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Submitted by Secret Society
I don’t know why it continues to amaze me that most establishment media figures still do not get the point of The Daily Show. But it does. They all still seem to think it’s a show that takes a satirical look at events in the day’s news. But it’s not. It’s a show [...]
Everything Should Be Available!
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
I understand that the major labels would rather get $15 a CD than $5. But surely everyone who has rights to a recording would rather get something than nothing. I am willing to pay for good jazz, and in this day it can’t cost much to make a recording available for [...]
Toshiko Akiyoshi
Submitted by EyeShotJazz
Toshiko Akiyoshconducts the Seattle Jazz Repertory Jazz Orchestra during a performance at Nordstrom Hall on March 7th 2009
In a fantastic and entertaining performance, internationally renowned, award-winning composer, pianist, and NEA Jazz Master Toshiko Akiyoshi lead the SRJO in a concert of big band works from her many years touring the globe with the [...]
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Submitted by Secret Society
85 days after our first recording session, and after a crazymaking number of all-nighters — including last night’s 7 PM to 9 AM mastering marathon – Infernal Machines is now finished.
Huge shout-out to our literally tireless mixing engineer Paul Cox, and also to Randy Merill at Masterdisk, who in my humble opinion fucking [...]
Bix
Submitted by Jazz Suite
Bix Beiderbecke
March 10, 1903 – August 6, 1931
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Learn!
The Bixography
Bix Beiderbecke and Red Hot Jazz
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Gary Bartz on Miles Davis
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
Bret ‘the Jazz Video Guy’ Primac posted a video on his site that features Gary Bartz talking about his time with Miles. Bret also has a 334 videos on YouTube that are worth checking out.
Don’t Call Me a Jazz Musician- Bartz on Miles
Bret’s YouTube channel
Here are a few of my [...]
Jazz, Memory, & Resonance: Steve Lacy & Sonny Rollins
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
I really dig Steve Lacy. Avant-garde all the way, but he’s got the fingerings of my soul. I also dig Sonny Rollins. Tonight, as I stir-fried a batch of my locally famous kung-pao shrimp, I listened to The Holy La, by the Steve Lacy Trio. One of the songs did that [...]
The case on Wes Montgomery
Submitted by Jazz Suite
Wes Montgomery:
Great jazz guitarist?
Sellout?
Google wes montgomery+sellout and you’ll get a glimpse of this long standing argument, which begs the question… Do we have the right to blast someone for trying to make a buck? Maybe not if the artist is Wes Montgomery. After all, there is a big difference between Wes recording [...]
Blog MP3 downloads
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
There are a lot of blogs that have links to audio files that you can download for free. If you’re a digital pirate then you may want to take a look at this one, it’s called Music Blog of Saltyka.
About half way down the page (after all the bad ’80s [...]
YouTube Jazz video search page
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
Here’s a link to a very useful web page put together by Brad Sharp that allows you to quickly search YouTube for specific Jazz players. The page is a huge list of players arranged by instrument and date of birth. When you click on a name of a musician it [...]
Cover me through the fire
Submitted by Secret Society
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It doesn’t hurt when it begins
Submitted by Secret Society
There have been many fine tributes to David Foster Wallace and some very good accounts of the circumstances leading up to his suicide, but this one, by D.T. Max in the current issue of the New Yorker, is the only one that made me weep.
It’s really too good to excerpt — the [...]
Bill Frisell And Russell Malone - 2
Submitted by EyeShotJazz
Bill Frisell watches Russell Malone as they play during the first set at the Triple Door on Weds Feb 25th.
What a fantastic show. The interplay of the guitar voices was fabulous. It was wonderful to hear the two of them when they each played a solo but mostly when they played so well [...]
New Orleans JAZZ & Heritage Festival
Submitted by Jazz Suite
You’ve all heard of “Where’s Waldo” … Let’s play “Where’s Jazz?”
Did the irony of their Web address totally escape them? www.nojazzfest.com
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Kind of Blue Fifty Years Later: Adderley’s Alto
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
The Penguin guide points out that Kind of Blue was the first widely acknowledged example of ‘modal jazz.’ The music must have seemed strikingly new when it was released, but looking back on it now every note seems familiar and right where it should be. As the Penguin Guide puts it, [...]
Mario Abbagliati’s Jazz Guitar Blog
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
Mario Abbagliati’s Jazz guitar blog has some nice transcriptions and harmony articles. Mario is from Chile and his blog is in Spanish, but Yahoo’s Googlefish translator page is always an option (and often very funny).
Wes Montgomery transcriptions
Grant Green’s Minor League solo
Peter Bernstein’s I Mean You solo
Mario Abbagliati’s Blog de guitarra [...]
Bill Frisell And Russell Malone
Submitted by EyeShotJazz
Bill Frisell and Russell play at the Triple Door on Weds Feb 25th.
This was a fantastic show. The interplay of the guitar voices was fabulous. It was wonderful to hear the two of them when they each played a solo but mostly when they played so well together, whether on some old classic [...]
Marty Grosz, entertainer
Submitted by Jazz Suite
Happy Birthday to one of the great traditional jazz guitarists, Marty Grosz.
Here he is with his Hot Puppies in 2005 doing one of my favorites, China Boy. Another fav, Randy Reinhart on cornet.
He is also a first rate story teller and singer, who knows the meaning of the lyrics.
Grosz tours constantly, often [...]
The Two Pianos on Kind of Blue
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
Legend has it that Wynton Kelly was irritated when he showed up at Columbia Studios on March 2nd, 1959. Bill Evans was sitting at the piano. Miles had hired Kelly to replace Evans, who didn’t stand up well to touring. One can understand. But I think that Evans probably had almost [...]
Miles Post-KOB, Tony Williams & Sam Rivers
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
I enjoyed a couple of comments to my last post, from Bass is Life and André. André went to the trouble to include a long passage from “Jazz, the Basics”, by Christopher Meeder. I strongly recommend that you read it, for it brings a lot of what Miles was doing in [...]
Gonz standards reharms- by Dan Johnson
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
Dan Johnson was the first reader to answer my plea for submissions. Dan transcribed two killer Bergonzi reharms, on I Remember You and Just Friends.
Dan has a nice blog that features a lot more interesting transcriptions by players like Joe Diorio, Tal Farlow, Grant Green, and Jimmy Raney.
Dan Johnson’s ASWAS [...]
Call for submissions!
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
If you’re a regular reader of Casa Valdez you probably noticed that that I’ve been slacking off recently. The reason for this (besides being generally lazy) is that my buddy Pere Soto has been staying with me and we’ve been trying to rehearse, play more, plan a recording session, and [...]
