Hoagy’s Workshop: An Approach to Jazz Education
Van Young
August 31, 2022
Most planners of jazz festivals make decisions based on their budgets. Then, grants, sponsors, ticket sales, and venues have to be considered. Once the decision-making
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Most planners of jazz festivals make decisions based on their budgets. Then, grants, sponsors, ticket sales, and venues have to be considered. Once the decision-making
Hal Smith: Recently, fellow columnist Jeff Barnhart suggested the idea of an article about Verna Burrichter. Verna was a volunteer at the Bix Jazz Fest;
Legends come and legends go. While they walk amongst us, when we have an opportunity to show our gratitude we should strongly consider doing so.
The Board and Co-Directors of the 2022 Hot Jazz Jubilee are devastated to report that we have been forced to cancel the upcoming festival over
My husband Rod and I claim “expert” status when it comes to Jazzfest at Sea cruises on MSC, having sailed with them at least fifteen
Dear Jazz Fans, I am preparing a biography on Clancy Hayes and would welcome any memories or recollections you may have. Last year I completed
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Andy Senior: In my column last month (“Genre Fluid”), I reflected on the purported offensiveness of the word “jazz,” and cited, without commentary, some rather
Imagine sitting on the platform of your towns’ railroad station, whistles blowing as the old-time train rolls to the platform, and live jazz music is
The leafy, affluent spa town of Cheltenham, UK is about as far removed from the sticky summer heat of New Orleans or the skyscraper-thick metropolises
When rocker Lenny Kravitz announced the winner of the 2022 Grammy Awards’ Album of the Year on April 3, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena
The current issue of the ARSC Journal arrived with a most welcome surprise—a 27-track CD produced by the organization of carefully restored and recorded tracks
I first heard Conrad Janis back in the 1960s at some of the monthly concerts staged by the Connecticut Dixieland Society. The club’s concerts featured
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Turtle Bay Records was recently formed to provide jazz talent in New York the support and promotion they deserve. So far they’ve released an album
The St. Louis Jazz Club is proud to announce that we will be celebrating 70 wonderful years in October. The first meeting of the Jazz
In the beginning, it was about “fun and games”. At least that was what trombonist Al Webber is reliably reported to have said when he
Vince Giordano and his Grammy Award-winning Nighthawks Orchestra have found a new home for their bi-weekly tributes to the hot jazz of the 1920s and
America’s leading ragtime & early jazz musicians return for a weekend of Ragtime & Rails ROCKHILL FURNACE, PA. – The Central Pennsylvania Ragtime & American
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