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Other Places: A Jazzfest Post-Mortem

May 12, 2011

In January, after looking over the lineup for this year's New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, which was laden with rock and pop, I wrote: More than five years after Katrina, with the city recovering but much of it still resembling a post-war nightmare, a party called a jazz festival symbolizes New Orleans' determination to recover. ...

Zim Ngqawana: Sound, Song, and Humanity

by AAJ Staff
May 12, 2011

(Ed. note: we're celebrating the life and music of Zim Ngqawana by reprinting this 2002 interview. Ngqawana passed away in Johannesburg, after suffering a stroke on May 10th. He was 52.) For Zim Ngqawana, citizenship is a relative concept. He may be a South African, but he insists that he is first and foremost ...

Jazz Around Town: Ever Notice How Quiet It Gets Around Festival Season... ?

May 12, 2011

Thursday, May 12, 2011 A. Giannavola @Lemoncello, 6:00 pm Todd East Duo @ Bistro 135, 6:30 pm Joe Santora Trio with Emily Kirchoff @ Michael's Valley Grill, 7:00 pm Steve Melcher & Drew Moore @ Rabbit Room Restaurant (Honeoye Falls), 7:00 pm Chris Wilson @ Lemoncello, 8:30 pm Friday, May 13, 2011 Johnny Matt Band with ...

Snooky Young, 1919-2011

May 12, 2011

Reports emerged late last night that Snooky Young died on May 5 at the age of 92. Young was that rare combination, a great lead trumpeter who was also a soloist of exceptional imagination, taste and humor. He began as a professional musician when he was a teenager in Dayton, Ohio. At 20, he joined he ...

Jazz This Week: Bill Frisell, Houston Person, Tower of Power, Steve Tyrell, Marvin Horne, Reptet, St. Louis Jazz Club Picnic, and More

May 12, 2011

It's going to be a busy few days for jazz and creative music in St. Louis, and time is short, so let's go to the highlights without further preamble... Tonight, tenor saxophonist Houston Person is back to open a four-night stand at Jazz at the Bistro. Equally adepts at blues, bop and ballads, Person has played ...

Weekly Latin Jazz Video Fix: Gonzalo Rubalcaba

May 12, 2011

Some individuals offer more to the world than a simple series of performances; instead, they spend their lives overflowing with music. These people dive into music at a young age, often moving between instruments and taking any available performance opportunity. As they learn more about music, they don't just move forward, they surge ahead in leaps ...

The Jazz Session #266: Anthony Wilson

May 12, 2011

2011 Lost Jazz Shrines Series Features the World of Matt Wilson

May 12, 2011

Lost Jazz Shrines㬉th Season 52nd Street in the Modern Mode BMCC Tribeca PAC's Lost Jazz Shrines series pays homage to the legendary jazz haunts, musicians, and influences of the 52nd Street jazz scene in its heyday from the 1930's through the early 1950's. Artistic Director: Willard Jenkins. Musical Director: Matt Wilson. Part One: MULTIMONK Friday, May ...

Meredith Monk "Song of Ascension"

May 12, 2011

Meredith Monk Songs of Ascension Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble Todd Reynolds String Quartet M6 Voices Montclair State University Singers “Songs of Ascension" is a major new recording from composer Meredith Monk and her vocal ensemble. Written in 2008, it is conceived as a continuous composition, a departure from Monk's ...

How Google and Amazon Hurt Recorded Music by Launching Cloud Lockers

May 12, 2011

The launch of Google Music and Amazon's Cloud Music Locker without licenses (and in Google's case without a download store) represents a real setback for the recorded music industry. I'm not one who believes that Google and Amazon should need licenses to create the kind of online hard drives that they did.  But the result are ...