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Avant-Jazzers Conference Call Interviewed at All About Jazz
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
Conference Call can be as balanced and beautiful as an intricate organism, but just as soon rage with holy fire. The quartet—consisting of saxophonist Gebhard Ullman, bassist Joe Fonda, drummer George Schuller and pianist Michael Jefry Stevens—perpetually weaves in all three dimensions, as well as in time—its own, and music history's. Together since the late '90s, the group is going strong, burning away but losing no energy, relating jazz past and political past to hard and fast present moments—and spiriting ...
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Hiromi is the Hendrix of the Piano.
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The Domino Theory by Jeff Winbush
I don't get jazz sexism. I used to read Down Beat magazine and my favorite section was the blindfold test where notable artists would listen to tunes selected for them to critique. When you got someone like Miles Davis listening to something he thought was crap he wasn't shy about saying so. What I don't remember even Miles at his meanest saying, “Take that shit off. That bitch can't play." Name an instrument and if there's a man who is ...
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Efforts to Prevent Piracy Destined to Fail - It's Hard to Police People at Home [interview]
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HypeBot
This is part two of my interview with Joe Cox. He is an economist at of the University of Portsmouth. He recently published a paper titled Seeders, leechers and social norms: Evidence from the market for illicit digital downloading and proclaimed that file-sharers see themselves as the Robin Hoods of the digital age. In this interview, Cox talks about our efforts to curve piracy and music as a public good. Hypebot: Would you say that the efforts to curve piracy ...
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Remembering the Jazz Ambassador: Billy Taylor
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The Independent Ear by Willard Jenkins
On Monday, January 10 Dr. Billy Taylor was given a rich, warm send-off totally befitting one of the classiest musicians and people jazz music has ever produced. Dave Brubeck wrote of “The Real Ambassadors," Dr. Billy Taylor was the most REAL Ambassador of all. Here's a man responsible for introducing the beauties and wonders of jazz music to the masses, through his media work and on various and sundry stages. There is no better concert exemplar of how to de-mystify ...
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Jazzwax List: Lou's Organists
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Lou Donaldson was one of the first alto saxophonists to perform and record consistently with a Hammond B3 behind him. He used the sound extensively on the road in the '50s while touring across the country and developed a new jazz-funk approach in the '60s. Here's a list of the groovy organists who have recorded with him over the years. Dates signify their first recording session:
Jimmy Smith (1957) Baby Face Willette (1961) Brother Jack McDuff (1961) Big John Patton ...
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Latin Jazz Conversations: Paquito D'Rivera (Part 5)
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The Latin Jazz Corner by Chip Boaz
Depth and diversity really define the magnitude of an artist's career, and determines the impact that their musical will have over time. Most artists pick a direction that dictates their musical output, but only a select few dig far into the history and potential of their chosen path. If they do, they rarely change course and continue their fully encompassing exploration. The ability to go in-depth in several different directions only exists in a rare breed of artist, and that ...
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Joe Lovano is the Laughing Buddha of Mainstream Jazz
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Inverted Garden by Eric Benson
I write today in praise of Joe Lovano, a man whom I called in NYMag's jazz listings “the laughing Buddha of mainstream jazz." Ten years ago—on June 2nd, 2001 to be exact—I went to the Vanguard for the very first time, a 16-year-old discovering the music, taken with Lovano's 1992 release From the Soul. (The copy I had of Richard Cook and Brian Morton's Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD had called the disc something like “the definitive jazz album ...
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