JAZZPLANET http://www.jazzplanet.org Jazz Webradio - Jazz News Mon, 21 May 2012 09:20:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 INTERVIEW/PROFILE: Jazz Musician of the Day: Fats Waller http://www.jazzplanet.org/?p=7046 http://www.jazzplanet.org/?p=7046#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 09:20:04 +0000 rjounin http://www.jazzplanet.org/?p=7046 All About Jazz is celebrating Fats Waller’s birthday today!

Jazz music\’s first organist and one of the giants of piano jazz Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller was born on May 21, 1904 in Harlem into a musical family. His grandfather was an accomplished violinist and his mother was the church organist. His family had moved to New York City from Virginia in the late 1880s and his father was the pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem… Read more…

]]> http://www.jazzplanet.org/?feed=rss2&p=7046 0 INTERVIEW/PROFILE: Jazz Musician of the Day: Bob Florence http://www.jazzplanet.org/?p=7045 http://www.jazzplanet.org/?p=7045#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 09:20:04 +0000 rjounin http://www.jazzplanet.org/?p=7045 All About Jazz is celebrating Bob Florence’s birthday today!

For close to 50 years now the release of a new Bob Florence recording has been a major cause for celebration in the jazz world and with each album, going all the way back to 1958\’s "Name Band 59", it seems that he has reached an absolute pinnacle in the possibilities of contemporary big band writing. But he has continued to surprise us, year after year… Read more…

]]> http://www.jazzplanet.org/?feed=rss2&p=7045 0 CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Bassist Thomonic Electrifies Jazz with Uncompromising New Ep http://www.jazzplanet.org/?p=7044 http://www.jazzplanet.org/?p=7044#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 09:20:04 +0000 rjounin http://www.jazzplanet.org/?p=7044 Like father, like son.

For Nico Thom, the love of music is rooted in his childhood travels with his dad, an amateur musician with a passion for live performance, playing the saxophone, clarinet, and flute, as well as singing, from clubs to car salesrooms. It awakened Thom to the creative possibilities of melody, how instruments can open the doors to artistic expression. When he received an electronic drum kit at the age of 13, Thoma€(TM)s imagination blossomed. However, it wasna€(TM)t until he discovered the six-string electric bass that Thoma€(TM)s world flipped over. The bass had the scorching impact of lightning on his thought process…

]]> http://www.jazzplanet.org/?feed=rss2&p=7044 0 VIDEO/DVD: STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: "Punk Jazz" with the Dead Kenny GS http://www.jazzplanet.org/?p=7043 http://www.jazzplanet.org/?p=7043#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 09:20:04 +0000 rjounin http://www.jazzplanet.org/?p=7043 If the seminal punk bands Black Flag or the Dead Kennedys were to jam with members of Sun Ra’s Arkestra, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, and James Brown’s JBs, the end result might sound a bit like the Dead Kenny Gs, who are coming to St. Louis next Saturday, May 26 to perform at 2720 Cherokee.

The music of percussionist/vocalist Mike Dillon, saxophonist/keyboardist Skerik, and bassist and saxophonist Brad Houser has been dubbed "punk jazz", since it combines the thrashing beats, heavy riffing, and angry and/or satirical lyrics associated with punk rock with an ever-shifting variety of other styles, from marches to funk to skronk to surprisingly lyrical passages dominated by Dillon’s work on vibraphone…

]]> http://www.jazzplanet.org/?feed=rss2&p=7043 0 EVENT: Jazz Legend Peggy Lee to be Memorialized by Her Childhood Hometown (Wimbledon, North Dakota) http://www.jazzplanet.org/?p=7042 http://www.jazzplanet.org/?p=7042#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 09:20:03 +0000 rjounin http://www.jazzplanet.org/?p=7042 (May 18, 2012 – Wimbledon, ND) World-renowned jazz legend Miss Peggy Lee is being memorialized by her childhood hometown of Wimbledon, North Dakota with a permanent installation of photos, music and memorabilia from her unparalleled career at the transportation depot where she lived a number of years as a child. The exhibition will be dedicated at a Grand Opening ceremony attended by Lee’s grandchildren on Saturday, May 26, which would have been the singer’s 92nd birthday…

]]> http://www.jazzplanet.org/?feed=rss2&p=7042 0 Ron Carter: The Right Notes, Alright http://www.jazzplanet.org/?p=7041 http://www.jazzplanet.org/?p=7041#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 09:20:03 +0000 rjounin http://www.jazzplanet.org/?p=7041 There can’t be any jazz musician or jazz listener who doesn’t know Ron Carter and his standing as one of the most successful and influential bass players in the history of music in America. He’s a musician of the highest order, with a rich, immediately identifiable sound that has resonated in the jazz world for some five decades. Those beautiful bottom notes. Always on the search for the right ones, he probably hasn’t played too many clunkers over the years…

]]> http://www.jazzplanet.org/?feed=rss2&p=7041 0 John Pizzarelli and Tessa Souter: Classical Mashups http://www.jazzplanet.org/?p=7040 http://www.jazzplanet.org/?p=7040#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 09:20:03 +0000 rjounin http://www.jazzplanet.org/?p=7040 The improvisatory nature of jazz provides a myriad of ways to enhance and tweak both the arrangement and performance of the music’s canon. One approach being tried is the interpolation of one harmonically or rhythmically related song into another. Guitarist/vocalist m: John Pizzarelli and vocalist m: Tessa Souter have produced just such projects in their recordingsDouble Exposure and Beyond the Blue. This is intelligent and compelling music making…

]]> http://www.jazzplanet.org/?feed=rss2&p=7040 0 Take Five With Ric Harris http://www.jazzplanet.org/?p=7039 http://www.jazzplanet.org/?p=7039#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 09:20:03 +0000 rjounin http://www.jazzplanet.org/?p=7039 Meet Ric Harris: An article in Guitar Player magazine about the Old Town School of Folk Music caused me to leave North Carolina and move to Chicago. I caught m: Ira Sullivan and m: Joe Diorio at the Jazz Showcase one night and moved to Los Angeles to attend the Guitar Institute of Technology a few months later. I appeared in the Chicago area until 1991, at which time I retired and raised my children. Now that they are pursuing their own dreams, I am completing the project that started over twenty-five years ago…

]]> http://www.jazzplanet.org/?feed=rss2&p=7039 0 A Delightful Twofer from University of Arts in Philadelphia http://www.jazzplanet.org/?p=7038 http://www.jazzplanet.org/?p=7038#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 09:20:03 +0000 rjounin http://www.jazzplanet.org/?p=7038 University of Arts in Philadelphia boasts a premier school of music that is devoted to educating the next generation of innovators in jazz and other modern musical styles. Its dual 2010 releases show that it is indeed succeeding at its mission.

UARTS Z Band University of the Arts Big Band e: Self Produced 2010…

]]> http://www.jazzplanet.org/?feed=rss2&p=7038 0 Various Artists: Fukushima! http://www.jazzplanet.org/?p=7037 http://www.jazzplanet.org/?p=7037#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 09:20:03 +0000 rjounin http://www.jazzplanet.org/?p=7037 Various Artists Fukushima! Presqu’ile Records 2012

Okay, please sit up and pay close attention. This is an album that you really should not ignore. Fukushima! is a double CD consisting of ten tracks by renowned improvising musicians from across the globe–almost two hours of music altogether.

All proceeds from its sales will go straight to non-profit organisations assisting victims of the 2011 Japanese earthquake and its aftermath…

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