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Two celebrated jazz artists are part of the fifth annual Immersive Residency program at Montclair State University’s John J. Cali School of Music: vocalist Jazzmeia Horn and saxophonist/clarinetist Paquito D’Rivera. The Immersive Residencies are week-long periods offering students the opportunity to collaborate with professional artists
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After being discharged from the Army in 1945, Pete Rugolo became the primary arranger for the Stan Kenton Band and is credited with keeping that band alive in an era when big band music was beginning to fade.
In 1955, Rugolo created an album combining the vocal group, The Four Freshmen, with an all-star trombone quintet selected fr...
In the 1970s and ’80s, the New Jersey Jazz Society held summer festivals at Waterloo Village in Stanhope, NJ, sometimes as part of a New Jersey arm of the Newport Jazz Festival in New York. Guitarist Frank Vignola remembers playing there 40 years ago, as a 19-year-old, with such guitar giants as Bucky Pizzarelli and Tal Farlow. “There were also other legends,” he recalled, “l...
“A lot of what we do comes from spontaneity, the idea of creating a moment.” That was a bit of advice from tenor saxophonist Don Braden to the six young musicians who received this year’s scholarship awards from the New Jersey Jazz Society.
Then, Braden and one of the scholarship winners, vocalist Kyra Cioffi, demonstrated that “spontane...
There are hardly words adequate to describe the phenomenon that is Marilyn Maye. At the age
of 97, she is still doing sets that last almost 1 1/2 hours, belting out her songs with a voice that
belies her age and moving about the stage with an ease that is equally impressive.
For her recent residency at 54 Below, which ended November 6, Maye dedicated her shows to
