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Under the RadarWomen in Jazz, Pt. 3: The International Women in Jazz Organization
In Part 3 we leapfrog to present day, looking at one of several organizations that are dedicated to furthering the cause of women in the genre but not to the exclusion of others.
By Karl Ackermann
June 29, 2020 -
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Building a Jazz LibraryJazz & Film: An Alternative Top 20 Soundtrack Albums
Jazz and the movies have a shared history stretching back almost a hundred years. The relationship came into its own in the US in the mid twentieth century. Elia Kazan's 1950 movie Panic In The Streets is an early example of how film makers used jazz-based soundtracks to enhance drama...
By Chris May
June 24, 2020 -
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SoCal JazzCatalina Jazz Club: Landmark Jazz Haven Forges Onward
Being from Romania, I knew nothing about jazz. I mean zero, zilch, nada. All of a sudden I found myself in the middle of the ocean. Little by little I learned how to swim. Then I learned how to swim well. —Catalina Popescu
By Jim Worsley
June 23, 2020 -
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Building a Jazz LibrarySex & Drugs & Jazz & Jive: Top Ten Stash Records Albums
An early viper, today Bernie Brightman lives in a nice, renovated brownstone overlooking Prospect Park in Brooklyn. A charming, good-humored, graying hipster who at the ripe age of 53 chucked his middle-class businessman’s trip and went back to his reefer roots to establish Stash Records.
By Chris May
June 16, 2020 -
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InterviewJohn Scofield: One For Swallow
From time to time in his storied career John Scofield will take a look over his shoulder and re-examine some of the music that has fed into his own, personal brand of jazz. The influences are many, for no matter the context that Scofield engineers, his distinctive sound always carries something of the blues, a little funk, some R&B, a touch of soul, and a country twang.
By Ian Patterson
June 15, 2020
