"Jazz" archive
Friday 20 June
- Summer Solstice Celebration 2008 (15:45) - I barely know where to start about Solstice 2008. Tomorrow, starting at 3pm (2:30pm, for the outdoor street festival) the Kimmel Center celebrates the longest day of the year. Take a look at the schedule for more information about...
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Saturday 3 May
- Jazz Up Close: Western Europe (16:18) - Tonight Danilo Pérez closes this season's Jazz Up Close series (Jazz Goes Global) by taking us to Spain to see how jazz and flamenco have melded and blended, creating a whole new style. Joined by guitarist Juanito Pascual, bassist John...
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Saturday 19 April
- The Movie Music of Spike Lee and Terence Blanchard (16:28) - Terence Blanchard is a world-renowned film composer and trumpet player; he has scored eight of Spike Lee's films, including the recent acclaimed documentary, When the Levees Broke. Tonight's concert features Terence Blanchard and his Quintet performing music from Spike...
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Thursday 17 April
- Dave Brubeck and Freddy Cole (09:18) - Last night legendary jazzmen Dave Brubeck and Freddy Cole performed in Verizon Hall. Mr. Cole is the youngest child of the Cole family which included Nat "King" Cole. Growing up in Chicago, he remembers visits from Duke Ellington, Count Basie...
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Saturday 29 March
- Jazz Up Close: Eastern Europe (16:00) - Daniel Szabo is a versatile jazz pianist-composer performing both original compositions and standard arrangements influenced by the colorful and complex musical heritage of Hungary. Joining him is Czech vocalist Marta Topferova whose dedication to the music of Latin America...
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Friday 28 March
- Wayne Shorter Quartet & Terell Stafford Quartet (16:00) - Wayne Shorter, one of the most unique and influential saxophonists and composers performing today, will perform in Verizon Hall tonight. At 75, saxophonist-composer Wayne Shorter continues to take jazz across musical boundaries. Known for being a gifted and versatile player...
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Saturday 1 March
- Jazz Up Close: Richard Bona Band (16:00) - Richard Bona Band makes its Kimmel Center debut tonight along with special guest Lionel Loueke. Dubbed "The African Sting," Bona blends global jazz, African spirit, and Anglo-Saxon pop harmonies with lyrical storytelling. Hope you'll tell us what you thought...
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Friday 22 February
- Mingus Big Band with Cyrus Chestnut Trio (15:08) - The Mingus Big Band makes its Kimmel Center debut tonight along with special guest the Cyrus Chestnut Trio. Due to illness, T.S. Monk will not be performing. The Mingus Big Band celebrates the music of legendary bassist and composer...
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Saturday 1 December
- Jazz Up Close Canada: Jane Bunnett (15:43) - Tonight is the second concert in the Kimmel Center's Jazz Up Close series. Jane Bunnett, as a bandleader and a powerful soloist, has mastered the sound of traditional, straight-ahead jazz, but she has also fused it with the infectious rhythm...
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Friday 2 November
- John Pizzarelli and the Swing 7 and Django Reinhardt Festival (16:01) - First up tonight is the Django Reinhardt Festival celebrating the 100th anniversary of Stéphane Grappelli, the French jazz violinist who founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt. It was one of the first (and arguably...
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Thursday 4 October
- Jazz Up Close at the ALDS (10:39) - Tomorrow night, the Red Sox play the Anaheim Angels at Fenway Park in Game 2 of the ALDS, with Tokyo native Daisuke "Dice-K" Matsuzaka on the mound. Opening the game with the National Anthem will be jazz composer and trumpet...
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Friday 28 September
- Count Basie Orchestra, Nnenna Freelon & Paquito D'Rivera Quintet (14:40) - Tonight we're opening the Jazz Fridays series with an evening of big band and Latin jazz. First, Paquito D'Rivera, Cuban-born jazz great and former member of Dizzy Gillespie's big band, kicks off the evening with his quintet. Then, Nnenna Freelon...
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Tuesday 19 June
- Summer Solstice Celebration, June 23, 2007 (17:14) - The Kimmel Center's Summer Solstice Celebration is back, starting at 3 p.m. on Saturday and going strong until sunrise, early Sunday morning. View the schedule online to plan your night, links to the artists' sites are included. In addition to...
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Thursday 12 April
- Stories from the Goodlands, April 7, 2007 (16:33) - The Goodlands Photography Project at Centro Nueva Creación offers its students an opportunity to reclaim and rename the surrounding locale of the West Kensington and Fairhill neighborhoods of North Philadelphia by putting a camera in the hands of their...
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Saturday 7 April
- The Future with Danilo Pérez, April 7, 2007 (17:30) - Tonight's performance concludes our Jazz Up Close series: The Roots of Jazz. Danilo Pérez is joined by David Sanchez and Jamey Haddad to journey into the future of American jazz....
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Friday 2 February
- Dianne Reeves and Jason Moran and the Bandwagon (15:46) - Jason Moran is one of the most acclaimed jazz pianists performing today. Dianne Reeves is an incredibly versatile jazz vocalist, who may be best known for her work on the Grammy-winning soundtrack to Good Night and Good Luck as well...
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Saturday 2 December
- Henry Butler and Corey Harris, December 2, 2006 (15:30) - Pianist and singer Henry Butler plays with blues guitarist Corey Harris to trace the roots of American Blues. This performance is part of our Jazz Up Close series and continues this year's theme—examining the birth of jazz in the Gulf...
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Friday 1 December
- Sonny Rollins, December 1, 2006 (14:52) - Two-time Grammy winner Sonny Rollins comes back to Philadelphia tonight. He's been called "the greatest living jazzman," but he says, "What compels me is that I'm still suffering under the delusion that I can create music which will make me...
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Monday 16 October
- Donald Harrison featuring Congo Nation, October 14th (09:04) - This season's Jazz Up Close series focuses on the Roots of Jazz. Because Jazz was born in New Orleans, this season will focus on five Gulf Coast artists. Congo Square was a place where African slaves and freemen could play,...
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Monday 18 September
- Nancy Wilson and Trudy Pitts, September 15th (08:42) - Opening night at the Kimmel Center belongs to two amazing women: first, Trudy Pitts became the first jazz artist to play the Cooper Organ, then legendary vocalist Nancy Wilson took center stage. It is fitting that the season started with...
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Tuesday 29 August
- The State of Jazz in Philly, Voice it Here (07:55) - I’ve been talking to and meeting with my jazz presenter colleagues here in Philly in recent weeks, trying to gain a better understanding about the state of jazz in this city. I’ve been here for just under two years now,...
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Friday 21 April
- Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band, April 21st (17:00) - John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie left behind an incredible record of innovation and inspiration. As a composer and an arranger, a small combo was never enough. For Dizzy, his big band was the ultimate means for self-expression. The Dizzy Gillespie All-Star...
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Saturday 1 April
- Roy Haynes Quartet with Danilo Pérez, April 1st (15:00) - The last concert in our One Nation under Jazz series focuses on Boston's jazz heritage. Roy Haynes, known as the "Father of Modern Jazz Drumming" is a Boston-born jazz innovator with strong ties to the scene, both as a musician...
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Saturday 11 February
- Detroit: Geri Allen with special guest Ravi Coltrane (14:43) - The music that gets the most press in Detroit is Motown, so it's easy to forget that Detroit has been host to one of the largest jazz festivals in North America. Detroit was home to legendary jazz clubs, one of...
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Thursday 12 January
- 4th Annual Martin Luther King Tribute Concert, January 12th (13:31) - This afternoon in Perelman Theater, the Kimmel Center Education department gathered local performance groups to honor the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King. Performers included the Girard Academic Music Program Concert Choir, Philadanco's apprentice company, D/2, vocalist Keven Moreno and...
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Friday 16 December
- Kimmel Center Youth Jazz Ensemble, December 17th (16:50) - On Saturday, December 17th at 12 pm, the KCYJE opens their 2005 season in Commonwealth Plaza. Stop by to hear these amazing young musicians....
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- Kimmel Center Podcasts -- "Kimmelcasts" (09:37) - Hosted by our very own VP of Programming and Education Mervon Mehta, we've now launched what we believe to be the first of its kind in the country from a performing arts center, Kimmel Center Podcasts -- aka "Kimmelcasts." Episode...
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Sunday 11 December
- Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, December 11th (18:00) - First of all, if you haven't read Marc's post about the history of Duke Ellington's Harlem Nutcracker, I urge you to go and read it. Following on the heels of Ellis Marsalis and Branford Marsalis, Wynton Marsalis leads the Lincoln...
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Saturday 10 December
- Jane Monheit, December 10th (17:00) - Jane admits, "I'm one of those people who go just a little too crazy over Christmas." Inspired by Ella Fitzgerald's Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas, Jane Monheit and her quartet bring a little heat to the sounds of the...
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Thursday 1 December
- Ellis Marsalis's recital in Perelman Theater (17:50) - With apologies to Alfred, Lord Tennyson* Half a set, half a set Half a set onward, Always into the Valley of Coughs Whenever he solo'd "Start the next number! Play for the crowd," he said. Into the Valley of Coughs...
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- Max Raabe and Palast Orchester, Thursday, December 1st (17:00) - Listening to this ensemble, you would never guess that they're currently touring and making records. They have the romantic sound of a dance hall band, the kind from Fred Astaire movies. Take a look at their website, and you can...
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- Jazz Masters in Black and White (13:19) - Alexander Graham has been illustrating books and animating films for more than thirty years, but this site shows some of his most interesting work. His cartoon caricatures of jazz masters are sly, occasionally reverent, but always a glimpse of something...
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Saturday 19 November
- New Orleans: Ellis Marsalis with Orrin Evans, November 19th (17:00) - When this concert was first scheduled, we had no idea how important it would be to remember the "cradle of America's music." Tonight, Ellis Marsalis, one of jazz's great talents and educators, sits down with Philadelphia's own Orrin Evans for...
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Friday 18 November
- Philly All-Star (20:23) - 11-time Grammy winning saxophonist Michael Brecker has been diagnosed with MDS (myelodysplastic syndrome) and it's critical that he has a bone marrow or blood stem cell transplant. The initial search for a donor, including Michael’s siblings and children, has not...
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- Philly Jazz All-Star Night, November 18th (17:00) - If you were at the opening of last year's Kimmel Center Presents season, you might have heard Odean Pope's Saxophone Choir, performing at the "Sax in the City" concert. Pope and his Choir return to open tonight's performance—joined by Ravi...
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Saturday 29 October
- Chicago: Von Freeman Trio with Mickey Roker, October 29th (17:00) - "The Vonski" has been playing jazz in nightclubs since he was 12 years old--so young he wore a hat to hide his age. Now, he's 83, and he's bringing his signature Chicago sound to Perelman's stage for the first time....
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Friday 14 October
- Chick Corea and Touchstone, October 14th (15:00) - After a long week of rain, it's really time for some hot jazz. Chick Corea makes his Kimmel Center debut tonight with a Spanish-influenced performance, recalling his classic album, Touchstone. The quintet appearing with Corea is drawn from the band...
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Tuesday 11 October
- New Trane (13:21) - Saxophonist Ravi Coltrane, son of John, has been pushing to have his father's "One Down, One Up" sessions released since discovering the master tapes in his mother's closet in 1991. Verve released the classic 1965 sets on CD this week.....
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Friday 7 October
- "music scene is crazy..." (10:28) - If you happen to be in NYC this weekend, get down to Joe's Pub tomorrow night.. the estimable James Carter, Cyrus Chestnut and Ali Jackson perform the songs of PAVEMENT.. if you can't make it to NYC then be sure...
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Tuesday 27 September
- Harry Connick, Jr. and Branford Marsalis, September 27th (18:00) - How was the "Very Special Duo Occasion"? Was the all-instrumental concert what you expected? How did Miguel Zenón's Quartet finish the evening? Was this your first time seeing live jazz or are you a fan? Did you see Branford or...
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Thursday 22 September
- From Tony Bennett to The Roots in 24 hours (00:00) - Having spent most of my career marketing classical music, this past weekend was a double introduction for me to both Tony Bennett and The Roots. And while I have heard recordings of Bennett over the years, I had never seen...
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Thursday 15 September
- Tony Bennett, September 15th (18:00) - Frank Sinatra called Tony Bennett, "the best singer in the business." Do you agree with Old Blue Eyes? What did you think of Tony's performance tonight?...
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Monday 12 September
- That City So Pretty (12:00) - I went to New Orleans as a college graduation present
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Sunday 11 September
- Opening Week 2005-06: Hurricane Relief (23:59) - In the wake of the devastation and destruction of Katrina, the only things that kept me from throwing up my hands in despair were stories like this – ordinary people just doing the right thing to help out their neighbors...
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