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Honey Larochelle Interview

This Saturday, July 14 Honey Larochelle will play the Late Night Groove Series. We had an opportunity to catch up with Honey. Blue Note: What can the Blue Note audience expect from your show Saturday? Honey Larochelle: A high energy night full of warm edgy soul, reminiscent of the greats we all love... and a beautiful reunion of all-star musicians. BN: What upcoming projects are you working

Another Vision of �stor Piazzolla

Jazz educator Ed Tomassi defines new music styles as cohesive blends of past genres. �stor Piazzolla's compositions capture this ideal. Using traditional tango as a backbone, Piazzolla infused elements of jazz and baroque music to create what has been coined nuevo tango. Carlos Kuri, author of Piazzolla: la m�sica l�mite, notes that "Piazzolla's fusion of tango with this wide range of other

Sonnys in Jazz

There is a peculiar phenomenon among jazz musicians, especially saxophonists. Players like William Greer, Conrad Clark, Edward Stitt, and Cornelius Fortune share a commonality. They are a fraction of the community of jazz musicians nicknamed 'Sonny.' Saxophone giants include Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt, Sonny Criss, Sonny Simmons, Sonny Red, Herman "Sonny" Blount (Sun Ra), and the

Tenor Battles - An Ongoing Tradition

Tenor Titans Ralph Lalama and Billy Drewes continue the �tenor battle� tradition as a part of Blue Note�s Sunday Brunch Series, Sunday, July 8 at 12:30 pm. In a Bret Primack interview, Sonny Rollins explains this tradition in reference to his composition "Tenor Madness", featuring John Coltrane. �In those days we used to always have... tenor battles. It�s an old tradition.� Rollins