Erroll Garner

They conduct classical, but they love pop and rock too

2013-01-05 05:00:00

Ever wonder what longhairs listen to when they let their hair down? Once upon a time, when conductors were regarded as remote intellectual titans, no one would have thought to ask. Marin Alsop, music director of the Baltimore Symphony, once described...

Review: A fascinating education in 'The Jazz Standards'

2012-07-22 00:00:00

-------------------- The Jazz Standards A Guide to the Repertoire Ted Gioia Oxford University Press: 528 pp., $39.95 -------------------- I like jazz but I don't know much about it. Or perhaps I should say that I know what I like. Duke Ellington,...

John Levy dies at 99; personal manager for jazz greats

2012-01-24 00:00:00

John Levy, an accomplished bassist who became the first African American personal manager in the jazz field, has died. He was 99. Levy, a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master, died in his sleep Friday at his Altadena home, said his wife, writer...

Mitch Miller dies at 99; musical innovator and host of 'Sing Along With Mitch'

2010-08-02 13:44:00

Mitch Miller, who helped shape musical tastes in the 1950s and early '60s as the head of the popular music division at Columbia Records and hosted the hit "Sing Along With Mitch" TV show in the early '60s while becoming one of the era's most...

Jazz box set review: 'Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology'

2011-04-07 16:33:21

Berle Adams dies at 92; co-founder of Mercury Records and an MCA executive

2009-08-29 00:00:00

Berle Adams, a onetime big-band booking agent who co-founded Mercury Records in the 1940s and later became a senior executive at MCA before launching his own successful business as an international television program sales representative and distributor,...

Cuban Pianist Chucho Valdés Plays Jorgensen

2012-01-24 09:10:00

East Hartford's Piano Prodigy, Future Maestro

2011-11-06 00:00:00

Even with the release of his new, second album comfortably behind him, Orice Jenkins, a 17-year-old pianist, composer and honor student at East Hartford High School, spends his waking hours thinking about music. Not just ordinary music, easily...

For the love of music

2011-05-31 15:47:00

Some of you may find this to be the dumbest complaint you have ever not cared about.� It’s one of those very personal things. For example, when Hines Ward won “DWTS,” by pretending to be “in the band,” he helped to make up...

A Hancock, Md., couple makes music together as touring duo

2011-01-05 15:20:00

Each summer, Russ and Donna Miller celebrate a marriage of music making with a yearly ritual, touring the country and gigging from a mobile stage they unhitch from their RV and assemble. Only this time, they hope to bring a brand new album with them....

Holiday songs get a jazzy remake

2010-12-22 00:00:00

Familiar Christmas songs and tunes about unrequited love were on the program in a holiday performance offered by the Glendale Renaissance Orchestra earlier this month at the Alex Theatre. The sponsors of the concert, the New West Symphony and Glendale...

Delray Beach exhibit shows works of watercolorist Dean Mitchell

2008-04-23 00:00:00

Like most artists, Dean Mitchell always painted what he knew. Cypress trees. Tobacco barns. People. "My uncle Ben and stuff like that." Then, as now, his artistic influences were Rembrandt, Edward Hopper and Andrew Wyeth. The people he knew and painted...

"I am a jazz nut and in particular the great pianists. Tatum, [Erroll] Garner [pictured], Peterson and Camilo are always on. I also have been listening to artists from South America. It is quite rare for me to listen to classical music when on the road."

2012-12-28 00:00:00