The Jazz Voyager
Leaving Michigan for Pennsylvania to a city known for its music and the birthplace of iconic jazz voices Billie Holiday, John Coltrane, Lee Morgan, Clifford Brown, and Benny Golson. The location is known as the City of Brotherly Love otherwise called Philadelphia. This week I will be checking out South, a jazz venue situated within the North Philly section of the city.
On stage for a three day engagement is a young Grammy nominated harpist who is revolutionizing the role of the harp in modern music. Brandee Younger is this artist and over the past fifteen years, she has worked relentlessly to stretch boundaries and limitations for harpists.
South is located at 600 N. Broad Street, 19130. For more information and to check seating availability, visit https://www.southjazzkitchen.com. Check available seatings for each day.
Tickets: $38.00 +$3.95 fee
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Chris Flory was born November 13, 1953 in New York City, New York and began playing guitar in his early teens. Around that time he heard his first jazz album, Forest Flower by Charles Lloyd. He was influenced by seeing live performances of Jimi Hendrix, B. B. King, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk during the late 1960s. Through his friend Scott Hamilton he met musicians and while babysitting the children of Gil Evans he listened to albums by Nat King Cole, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, and Lester Young. His music has been inspired by Charlie Parker, Charlie Christian, T-Bone Walker.
In his early teens Flory played in rock bands but three years later had a couple jazz lessons with guitarist Tiny Grimes. In the early 1970s he studied at Hobart College, and performed with Hamilton intermittently from 1975 through the early 1990s. He began to record his own albums as a leader after Hamilton’s quintet broke up.
From 1977 to 1983 Chris played in the Benny Goodman Sextet, then worked with Ruby Braff, Judy Carmichael, Roy Eldridge, Illinois Jacquet, Buddy Tate, Bob Wilber, Milt Hinton, Hank Jones, Duke Robillard, and Maxine Sullivan.
Guitarist Chris Flory, who has recorde six albums as a leader and as a sideman twenty-eight, continues to perform and record.
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Michael Silva was born on November 12, 1925 in New York City, New York. After World War II he worked with Hot Lips Page, Milt Buckner Trio, the Robert Mavounzy Quintette and others. For a decade beginning in 1958 he was a member of Sammy Davis Jr.’s band.
In 1971 he settled in Paris, France where he recorded two albums with Ralph Sutton. Drummer Michael Silva died on March 8, 1990.
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On The Bookshelf…
The Story Of Jazz | Marshall W. Stearns
Beginning with the African musical heritage and its fusion with European forms in America, Marshall Stearns’s history of jazz guides the reader through work songs, spirituls, ragtime, and the blues, to the birth of jazz in New Orleans, Louisiana and its adoption through the Great Migration by St Louis, Chicago, Kansas City, and New York.
The effect of jazz upon American culture and the American character has been all pervasive. This superlative history is the first and the most renowned systematic outline of the evolution of this Black American musical phenomenon. The book follows its course through the era of swing and bop to the beginnings of rock in the 50s, vividly depicting the great innovators, and covering such technical elements as the music’s form and structure.
The Story Of Jazz: 1956 | Marshall W. Stearns Oxford University Press
Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Lucy Galliher was born in Washington, D.C. on November 11, 1954. He graduated from Maret High School, received her BA in Music from Oberlin College and received a National Endowment for the Arts grant to study jazz piano with Joanne Brackeen. She went on to study at BMI Jazz Composer’s Workshop with Manny Albam, Roger Kellaway, Jim McNeely and also studied piano with Art Lande, Mark Levine, Barry Harris, and Hansi Alt.
She is on the faculty of Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory of Music and the Greenwich House Music School. She has held the position of East Coast Editor of Jazz Now Magazine, has performed on Broadway, cruise ships, recorded albums, and performed live in a variety of settings.
Pianist Lucy Galliher, who currently is an online Jazz Reviewer, continues to perform and record.
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