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“There are 12 seconds that changed the course of jazz — the opening of Louis Armstrong’s 1928 trumpet solo on ‘West End Blues’.” That’s a line from Ricky Riccardi’s book, Stomp Off, Let’s Go: The Early Years of Louis Armstrong (Oxford University Press: 2025).
At 3 p.m. on Sunday, February 1, Riccardi, Director of Research Collections at New York’s Louis Armstr...
The joint was jumpin’! There’s no other way to describe it. Alto saxophonist Julius Tolentino (left in photo above), recipient of DownBeat Magazine’s 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award for Jazz Education, brought three of his former students — pianist Ben Collins-Siegel, bassist Ian Kenselaar (photo below), and his son, trumpeter Jacob Tolentino (right in photo above) —...
The New Jersey Jazz Society is pleased to announce it has been awarded a $2,950 grant from The Summit Foundation to support nine Sunday afternoon Jersey Jazz LIVE! performances. The concerts are held at the Madison (NJ) Community Arts Center and include two segments — a main concert by seasoned professionals and a Rising Stars opening act featuring high school or college jazz...
When bassist Martin Pizzarelli (right in photo above) celebrates the centennial birthday of his father, guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli (left in photo), on Sunday, January 11, at Morristown’s Morris Museum, he’ll begin with Duke Ellington’s “Do Nothing Til You Hear From Me” because “it’s the song he liked to open with.”
That will be followed by music from Bucky’s Benny Good...
Growing up in Houston, Texas, Kate Kortum shared a computer with her five siblings. “Somehow, the Ella Fitzgerald recording of ‘How High the Moon’ from her Live in Berlin album ended up on the computer,” she recalled. “I had no idea you could sing like that. I heard that and became obsessed.”
Despite her fixation on Fitzgerald, Kortum (photo above) didn’t star...
