. Carmack – music historian/blogger I found this quote while researching Ravi Coltrane, and had no idea, our U.S. president is a John Coltrane fan. Famed photographer Jim Marshall took the 1960 picture of Trane. That picture hangs in the white house with inscription and signature. President Barack Obama up close…
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