For jazz fans who are in New York, when one countdown ends with the Times Square Ball Drop, another one begins—and ends a few days later, when Winter JazzFest officially gets underway with the first downbeat at Le Poisson Rouge.
Every year, the assignment is the same: come up with a "top ten." And yet every year, more albums are released than the year before...
Bill Anschell is a Seattle-based pianist that has been the recipient of national acclaim for his work as a leader and sideman in jazz. He has released eleven albums as a leader or co-leader on the Origin Records label, and appeared on many more. From 1989-2002 he resided in Atlanta, where he took on a syndicated radio program, JazzSouth among other projects...
If you had to recommend just one book on jazz history to a neophyte, which would it be? Ted Gioia's The History of Jazz (Oxford University Press, 1997) is rightly regarded as a definitive account, but at nearly 600 pages it may deter readers looking for a lighter introduction.
The old saying "wherever you go, there you are" is one of those deceptively simple adages that never lets you down. And yet, the longer I've lived with it, the more I've come to believe that there are certain times and places when a person is just a little more where they are.
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