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ZAZU: Django’s French Hot Club Gypsy Jazz ignites Sept. 19 JiA party |
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By Joel Goldenthal
An article in Voice of America last December proclaimed, “Gypsy Jazz Invades America.” The article was referring to the proliferation of groups bringing this “French music” to American audiences, a music that is enjoying popularity worldwide, crossing lines of age, musical genre and more.
One such group devoted to gypsy jazz has its origin in Sedona where bassist Steve Douglas formed ZAZU. “The group's name comes from the word ‘Zazous’, the young French Bohemians of the 1930s who were huge fans of American singer-bandleader Cab Calloway's scat music,” Douglas explains. "During the German occupation of France from 1940 on, the Zazous frequented places where the hip jazzy gypsy music was played, but always in fear of being arrested and shipped off to camps or jail. So, in tribute to them and the risks they took for the love of this music, we call ourselves ZAZU," says Douglas.
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Bob Ravenscroft’s Inner Journeys Trio kicks off JiA-Kerr Series Oct. 6 |
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By Joel Goldenthal
Pianist Bob Ravenscroft and the Inner Journeys trio will perform a program of “Refreshing Standards” on Wednesday, Oct. 6 at 7:30 p.m. The concert kicks off the 2010-2011 Jazz in Concert Series, co-produced by Jazz in AZ and the ASU Kerr Cultural Center.
“We’re calling our program ‘Refreshing Standards’ because of the way that we use familiar tunes as a spring board to explore other potential musical realms that may exist inside, outside or in between the tunes,” says the group’s drummer-percussionist Rob Moore. “We’ll be playing familiar jazz standards such as ‘Emily,’ ‘What is This Thing Called Love?’ and ‘You and the Night and the Music.’ ”
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