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It's no exaggeration to say that Pete Seeger has done more to popularize American folk music than any other contemporary musician, authoring or co-authoring the songs that have become folk standards: "If I Had a Hammer," "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" and "Turn! Turn! Turn!" to name just a few. His work has inspired countless musicians including Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and the Dixie Chicks, and his tireless political and environmental activism have galvanized generations of admirers to follow his lead and take action. Born on May 3, 1919 to Charles and Constance Seeger, music was in Seeger's blood from the first; his father was a Professor of musicology and his mother, a classical violinist

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Article: Book Review

Bass Notes: Jazz In American Culture, A Personal View

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Bass Notes: Bass Notes: Jazz In American Culture, A Personal View Chuck Israels 240 Pages ISBN: 1493074849 Backbeat Books 2024 Chuck Israels developed musically in what many would say was an extremely fertile time in Jazz. I'm talking about the 1960s. Of course, his stint with Bill Evans during ...

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Article: Album Review

Karl Berger, Max Johnson, Billy Mintz: Sketches

Read "Sketches" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


An exquisitely palatable sense of dance permeates the gregarious music bassist Max Johnson brings to the fore on Sketches, the second of two heady 2022 releases. Whereas the first, Orbit of Sound (Unbroken Sounds), teams him up with the rule-elusive sax and flute of Anna Weber and drummer Michael Sarin, Sketches presents a slightly more straight ...

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Article: Album Review

Eda And: Live in Hamburg

Read "Live in Hamburg" reviewed by Arthur R George


Turkish pianist Eda And went large in her ambitious debut CD, Augmented Life (Kalan), in 2018, leading a contemporary jazz big band in jny: Istanbul through compositions and arrangements that she originally created for the NDR Bigband in jny: Hamburg, Germany. She has returned, scaled back and in a completely different direction, solo, with Live in ...

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Article: Live Review

Kronos Festival at SFJAZZ Center

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Kronos Quartet SFJAZZ Center Kronos Festival 2022 San Francisco, CA April 7-9, 2022 Founded in 1973, Kronos Quartet has long been one of San Francisco's musical treasures. Yet, because the quartet tours internationally, a performance in its home city is an event to take note of. The three-day Kronos Festival ...

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Article: Album Review

David Berkman: David Berkman Plays Music By John Coltrane And Pete Seeger

Read "David Berkman Plays Music By John Coltrane And Pete Seeger" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Formative influences rarely fit into neat categories. At a certain, impressionable age, some music, like yet unlike anything else, simply manages to seep into a youngster's consciousness. What that particular music may be, who performs it, and what it carries within and beyond its notes and/or words, is something to be sorted out at a later ...

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Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection

Label: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Released: 2019
Track listing: CD1: We Shall Overcome; If I Had a Hammer; Turn Turn Turn; Goodnight, Irene; Guantanamera; The Bells of Rhymney; Where Have All the Flowers Gone; Waist Deep in the Big Muddy; Little Boxes; Tzena, Tzena, Tzena; So Long It’s Been Good to Know You; Mrs. McGrath; Kisses Sweeter Than Wine; Banks of Marble; Talking Atom; A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall; Puttin' on the Style; Deportees (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos); Viva la Quince Brigada; Living in the Country; This Land Is Your Land. CD2: Union Hoot: The Scabs Crawl In / We Pity Our Bosses Five / Keep That Line A-Moving / Join the Picket Line Today; You Can All Join In: It Takes Everybody to Build This Land / Indian Deer Hunting / Yankee Doodle / Old Chisholm Trail / The Farmer is the Man / Erie Canal (Low Bridge) /John Henry; Sea Chanties: Boston ”Come-All-Ye” (Blow Ye Winds Westerly) / New Bedford Whalers / The Bigler/ Johnny Come Down to Hilo; Down in the Valley; Buffalo Gals; UAW-CIO; Dinky Die; Uncle Sam, Won't You Please Come Home to Guam; Moorsoldaten; Listen Mr. Bilbo; Joe Hill; Roll the Union On; OPA Shout; Talking Union; John Riley; Banjo Medley: Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss / Cripple Creek / Ida Red / Old Joe Clark; Jam on Jerry’s Rocks; Lonesome Traveler; Goofing Off Suite: Opening Theme; Chorale from Beethoven’s 9th Symphony; Suliram; Babevuya; Blue Mountain Lake; Coal Creek March / Pay Day at Coal Creek / Buddy Won't You Roll Down the Line; Wasn’t That a Time; Which Side Are You On? CD3: Foolish Frog; I Had a Rooster; Mr. Rabbit; Oh, Worrycare; Hard Times in the Mill; Casey Jones (the Union Scab); The Death of Harry Simms; The Preacher and the Slave; I Don’t Want Your Millions, Mister; Passing Through; Kumbaya; Black and White; Didn’t Old John Cross the Water / Michael, Row the Boat Ashore; Midnight Special; Que Bonita Bandera; The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be; In the Evening When the Sun Goes Down; Hold On; Down by the Riverside; Wimoweh; Tina Sizwe (We the Brown Nation). CD4: In Tarrytown; Oleanna; Deep Blue Sea; Barbara Allen; Big Rock Candy Mountain; House of the Rising Sun; Shenandoah; Go Tell Aunt Rhody; Bottle Up and Go; Hard Travelling; Dink’s Song; When I First Came to This Land; The Half Hitch; I Never Will Marry; Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase; No More Auction Block; Talking Blues; St. James Infirmary; Strawberry Roan; Follow the Drinking Gourd; Seneca Canoe Song (Kayowjajineh); The Banks of Champlain; My Gallant Black Bess; Nonesuch; Battle of New Orleans. CD5: Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream; Carol of the Beasts (Burgundian Carol); The Quiz Show; Eight-Hour Day; The Popular Wobbly; Bourgeois Blues; Garbage; Guardian Beauty Contest (Attila the Hun); Rambling Boy; Mrs. Clara Sullivan’s Letter; Freiheit (Die Thälmann-Kolonne); Battle of Maxton Field; What Did You Learn in School Today; From Way Up Here; To My Old Brown Earth; My Dirty Stream (The Hudson River Song); Letter to Eve; Ballad of Dr. Dearjohn; My Name is Lisa Kalvelage; Don’t Ask What a River Is For; God Bless the Grass; Of Time and Rivers Flowing; Well May the World Go; Guantanamera. CD6: Quite Early Morning; There’s Better Things to Do; My Father’s Mansion’s Many Rooms; Estadio Chile; Why, Oh Why?; How About You?;The Sinking of the Reuben James; Abiyoyo; Cristo Ya Nacio; The Water is Wide; Greensleeves; If I Had a Hammer (Hammer Song); We’ll All Be A-Doubling; Arrange and Rearrange; English is Cuh-Ray-Zee (English is Crazy); A Little of This and That; Sailin’ Up, Sailin’ Down; All Mixed Up; Star Spangled Banner / To Anacreon in Heaven; One Grain of Sand.

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Article: Album Review

Pete Seeger: Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection

Read "Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard


It is no coincidence that folk singer, songwriter and social activist Pete Seeger (1919-2014) turns up as one of the important voices on the recently released Smithsonian Folkways box set The Social Power of Music (Smithsonian Folkways, 2019). Seeger, one of the towering figures of American folk music, believed in songs as tools that could transform ...

Article: Album Review

Petra Haden, Jesse Harris: Seemed Like A Good Idea - Petra Haden Sings Jesse Harris

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Al crocevia di molti percorsi che di jazz hanno in realtà molto poco, e guardano piuttosto al folk contemporaneo e al pop acustico incontriamo questo album, frutto dell'unione artistica della violinista e cantante Petra Haden e del chitarrista Jesse Harris. Seemed Like a Good Idea è un disco tutto all'insegna della leggerezza, nel senso migliore del ...

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Article: Live Review

Septeto Nacional at the Brava Theater

Read "Septeto Nacional at the Brava Theater" reviewed by Harry S. Pariser


Septeto Nacional Brava Theater San Francisco, CA January 17, 2016 In 1927, Ignacio Pineiro formed a group to play Cuba's traditional son music, a genre germinated in the black communities of rural Cuba. Pineiro added a cornet player to add zest and appeal, and the band, the Septeto Nacional, really took ...


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