JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 02/09/2010
Grammy® Nominated for Jazz Instrumental Album and Improvised Jazz Solo: A quarter of the age of Jazz, Gerald Clayton stakes his claim in the history and the present of this vital music with the following words, Tradition and innovation can peacefully coexist. In libraries and on drawing-boards around the country this statement might be true, but with Gerald behind the piano this coexistence is...
look back in anger (Free subscription) | 02/08/2010
anna was born i l.a. and began her career at age four. between the years of 1919-1961 she made a total of 55 movies. though popular and extremely special, she never was given a starring role. even worse, her characters always perished. she stated that her tombstone ought to read: 'she died a thousand times.' much had changed in hollywood since her hey day which was at a time when california law forbid...
There Goes The Fear (Free subscription) | 02/08/2010
As promised, here’s the second half of the interview with David and Peter Brewis of Field Music after their gig in Brooklyn on 30 January 2010. In this half, we discuss topics as diverse as their musical influences, music history, music piracy, “staycations” and the future of the band – aren’t you glad you came [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 02/04/2010
THIS WEEK AT IRIDIUM FEB. 4-7 BARRY HARRIS TRIO RAY DRUMMOND-BASS, LEROY WILLIAMS-DRUMS BARRY HARRIS Barry Harris is an Internationally renowned Jazz Pianist, Composer and Teacher. Strongly influenced by Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, and Charlie Parker Harris is unquestionably the foremost exponent of the music of Powell, Tadd Dameron, and Monk, and is one of the few jazz musicians of the late 20th...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 02/04/2010
[This interview was originally published in July 2000.] Founded in 1983, Mosaic Records continues to set the standards as one of the finest reissue companies on the scene. Their definitive boxed sets have culled the vaults of such labels as Blue Note, Pacific Jazz, Capitol, CBS, Verve, Roulette, Decca, Atlantic, and Reprise. Some of the artists to have been represented by these luxury sets have included...
The Daily Swarm - Headlines (Free subscription) | 02/04/2010
In the same way it’s surprising to find out how many of the world’s best comedians come from Canada, it’s shocking (even, or maybe especially, for a native like me) to discover how many of the world’s best musicians come from New Jersey. Patti Smith and Frank Sinatra, Lauryn Hill and Queen Latifah, Whitney Houston, Yo La Tengo, Ice T, the Misfits and the Smithereens. Connie...
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 02/04/2010
Yesterday I explored the hypothesis that those whose music education began with learning how to read the notation could not grasp the idea that one could learn to play anything of any “respectable” complexity any other way. The example that served as my point of departure had to do with [...]
MANUEL PAUL LOPEZ (Free subscription) | 02/03/2010
While hanging with an old friend Saturday night before his gig, we started talking about Monk. My homeboy's keyboard was set up and his trumpet was pressed into his hotel room bed; he had obviously been rehearsing earlier that evening. After awhile I asked him "What makes Monk so great?" He didn't answer me immediately, but sort of recoiled in thought, then walked over to the keyboard and...
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 02/03/2010
Tucked away in a footnote in Robin D. G. Kelley’s Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original is a telling anecdote that deserves serious consideration: Although it appears to be apocryphal, a story has been circulating for many years among jazz musicians whereby Horowitz played his variation of [...]
The Rehearsal Studio (Free subscription) | 02/02/2010
Tucked away in a footnote in Robin D. G. Kelley's Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original is a telling anecdote that deserves serious consideration: Although it appears to be apocryphal, a story has been circulating for many years among jazz musicians whereby Horowitz played his variation of "Tea for Two" for Art Tatum, whom he admired very much, and then when Tatum responded...
Anecdotal Evidence (Free subscription) | 02/01/2010
Whitney Balliett writes of the clarinetist Pee Wee Russell: “No jazz musician ever played with the same daring and nakedness and intuition. He took wild improvisational chances and when he found himself above the abyss, he simply turned in another direction, invariably hitting firm ground.” The sound of few musicians, even in so renegade yet tradition-minded a form as jazz, is so instantly...
Makura no Soshi (Free subscription) | 01/31/2010
Went yesterday afternoon to Jack Myers' memorial service in Dallas at SMU. Tony Hoagland, Brian Clements, Ralph Angel, Joe Ahearn, Gillian Connolley, and Mark Cox, all spoke on their profound friendships with Jack and his ability as a master teacher, who had so very clearly had a huge impact on each of their lives. Jack's older brother played a chorus of "Around Midnight" by Thelonious Monk...
The Rehearsal Studio (Free subscription) | 01/30/2010
The Grove Music Online entry for Werner Pirchner by Sigrid Wiesmann cites the print source for information about him to be the second edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz . Oddly enough, this entry fails to mention that Pirchner died on August 10, 2001, which is one of the few useful pieces of information in his Wikipedia entry . A more extensive account (for those who can read German) may be...
Words of Power (Free subscription) | 01/30/2010
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The Daily Swarm - Headlines (Free subscription) | 01/29/2010
Amazon : 1. The Shape Of Jazz To Come by Ornette Coleman 2. A Love Supreme by John Coltrane 3. Bird And Diz by Dizzy Gillespie 4. Kind Of Blue by Miles Davis 5. Ella and Louis by Ella Fitzgerald 6. Getz/Gilberto by João Gilberto 7. Concert By The Sea by Erroll Garner 8. The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady by Charles Mingus 9. Speak No Evil by Wayne Shorter 10. Straight, No Chaser by Thelonious...
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victoriaburton2009 | 10/29/2009
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