Back in October, an ambitious new series of straight-ahead jazz concerts took flight at the Arthur R. Outlaw Mobile Convention Center.Sunday evening, the second installment of the Jazz Renaissance series returns with a pair of stars who promise to take listeners back to the days of Dizzy Gillespie and Billie Holiday — or rather, to make their audience forget that the music of those greats sometimes seems at risk of being abandoned to the past.
Lynne Fiddmont has extensive experience as a backup singer, and more recently has stepped out as a solo artist.
West Coast saxophonist Dale Fielder will headline; vocalist Lynne Fiddmont, also based in the Los Angeles area, also will perform. Promoter Ron Bookman, the architect of the Jazz Renaissance series, described Fielder as “probably one of the outstanding multi-saxophonists in the country,” and said he’s a champion of an older tradition. Fielder is probably unlikely to disagree. On his “Frugal Apathy” blog, he’s established himself as a lucid champion of old-school jazz values, and a player dissatisfied with today’s emphasis on smooth music.
He affirmed that view in a recent phone interview. “Right now, the type of music we play is pretty marginalized in the marketplace,” he said. “I’ve been doing this a long time. I’m not in this for the money, or the fame or anything. I’m doing this really out of a deep sense of mission. For me it’s really vital to keep this form of music alive and intact.”
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