The Summer Jazz Academy from Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra is going on now. It started July 20 and continues with classes for two weeks through Saturday Aug 1. I listened to a great class on Monday, Fundamentals of Jazz…
It all started with regulations on the nightclubs in New York City back in the 1920s. In 1926, the city council passed a law that imposed a 3am curfew and outlawed dancing in clubs without a special cabaret license. You…
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra offers the Essentially Ellington Jazz Festival every year in May. It is a festival of high school jazz bands playing from the library of Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington. This year is the 25th anniversary of…
Last night I dreamt that I was playing my flute and clarinet in the Rose City Wind Symphony. I had both instruments on my lap and took turns going from one to the other during the rehearsal or concert. Today,…
A friend recommended this documentary to me recently. I finally got a ’round tuit’ and thoroughly enjoyed this movie based on the memoir by Linda Rondstadt, Simple Dreams, A Musical Memoir. I hadn’t realized the amazing voice Rondstadt had until…
Times like this [Can you say pandemic?] call for alternative performance modes. With all of us under stay-at-home orders, group performances are out of the question. Our Spring Recital dates (April 26 and May 3) came and went without our…