Just a short ride away from the harbor of Boston, Zac Zinger and Friends performed on Spectacle Island last Sunday. With some thunder threatening and people crowding in the tent, the show went better than anyone could have hoped!
Tag Archives: jazz
Remembering Charlie Chapman
July 22, 2011 – 3:02 pm
Charles Chapman, jazz guitarist and retired member of Berklee’s Guitar Department, passed away in Maine on July 18. We asked some of his former colleagues and students to share their remembrances. Feel free to add your own in the comments. Update: obituary in the Herald Gazette; family guestbook for condolences. Mark Small ’73, editor of [...]
BGJIQ at The Toronto Jazz Fest – Day 2.
July 12, 2011 – 8:00 am
Joe Manzoli and I were up early this morning for a radio interview on the premier jazz station in Toronto, Jazz.FM91. Joe went on the air with a tenor saxophonist he studied with while in Canada, Kirk MacDonald. They talked about the youth jazz program here in Toronto, its collaboration with Berklee the previous day, [...]
BGJIQ at The Toronto Jazz Fest
July 11, 2011 – 10:24 am
Toronto, Canada. Home to seven major league sports, the CN tower, a zoo, film festivals, and the Toronto Jazz Festival. My name is Michael Borgida, and I am here road managing the Berklee Globe Jazz Institute Quartet (BGJIQ) featuring Joe Manzoli on guitar, Caili O’Doherty on piano, Shin Sakaino on bass and Isaac Haselkorn on [...]
Way Out West – The Hailey Niswanger Quartet on Tour (#4)
June 24, 2011 – 12:00 pm
Having successfully re-entered the land of the Red, White and Blue – there was a bad moment at U.S. Customs with an officer who seemed to be making things hard for our pianist Takeshi, who is Japanese – we smoothly rolled for five hours through Washington’s gorgeous Olympic Peninsula, enroute to Hailey’s hometown, Portland, Oregon.