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EVENT: Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola October 2010 Lineup

5928 days ago
All About Jazz — Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola October 2010 Lineup Coca-Cola Generations In Jazz Festival Sept 6-Oct 10 WHAT/WHO: The Coca-Cola Generations In Jazz Festival, which began September 6, 2010, continues through October 10, 2010. It features a full array of jazz... more info

Herman Leonard obituary

5931 days ago
Guardian Music — Photographer famed for his jazz images that captured the very essence of the musicThe photographer Herman Leonard, who has died aged 87, earned enduring fame for his images of jazz musicians that seemed to embody the very essence of the music. "My wh... more info

CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: James Moody - 4b (2010)

5932 days ago
All About Jazz — By Pico Like the proverbial fine wine, James Moody only gets mellower and better with age. A seasoned saxophone and flute veteran who was in Dizzy Gillespie's original big band of the later 1940's and most famously the author of everyone's favorite ... more info

Steve Waterman: Buddy Bolden Blew It! | CD review

5935 days ago
Guardian Music — (Mainstem)Despite the title, this session by UK trumpeter Steve Waterman doesn't actually concentrate on the New Orleans funerals-and-marches music proto-jazz legend Buddy Bolden might have played, but it does include the famous West End Blues (one o... more info

VIDEO/DVD: Lee Ritenour's Video Featurette - Watch Seven Videos About the Making of "6 String Theory"

5936 days ago
All About Jazz — Presented by filmmaker c: Bret Primack It's hard to believe that 2010 marks 50 years since Lee Ritenour starting playing the guitar, setting in motion a career that legends are made of. A career that has earned him 19 GRAMMY nominations, a GRAMMYA... more info

50 great moments in jazz: John Coltrane's giant step for improvisation

5939 days ago
Guardian Music — Perhaps the most influential saxophonist all of time, Coltrane produced an intensely soulful sound that reached way beyond the jazz cognoscentiMiles Davis was a good authority on the saxophonist John Coltrane, who played in one of the trumpeter's ban... more info

Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky | Film review

5940 days ago
Guardian Music — This is a polished but unmoving account of the affair between two 20th-century greatsThere's a wonderful moment in Clint Eastwood's Bird, when Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie make an expedition one night to the Los Angeles home of their idol, Igor... more info

OBITUARY: Martin Drew, British Jazz Drummer Dies

5941 days ago
All About Jazz — Martin Drew, a British jazz drummer who was a member of the pianist Oscar Peterson's internationally popular group for three decades, died on July 29 in London. He was 66. The cause was a heart attack, his wife, Tessa, said. Mr. Drew first worked ... more info

EVENT: Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola September 2010 Lineup

5951 days ago
All About Jazz — Coca-Cola Generations In Jazz Festival The Coca-Cola Generations In Jazz Festival from September 6-October 10, 2010, features a full array of jazz performers from 15-92 years of age, a multi-generational exploration of the full spectrum of jazz trad... more info

BOOK/MAGAZINE: Paul Slaughter: Jazz Photographs

5956 days ago
All About Jazz — Long-time readers of JazzWax are familiar with Paul Slaughter's images (see "PhotoStory" in the right-hand column). Like the other generous photographers on the list, Paul has graciously provided JazzWax with images he took of jazz legends over the y... more info

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