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Notes from the Net: Phil Perry's New Collaboration; Mtume vs. Crouch; Plus News, Reviews, Interviews, and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Here's the latest compilation of assorted news briefs and links related to jazz, improvisation, and creative music in St. Louis, including news of musicians originally from the Gateway City, recent visitors, and coming attractions, plus assorted other items of interest: In this week's Miles Davis-related news, Davis' former percussionist James Mtume and journalist and critic Stanley Crouch recently debated the merits of the trumpeter's electric music of the 1970s, and their discussion was captured on video and posted online. Most ...
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Jazz News: Brubeck Back in Action
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Riffs on Jazz by John Anderson
Dave Brubeck is back in action after cardiac surgery, as noted in this story from the Worcester, Massachusetts Telegram-Gazette: Brubeck Makes Up-Tempo ReturnTicker repaired, pianist keeps beat By Peter Landsdowne WORCESTER—Joined by alto saxophonist and flutist Bobby Militello, bassist Chris Smith and drummer Cody Cox, perennially popular pianist Dave Brubeck kicked off the 16th annual Mass Jazz Festival Friday night with a dynamic concert at Mechanics Hall that served as part of Music Worcester Inc.'s 151st Worcester Music ...
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The Sacred Jazz of Deanna Witkowski
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JamaicaMusic Offbeat
Pianist, vocalist, composer and winner of the 2002 Great American Jazz Piano Competition, Deanna Witkowski is one of the more important sacred jazz artists today. With a very original and virtuous style, she mixes contemporary and Latin jazz genres doing so from a spiritual perspective. Based in New York, Deanna has worked in different projects relating to sacred jazz. Most important is her album From this Place that mainly focused on liturgical music and feature saxophonist Donny McCaslin, bassist John ...
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How Pros Hurt Creativity and Weaken Local Ecology
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HypeBot
(Updated) Recently, I spoke with Mike Masnick, who is the founder of TechDirt, a leading technology and insight blog. In this interview, Masnick share his thoughts on how performing rights organizations (PROs) harm up-and-coming acts by insisting that small coffee shops, bars, and venues pay large licensing fees, in the event that cover songs are played at their locations. Often, the end result seems to be that these businesses stop allowing playing music to be played. This hurts the development ...
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Ain't but a Few of Us: Author Karen Chilton
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The Independent Ear by Willard Jenkins
Several weeks ago at a Brooklyn book signing at the MoCADA gallery for native son Randy Weston and our new book African Rhythms (Composed by Randy Weston, Arranged by Willard Jenkins published by Duke University Press; see elsewhere in The Independent Ear) I had the pleasure of meeting author and thespian Karen Chilton. Most recently she authored the Hazel Scott bio and prior to that co-authored Gloria Lynne's memoirs with Ms. Lynne. As we swapped stories about our book odysseys ...
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Helping Artists Embrace, Make Sense of the Chaos
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HypeBot
(Read part one and two of this interview.) In his book Cognitive Surplus, Clay Shirky argues that the single greatest predictor of how much value can be derived from this surfeit of free time is how much we “allow and encourage one another to experiment, because the only group that can try everything is everybody." In other words, the way to explore and cultivate complex ecosystems like the new digital ecology of music culture is that you have as many ...
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Latin Jazz Conversations: Jovino Santos Neto (Part 4)
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The Latin Jazz Corner by Chip Boaz
Every musician carries a tool box around to their gigs—it's not a physical collection of devices, but rather the sum total of their experience. Each performance arms them with another piece for their tool box, providing some insight or technical development that allows them to bump their performance to another level. In some cases, the tool might be small; it might just be a simple observation that sparks their curiosity. On the other hand, it could be a major musical ...
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How 550,000 Artists Collaborate and Create Together
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HypeBot
(Read part 1 of the interview here.) The proliferation of social production tools and aligning them with the intrinsic motivations of musicians isn't enough to bring about cultural change though; musicians need real-life opportunities to act on too. The way that musicians understand the opportunities available to them has changed drastically over the course of the last ten years. Restricted by their location and media access, the only means that musicians had to inform others of their projects and need ...
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