Bucky Pizzarelli News

SOMETIMES you can go home, musically if not physically. In the Pizzarelli home, music was the thing, be it swing or the Great American Songbook composed by the likes of the Gershwins, Berlin, Rogers and Hart, or Rogers and Hammerstein, led by papa Bucky Pizzarelli, the great guitarist.

The Active Theater Inaugural Gala will be presented Oct. 18 at Del Posto Restaurant in Manhattan.

Genre: Jazz guitar. Vignola has collaborated with Lionel Hampton and Madonna, and has covered Mozart and Black Sabbath on the same record.

Morehead State Universitya s string residency will present award-winning violinist Sara Caswell, Nov.

Who is this man? He has lifted the Big Bands of Benny Goodman and the Tonight Show with his thumping acoustic rhythm guitar.

A concert by jazz guitarists Bucky Pizzarelli and Ed Laub is scheduled for this weekend at the Ritz Theater in Newburgh.

Non-profit groups discovered long ago that one of the best ways to get people to donate money is by inviting them to a fun event.

Talk about charming and personable, that's jazz man John Pizzarelli. His easy laugh seasons a conversation about the tunes he'll croon at the Brooks Center on Tuesday.

There are jazz families, and there are the Pizzarellis. Cabaret singer Jessica Molaskey, John Pizzarelli's wife, once described the family she married into as the 'Von Trapp family on martinis.' An apt description, considering that patriarch Bucky Pizzarelli played guitar on countless sessions for Frank Sinatra , was in Doc Severinson's 'Tonight ...

Hank Jones will kick off the Detroit International Jazz Festival on Friday. The Detroit International Jazz Festival this Labor Day weekend puts the focus on family this year.

Today, festival organizers announced the complete lineup and sponsors for the 30th Anniversary of the Detroit International Jazz Festival , Friday, September 4 through Monday, September 7, in downtown Detroit.

Concerts by jazz guitarists Larry Coryell and Bucky Pizzarelli are among five new shows announced for The Ritz Theater in Newburgh.

Concerts by jazz guitarists Larry Coryell and Bucky Pizzarelli are among five new shows announced for The Ritz Theater in Newburgh.

Among guitarists, there are pros and there are pros' pros. And then there's Bucky Pizzarelli.

Vocalist Kurt Elling will be a special guest artist on "Radio Deluxe" with John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey at the Tanglewood Jazz Festival on Saturday, September 5, 2009, at 2 pm in Lenox, Massachusetts.

Jazz guitarist and singer John Pizzarelli, son of Bucky, will play with his Broadway singer wife, Jessica Molaskey, in a four-night stand at Seattle's Jazz Alley, July 23-26, 2009.

Bob Karlovits can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7852. Read the Trib on your Kindle Guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli laughs when talk turns back a few decades to his days with Doc Severinsen and the Tonight Show Orchestra.

You've heard the songs, but you probably never heard the songs this way. The songs are performed as they were originally penned, said musician and historian Ken Lelen, who opens for Bucky Pizzarelli tonight, July 17, at the Minstrel in Morristown.

There are rhythm guitar players, and then there are guys like Bucky Pizzarelli, who give new meaning to the title.

To see a full list of the performers at the Elkhart Jazz Festival, go to ElkhartJazzFestival.com A near-exhaustive list of international jazz legends are boarding airplanes pointed toward Elkhart today and tomorrow.