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Instrument: Trumpet

Album Review

Warren Smith: Old News Borrowed Blues

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 29, 2009

Nonostante una carriera ormai cinquantennale, gli album pubblicati a nome di Warren Smith si possono contare sulle dita di una mano. Avevamo dunque riposto grandi aspettative su questo Old News Borrowed Blues. Purtroppo la qualità della registrazione è tale da sminuire il piacere dell'ascolto. Un vero peccato perché l'album si preannuncia, sin dal titolo, interessante. Nel pensiero di Smith, le cosiddette news sono in realtà vecchie storie raccontate in modo diverso ("in another time dialect"), spesso create e manipolate ad ...

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Cecil Bridgewater: Where to Create Music

by AAJ Staff
October 14, 2003

By Cecil Bridgewater Creating music requires a place and an environment within which to create. I see a number of young, talented people coming into the various schools where I teach having had no practical experience in this music outside of a classroom. They have developed tremendous facility on their instruments and knowledge of the history of the music, but have very few places to perform. They are about the art of performing and yet have never ...