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Junko Simons Cello Magic.
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Brilliant Corners, a Boston Jazz Blog
Ms. Simons with Tom Plsek, (Courtesy of Thomas Simons) Ms Simons has made major contributions to the quality of my life as a music gallery gnome. She brings out the best in her collaborators and rides a whirlwind of activity teaching and performing in the region. What brought you to music? “I come from a family of musicians, so I wasn't really brought to music, but rather music was brought to me. My dad is a piano technician whose family ...
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"Jazz Cops on Patrol"
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Brilliant Corners, a Boston Jazz Blog
By Steve Provizer So, my band is working toward the out-chorus of “All of Me," when this stocky guy with a crew cut comes up to the stage. He's a tough looking mug, wearing a blue drum major hat with “this space for rent" written on his forehead. “Alright," he says to the drummer, “Put those sticks down. You've traded enough fours for tonight. And you with the bass-drop that bow. We take a dim view of excessive arco down ...
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The Importance of Living and Connecting in Person
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HypeBot
Too often, artists and professionals use digital media to make local connections, forgetting that tweets and text messages are poor substitutes for real human beings. By keeping our digital devices always on, we enable ourselves to be dislocated. In the presence of others, it's now commonplace to connect to elsewhere. A message arrives and to keep in touch with people from afar, we lose touch with the real people sitting right in front of us. The vibration in our pocket signals that ...
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"Jazz 911: Rescuing the Great American Songbook"
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Brilliant Corners, a Boston Jazz Blog
By Steve Provizer When you reach into the faux-velvet bag, there's a feeling of infinite possibility inspired by the virgin letters nestled inside. But you can only get that feeling after you've swept the last set of painstakingly-created words off the Scrabble board. Oddly, I went through the same process when I read Peter Ven Der Merwe's book-Origins of the Popular Style. The intensity and detail of his musical analysis broke down musical structures to the point where they began ...
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A Time for More Important Things
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Mike Palter
A note from Mike Palter of “Jazz is a Rainbow" I have just received a call from one of the supporters of our “Jazz is a Rainbow" projects informing me that Carefusion has decided to cease its support of the Newport Jazz Festival. Because part of our JIAR project involves bringing under served, Providence area children to the festival, generally children of color whose exposure to jazz has been virtually non existent, one might suppose that I am concerned and ...
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The Limits of Delocalized Music Culture
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HypeBot
Logic says that if people can get something for nothing, they will. Every day, millions of fans download music and don't pay for it. Critics are quick to regard this as stealing. Fans are taking songs—without the permission of artists—and doing so without compensating them for their creativity. The primary victims of this act are major label artists. The most heavily marketed of them all. Then, since their sales are lowered, fewer up-and-coming artists get a shot at fame. The ...
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Testing the Monva-Nic Experience
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Voll-Damm Festival Internacional De Jazz De Barcelona
Kurt's party in front of Il Vino d'Enrico Bernardo in Paris. On Sunday October 31st, at the beginning of his European Standards Trio tour, Kurt Rosenwinkel and his team were in Paris having lunch at the one star Michelin restaurant Il Vino d'Enrico Bernardo. This was in order to taste the wines selected for the Monvínic Experience on November 15th (already sold out; for waiting list, please call +34 93 272 61 87). The event in Paris was arranged on ...
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Leibinger loves the conversation of music
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Peter Gordon
For trombonist Doug Leibinger, the new Director of Jazz Studies at Sonoma State University, learning to play jazz is a lot like learning to talk. First, you acquire the vocabulary. Then, you figure out how to string words together into sentences. Finally, you forget everything you've learned, listen deeply, and respond to what others are saying. “Music is much better when there's a conversation," the 42-year-old musician said while sipping coffee at a Rohnert Park coffee shop. “Ideally, we want ...
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