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Submitted by this SHAPE OF JAZZ
Just wanted to go over some newer albums I have taken a liken to and wanted to share.
I received word in my inbox by the great publication, Wax Poetics, of their debut album release as a label of the group 9dw. Self Titled is due to be released 09/09/09 [...]
GIG POSTMORTEM: 15 July 2009 @ LPR
Submitted by Secret Society
(Photo: Lindsay Beyerstein)
SECRET SOCIETY
LE POISSON ROUGE
15 JULY 2009
SETLIST
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1) MP3: Zeno
Solo: Ryan Keberle, trombone
2) MP3: Flux in a Box
Solos: Ben Kono, alto sax; Mike Holober, piano
3) MP3: Hard Up on the Down Low
Solo: Ingrid Jensen, trumpet & electronics
4) MP3: Jacobin Club
Solos: Sam Sadigursky, tenor sax & Mike Fahie, trombone
5) MP3: Ferromagnetic
Solo: Nadje [...]
Funky President
Submitted by Secret Society
Happy 100th, Lester Young.
Ethan Iverson is an insane person, but you knew that. 10 parts, including several transcriptions. Have at it, hoss.
Oh, you want more?
“Why Lester Young Matters,” Ted Gioia (jazz.com)
“The Dozens: Lester Young at 100,” Michael J. West (jazz.com)
“The Prez Centennial,” Doug Ramsey (Rifftides)
“We Interrupt This Vacation For A Message From [...]
Nights alive with music
Submitted by Secret Society
The still-roiling controversy surrounding Terry Teachout’s “Can Jazz Be Saved?” hit the airwaves earlier today, as Vijay Iyer debated Teachout on WNYC’s Soundcheck (click here to listen). One thing that’s perplexed me a bit about the various responses Teachout’s piece has provoked is that, unlike many, I don’t actually think his diagnosis [...]
Laconic Lullabies, Duets and Solos
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
The magic number in jazz is five. A rhythm section consisting of a piano, bass, and drums, and two horns or maybe a horn and a guitar. The rhythm section carries the listener aloft, while the horns take center stage. That describes most of my favorite jazz.
Trios can do almost [...]
Giant Steps Rhythmic Flexibility Exercises
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
I got these exercises from my buddy Kuba when I was over in Prague this summer. They are written using a series of rhythmic permutations based on eight notes in groups of 3’s, 5’s, 6’s, and 7’s. These are written for Bb instruments, but they would be useful for any [...]
Django Reinhardt’s solo on Nuits de St.Germain des pres
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
Transcribed by Pere Soto
Nuits de St.Germain des pres
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Wes Montgomerey’s solo on Grooveyard
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
Thanks to Pere Soto for this transcription
Grooveyard
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RIP Joe Maneri
Submitted by Secret Society
(Portrait: Sonja Holzwarth Maneri)
It would be hard to overstate how beloved Joe was by the students who took his microtonal improv class at NEC. It seemed he lit a fire in everyone who’d enrolled, through the sheer force of his outsized personality. I never dipped my toe in that well, but I [...]
Hank Mobley’s Sweet Tenor
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
Hank Mobley is one more tenor whose blessing was also his curse: he played with Miles on a number of extraordinary recordings. That’s a blessing to be sure, because any certified jazz nerd will know your name. It’s a bit of a curse as well, because no one will ever quite [...]
You GOTTA BE ORIGINAL Part 2- by Tim Price
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
BOMBAY BAR WALKING-
The point here is to emphasize what Rilling calls the “architecture” of the music. For example, the way Pablo Casals varied the tempo according to what he was trying to convey. Indian music and jazz are much in the same.
Hopefully, what’s going to be remembered, I hope, is [...]
Bill Anschell’s Treatise on Careers in Jazz
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
Seattle pianist/humorist Bill Anschell just send me his newest treatise on Jazz. This one perfectly details every possible career path of a Jazz musician. Bill is painfully spot on and always hilarious. The world of the Jazz musician has never been more meticulously and accurately portrayed. You’ll be laughing when [...]
Jazz on the Tube- Jazz video search engine
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
Jazz on the Tube
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Intuition and Imagination- Tim Price blogs for Rico
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
Tim Price has been blogging for Rico Reeds on MySpace and Facebook for a while now. He has written some very interesting stuff that is well worth a read. The article below is his most recent post about the higher states of consciousness reached by improvisers.
“Tim Price here for RICO [...]
Say the right things when electioneering
Submitted by Secret Society
Y’all have until Monday, August 24th to vote in the 74th Annual DownBeat Readers Poll.
(I’m not sayin’ anything, I’m just sayin’.)
Scott, on the other hand, implores:
If we can elect an African-American man with an Islamic name President of the United States, getting non-mainstream jazz artists and labels some love in a poll [...]
Fall hits
Submitted by Secret Society
Secret Society will be appearing:
Thursday, 17 Sept 2009 — New Languages Festival, McCarren Hall (98 Bayard St, Williamsburg, Brooklyn). 11:30 PM. Opening sets by the Respect Sextet (8:30 PM) & House of Mirrors (10:00 PM).
Friday, 18 Sept 2009 — Jazz Gallery (290 Hudson St., SoHo, Manhattan). 9:00 PM & 10:30 PM.
Monday, 19 Oct 2009 — [...]
Teacher don’t you fill me up with your rules
Submitted by Secret Society
I’m pleased to announce that beginning this fall, I’ll be joining the faculty of a new educational venture founded by my friend and colleague Javier Arau, the New York Jazz Academy. My official profile says “composition/arranging” but basically I’m happy to accept private students with an interest in anything from songwriting to ear [...]
The Lester Young/Jimmy Dorsey/Frank Trumbauer connection
Submitted by Jazz Suite
We’re fast approaching Lester Young’s 100th birthday, and WAMU’s Rob Bamberger used his excellent Hot Jazz Saturday Night program to pay tribute. You’ll be able to listen to it online in a few days here.
One of the interesting things he touched on was how Young, early in his career, listened to an [...]
More on the woes of the mainstream music industry
Submitted by Jazz Suite
NPR’s Laura Sydell is the latest to report on how technology is making it difficult for the recording industry: Musicians Look For Pay In An MP3 World
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Basie!
Submitted by Jazz Suite
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A special day
Submitted by Jazz Suite
Two of the greatest trombonists of all time, born on the same day…
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Two topics for the price of one: Lawrence Lucie/Why lead a big band?
Submitted by Jazz Suite
Despite the relative youth of jazz as a genre, the tendency is to look at anything prior to the swing era as so old as to be beyond the touch of our generation.
But the fact is, that is simply not true. Take the case of Lawrence Lucie, a guitarist who died Friday [...]
Random vid
Submitted by Jazz Suite
Banjoreno
Dixieland Jug Blowers
1926
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Detroit does it right
Submitted by Jazz Suite
Imagine this: A Jazz fest featuring real jazz, and it’s free. No, it’s not a dream, it really does exist. Where? Detroit. And you can help keep it that way.
Learn more about The 30th Annual Detroit International Jazz Festival.
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Rashied Ali (1935-2009)
Submitted by this SHAPE OF JAZZ
Rashied Ali sadly left us Tuesday the 12th after suffering from a heart attack. As I type this now I am being entranced by his swaying rhythms and dynamic accenting behind Coltrane on the amazing Impulse release of Interstellar Space. You can here him perform on the Coltrane cut, Leo, [...]
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