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AAJ Recommendations
What is the best Jazz anecdote you ever heard or read/A>? Assemble your personal fantasy band Best places to buy Jazz music Best places to catch Jazz CDs that should be remastered Celebrating Int'l Jazz Day Favorite "acquired taste" Favorite Funk-Groove Jazz Favorite Latin Jazz Favorite holiday Jazz recording Favorite Jazz quote Favorite Jazz versions of pop songs Favorite sax players Great, but obscure albums Great, but obscure albums (cont.) Great concert videos Great jazz cities Greatest singers Greatest songwriters Great vinyl albums not yet released on CD Hometown heroes How do you organize your music? Jazz on film Jazz to play for romantic evenings Jazz to play for dinner Listening habits Lookin' for solo recordings Overrated players Required reading What you like most about Jazz? Where do you go to locate hard to find Jazz titles? Your list of classic Jazz songs Your picks for the millenium
Contributors to Jazz
Who is advancing Jazz? Bird and Diz Fresh voice in Jazz Medeski, Martin and Wood Miles Davis' impact on Jazz Recent contributors to Jazz Underrated players Wynton Marsalis' impact on Jazz
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Jazz, the Music
Advice for budding musicians Composition vs. performance Evolution of fusion Foreign influences on Jazz Fusion vs Jazz standards Jazzers on non-Jazz records Kenny G: to defend the indefensible Reissues effect on jazz What constitutes a standard? Resurgence in swing The first shot fired at the swing movement How will Jazz evolve?
Jazz and the Media
IAJE 2000 feedback Jazz coverage shortcomings JazzAds (JazzTimes) and the Jazz Hacks (Critics) State of Jazz radio Stanley Crouch and those zany Jazz Hacks The end of Jazz Central Station The new payola
Jazz Ruminations
Pat Metheny vs. Kenny G Documentary from 1960 to present How have African-American culture and history influenced Jazz? Influence of hip-hop/technology Influential musicians Internet's impact on Jazz Is Jazz too cerebral? Jazz criticism Jazz reflecting societal changes Labels supporting free artists More popular in Europe Spirituality and Jazz Washed up over 30? What is Jazz?
Purchasing Jazz
A record labels impact New release comments New Latin Jazz release comments The value in boxed sets Top reissues in '98