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A Happy New Year Full of Jazz/Rock is Here -- Time to Party Like It's 1969!
(In case that headline is puzzling you... 1969 is the year Columbia released Miles Davis' In A Silent Way, and the year after the release of Filles de Kilimanjaro, when the Dark Prince got the party started and electricity started running through his veins.) Three weeks ago I received an email from Hungarian guitarist László ...
'Zat You, Santa Claus?
We Americans and our religious holidays are hard to figure, that's for sure. First, you hear us demanding tolerance and equal time for people who choose to affiliate with an anti-religious philosophy, or no religious practice at all. The next minute, we are decrying the absurd religious discrimination being ...
Jazz/Rock is Alive and Well--Third Rail in Zülpich Tonight, Cologne on December 7th, Prague, December 8th
Music fans in Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Austria, etc., who are willing to do a bit of traveling, have the opportunity to hear the Jazz/Rock supergroup Third Rail tonight at the Live Proberaum in Zülpich, Germany, at the Altes Pfandhaus in Cologne, Germany tomorrow, December 7th, and at the Agharta Jazzclub in Prague, Czech Republic on ...
Just a Bit Outside: A Response to Rolling Stone's Baseball Movie Survey
Now that the 2013 baseball season is over, what is left for baseball fans is the Hot Stove League: four months of arguments about who will win/should have won the Cy Young and Rookie of the Year awards, the December free agent signings, and some light betting on whether Alex Rodriguez will be mugged for his ...
A Happy New Year and the Auld Lang Syne
On a night very much like this one, 83 years ago, jazz came to the rescue of Western Civilization. Big Band leader Guy Lombardo arrived right on time and brought in the new year with his lightly swinging rendition of Auld Lang Syne," a traditional Scots song that poet Robert Burns used as the basis of ...
Updated Poll Results: The 5 Best Jazz/Rock Fusion Recordings of All Time
Thanks to all of you who have been voting on this poll of The 5 best Jazz/Rock albums of all time. I have updated the totals and realigned them, so just go to the link for a look at the new numbers. Hundreds and hundreds of music fans from all over the world have been ...
Poll (Results) and a New Poll: The 5 Best Jazz/Rock Fusion Recordings of All Time
On January 29, 2009, I posted a poll here with links to it on various online music discussion groups, asking people to nominate what they felt were the 5 best jazz/rock fusion albums of all time. A good number of responses came in by email, while quite a few were posted on the online forums and here ...
Jazz, Politics, Edward Kennedy and the Ghosts of Richard Nixon: Our American Dialogue and the Hatfields and McCoys
To get into heaven, don't snap for a seven Live clean, don't have no fault Oh, I take the gospel, whenever it's possible But with a grain of salt —"It Ain't Necessarily So," from Porgy & Bess by George and Ira Gershwin Edward Kennedy Ellington celebrated his 70th ...
You Say You Want a Revolution (We All Want to Change the World): Bitches Brew Live, or How Miles Davis Saved 21st Century Jazz
Bitches Brew was recognized as the proverbial shot heard 'round the world" within weeks of being released by Columbia Records in April, 1970. In his musical choicesparticularly the electric instrumentation, radically new editing approaches, and recent personnel changesMiles had set off a fiery explosion that continues to reverberate throughout jazz to this day. A good number ...
Casey Abrams: New American Idol Contestant is a Messenger with a Jazz Message
Before last Wednesday, I was like more than a few music fans in my instinctive dislike of the American Idol phenomenon. Cheap and showy, lowest-common-denominator entertainment, it was created in the same terrifying cauldron that Fox's 1989 Cops voyeurism and MTV's 1992 Real World success originally inspired, and which has since produced Survivor, Big Brother, Fear ...