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Happy Birthday Matthew Shipp.
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Brilliant Corners, a Boston Jazz Blog
Matthew meets his half decade today in his prime and fully immersed in Dionysian musings shaped by Apollonian sensibilities. It's quite a feat. It turns on his use of the most basic primal song forms, the first ones most people here were exposed to... Frere Jacques, etc. The melody kernel that the “The New Fact" grows from is like some echo of Joshua, of Jericho fame in more stark and thus striking offspring and “3 in 1" might be a ...
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The Kindie Music Scene: Performing Music for Kids
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HypeBot
Recently, I spoke with Debbie Cavalier, who is a children's entertainer and vocalist for Debbie and Friends, a kindie music group. She's also Dean of Continuing Education and Chief Academic Officer at Berklee College of Music. Joining Cavalier in this interview is Beth Blenz-Clucas. She's the founder of Sugarmountain PR, a firm that specializes in raising awareness children's and family-friendly music. Several months back, I wrote about kindie music and Cavalier was kind enough to get in touch with me. ...
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Jambase Questionnaire: Brian Haas
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JamBase
Welcome back to JamBase's baker's dozen to the bright lights of the music world. Last time we heard from The New Up. Odysseys are a tricky business. By nature, they are circuitous and fraught with sirens calling one towards the rocks and angry, jealous gods tossing stones in one's pathway. The long, winding road of Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey handily reflects the mythological origins of their name, with myriad lineup changes and stylistic shifts over their many years. But one ...
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Brubeck at 90--It's Time In
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
Like many jazz fans who are now of a certain age, I cut my music teeth early on listening to Oscar Peterson and Dave Brubeck. Peterson's gone but Brubeck seems indefatigable. Today is his 90th birthday. And tonight, he'll celebrate with family by watching a new Bruce Ricker/Clint Eastwood documentary, Dave Brubeck: In His Own Sweet Way (Turner Classic Movies). Maybe our local jazz station, KBEM, will screen the film in an upcoming REEL Jazz series. Among a long list ...
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Interview II: Mario Pavone
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Ars Nova Workshop
Last week, Ars Nova Workshop shared the first half of our conversation with Mario Pavone, who will be in Philadelphia on December 12 with Orange Double Tenor. For the second part of our interview, we asked Mario to tell us more about the suite his sextet will perform, Arc Suite T/Pi T/Po. Here’s what he had to say: When’s the last time you played Philadelphia? I think 15 or 16 years ago, 1995 or 1996, with the Thomas Chapin Trio. ...
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Jelli Interview: What Radio Democracy Leads To
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HypeBot
Last week Apple made Jelli a “Featured" app in the App Store. This is part two of my interview segment with Mike Dougherty, who is CEO of Jelli, a crowdsourced and social radio service. In this interview, Dougherty talks about how Jelli could help radio revolutionize their approach to advertising and his aspirations for creating a music service that's supporting of all artists. Hypebot: Can Jelli to help radio rethink their ads? Mike Dougherty: All of the activity on Jelli ...
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Bev Thorne on Brubeck East
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Today is Dave Brubeck's 90th birthday. At 5 p.m. (EST), Turner Classic Movies will broadcast In His Own Sweet Way, a new documentary on Dave's life and music directed by Bruce Ricker and produced by Clint Eastwood. It is a valentine to the pianist and composer whose music continues to wow listeners. [Photo of Dave Brubeck at home, courtesy of Beverley D. Thorne] Following my Wall Street Journal interview last month with Dave at his Connecticut home, many readers wrote ...
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