Getting Sentimental Over Sun Valley
Lew Shaw
May 1, 2017
For an evening of nostalgia, good music, and light humor, be sure to catch Max Raabe and the Palast Orchester if they happen to pass
Bob Erdos (1930-2017) Traditional jazz lost one of its greatest champions when Bob Erdos passed away on March 25 at the age of 86. Erdos,
The Welbourne Jazz Camp takes place every summer on a country estate in Virginia, but it began with a chance meeting in New Orleans. The
Since this is a newspaper of national, indeed worldwide, circulation, I normally do not report on single-day events that readers who live beyond a several-hour
With the passing of Cam Miller, the traditional jazz community has lost a man who was universally loved and respected. While he was unable to
Titles are difficult. For years, I floated through life undercutting any achievements while expertly conducting the negative cacophony that played in my head. Women are
Arthur Jacob Arshawsky, better known as Artie Shaw, was born on May 23, 1910 in New York City, but grew up in New Haven, Connecticut.
The Double-Threat One of the most beloved figures in jazz history, Jack Teagarden was a double-threat as a trombonist and a singer. Before he arrived
Dot Time Records has reached an agreement with the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation to release four albums of previously unreleased music from the Louis Armstrong
I enjoy working with the ephemera of the Ragtime Archive in Sedalia and, as a diversion, I work with my own accumulation of personal scrapbook
This is The Festival Roundup as printed in our May 2017 issue, the most recent monthly roundup can be found in our menu. NEW ORLEANS
When I was 11, I started playing piano. Not by choice—my mum somehow got her hands on a crappy old termite-holed-musical-disaster of a piano, and
“Traveling,” said Mme. de Staël, “is a melancholy pleasure.” I’m inclined to concur, despite the chorus of protest that will rise with discordant variations on
Duke Ellington has been gone for 43 years but “new” music by him still continues to be discovered and released. It is fair to say
Ella In Hollywood, a live set from 1961 when Ella Fitzgerald was 44, features her at the peak of her powers on a very jazz-oriented
Earl Hines was one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time. Most biographies on Hines go something like this: In the 1920s he developed
Clarinetist Leif Juul Jorgensen took a long time before finally deciding to play jazz fulltime. He took up the clarinet nearly 70 years ago but,
Jean-Francois Bonnel is a reed player best known for his decade as one of the solo stars of the Hot Antic Jazz Band. In the
The concert hall experience is by its very nature ephemeral—once the notes drift and reverberate they are
“I don’t remember that there was ever any question of me doing anything but playing music. The
With the passing of Cam Miller, the traditional jazz community has lost a man who was universally loved and respected. While he was unable to
Former Frank Sinatra musical director Vincent Falcone, died March 24, in Torrance, California. He was 79. An extremely talented and versatile pianist, Falcone was diagnosed
Bob Erdos (1930-2017) Traditional jazz lost one of its greatest champions when Bob Erdos passed away on March 25 at the age of 86. Erdos,
LINDA HOPKINS, 92, on April 17 in Milwaukee, WI. A Tony-winning actress and singer, she performed gospel, blues, and rhythm & blues for more than
Vol.2, No.5 May 2017Getting Sentimental over Sun Valley, by Lew Shaw
Welbourne: a Different Kind of Jazz Camp, by Daniel Bates
Remembering Cam Miller, by Lew Shaw
Bob Erdos, 86, Championed Traditional Jazz, by Andy Senior
Jazz Birthday of the Month: Artie Shaw, Illustration by Gary Price
Static from my Attic: Why Joplin Still Matters, by Andy Senior
Profiles in Jazz: Jack Teagarden, by Scott Yanow
Jazz Jottings, by Lew Shaw
Blowing off the Dust, by Larry Melton
Jazz Travels: Pee Wee Russell Memorial Stomp, by Bill Hoffman
The Professor is IN: The Lineage of Jazz, Adrian Cunningham
Titles Are Difficult, by Randi Cee
Final Chorus, by compiled by Lew Shaw
Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie, Review by Joe Bebco
Complete Piano Works of Scott Joplin, CD review by Andy Senior
Nights at the Turntable, CD reviews by Scott Yanow
Max Raabe and the Palast Orchester, Concert review by Lew Shaw
Lew Shaw Named 2017 JJA Jazz Hero, by Helen Daley
Fundraiser to Aid High Sierra’s Earl McKee, by Lew Shaw
Sinatra Bandleader Vincent Falcone, 79, by Russ Tarby
NOLA-Style Brass Band Wins Syracuse Award, by Russ Tarby
Boston’s Riverboat Stompers Ship Out with JazzSea, Press Release
“Co-Dependent Baby”, song parody by Andy Senior
Everybody Must Get Pruned, Andy Senior
