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Ken Schaphorst

Jazz Concert Review: Celebrating Bob Brookmeyer

Bob Brookmeyer’s great contribution was to make it seem as though anything is possible — and permissible –in the big band context.

By: Steve Provizer Filed Under: Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Ayn Inserto, Bob Brookmeyer, Brian Landrus, Darcy James Argue, Ken Schaphorst, Mehmet Ali Sanlikol, New England Conservatory, Nicholas Urie, Steve Provizer

Concert Review: Jazz Giant Sun Ra at 100 — Space Conquers Time

Ken Schaphorst and Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts made the case for Sun Ra as an egyptologist (who claimed to be from Saturn).

By: Milo Miles Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Ken Schaphorst, Ken Schaphorst Big Band, Lawrence Berman, Milo Miles, museum-of-fine-arts-boston, Sun Ra

Fuse Concert Review: NEC Winds Play Mingus, Schuller, Babbitt (and More)

Charles Peltz leads the NEC Wind Ensemble

The five compositions and one de facto suite played at the NEC Winds and Winds Ensemble performance spoke with six different voices and carried six different messages.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Jazz, Music, Review, Rock Tagged: Charles Mingus, Charles Peltz, Chris Brubeck, Dave Brubeck, Frank-Zappa, Gunther Schuller, Ken Schaphorst, Milton Babbitt, New England Conservatory, Sammy Nestico

Music Review/Commentary: Awake Between Two Dreams — Steve Lacy’s “Vespers,” Live and Recorded

What the few of us in Jordan Hall heard that night was a richly conceived and beautifully performed song cycle, mostly serious, but with some great wit in exactly the right places. It made for a fascinating and enlightening contrast to the CD version of “Vespers,” which Steve Lacy recorded in 1993.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Blaga Dimitrova, Ideal Bread, Irene Aebi, Ken Schaphorst, New England Conservatory, Steve Lacy, Verspers

Music Review: NEC Jazz Orchestra, directed by Ken Schaphorst — Harlem Comes to Jordan

Why should you have been in Jordan Hall on October 21? First, to hear Ken Schaphorst’s reconstruction of Duke Ellington’s “Harlem,” aka “A Tone Parallel to Harlem,” aka “The Harlem Suite,” a score on which Ken labored painstakingly and which the NEC Jazz Orchestra played thrillingly well. Music of Duke Ellington. Performed by New England […]

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz Tagged: Berklee, Dunke Ellington, Harlem, Jazz, Ken Schaphorst, NEC, New England Conservatory Jazz Orchestra

Coming Attractions: Jazz Week Special Edition

By J. R. Carroll Coming Attractions in Jazz for April 2010 unfortunately was washed away by the Waters of March (“It’s the mud, it’s the mud”), but we couldn’t let this year’s Jazz Week slip by without highlighting a few of the numerous events taking place in the Boston metro area from Friday, April 23, […]

By: J. R. Carroll Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Film, Jazz, Music Tagged: Boston Public Library, Bruce Gertz, Charlie Banacos, Danny Harrington, Dominique Eade, Duke Ellington, Florencia Gonzalez, George Mesterhazy, Gunther Schuller, Hal Miller, Jazz Week, JazzBoston, Joe Lovano, Judi Silvano, Ken Schaphorst, Lena Horne, Lennie's on the Turnpike, Makanda, Mark Harvey, New England Conservatory, Oliver Lake, Paula West, Ran Blake, Rebecca Parris, Regent Theatre, Richard Vacca

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