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Weekend Extra: Joan Stiles
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
The pianist, composer and teacher Joan Stiles runs one of the hippest sextets in New York. Her circle of insider admirers encompasses many of the best-known musicians injazz today and is widening to include a substantial number of listeners in the general audience. Stiles achieves identifiable individuality in her own compositions and in her arrangements of songbook standards and pieces by Mary Lou Williams, Thelonious Monk, Fats Waller, Jimmy Rowles and Duke Ellington, among others. Stiles was the most recent ...
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Steven Johnson: The Liquid Network of Ideas
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HypeBot
When it comes to ideas, we often give ourselves more credit than we deserve. The time that a lone genius spends 'toiling away' may not be as important as the moment that he went out for coffee and conversed with friends. Ideas are part of larger networks of connections, not the singular trajectory of epiphany. Though it may seem like we're struck with that lightning bolt of inspiration—that storm had been brewing the whole time. Sometimes, we try so hard ...
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Weekly Latin Jazz Video Fix: Jack Costanzo
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The Latin Jazz Corner by Chip Boaz
Many people have contributed toward the spread of Latin Jazz around the world, pushing the music into the public through a variety of means. Some people have taken a challenging path, sticking steadfastly to their roots, taking their music to the public as a cultural expression. These artists keep the history of the music alive, but often wait many years to find widespread acceptance. Other musicians act as entertainers, connecting with the general public on their level, making Latin music ...
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Burning Hard Bop of the Day: "Milestones" with Ted Curson and More
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Ni Kantu by Clifford Allen
Super Bad Sunday: Cass Elliot
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JamBase
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MS. ELLIOT Despite being gone more than 36 years, Cass Elliot remains one of the iconic female rock voices. A big presence in almost every way, Mama Cass possessed some of the strongest pipes to ever hit the genre, girlish but gutsy like Bessie Smith and delivered with a sleepy-eyed sexiness. She was also a solid songwriter and occasional guest host of The Tonight Show. Today would have been her 69th birthday. We offer up these tidbits from ...
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Sudhalter Plays Beiderbecke
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Richard M. Sudhalter died two years ago today. A superb writer and musician, he was the author of the definitive biography of Bix Beiderbecke and played cornet—beautifully—in the Bix tradition. Here he is with the New York Jazz Repertory Company at a Town Hall concert in the early 1970s, playing Beiderbecke's “Davenport Blues." With him are Kenny Davern, bass saxophone; Bob Wilber, clarinet; Ephie Resnick, trombone; Marty Grosz, banjo; Chauncy Morehouse, drums; and Dill Jones, piano. The cornetist to Dick's ...
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