Jazz Articles about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Wolf—Future Perfect, 3. Satie

by Blue Note Portal
November 3, 2026

New York 1970 Maya didn't miss a beat. She dropped to one knee beside the wooden crates, her fingers walking rapidly across the album spines until she extracted a slightly worn sleeve. “If Debussy was a painter," Maya said, pulling the black vinyl free, “this next guy was a minimalist with a pencil. Erik Satie. He lived around the same time, but he disliked the grandeur of the concert hall. He wrote music intended to be ambient--he called ...

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Wolf—Future Perfect, 2. Debussy

by Blue Note Portal
November 2, 2026

1970--New York The laughter in the West 26th Street rehearsal loft gradually subsided. Maya was still holding her Les Paul against her hip, staring at the slight figure sitting on the piano bench. Chloe set her Telecaster gently into its stand, wiping her palms on her jeans, her expression caught somewhere between utter bewilderment and radiant amusement. “So," Chloe said, crossing her arms and leaning against the edge of the mixing riser with a broad smile, “you're clearly ...

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Wolf—Future Perfect, 1. Punked

by Blue Note Portal
November 1, 2026

1970--Manhattan, New York The rehearsal loft on West 26th Street caught the crisp autumn afternoon sun through its tall, lead-paned industrial windows. Inside, the smell of fresh coffee and Chloe's favorite almond pastries from a bakery down on 8th Avenue mingled with the faint, comforting odor of heated vacuum tubes. Maya sat on an equipment case, tuning her sunburst Les Paul unamplified, while Chloe replaced an E string on her Telecaster. Kyle was seated casually at his drum ...

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WAM at 250

by C. Michael Bailey
February 17, 2006

Dateline: February 27, 2006, Little Rock, Arkansas.

No, not WHAM!, the 1980s boy duo of George Michael and what's-his-name. WAM! - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and today is his 250th birthday. Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria on January 27, 1756; his full name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Gottlieb Mozart. The composer was baptized as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart: named after his grandfather on his mother's side and after the Saint honored on the date his of birth, Johannes Chrysostomus.