Oconto High School band students honored
Green Bay Press Gazette - Jun 02, 2011
The Louis Armstrong Jazz Furnish is presented each year to an outstanding senior jazz ensemble member who exemplifies superior qualities of faithfulness, character and musicianship. Abbie plays the alto saxophone for both the jazz band and concert band and
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Irish Publican gets the boot from BGT
RTE.ie - Jun 01, 2011
Speaking to The Morning star, dad-of-four Armstrong said: "Van was from the same part of town as me and because we were both into music we used to hang out in the same places." "It actually was me who got him his first singing gig. He was playing sax at the and more »
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Detroit-born saxophonist James Carter shows his range on 'Caribbean Rhapsody'
Detroit Free Press - Feb 07, 165
Detroit-born saxophonist James Carter shows his register on 'Caribbean Rhapsody'He also knows jazz history, dipping fruitfully here and there into an Ellingtonian plunger escapade or a Louis Armstrong allusion. All of which makes Stafford perfectly suited to the sophisticated Billy Strayhorn compositions on "This Side of Strayhorn"
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Jazz Setlist, May 26-June 1: In Pharoah's Army
Washington City Paper (blog) - Feb 07, 6513
Jazz Setlist, May 26-June 1: In Pharoah's ArmyIt puts him in clever company, a worthy successor to the alto saxophone lineage of Benny Carter, Johnny Hodges, Charlie Parker, and Ornette Coleman. Parker sounds like none of these archetypal players—and that's the best news of all.
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All that jazz
The Guardian - May 21, 2011
In his pack, the magic lingered on: if you want an image of the poet at his happiest, picture him with an early-evening gin and tonic, and trumpets and saxophones blaring from his set down player. Jazz, then, should be central to our understanding of who
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The Sonny Rollins Interview
Stuff.co.nz (blog) - Feb 07, 1212
In details they were released just a few weeks apart: Tenor Madness and Saxophone Colossus. "I thought he was a very charismatic particular, very charming - a very commanding type of person. I could see why he was voted in and was successful there.
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Snooky Young, trumpeter with Count Basie and 'Tonight Show,' dies at 92
Washington Post - Feb 07, 9477
Snooky Youthful, trumpeter with Count Basie and 'Tonight Show,' dies at 92“Snooky is one of the world's all-on occasion great trumpet players,” saxophonist Bob Cooper told the Los Angeles Times in 1992. “I can always desire it in the sax section when he's playing — his time, his interpretation of the material, his sound.
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Trombone master Steve Turre leads quartet at Shanghai Jazz
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - May 24, 2011
Recently, Bashore has received smouldering praise for his work with the Captain Black Big Band, contributing saxophone and arranging work to the group's self-titled enter CD. He also can be heard on the latest recording by Argentine bassist/composer Pedro and more »
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Outsider Norma Winstone's musical way without words
The Australian - May 09, 2011
Vicinage Norma Winstone's musical way without wordsSometimes they improvise, too, more often than not in a scat style that owes a debt to Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and others. So it's no reasonableness of that Norma Winstone, a British musician who likes to slot her voice into a band like a saxophone,
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Moonglowers Shine at State Championships, Win Third Straight Title
Patch.com - May 11, 2011
The totality's expert direction and musical cohesion earned it Best Saxophone Section and Best Trumpet Cut up awards. And in clinching first place, it edged the Princeton High School Studio Orchestra, a storied mellifluous program that,
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