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Bohemia in Brooklyn
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All About Jazz
Move over, Manhattan: There's a new jazz nucleus For more than 50 years, Manhattan was an epicenter of jazz. The music especially thrived in areas where crime and abandoned buildings kept the cost of living low for artists like Charlie “Bird" Parker, who rented an apartment at 151 Avenue B. On a recent rainy Friday night at a caf in Park Slope, Brooklyn, as listeners packed in to hear new music by the bassist Todd Sickafoose (cryptogramophone.com), it was clear ...
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Vinyl Records Make a Return
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Michael Ricci
Music on discs, the big, old-time kind, is popular again. Baby boomers and even kids seek it out. The industry responds.
When the doorbell rings at Monti Olson's Glendale home in the middle of the night, it can mean only one thing: Jeff Bowers, his partner in Original Recordings Group, has brought new album artwork for him to inspect. “I'll come out in my pajamas and look it over," Olson said. “He drives home, and I'll go back to bed." ...
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Other Places: Paul Bley Speaks
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Thanks to Rifftides reader Brian Nation of the Vancouver, B.C., Jazz Society for directions to a transcribed conversation with Paul Bley. Bley was at the center of changes in jazz in the late l950s. The Canadian pianist has continued for half a century as an instigator of transformation. At the same time, he has been a gravitational force helping to restrain unstructured or loosely structured jazz from flying off into space as random noise. He is pictured recently at the right ...
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Hip-Hop and Jazz Sharing a Similar Destiny?
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All About Jazz
ATLANTA, Georgia -- It was the music of rebellion and youth. Artists traded witty improvisations onstage chronicling the pain and the promise of being black in America, inspiring inner-city and rural Southern audiences alike in nightclubs and on street corners. Today, Jaspects, an Atlanta-based group of young musicians who were born in the hip-hop era, fuse rap and jazz melodies to introduce younger audiences to jazz and the broader ideas regarding African-American society. For Jaspects, whose music has appeared in ...
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Tipitina's Foundation Instrumental in Special Delivery to the Birthplace of Jazz
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All About Jazz
Early Wednesday morning, a truck laden with 3,300 pounds of music pulled up to a Mid-City storage facility. Four sweaty staffers from the Tipitina's Foundation, the nonprofit philanthropic arm of the famed music club, spent the day unpacking, sorting and labeling brass, woodwinds, drums and more. “There's a little bit of everything, “ said the foundation's Lauren Cangelosi, flanked by 72 black trumpet cases stacked 10 high. “Cellos, violins, violas, sousaphones, clarinets, baritone saxophones. You name it, we've got it." ...
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Mike Gordon: In His Own Words
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All About Jazz
By: Andy Gadiel
Mike Gordon Mike Gordon is an enigmatic, ultra-creative, quirky, passionate and serious musician who constantly strives to reinvent himself and push the lines of artistic expression. Since the break-up of Phish he has hardly slowed down, performing with Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart from The Grateful Dead, Steve Kimock, Bruce Hornsby, Warren Haynes and the Benevento/Russo Duo just to name a few. On August 5, he released his second solo album, Green Sparrow (Rounder), which ...
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Jazz This Week: Ptah Williams, Erin Bode, the St. Louis Cabaret Conference, and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
It's mid-August - usually one of the slowest times of the year for live jazz in St. Louis - and yr. humble editor has impending deadlines for paying work, plus a wicked head cold. However, there are still some events this week to tell you about, and so that's what we're going to do, albeit in a perhaps less-verbose-than-usual of way.Let's start with a couple of multi-day events happening this weekend. The St. Louis Cabaret Conference, a four-day ...
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