University of Idaho announces 2014 Jazz Festival Lineup

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Benny Golson, Eddie Palmieri and Sheila Jordan to perform at Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival February 2014

NEA Grant to Bring Benny Golson, Eddie Palmieri and Sheila Jordan to the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival

 

MOSCOW, Idaho – The University of Idaho’s Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival received a $15,000 grant from the NEA Jazz Masters Live grant program to support the performances of Benny Golson, Eddie Palmieri and Sheila Jordan.

The festival was one of six non-profit organizations to receive a grant to support performance and educational activities featuring NEA Jazz Masters, recipients of the nation’s highest honor in jazz.

 

"I am pleased the NEA will provide opportunities for members of the public to experience performances by some of our nation's jazz greats," said Joan Shigekawa, NEA senior deputy chairman. "These six organizations are providing invaluable opportunities for the public to interact with these artists and furthering the understanding of their remarkable contributions to jazz in this country."

 

NEA Jazz Masters Live is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and managed by Arts Midwest. The program offers a unique opportunity for the public to engage with the NEA Jazz Masters through such activities as performances, speaking engagements, master classes, workshops, lecture and demonstrations, panel discussions, and public interviews or speaker forums.

“There’s nothing more validating than to have the National Endowment for the Arts recognize – for the second time in three years – and support the contribution the University of Idaho’s Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival is making to the students of our region,” said Steve Remington, executive director.

 

Golson is a multi-talented and internationally famous jazz legend who has made major contributions to the world of jazz. He is the only living jazz artist to have written eight standards for jazz repertoire. The standards have been used in countless recordings internationally and continue to be used in today’s recordings. He has recorded over 30 albums and has written more than 300 compositions.

 

He has composed and arranged music for Count Basie, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Sammy Davis Jr., Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Quincy Jones, Diana Ross and many other jazz legends.

Golson also has written scores for hit television series’ and films including M*A*S*H, Mannix, Mission Impossible, Mod Squad, The Patridge Family and The Academy Awards. Additionally, he has written music for national radio and television spots for some of the major advertising agencies in the country.

 

“Benny Golson is amazing. He hasn’t been here since 1997, and we’ve really missed him. He’s the most eloquent man I’ve met in years. And of course, he wrote the Ore-Ida Potatoes commercials,” said Remington.

 

Jordan was raised in poverty in Pennsylvania and started singing at a young age. By her early teens, she was performing semi-professionally in Detroit clubs. She was a member of the vocal trio Skeeter, Mitch and Jean. The trio worked with Charlie Parker to sing versions of Parker’s songs. In the early 1950s, she married Parker’s pianist Duke Jordan.

 

In the early ‘60s, she made her first recording. Her style encompassed jazz liturgies sung in churches and extensive club work. Throughout her career, she worked with Steve Kuhn, Steve Swallow, Harvie Swartz and Cameron Brown.

 

“Ms. Jordan is a well-spring of enthusiasm and joy. She knows jazz inside and out and has really lived her art,” said Remington.

 

Palmieri was born in Spanish Harlem in 1936. At an early age, he started playing piano. By age 13, he joined his uncle’s orchestra, where he played timbales. He began his professional career in the early 1950s with Edie Forrester’s Orchestra. He joined Johnny Segui’s band in 1955. By 1961, he had formed his own band La Perfecta, which featured a trombone section in place of trumpets.

 

His musical career has spanned over 50 years as a bandleader of Salsa and Latin Jazz orchestras. His musical style merged black and Latin styles to produce a sound that had elements of salsa, funk, soul and jazz. Throughout Palmieri’s career, he received nine GRAMMY Awards®. 

 

“To have these three living masters come and share their artistry with the students of the Pacific and Inland Northwest is more than just a treat – it’s a ‘must see’ in a long line of ‘not-to-be-missed’ performances in the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival’s history,” said Remington.

 

The 2014 Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival will take place Feb. 19-22. For more information, visit www.uidaho.edu/jazzfest or call (208) 885-5900.

 

 

Courtesy: University of Idaho Communications

 

 

 

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July 24: Diane Schuur  7:00–8:30 pm
This Grammy® Award-winning vocalist and pianist will be performing Wednesday July 24th at 7pm. Tickets available starting April 15 at both Arbor Crest Tasting Rooms or through ticketswest.com

Tune into KEWU for your chance to win a pair of tickets to see Grammy Award Winner Diane Schuur.

Today in Jazz

June 20th

Eric Dolphy b. 1928 Los Angeles, CA d. 1964 Berlin, Germany

 

To find out more about Erc Dolphy click here.

Today in Jazz

Celebrate!

Ernest Ranglin  (born 19 June 1932, Manchester, Jamaica) is a Jamaican guitarist and composer who established his career while working as a session guitarist and music director for various Jamaican record labels including Studio One and Island Records. Ranglin played guitar on many early ska recordings and helped create the rhythmic guitar style that defined the form. Ranglin has worked with Theophilus Beckford, Jimmy Cliff, Monty Alexander, Prince Buster, The Skatalites, Bob Marley and the Eric Deans Orchestra. He is noted for a chordal and rhythmic approach that blends jazz, mento and reggae with percussive guitar solos incorporating rhythm 'n' blues and jazz inflections. 

Today in Jazz

June 18

Recordings

Metronome All Stars record, including bassist Charles Mingus, trumpeter Thad Jones, alto saxophonist Lee Konitz and drummer Art Blakey.1956

Tenor saxophonist Jimmy Heath records A New Face with pianist Tommy Flanagan, 1985


Birthdays
Drummer/bandleader Ray McKinley born 1910 in Fort Worth, TX.
 

Today in Jazz

Jun 17
 
Recordings

Soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet records When a Soprano Meets a Piano with Martial Solal, 1957. The Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra records Central Park North, 1969. Birthdays Clarinetist Tony Scott born 1921 in Morristown, NJ.

Today in Jazz

 

Artist Of The Day Drummer Shelly Manne born 1920 in New York, NY. Recordings Pianist Fats Waller records I Ain't Got Nobody piano solo 1937 Lennie Tristano (1955) The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album (1975) Bill Dixon in Italy Vol. 1 & 2 (1980) Billy Bang Quintet - Rainbow Gladiator (1981) Django Bates - Summer Fruits (and Unrest) (1993) Pianists George Shearing, John Lewis and Dave McKenna record A Tribute to Bill Evans, 1981

Today in Jazz and Blues

Jun 10

Birthdays

Howlin' Wolf  (Chester Arthur Burnett)  b.June 10, 1910 – d.January 10, 1976

Bassist Charnett Moffett born 1967 in New York, NY. Trombonist Dicky Wells born 1907 in Centerville, TN. Recordings Erroll Garner records Frankie and Johnny 1947, with Red Callender and Hal "Doc" West. John Coltrane - Transition / Kulu Se Mama (1965) Jacques Coursil - Black Suite (1969) The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album (1975) Billy Bang Quintet - Rainbow Gladiator (1981) Django Bates - Summer Fruits (and Unrest) (1993) Artist of the Day Howlin' Wolf - to learn more about this amazing Bluesman click here.

Celebrate!

Jun 3

Birthday's Trombonist/composer Grachan Moncur III born 1937 in New York. Trumpeter Ted Curson born 1935 in Philadelphia, PA. Recordings The Modern Jazz Quartet and Orchestra (1960) Johnny Griffin Orchestra - The Big Soul-Band (1960) Joe Henderson records Page One (1963) Sunny Murray Trio - Live at Moers-Festival (1979)

Celebrate!

May 30


Artist of The Day  - Benny Goodman

Birthdays 

Frank Trumbauer born 1901 in Carbondale, IL.   Benny Goodman born 1909 in Chicago, IL.   Sidney DeParis born 1905 in Crawfordsville, IN. Recordings George Benson - Bad Benson (1974) Kalaparush Maurice McIntyre & The Light - South Eastern (2001) Hamid Drake & Assif Tsahar - Soul Bodies, Vol. 1 (2001)

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The Jazz world has suffered another loss.

Jazz pianist Mulgrew Miller has passed away unexpectedly due to a stroke....read the New York Times obituary here.

Artist of The Day

May 20


 Recordings

Woody Herman's Woodchoppers record Pam featuring trumpeter Sonny Berman, 1946. Mills Blue Rhythm Band records St. Louis Wiggle Rhythm with trumpeter Henry "Red" Allen, 1935. Milt Jackson Quartet (1955) Grant Green - Matador (1964) Antonio Carlos Jobim - Stone Flower (1970) Steve Lacy - Momentum (1987) Artist of the Day

 Louis Smith b. 1931

Celebrate!

May 16

 Birthdays

Reedman/bandleader Woody Herman born 1913 in Milwaukee, WI. Vocalist Betty Carter born 1930 in Flint, MI. Recordings Jimmie Noone records Four or Five Times (1928) with/ Earl Hines. Charlie Parker - One Night in Birdland (1950) Barry Harris at the Jazz Workshop (1960) Roy Haynes - Out of the Afternoon (1962) The Modern Jazz Quartet - The Sheriff (1963) Sonny Sharrock - Black Woman (1969) Freddie Hubbard - The Black Angel (1969) Andrew Hill - Lift Every Voice (1969) Oscar Peterson/Joe Pass/Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen - The Trio (1973) Yusef Lateef - Part of the Search (1973)

Celebrate!

May 15

 Birthdays

Pianist Ellis Larkins born 1923 in Baltimore, MD. Multi-instrumentalist  Rahsaan Roland Kirk born 1936 in Columbus, OH. Recordings Charlie Parker - One Night in Birdland (1950) The Quintet - Jazz at Massey Hall (1953) Barry Harris at the Jazz Workshop (1960) Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Rahsaan Rahsaan (1970) Philip Wilson Quartet - Live at Moers Festival (1978) Marilyn Crispell - Spirit Music (1981)

Review - Joe Locke Lay Down My Heart: Blues & Ballads

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Celebrate!

May 13

BIRTHDAYS

Red Garland born 1923 in Dallas, TX. Gil Evans born 1912 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and records Priestess, 1977 Maxine Sullivan b. 1911

RECORDINGS
Louis Armstrong records S.O.L. Blues, 1927.
Herbie Nichols - The Third World (1955)
Curtis Counce - You Get More Bounce With Curtis Counce! (1957)
Chick Corea - Is (1969)