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Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
I mentioned the album Bean Bags, and the number “Close Your Eyes,” in my last post. I have had vinyl copy for more than twenty years, but I only snagged the digital copy this week as a result of hearing the same song on the Jarrett Blue Note Album. For a [...]
Keith Jarrett @ the Blue Note
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
I think I might be able to pinpoint the moment I really fell in love with jazz. I was living in Southern California, going to grad school in government. At that time I worked in the Claremont Colleges Library, backing up the libraries records every night. The hard drives in our [...]
RIP Rashied Ali
Submitted by Secret Society
(Photo: DJA)
The tragic news has been confirmed on his website.
Thought it seems inconceivable now, Rashied was long the object of widespread scorn and even anger, for the crime of daring to be the guy that Coltrane picked to succeed Elvin. But the approach he pioneered, his way of sustaining a breathless surge [...]
Farewell, Les Paul
Submitted by Jazz Suite
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Newport Jazz Festival 2009 review
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
This is the “other” Ken, and host of In The Groove podcast that occasionally posts to this site. I just returned from Newport RI, and posted my review of the two day jazz festival. Rather than repost the lengthy (perhaps too lengthy) report here, I’ll put a link to the review [...]
Jazz Guides & David Murray
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
Anyone who has been following this blog since its beginning (there are such people!) will know several things about me. One is I am a twenty four karat jazz nerd. Another is that I am deeply devoted to the Penguin Guide to Jazz. One more is that I am head over [...]
Jingles- Wes Montgomery solo transcription
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
Thanks to Pere Soto for this.
Jingles
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S.O.S.- Wes Montgomery solo transcription
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
Another one from Pere Soto.
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So Do It- Wes Montgomery solo transciption
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
Pere Soto transcribed this Wes Montgomery solo.
So Do It
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Friesen Mal Waldron
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
I am very fond of Mal Waldron, and a great admirer of the many duet albums he recorded near the end of his life. One that I recently acquired pits Waldron against David Friesen, a virtuoso on the bass. The bass is, of course, a low instrument. It slithers along below [...]
John Savage and Vusac – 2nd Century Savage
Submitted by EyeShotJazz
John Savage on didgeridoo and Vusac on electronic keyboards and other things – 2nd Century Savage played last week in the final concert of the Earshot Jazz concert series Jazz: The Second Century at the Good Shepherd Center in Wallingford. A really good show in a wonderful place to hear music on a [...]
Love and Respect for All Mankind- 3 horn chart
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
Here’s another beautiful composition by Lawrence Williams that was arranged by Dan Gaynor for my three horn group.
Love and Respect for all Mankind
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Lynne Arriale
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
That’s all. Just Lynne Arriale. Well, not quite all. Lynne was born in Milwaukee just three days after I was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas. She learned to play the piano. I learned to read classical Greek. I got fifteen eMusic downloads today, in return for seeing my eMusic subscription cut into [...]
Stephen Tirpak
Stephen Tirpak, more commonly known as ‘The Pak Man,’ has been showcasing his talents in venues around the world for the past five years. Tirpak hails from the city of Philadelphia; where he has composed, recorded, and performed with some of the most prominent artists in the music industry today. Tirpak plays the trumpet, trombone, [...]
Youman Wilder and Weird Stories Live in Bangor Maine
Reviewed by:
Bradley Conner Hightower III
When you think of Jazz and Soul Music Bangor Harbor in the tranquil settings of Maine isn’t New York City.
But Youman Wilder and his Neo Soul/Jazz Acid band were the headliners at the Bangor Inaugural Jazz Festival this year.
Wilder and WS played to a crowd of over 1200 in the [...]
To embrace, to enrage
Submitted by Secret Society
Time Out New York theatre critic David Cote issues a call for theatre bloggers to start throwing more punches:
This item will generate noise (and that’s the point): I wish bloggers would mix it up more. Does it take a Rachel Corrie fiasco to generate heat? The theater blogosphere has been dull, insular [...]
Satchmo: The Greatest
Submitted by Jazz Suite
“I never tried to prove nothing, just wanted to give a good show. My life has always been my music, it’s always come first, but the music ain’t worth nothing if you can’t lay it on the public. The main thing is to live for that audience, ’cause what you’re there for [...]
Review: Like it is: A Dedication
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
Geoff Kluke & The Changes
In the states, we don’t get much exposure to the Australian jazz scene. But this small, tight knit group of Aussie musicians create some pretty good jazz.
One example is this cd by Geoff Kluke & The Changes, which ranges from straight ahead to modern, and several other [...]
“Energy Control Center” - The Lightmen Plus One
Submitted by this SHAPE OF JAZZ
I was so happy to see Energy Control Center make it to digital reissue. Thanks to Now-Again Records we can grab this album from iTunes or Amazon. I’ve been searching for an out of print copy since 2007, but having it in iTunes does a perfect job.
I don’t know too [...]
Baby your mind is a radio
Submitted by Secret Society
Secret Society’s July 15 show at Le Poisson Rouge is going out over the airwaves on WFMU tomorrow, July 31, at (I am told) 10:30 AM-ish Eastern. If you’re not within signal range, there’s a web stream here – and the show will also be available for download from WFMU’s Beware of the Blog following [...]
Stanley Jordan’s birthday
Submitted by Jazz Suite
A little something from Stanley Jordan…
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My Evening With An Avant Garde Fan
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
I had the pleasure last night of a long discussion about jazz with a friend and former student. J.G. is a more serious collector than I am, and has a mastery of knowledge about musical labels that puts me to shame. He is also much more fond of edgy avant garde [...]
A Music Industry Mystery
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
Here’s another rant. This ones not about copyright conundrums or eMusic pricing, it’s about the fact that a lot of classical jazz is not easily available and there is no excuse for that. Tonight I did a search for two recordings: Club Session with Ken Colyer, and Danny’s Dream, by Lars [...]
Charles Lloyd
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
I am grading summer school exams, which explains why my eyes can’t focus on letters right now. Also I am waiting for my eMusic downloads to renew, and payday to come so I can spend a little of this ill-gotten gain on iTunes. I have Charles Lloyd to comfort me.
He is [...]
2nd Century Savage
Submitted by EyeShotJazz
A lot of you missed a really good show tonight at the final concert of the July concert series Jazz: The Second Century at the Good Shepherd Center in Wallingford. It turned out not to be as hot as it was last night. There was a cool breeze drafting in the windows as [...]
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