dunwoodyjazzsociety.com
Our goal:
Meet new friends who also enjoy live classic jazz and blues, attend all types of concerts. Annual holiday party. Help generate a larger audience for the musicians we love!
Our goal:
Meet new friends who also enjoy live classic jazz and blues, attend all types of concerts. Annual holiday party. Help generate a larger audience for the musicians we love!
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- Location:
- Dunwoody, GA, 30360
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MeetupsCreated about 2 months ago
Trey Wright TrioCreated about 4 months ago
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- Dunwoody Jazz Society Holiday ...
Home of Janet Stevenson & Dave Swan
Saturday, December 12 at 8:00pm
Dunwoody Jazz Society The HBO documentary "The Jazz Baroness" premieres tonight on HBO2. It tells the love story of Pannonica Rothschild and pianist-composer Thelonious Monk.
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HBO Documentaries Online features show descriptions, interviews, video clips, and scheduling information.
Dunwoody Jazz Society Today is the birthday of Johnny Mandel. Perhaps the best version ever of his tune "Suicide is Painless" is by Bill Evans.
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Bill Evans,Marc Johnson,Joe LaBarbera Barcelona,TV Broadcast,December 1979 dvd "The Evolution of a Trio"
Dunwoody Jazz Society
Dunwoody Jazz Society Holiday Party and Jam Session on Dec. 12 at 8 pm. Our theme is "Jazz Feeds the Hungry" and the admission is one non-perishable food item per person, to be donated to the local food bank. Join us for the amazing Kevin Bales Trio! Please RSVP at
http://ymlp.com/signup.php?id=guyeqqmgmg
"Jazz Feeds the Hungry!"
Location:Home of Janet Stevenson & Dave Swan
Time:8:00PM Saturday, December 12th
Dunwoody Jazz Society NPR honors Johnny Mercer with a special program.
www.npr.org
Lyricist and composer Johnny Mercer — born Nov. 18, 1909 — wrote or co-wrote more than 1,000 songs, including American Songbook standards like "Skylark," "That Old Black ...
Dunwoody Jazz Society Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Johnny Mercer. This is my all-time favorite Mercer song sung as only Frank Sinatra can deliver it.
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Frankie in Germany. Recorded in 1991 (Festhalle Frankfurt). Lyrics: Its quarter to three, Theres no one in the place cept you and me So set em up joe I got a little story I think you oughtta know ...
Dunwoody Jazz Society Happy Birthday to David Amram - one of the nicest cats I've ever met and a true genius.
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David Amram, Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Haynes: PBS Tribute to Thelonius Monk
Dunwoody Jazz Society Today Michael Bourne of WBGO.org is celebrating Johnny Mercer's centennial by playing all Mercer songs from 10 am to 2 pm ET. Tune in and find out how many songs you never realized were by Mercer.
www.wbgo.org
2:00 PM - Afternoon Jazz with Rob Crocker7:00 PM - Sunday Night Music Mix with Eulis Cathey12:00 AM - Jazz After Hours with Brian Delp6:00 AM - Morning Jazz with Gary Walker
Dunwoody Jazz Society Join us Sunday at 6 pm ET for Bob Shaw on Atlanta Jazztones!
Join JazzTones on BlogTalkRadio talking about Bob, Shaw, Atlanta, jazz, Guitarist
Time:6:00PM Sunday, November 15th
Dunwoody Jazz Society
Today Wolfgang's Vault began posting free streams of some performances from the 1959 Newport Jazz Festival. The first offerings include Count Basie, Dakota Staton and Art Blakey’s
Jazz Messengers. By next Tuesday there will be 27
sets from that year’s jazz festival, including some by Ahmad Jamal, Joe
Williams, Thelonious ...Monk
and Horace Silver. The plan is to have hundreds more online in the
coming months, from other years of Newport Jazz and from the Newport
Folk Festival as well. http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/concerts/s
www.nytimes.com
The recorded past of the Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals has suddenly been thrown open, thanks to the online archive Wolfgang’s Vault.
See MoreDunwoody Jazz Society Sending out congratulations to Joe & Charissa Gransden on the arrival of their son, Joseph Anthony Gransden. 7lbs. 3 oz. Keep churning out those jazz musicians, guys!
Joe's Photos
By:Joe Gransden
Dunwoody Jazz Society
Date: Saturday November 7, 2009
Time: 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Location: Joey D's Oak Room - Perimeter/Dunwoody
Notes: Performing jazz standards every Saturday night in a beautiful setting with great acoustics. No cover charge. The musicians this week are:
Vocal: Emile Worthy
Drums: Lamont Williams
Bass: Steve Brown
Keyboard:... Special guest!! - Tyrone Jackson
Directions:
http://centraarchy.com/joeyDs.php
This is a Dunwoody Jazz Society meetup event. Look for us at the yellow table sign!
Time:7:00PM Saturday, November 7th
Location:Joey D's Oak Room - Perimeter/Dunwoody, 1015 Crown Pointe Pky
Dunwoody Jazz Society Tonight on TCM Network TV at 8 pm: The Dream's on Me, produced by Clint Eastwood honoring Johnny Mercer. Also on Nov. 18 and 19.
www.tcm.com
Johnny Mercer: The Dream's On Me, Frank Sinatra, Jo Stafford
Dunwoody Jazz Society Johnny Mercer was born 100 years ago on Nov. 18. To begin celebrating the centennial, here is a video of him with Nat Cole.
Dunwoody Jazz Society Johnny Hartman.
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The late jazz vocalist Hartman apparently made many TV appearances on foreign soil but not so many in his home country. Here is one, from regional TV, with the trio of Loonis McGlohon, who also wrote both songs. http://people-vs-drchilledair.blogspot.com/
