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James Reese Europe
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During the first two decades of the twentieth century, James Reese Europe emerged as the most renowned bandleader of New York's entertainment world. Famed for his syncopated orchestral accompaniment of the dancing team of Irene and Vernon Castle, Europe became a major figure in promoting the popularity of social dancing and engendered a ragtime-based music that contributed to the emergence of jazz. During World War I, his 369th Infantry Band the “Hell Fighters,” was hailed by French and American troops as the finest ensemble in the Allied Army. James Reese Europe was born on February 22, 1880, in Mobile, Alabama
BlankFor.ms: Refract
by Neri Pollastri
Uscito il primo settembre, nove mesi dopo From the Dancehall to the Battlefield, lo splendido lavoro dedicato a James Reese Europe, questo Refract illustra l'altra faccia di un autore geniale e poliedrico qual è Jason Moran. Di fatto diretto da BlankFor.ms, alias Tyler Gilmore, artista elettronico già allievo di Moran che usa nastri degradati e sintetizzatori ...
Jason Moran: From the Dancehall to the Battlefield
by Neri Pollastri
Uscito il primo gennaio 2023 su Bandcamp, questo album di Jason Moran, per il suo concept, per la varietà e la ricchezza, per il modo in cui fonde radici storiche e modernità è probabilmente da considerare il disco dell'anno. Il suggestivo titolo From the Dancehall to the Battlefield sintetizza la storia del mitico musicista ...
Thandi Ntuli, Frank Zappa, Jason Moran, Soweto Kinch & Other New Releases
by Ludovico Granvassu
Welcome to the first edition of Mondo Jazz of 2023! Judging by how the year started, it should be jazz a-plenty as we open with Jason Moran's latest project, released just hours after the new year started, dedicated to James Reese Europe. After that many recent compelling releases, from Thandi Ntuli to Frank Zappa (newly published ...
Meet Trumpeter Anthony Hervey
by Sanford Josephson
This article first appeared in Jersey Jazz Magazine. Anthony Hervey was in the sixth grade when he discovered jazz. My mother encouraged me to play trumpet because my grandfather played trumpet," he said. I was very reluctant to do so, but she convinced me to do it and said I could quit after a ...
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Darryl Hall
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Darryl is an American born jazz bassist who
has lived in France since 2004. Previously, he
was in New York for twelve years where he
performed with some of the world’s greatest
artists, in many different genres of jazz and
African American diaspora music. He was
born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, birthplace
to some of the world’s finest bassists
including Stanley Clarke, Jaco Pastorius,
Alphonso Johnson, Charles Fambrough, Percy
Heath, Jymie Merritt, Christian Mcbride, Arthur
Harper, Tyrone Brown, and Victor Bailey.
While in New York, Darryl performed with
many jazz luminaries including Mulgrew
Miller, Carmen Lundy, Hank Jones, Mary
Stallings, Geri Allen, James Williams, Stefon
Harris, Regina Carter, Ravi Coltrane, and
Robert Glasper, among others
Jazz in Cleveland: A Storied Past, Surviving Present, and an Optimistic Future
by Matthew Alec
Cleveland, Ohio. Having lived here for my entire life, the word city" does not quite describe what Cleveland truly is. There is of course a downtown urban area, one filled with noteworthy neoclassic architecture and an overall stately appearance that is often overlooked by those who live here. That said, most Clevelanders" don't actually live within ...
American Frederick Thomas: 'The Black Russian' Who Connected Jazz To The Margins Of Asia
by Arthur R George
The child of former slaves, Frederick Bruce Thomas' New York Times obituary called him the sultan of jazz," for the jazz palace he founded in Constantinople (now jny: Istanbul) after World War I, a jazz borderland beyond even the music's early jny: Paris outpost. He was hosting bands in Constantinople in 1921 even before Louis Armstrong ...
Jason Moran and the Bandwagon at Cologne Philharmonie
by Phillip Woolever
Jason Moran and the Bandwagon Cologne Philharmonie Cologne, Germany November 22, 2019 As the sprawling local Christmas markets prepared for a holiday tourist onslaught, Jason Moran and the Bandwagon presented masterful skills transcending any singular celebration. The concert was part of the trio's celebratory 20-year anniversary tour and there was ...
Blue Highways and Sweet Music: The Territory Bands, Part I
by Karl Ackermann
Part 1 | Part 2 OriginsBy the second half of the 1920s, New York had supplanted jny: Chicago as the center of jazz. The Jazz Age"--a label incorrectly ascribed to F. Scott Fitzgerald--could rationally have been framed as the Dance Age." Prohibition, and the speakeasies that it spawned, were packed with wildly enthusiastic patrons ...