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Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
My dear friend Ken Laster directed us to a biography of Art Pepper in a comment on my last post. I can’t wait to read it. Pepper was, as my Grandmother would have said, “a piece of work.” Heroin took a big bite out of his career, and that is a [...]
Know your Co-conspirators: Laurie Frink
Submitted by Secret Society
(Photo: Lindsay Beyerstein)
I realize I have been rather negligent with resuming these profiles of the musicians who contributed to the recording of Infernal Machines. To be honest I have been so involved with mixing the record that there has been time for little else. But today we return with a focus on [...]
Graston Technique for tendonitis treatment
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
In the last year or so I started noticing that I was having some tendinitis pain in my forearms and wrists. I think that this was probably more due to extended computer usage than from playing my horn. I’ve known many musicians over the years who have suffered immensely [...]
Hot Pepper @ The Village Vanguard
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
It might be the most famous venue in modern Jazz. John Coltrane recorded his most important live album there, as did Bill Evans. NPR has a concert series based at the Vanguard. I am behind on my listening, but they have a recent concert featuring Cedar Walton. That is something to [...]
Guardian series explores great moments in jazz
Submitted by Jazz Suite
The Guardian launches a new feature: 50 great moments in jazz. First up? These guys, and a little tune they recorded in 1917:
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Any kind of blank printable staff paper for free!
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Ever wanted a specific kind of blank staff paper but didn’t feel like messing around with Finale or Sibelius to get it? At Blank Sheet Music.net you can your own customized staff paper, controlling every element of the staves. On the right is a staff that I created in order [...]
Internet Explorer problems
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Leave it to Microsoft to screw things up. Apparently people who are using Explorer have been having problems with my blog search function and haven’t been able to open some of the archives.
Please switch to Firefox! I have no idea how to fix these problems.
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David Murray: Avant Garde & Reentry
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
So I’m a little bit obsessed just right now with David Murray. While preparing a Chinese dinner (garlic and chili shrimp with stir fry Bok Choy on the side), I listened again to his album Body and Soul. It was as good as the shrimp, and a lot better than the [...]
Obama Freedom Suite
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
This is my tribute to the Inauguration of President Barack Obama. I have edited excerpts of Obama’s historic inaugural speech with Sonny Rollins’ landmark recording “Freedom Suite”. Recorded in 1958 this was Rollins’ musical protest of the state of race relations during the height of our segregation era. It also represents [...]
RIP David “Fathead” Newman
Submitted by Secret Society
Remember our long-ago feature on the Top 4 Most Tolerable Rock Sax Solos of All Time? There’s a reason why David Newman’s work with Ray Charles was excluded from “consideration” in this category. If every rock sax solo was as consistently good as Newman’s playing with Ray, there would be no need [...]
Secret Society @ Jazz Gallery, 06 Feb 2009
Submitted by Secret Society
Darcy James Argue’s
SECRET SOCIETY
at the
JAZZ GALLERY
Friday 06 February, 2009
9:00 PM & 10:30 PM
Part of the Search and Restore Series
Adam Schatz has been doing great things recently with his Search and Restore Series, which has consistently featured some of the most exciting forward-thinking jazz artists in town. Their final blowout show at the [...]
Yo, expert in this profession, the session
Submitted by Secret Society
Nerdpocalypse 2: The Nerd Ascendancy: a “horribly hung over” John Hodgman appears as a guest on Rachel Maddow’s radio show. Topics under discussion include the end of Get Your War On, the brouhaha over Yo Yo Ma & co’s finger-synched inauguration “performance” (including a digression on Anthony McGill’s hunkiness), Governor Paterson’s terrible NY senate [...]
Serge Chaloff: Heroin & the Big Horn
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
I have a taste for big horn bop. All the sharp brass is great, but the baritone saxophone digs deep into the geology of feeling in a way that nothing else can. I chanced upon Chaloff’s name in the Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings, and I wasn’t sorry I did.
The son [...]
NEXT GIG
Submitted by Secret Society
Darcy James Argue’s
SECRET SOCIETY
at the
JAZZ GALLERY
Friday 06 February, 2009
9:00 PM & 10:30 PM
Part of the Search and Restore Series
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What is jazz?
Submitted by Jazz Suite
An expert weighs in…
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Trombones aplenty
Submitted by Jazz Suite
What’s better than one trombone? Come on, you know me by now…two, of course.
And today is a good day to celebrate two fine trombonists, as both were born today.
The first? Few are better than this one. The great J.J. Johnson, who proved the ‘bone could bop with the best of them. Here [...]
Max Roach and Barack Obama
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
From the very beginning of the American Republic, the position of African Americans has been central both to our peril and our promise. Jefferson and Madison knew it. Abraham Lincoln realized it and it brought him back into politics in 1858 when Stephen Douglas urged us to adopt a pro-choice attitude [...]
Dr. Martin Luther King on the importance of Jazz
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Opening Address to the 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival
God has wrought many things out of oppression. He has endowed his creatures with the capacity to create—and from this capacity has flowed the sweet songs of sorrow and joy that have allowed man to cope with his [...]
Jerry Bergonzi/Bob Gullotti live duo
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This recording is from the mid 80’s. It was probably recorded at the Willow jazz club in Somerville, MA. This is classic Bergonzi- hard-hitting, aggressive, and raw.
Gonz fans rejoice!
Jerry Bergonzi with Bob Gullotti- live
(Thanks Nathan)
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Farewell Blues for the Mississippi Rag
Submitted by Jazz Suite
Sad news about one of the best traditional jazz publications in existence, The Mississippi Rag.
For 35 years, the Rag has been the authority on areas of the music long neglected by other mainstream publications. Long were the hours spent reading about the folks who play this music, getting the low down [...]
MLK 2009
Submitted by Secret Society
The best non-fiction book I read last year — probably the best book of American political history I have ever read — is Rick Perlstein’s Nixonland. As a transplanted Canadian, there is a lot of recent American history that I am only dimly aware of. Learning about certain emblematic incidents — the Newark Riots, [...]
Organ donor needed
Submitted by Secret Society
Saxophonist David S. Ware is in need of a compatible kidney donor. More info here.
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An important lesson
Submitted by Jazz Suite
Learn How To Completely Miss The Point Of Music in this enlightening article by drummer Kevin Dorn at All About Jazz.
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Back to Jack
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
I have been posting on a lot of edgy jazz in recent weeks. How about a taste of something squarely in the middle of page four and as solid and nourishing as a good pot of stew. Here is one that was recorded a few weeks before I was born at [...]
David S. Ware Needs a Kidney
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
I happened upon David S. Ware’s name in the Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings as I was sitting on the john this evening. I was intrigued by the entry on his album Freedom Suite. Jazz has a pretty high status among music genres, but jazz artists have always felt a little [...]
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