Next, head uptown to the Green Mill jazz club, formerly a speakeasy run by Capone, and still a fantastic place to catch a jazz show.
I'm a bright enough guy, but all the great books I'll ever read I read in college and graduate school, and my musical tastes are straight down the middle: Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Mostly Mozart, the Brandenburgs, a little cool jazz, a few show tunes.
With guest host Rhonda Hamilton, here's another packed show from the 2006 North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam, courtesy of Radio Netherlands.
After five years at the pub, he left to return to music full-time and developed the Rockin' in Rhythm show, which charted the history of jazz and played at theatres throughout Europe.
On the morning that A Jazz Piano Christmas was recorded, he was on the Today show in New York with soul singer Maxwell.
Prince first played Montreux in 2007, followed by one of his famed after-show parties at 03:00 in a late-night jazz cafe alongside Lake Geneva.
The televised presentations target pop, country, urban, rock, and rap categories, leaving the jazz, gospel, classical, Latin and other categories to the pre-show.
All Jazz at the Philharmonic contracts contained ironclad antisegregation clauses, and Granz would cancel a show whenever those clauses were violated, no matter what it cost him at the box office.
WSJ: The Forgotten Man of Jazz | Sightings by Terry Teachout
Most off-putting and deadly was the show's "Jazzy" opener, choreographed by Mauro Bigonzetti to some lame and lugubrious jazz-tinged music by Federico Bigonzetti, the choreographer's son, and grimly performed to a recording by Jazzy Dogs.
WSJ: Kings of the Dance, Opus 3 | Royalty Made Common | By Robert Greskovic
Also on the show, a look at the "Fedex of the Middle East" and a portrait of legendary Egyptian Jazz musician Yehya Khalil.
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