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News: Recording

Dave Douglas Brass Ecstacy - United Front: Live at Newport (Greenleaf, 2011)

April 19, 2011

Trumpeter, cornetist and composer Dave Douglas is a man who wears many hats: leader of multiple bands, this one being called Brass Ecstasy consisting of Douglas on trumpet, Vincent Chancey on French horn, Luis Bonilla on trombone, Marcus Rojas on tuba and Nasheet Waits on drums. With the music recorded live, it has a festive and ...

News: Festival

Add Live Streaming to the List of Festival Essentials...

April 19, 2011

If festivals were like movie theaters, this wouldn't be such a good idea. But of course, festivals are about so much more than just the music! Which makes good live streaming an incredible enhancement, and a motivator for future attendees. In fact, I'd argue that the live stream is now an essential part of any successful ...

News: Recording

Jane Ira Bloom Continues Her Journey of Originality with "Wingwalker"

April 19, 2011

Jane Ira Bloom is no mimeograph. No Xerox copy. For many years she has been in a place of her own. As a soprano sax master she has developed her unmistakably own sound combined with a sense of phrasing that hangs together with great spatial presence and lucidity. Her compositions parallel the originality of her playing. ...

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News: Recording

Marcin Wasilewski Trio "Faithful"

April 19, 2011

Polish pianist Marcin Wasilewski and his trio, featuring bassist Slawomir Kurkiewicz and drummer Michal Miskiewicz, continue to impress and astound, but never more so than on the group's newest ECM disc Faithful, a most remarkable feat of collective creativity and improvised music. After waxing some of Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko's more memorable recent outings (2002's notable ...

News: Performance / Tour

Mostly Other People Do the Killing Will Be Killing It at the Bug Jar This Thursday

April 18, 2011

Is jazz not “fun" enough for you? Do you expect to see it in a venue known for cutting edge music but with a more rock sensibility? Surprise!... unusual jazz will be presented in an unusual place when NY band Mostly Other People Do The Killing hit the stage at Rochester's The Bug Jar this Thursday, ...

News: Interview

Albam from the Archives

April 18, 2011

One Monday night in the '70s, I found myself seated at a table in the Village Vanguard with Manny Albam, listening to the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra. During a break, I said to him, “I wonder why you haven't written something for this band." “So do I," he said. To my knowledge, Albam never did ...

News: Award / Grant

Letters to NARAS: Jochem Becker Writes About the Latin Jazz Grammy

April 18, 2011

On Wednesday April 6th, The National Academy Of Recording Arts And Sciences announced a “restructuring" of The Grammy Awards, a move that included the elimination of the Latin Jazz Grammy. This unfortunate decision undermines the integrity of Latin Jazz and disregards its importance as a major piece of the cultural landscape in the United States. I ...

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News: Video / DVD

Stan Kenton: Portrait of a Legend

April 18, 2011

For years, if you wanted a documentary on Stan Kenton, you were pretty much out of luck. You either had to find DVDs that included clips of the band over the years or you scrounged around YouTube hoping someone put up something fresh. Now Graham Carter at Jazzed Media has produced and directed Stan Kenton, Artistry ...

News: Music Industry

Humor in Jazz: Puttin' on the Wits

April 18, 2011

By Kirsten Kendrick and Nick Morrison CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE AUDIO April is National Humor Month. So, Nick and I thought we'd explore the funny side of jazz. Here are five jazz artists known for their wit as well as their jazz chops. Humor is subjective, though, so to make this list as much ...

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News: Interview

Casey Abrams: New American Idol Contestant is a Messenger with a Jazz Message

April 18, 2011

Before last Wednesday, I was like more than a few music fans in my instinctive dislike of the American Idol phenomenon. Cheap and showy, lowest-common-denominator entertainment, it was created in the same terrifying cauldron that Fox's 1989 Cops voyeurism and MTV's 1992 Real World success originally inspired, and which has since produced Survivor, Big Brother, Fear ...