The 65th Grammy Awards nominations are out, and former Eastman School of Music students are major contenders once again.
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2019 Rochester Jazz Festival names George Benson and Steve Gadd Band as headliners
The 2019 CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival, taking place June 21 through 29, has announced its first headliners: George Benson and Steve Gadd Band.
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The F Word: Sing, sing, sing
The F Word. An online column for Frank De Blase to pontificate, ruminate, placate, and salivate. We’ll have reviews and previews, we’ll discuss trends in local and national music scenes, and we’ll try to do it as reverently as possible. Yup. Let’s get started. For this week’s F Word, we’re coming up with songs that […]
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Campbell Brothers, Steve Gadd among inductees to 2018 Rochester Music Hall of Fame
The Rochester Music Hall of Fame this morning announced its lineup for the seventh annual induction ceremony. The ceremony will be held Sunday, April 22, 7 p.m., in Kodak Hall at The Eastman Theatre. This year’s inductees include percussionist, composer, and Eastman School of Music faculty member John Beck; the Grammy Award-winning sacred steel supergroup The Campbell […]
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Jazz Fest 2015, Day 8: Frank reviews The Steve Gadd Band
Gadd-zooks Batman, that Steve Gadd can really beat the tubs. Celebrating his 70th birthday in front of a sold out, hometown crowd, Gadd and his black clad band were greeted enthusiastically and jumped right into a tight and progressive set. Though the audience clearly loved what was going on, the band struck me more as […]
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JAZZ FEST 2015: City’s Daily Jazz Blogs
The 2015 Xerox International Jazz Festival runs Friday, June 19, through Saturday, June27, and City Newspaper will be out EVERY NIGHT of the festival, covering multiple shows. Check in first thing each morning for photos and reviews of the previous night’s entertainment, listed below by date. For up-to-the-minute coverage of the festival follow City on […]
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JAZZ FEST 2013, Day 7: Paloma reviews Carmen Souza and James/Sanborn/Gadd
Authentic music. It’s what jazz is. It’s this connection these musicians make when they are so good at their craft that they are released from reality and invite us to come along. It’s what happens when you listen to jazz musicians like Bob James, David Sanborn, Steve Gadd, and Carmen Souza. It was a truly […]
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MUSIC FEATURE: Steve Gadd
Most drummers would acknowledge that Steve Gadd is among the most dynamic percussionists in the world. The rest just call him Steve God. But when he talks, Gadd is no cymbal crasher; he’s disarmingly soft-spoken. The man whose brilliant solo adds the exclamation point to Steely Dan’s “Aja,” whose fife-and-drum-corps lines on Paul Simon’s “50 […]
