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Submitted by EyeShotJazz
I heard this story from the Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie on the danger of depending upon the single story and it hit a nerve. Listen to her on this video from TED.
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Billy Hart Quartet @ The Village Vanguard
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
The Village Vanguard is surely the single most important venue in the history of modern jazz. Coltrane’s famous recording there would almost be enough to confirm that. But then you add (roughly in order) Bill Evans last recording with Scott LaFaro, Sonny Rollins pianoless, Promethean trio, and Art Pepper’s sprawling, nine [...]
Andrew Hill’s Discontinued Masterpiece
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
Pianist Andrew Hill is one of the great masters of modern jazz. Let me do you the service of providing a list of his most important recordings. I begin with the two most essential:
Point of Departure
Andrew!
Both of these are worth their weight in whatever you value most. I have blogged several [...]
Odds and ends
Submitted by Jazz Suite
The AP catches up with Brian Setzer to talk about his new album, “Songs From Lonely Avenue.” It comes out on the 13th. Listen to clips here.
Simon Jay Harper has a series of articles appearing on allaboutjazz.com worth checking out:
The Story of Jazz Trumpet
The Story Of Jazz Saxophone
The Story of Jazz Guitar
Good [...]
Before I sink into the big sleep
Submitted by Secret Society
I’m very pleased to announce that I’ve been awarded a grant from the Jerome Foundation’s Composers Commissioning Program to create a new work for the awesome new music ensemble Newspeak. The piece, called “The Sleep Room,” is a song cycle inspired by the CIA-funded MKULTRA mind control experiments that took place in Montreal [...]
Brooklyn Big Band Bonanza - 19 Oct. 2009
Submitted by Secret Society
Check out the most excellent poster (courtesy of Search and Restore) for our upcoming Bell House three-way with the Industrial Jazz Group and Travis Sullivan’s Björkestra. This all goes down Monday 19 Oct. You have been warned.
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Lifestyle of a tortured artist for sale
Submitted by Secret Society
Tomorrow (Monday, Oct. 5) at 7 PM I will be participating in an “Artist’s Salon” — I know how that sounds but I’m hoping it will be fun. Basically it’s just a bunch of creative folks, including myself, talking briefly about what it is, exactly, that we do. I’m planning on saying [...]
I ain’t givin’ nothin’ away
Submitted by Secret Society
James P. Johnson’s Last Rent Party happens Sunday afternoon & evening at Smalls — it’s a solo piano marathon, a fundraiser to provide a tangible memorial for Godfather of Harlem stride. (He lies, ignominiously, in an unmarked grave in Maspeth, Queens.)
Ethan Iverson, one of the performers, has the schedule, but more importantly, [...]
See the sky ripped open
Submitted by Secret Society
The upcoming collaboration between Dave Douglas, Jim McNeely, and the Frankfurt Radio Bigband, A Single Sky, is now available for advance listening and preorder over at Greenleaf Music. I wrote the liner notes for this record and you can read them here.
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Bill Evans on Riverside
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
I finally rounded out my Bill Evans collection with The Complete Riverside Recordings. A lot of this music was already on my hard drive, but with the Verve and Fantasy boxes, I have by George got a lot of Bill Evans. I imagine this comes close to all the recordings made [...]
More Dave Holland
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
Ken Laster has a Dave Holland special with a lot of a lot of Holland’s music and an interview. I am very jealous. Ken gets to talk to Dave Holland. For some reason, we don’t get a lot of great jazz men stopping in Aberdeen, South Dakota. But listening to Holland [...]
Ben Webster and the Lush Sound
Submitted by Jazz Note SDP
My good friend Ken Laster did a podcast on Lester Young at his podcast In The Groove, which I can’t praise enough. The podcast I mean, though the Pork Pie Hat tribute was delicious. I especially liked the Kevin Mahogany version of Mingus’s incomparable standard ‘Goodbye Pork Pie Hat,’ with its [...]
The Jazz Problem- by Aaron Johnson
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
Here’s an article written by Aaron Johnson, one of the most talented students I’ve had in the past few years. Aaron recently moved from Portland, Oregon to NYC to study as a Jazz performance major at the Manhattan School of Music.
Here I am, at a world-renowned conservatory in the greatest [...]
Fourth Exercises for Saxophone
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
Dan Gaynor wrote these nice exercises for saxophone:
Fourths exercises
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