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AllAboutJazz-New York March 2010 Issue Now Available!
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Michael Ricci
As much as jazz, as a musical and artistic form, has influenced the world since its development in the United States, it has taken as good as it gives. A constant influx of international players keeps the music vital and relevant to audiences everywhere; so while New York is still the jazz capital of the world, it is of a world where practitioners and listeners can approach the music from their own unique cultural perspectives.
One need only peruse our ...
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I Walked With Giants: The Autobiography of Jimmy Heath
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Michael Ricci
By Larry Reni Thomas Master saxophonist/composer/arranger/educator Jimmy Heath's extremely-articulate, plainly-written, eye-opening, earnest, raw, sometimes happy, often times, grim autobiography. I Walked With Giants (Temple University Press, 322 pgs.) is a must-read, guide to how to become a successful survivor. It is a fascinating, wonderful story about a man, now in his eighties, a Philadelphia native, who fell in love with the saxophone when he was a teenager; began his professional career almost immediately after high school graduation and has had ...
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Drum! Continues Diversity of Coverage; from Slayer's Dave Lombardo to Switchfoot's Faithful Chad Butler
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JCM Media
San Jose, Calif., -- Last month, Enter Music Publishing, publishers of hip/drum percussion magazines worldwide, featured the new loud and aggressive playing techniques of Slayer's Dave Lombardo. Continuing its diversity of coverage, the March Issue explores Switchfoot's Chad Butler straightforward approach and faith to drumming. “Chris' style of drumming seemed like a good contrast to Lombardo for our cover," says Phil Hood, publisher and co-founder of Enter Music Publishing. “He has a simplistic, steady approach that helps define the sound ...
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Interview: Kevin Maney of Trade-Off: Why Some Things Catch On, and Others Don't
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HypeBot
Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor
Recently, I spoke with Kevin Maney, who is a widely respected technology writer and author of Trade-Off: Why Some Things Catch On, and Others Don't. In this interview, Kevin talks about the lack of aura in digital music, the hedgehog concept, and how live music establishes indentity.
To start this off could you briefly outline how music fans, in their everyday lives, make trade-offs between the fidelity an experience and its convenience?
Kevin Maney: There are ...
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Nina Simone: The Soloist-Life of the Troubled "High Priestess of Soul" Serves up Bountiful Detail but Skimps on Insight
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Michael Ricci
A Nina Simone song is recognizable from its opening notes. First comes the piano, keys striking at the ineffable point where classical music meets jazz, blues, and pop. Then the voice, deep and searching, taking ownership of the words, whether they are Leonard Cohen or George Gershwin, traditional spiritual or original composition. Otherwise known as the “high priestess of soul," Simone was indisputably one of a kind, and Nadine Cohodas's new biography, “Princess Noire," tells her story in copious detail. ...
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Under a Strange, Soulful Spell
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Michael Ricci
In 1960, one year after Nina Simone's first album, “Little Girl Blue," was released, the poet Langston Hughes struggled to put the appeal of Simones music and presence--that dusky voice, that unblinking gaze--into words. “She is strange," Hughes wrote in The Chicago Daily Defender. So are the plays of Brendan Behan, Jean Genet and Bertolt Brecht. She is far out, and at the same time common. So are raw eggs in Worcestershire. Hughes was just getting warmed up. “She is ...
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Book Review (Illustrated): Pops
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Terry Teachout, Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong (Houghton Mifflin, 474 pages, $30)
A good biography of a musician makes the reader want to listen. Alexander Wheelock Thayer triggered that compulsion with his life of Beethoven, Marion Hildesheimer with Mozart, Richard Sudhalter with Bix Beiderbecke. Terry Teachout's Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong can be a workout; all that getting up and down. Reading it, I repeatedly set aside the book to go to the shelves and exhume Armstrong recordings. ...
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The New Jazz Singers
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All About Jazz
Once upon a time, the emblematic jazz singer was an African-American woman, serenading a smoke-filled room. Think Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. Today, a talented crop of cosmopolitan young singers are creating a new breed of jazz vocalist: the globalized chanteuse.
They come from multicultural backgrounds, live all over the world, and are infusing the traditional American sound with new energy. Take today's rising star, 26-year-old Sophie Milman. Born in Russia, she fled with her family to Israel at the ...
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