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InterviewRudy Royston: Little Steps, Big Pictures
Everybody needs a helping hand now and then. Rudy Royston understands that. The Covid-19 pandemic has caused gigs to completely dry up for all musicians, and with that, their main income stream. Yet there are still mortgages, rents and bills to pay, and children to feed. It says something about the precarious finances of a jazz musician's life...
By Ian Patterson
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Building a Jazz LibraryBlue Note Records: Lost In Space: 20 Overlooked Classic Albums
For anyone with a passion for Blue Note, it is hard to conceive of an album that has been "overlooked," let alone twenty of them. For connoisseurs of the most influential label in jazz history, the passion can be all consuming: if a dedicated collector does not have all the albums (yet), he or she will be aware of their existence.
By Chris May
July 29, 2020 -
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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
