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Latin Jazz Conversations: Jovino Santos Neto (Part 4)

Source: The Latin Jazz Corner by Chip Boaz
November 20, 2010

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

Source: HypeBot
November 19, 2010

(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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Carl Broemel: Heaven Knows

Source: JamBase
November 19, 2010

By Dennis Cook Some albums seem illuminated by twinkling, magic catching light, birthed in quietude and redolent of domesticity and other simple pleasures that sustain us amidst the hustle 'n' bustle. This is the atmosphere of the solo debut from My Morning Jacket lead guitarist Carl Broemel, whose work outside MMJ has the shimmering, comforting timelessness of Big Star's Chris Bell, Gary Higgins and other cult adored, warm, vinyl-spirited singer-songwriter fare. All Birds Say (released August 31 on ATO) ushers ...

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Interview: David Amram at 80

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
November 19, 2010

David Amram turned 80 yesterday. If you know David, you know that hitting that age is almost a ridiculous concept. The musician and composer has the metabolism and mind of a 25-year old, and he's constantly traveling the country like jazz's Johnny Appleseed, performing and motivating all who cross his path. One grows winded just listening to his schedule. [Photo of David Amram at the Five Spot in 1957 by Burt Glinn] In celebration of David's birthday, I was listening ...

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Latin Jazz Conversations: Jovino Santos Neto (Part 3)

Source: The Latin Jazz Corner by Chip Boaz
November 19, 2010

Spending time with an influential musician during the height of their artistic output means a lot of different things. It's an amazing growth opportunity that results in one of the finest educations available—performing regularly with an innovative musician simply demands artistic evolution. The opportunity to experience the development of the artist's musical development is a priceless experience that provides true insight into their creative process. As the artist tries new approaches, they place their ideas and aesthetics in the open, ...

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Interview: Albert Maysles (Part 2)

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
November 18, 2010

Watching Gimme Shelter with director Albert Maysles was one of my crazier long-shot ideas. But Albert immediately saw the value and agreed to do it. As we settled in several weeks ago and the film began to roll, I couldn't help but feel this electric surge. As with Sonny Rollins agreeing to take a drive uptown with me to his old neighborhood in Harlem, or Jerry Lee Lewis showing me how he runs his hands up and down the piano ...

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Yusef Lateef @ 90

Source: The Independent Ear by Willard Jenkins
November 17, 2010

Some years ago the Jazz Journalists Association, as a tribute to friend and colleague the late Harlem jazz writer Clarence Atkins sponsored a group of aspiring African American music writers to attend a journalism conference in California. I'm happy to say that for the most part they have continued to write particularly on jazz, and in fact two of them—Bridget Arnwine and Rahsaan Clark Morris—contributed to The Independent Ear's ongoing African American writers' series (continued with Karen Chilton in this ...

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Drummer Ranjit Barot Interviewed at All About Jazz...and More!

Source: All About Jazz
November 30, 2010

Ranjit Barot is a well-known figure in India's music industry, where for many years he has written film scores, produced Indie pop, and, more recently, composed and directed the music for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2010 Commonwealth Games, which were held in Delhi. Barot, who spent the first 12 years of his life in England, came to a wider audience as the drummer on guitar icon John McLaughlin's outstanding Floating Point (Abstract Logix, 2008). McLaughlin—who knows a ...

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