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Randy Napoleon: The Door is Open: The Music of Gregg Hill
by Paul Rauch
In and around the formidable jazz studies program at Michigan State University is a plethora of jazz talent devoted to instrumental and compositional excellence. Most of this talent is young, benefiting from a wide array of world-class instructors that includes program director Rodney Whitaker and veteran guitarist Randy Napoleon, among other notables. Within this labyrinth of jazz wisdom in the Detroit / Lansing metroplex is composer Gregg Hill, a former truck driver and tech entrepreneur whose performing ambitions were superseded ...
read moreJazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Septet with Wynton Marsalis: The Democracy! Suite
by Paul Rauch
There is an interesting generational divide in perception when it comes to the music of Wynton Marsalis. While many hail his work at Lincoln Center as elevating jazz to its rightful place among the fine arts, others lament the separation from his iconic quartet and quintet work in the 1980's as some sort of jazz treason. What is unquestionable is his virtuosity and eloquence, expressing each note with beauty as the clear priority in his playing as a ...
read moreWalter Blanding: The Olive Tree
by C. Andrew Hovan
A new addition to an already heady bunch of tenor stars on Criss Cross, including Walt Weiskopf, Tim Warfield, Seamus Blake, and Ralph Lalama, 28-year-old saxophonist Walter Blanding is making good on the promise he showed back in 1991 on the collective project Tough Young Tenors. His debut as a leader, The Olive Tree, finds Blanding in familiar company, with trumpeter Kisor a buddy from high school and both pianist Farid Barron and bassist Rodney Whitaker chums from the Lincoln ...
read moreJazz Day - April 9 - Taste of Jazz at Time Warner Center
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Michael Ricci
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER AND TIME WARNER CENTER'S CIRCLE OF TASTE PRESENT A TASTE OF JAZZ Celebration Marks the Inauguration of Jazz Day" on April 9th (During Jazz Appreciation Month) Chefs from the Center's Restaurant and Bar Collection Present Dishes Inspired by the Great American Jazz Cities Special Music Performance by Members of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Bebop, swing and New Orleans jazz will inspire chefs and menus alike for one hoppin' evening at the first ever A ...
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The Lost Tune
From: The Door is Open: The Music of...By Walter Blanding