The King of Swing, Benny Goodman, played a historic concert at Carnegie Hall on January 16, 1938. The concert was probably the first to prominently display popular music in a classical music venue.
The Steve Turre Quintet represents one of the most ambitious bookings yet for Music Hall's Jazz Café. Part of the attraction, of course, is the leader, a charismatic and versatile trombonist whose deep experience -- stints with Ray Charles, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Woody Shaw, Dizzy Gillespie, McCoy Tyner and 20-plus years with the "Saturday Night Live" studio band -- has all been funneled into an
Drama actor James Blanco is now starting his career as concert producer. The versatile actor is one of the main stars of ABS-CBN’s current primetime fantaserye, Utoy, which stars Dolphy and Makisig Morales.
Twenty-five years ago this January, pianist Keith Jarrett formed his trio with bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette. They recorded “The Masquerade Is Over” without rehearsal or any arrangement. Who could know this partnership would survive for a quarter century?
Bassist and composer, Chuck Israels was raised in a musical family. His step-father, Mordecai Bauman is a singer who performed extensively with composer Hanns Eisler and who, along with Chuck's mother, Irma Commanday, created a home environment in which music was a part of normal daily activity.
Born Hyman Arluck, February 15, 1905 Buffalo, NY, (died April 23, 1986 New York, NY of Parkinson's disease); son of Samuel Arluck, a Jewish cantor and Celia (born Orlin); married Anya (died March 9, 1973); children: Samuel Arlen.
Stan Levey, one of the strongest drummers of his generation, was born in Philadelphia in 1926. As a youngster, he showed promise as a boxer, and considered it briefly as a career, but music won out.
On May 24, 2008 Sylvan United Church in Mill Bay will feature Seattle's pianist Randy Halberstadt and Susan Pascal on vibraphone for the popular monthly Jazz Vespers program now in its third year.
Connie Kay will forever be remembered as the legendary drummer/percussionist for the Modern Jazz Quartet. Self-taught on the drums, Kay played in the mid-'40s with Sir Charles Thompson, Miles Davis, and Cat Anderson.
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