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Building a Jazz LibraryJohn Coltrane: An Alternative Top Ten Albums
Miles Davis once said that you could recite the history of jazz in just four words: Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker. To that you need to add two more: John Coltrane. A giant during his lifetime, Coltrane continues to shape jazz and inspire musicians decades after he passed.
By Chris May
April 8, 2021 -
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InterviewEmiliano Sampaio: Rising Transatlantic Star
In 2013, I was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to teach and to work on a research project at the Kunstuniversität Graz ("University of the Arts in Graz"). I taught a first-year course in jazz theory that was really a delight.
By Kurt Ellenberger
April 5, 2021 -
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Under the RadarA Different Drummer, Part 2: Royal Hartigan
The ruins of the Anasazi people stand undisturbed in the cliffs between the high mesas and the canyon floors of the southwest. Dating to 2500 B.C., the multi-story adobe pueblos and stone cities were the sites of the ancient indigenous peoples of North America.
By Karl Ackermann
March 30, 2021 -
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InterviewLogan Richardson: On Afrofuturism and finding Mom
As the twenty-first century takes its course, a jazz musician's musical path seems to be becoming less and less linear. Derivatives of genres, shifting technological approaches and possibilities as well as a growing amount of proactivist political and...
By Friedrich Kunzmann
March 29, 2021 -
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SoCal JazzPhilippe Coignet: The Fusion of Paris, Rio, and New York
A thirteen-piece ensemble ensconced in the immersion of three unique and divergent cultures is enough to get your attention. Veteran musician Philippe Coignet set out to do just that...
By Jim Worsley
March 26, 2021
