Jazz in the Park TONIGHT

FREE Jazz Concert in Winnequah Park

August 18 at 6:30 pm.

A note from the Monona Parks & Recreation Department:

Please join the Monona Parks & Recreation Department for a special concert in the Park tonight at 6:30 PM at Winnequah Park. Enjoy the sounds of local Monona Resident Sandy La Clair and the Impact of Brass as they play their "Jazz with Brass" program. The weather looks like it will be great and we look forward to seeing you tonight at the Winnequah Dream Park Shelter for a concert in the Park starting at 6:30 PM.

Jake Anderson
Monona Parks & Recreation
City of Monona Parks
and Recreation
1011 Nichols Road
Monona, WI53716

Some of My Favorite Things, Jazz That Is

Some jazz favorites. I prefer mainstream jazz, mostly. Here are a few of my favorite things. Just a start.

Check these out from your local library.

My Favorite Things by John Coltrane

Coltrane collaborates with one of the great jazz guitarists: Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane by Kenny Burrell and John Coltrane

Trane with Monk: Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall by Thelonious Monk

Brilliant Corners by Thelonious Monk

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Monk a bit too esoteric? Try Sextet in New York or Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! Live at 'The Club' by Cannonball Adderley

Or the classic: Mingus Ah Um by Charles Mingus

The Best of the Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker by Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker

Time Out by Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond

Get the message? Paris 1958 by Art Blakey Stomp your feet.

Before Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers there was Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers by Horace Silver.

This guy smokes: Introducing Johnny Griffin by Johnny Griffin

Blues-ette by Curtis Fuller (Achh! Not available on LinkCat!!)

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Diana Krall changed my listening habits. I used to avoid jazz vocals, but no more. Try her Live in Paris or go the 'best of' route: The very best of Diana Krall.

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Don't trust my slightly cattywampus judgment?

Go to this Amazon Listmania: Start Your Jazz Collection: A list by Jim Moler

Question Time or "Stone me! I quit!"

It's question time, just like the British Parliament (UK Parliament - Question Time) - except no Prime Minister or funny wigs - or whigs.

Everywhere, now-a-days, They got that question-asking craze; Dad says to Mother, Ask me another; Now, I got some questions, too; I'd like to ask you just a few, I know the answers; so do you!

Heptune Jazz and Blues Lyrics Page: Transcribed from vocals by Annette Hanshaw, recorded June, 1927; From Annette Hanshaw: The Twenties Sweetheart; Jasmine Records JASMCD 2542.

Don't miss: Parliament's Question Time - anagrams

The photo is from the highly recommended blog Boing Boing http://www.boingboing.net/

Speaking of Jazz

You can always catch great jazz on the radio and live around town. WORT-FM
has solid jazz offerings (my favorite is Gary Alderman's Journeys into Jazz on Wednesday afternoons). WPR's 88.7 WERN-FM features Jazz with Bob Parlocha
on Fridays between 9 pm and 1am, and Saturdays between 10 pm and midnight.

Check out Bob Parlocha's personal web site.

I know I'm missing some jazz on the radio.

Live jazz can be heard regularly at Cafe Montmartre, the Concourse Hotel, Otto's, Louisianne's and others. Your favorite?

Isthmus Jazz Fest

The Isthmus Jazz Festival kicks off a 4-day "celebration of America's homegrown art form" on the Memorial Union Terrace. Combine cool jazz with Madison's best summertime hangout.


2007 JAZZ FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
Thursday, June 7
5:30 PM: Michael BB Quintet
7:00 PM: Roscoe Mitchell
8:30 PM: Jan Wheaton
10:00 PM: Tony Castaneda

Friday, June 8
5:30 PM: High School Jazz All-Stars
7:00 PM: Tim Whalen
8:30 PM: Gerri DiMaggio w/ Special guests Kelly DeHaven and Jeannie Woodall
10:30 PM: El Clan Destino

Saturday, June 9
4:00 PM: Hanah Jon Taylor Artet featuring Dee Alexander
5:30 PM: Richard Davis and Willie Pickens
7:00 PM: Madison Jazz Orchestra
8:30 PM: Special Ticketed Event in the Union Theatre- Madeleine Peyroux
10:00 PM: Madisalsa

Sunday, June 10
11:00 AM: High School Jazz All-Stars
12:30 PM: Edgewood College Jazz Band
2:00 PM: Les Thimmig

R.I.P. Jazz

It's a sad, sad day at our house. We had to put down Jazz, our beloved English Springer Spaniel. He had some sort of wasting disease and he gradually just faded away. He was a great dog with all the energy and love that typifies Springers. This loss is tough - the kids all grew up with Jazz. He loved going to our house in the woods outside Bayfield and would literally 'spring' through the trees. He was Susan's running companion for years and they were well known around Monona as the running lady with the black-and-white dog. Years after the kids stopped running to the door when I got home from work I could always count on Jazz to be there jumping up on me. Rest in peace Jazzer.