New Orleans Style and the Writing of American Jazz History by Bruce Boyd Raeburn As I mentioned earlier, the year 2010 will see me delving deeply into the still-emerging field of jazz academia. As a part of that process, Im going to be reading a lot of books and articles. Furthermore, I am going to be summarizing and commenting on their contents for my own research...
From the Article: Now that so many archives have gone digital, it can be easy to forget that many collections exist only partly online, if they have a digital component at all. An interesting case is the William Ransom Hogan Archive of New Orleans Jazz at Tulane University. The Chronicle sat down with the archive’s director, [...]
It comes from Bill Kirchner, frequent Rifftides commenter, stalwart broadcaster and man of many parts, usually on reed instruments in the key of B-flat. Recently, I taped my next one-hour show for the "Jazz From the Archives" series. Presented by...
Peter Wright (tpt), Brian Soulsby (clt/vcl)), Laurence McBriarty (tmb), Brian Bennett (bjo/vcl), Brian Sibbald (bs), Fred Thompson (dms/vcl). A fairly routine sort of evening at the Corner House or perhaps, after wallowing in the sophisticated sounds of Ruth's CD on the car stereo I wasn't quite ready for "John Brown's Body" (AKA "The Battle Hymn of the Republic.") Or maybe I was...
Give the Drummer Some's 10 Favorite Downloads from the MP3 Blogosphere The terrific music search engine Captain Crawl appears to have slipped into the mists again. The Miner has been relying on the Captain's powers of blogservation to discover outstanding...
Trying to keep up with new releases, I often get sidetracked by old favorites. It happens that my recent listening coincides with the birthday of two of the listenees. Lou Levy, Lunarcy (Verve). Levy would have been 81 today. He...
It's a pleasure to run into old friends in places where you don't expect them. Yesterday, I encountered Zoot Sims in a dog food commercial. He was in good company; a cute pooch and a beautiful woman. The music was...
Lately, I've been missing Tom Talbert. I went into the archive to see what Rifftides had to say about him following his death a little more than three years ago. Here is one paragraph of the remembrance...
Lately, I've been missing Tom Talbert. I went into the archive to see what Rifftides had to say about him following his death a little more than three years ago. Here is one paragraph of the remembrance: Tom died on...
Register now for this unique conference on New Orleans’ role in the black music diaspora, the first in a series of conferences on the black music diaspora from the Center for Black Music Research, CBMR.org/ Paper Sessions The New Orleans event will feature commissioned papers by Thomas Brothers (Duke University), Samuel Kinser (Northern Illinois University), Nick Spitzer ( American Routes radio...
Alan White - Mugsy Remembered In Concert 2 (Jazzology ) Alec Dankworth - If You're Passing By (Candid Records ) Anders Svanoe - Lines And Spaces (Solitaire ) Animalunga - il mio posto nel mondo (DDE records) Anthony Braxton - 12+1 Tet / Victoriaville 2007 (Victo ) Baja - Wolfhour (Other Electricites ) Ben Allison - Little Things Of The World (Palmetto Records ) Bill Coon & Ron Peters - No Boundaries...
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