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Roy Haynes, Master Jazz Drummer, Still Going Strong at 86
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All About Jazz @ Spinner
I seem to be on a roll lately with getting bone fide living legends on the phone. This time around, I caught up with Roy Haynes on the eve of his 86th birthday—and just after he won a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammys— at his home on New York's Long Island. To study Haynes' résumé is to basically see the story of jazz unfold before your very eyes. His first gig after leaving Boston at age 19 was with ...
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Interview: SAC President Eddie Schwartz on Licensing File-Sharers
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We All Make Music
Earlier this week, we posted a link to a proposal by the Songwriters Association of Canada, a non-profit advocacy group that represents the interests of songwriters. The proposal, which essentially provides a model that would make money for rights holders off of file-sharing, has been called an attempt at “control" by P2Pnet and looked at skeptically elsewhere, so we sat down with SAC President Eddie Schwartz to discuss their proposal in greater detail. Our conversation has been edited for content ...
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Marsalis and Blanchard Focus on the New, Not the Tried-and-True
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AAJ Staff
By Dan Emerson, TwinCities.com Saxophonist Branford Marsalis and trumpeter Terence Blanchard, who led their respective bands Sunday night at Orchestra Hall, don't seem old enough to have had a 40-year musical relationship. But that is the case, Marsalis, 50, told the audience. They met as grade-schoolers at a summer jazz camp in their native New Orleans in 1970, and have been collaborators, off-and-on, ever since. Sunday's concert featured mostly new compositions by the two bandleaders and their colleagues—a refreshing change, ...
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New Orleans Jazz: Charles Betts on the Addictive Music of Harry Connick, Jr.
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AAJ Staff
Charles Betts, Felix Online New Orleans music is an addiction. Its diversity portrays every emotional state and as the legendary jazz musician Ellis Marsalis puts it, at a time when individualism is becoming an endangered species, the sounds of the Bayou represent a celebration of the individual. Put simply, without it life would be emptier. Harry Connick Jr. is arguably the city's most famous living export, having obtained more number-one albums than any other artist in US jazz chart history. ...
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Interview | Steve Lehman
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Ars Nova Workshop
On Friday, March 11, Ars Nova Workshop’s three-day Composer Portrait: Fieldwork series begins. Following interviews with drummer Tyshawn Sorey and pianist Vijay Iyer earlier this week, today we share a conversation with saxophonist Steve Lehman. Lehman’s 2009 recording Travail, Transformation, and Flow was praised for creating a dialogue between spectral harmony and jazz—the daring work rightfully earned a spot on numerous critical year-end lists, including the top position in New York Times’ Best Jazz Albums category – and proved the ...
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How Hyperlocal Blogs Impact Music [interview]
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HypeBot
Recently I spoke to Jason, who is the Founder and Editor of The Pop Cop, a Glasgow based music blog, which focuses on the Scottish music scene, with daily updated news, reviews, features, and interviews. He also founded and runs the Music Alliance Pact, which sees around 35 music blogs from around the world (one per country) join forces on the 15th of every month to share their favorite songs with our collective readership—The Guardian Music Blog are England representatives. In ...
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Punch Brothers: Gunning for Transcendence
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JamBase
By Dennis Cook The Punch Brothers are currently out on their Spring 2011 tour. They play tonight (3/9) at the Aladdin Theatre in Portland, OR and then a three-night run at Alyeska Resort in Alaska (3/10-3/12). Full tour dates are here. Usually, evolution is not something that can be willed into being. It's a process of interacting with the environment, DNA and other factors outside one's control. However, from time to time, we encounter an entity that seems to grow ...
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