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Building a Jazz LibraryLift Every Voice And Sing: Twenty #BlackLives Albums That Matter
Jazz has been inextricably linked with social and political protest since at least the late 1930s, when Billie Holiday made famous the leftist songwriter and poet Abel Meeropol's "Strange Fruit."
By Chris May
July 23, 2020 -
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InterviewCharles Tolliver: Blowing Down The Walls Of Trump’s Jericho
Charles Tolliver has played with practically every major African American jazz stylist of his generation, and composed for some of them, too. In addition, he is the co-founder of Strata-East, the most influential label at the intersection of hard bop and spiritual jazz during the 1970s. Tolliver's long and distinguished career continues to flourish...
By Chris May
July 21, 2020 -
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Live Review4th Zbigniew Seifert International Jazz Violin Competition
When the fanfare and drum roll had died down the big moment arrived. After three days of on-line competition, the six finalists waited anxiously in front of their screens, in Israel, The USA, Austria, France and in Brazil, to hear who would be crowned the winner of the 4th Zbigniew Seifert International Jazz Violin Competition.
By Ian Patterson
July 19, 2020 -
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InterviewJerry Granelli: Updating Music of Past Heroes
Now approaching 80, it's a good place to be for a man who was born to the drums and knew as a young child in San Francisco that his life's purpose was intertwined with the mixture of drum skins, shells, cymbals and metal hardware.
By R.J. DeLuke
July 15, 2020 -
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Building a Jazz LibraryAtlantic Records: More Giant Steps: An Alternative Top 20 Albums
The New York Times wrote that Nesuhi Ertegun’s ‘humongous’ collection of surrealist art was ‘enough to pack the Solomon A. Guggenheim Museum from ceiling to lobby with a powerful exhibition.’ The Atlantic jazz catalogue is similarly humongous—and powerful.
By Chris May
July 13, 2020
