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The Friday Morning Listen: Tom Waits - Mule Variations (1999)
By Mark Saleski “Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage." -William S. Burroughs. This seem true enough, and mine wants to live in that house. He whispers in my ear to leave almost everything behind. We get into these major fights about what stays and goes. ...
One Track Mind: Nancy Wilson, "What Are You Doing New Year's?" (1963)
By Nick DeRiso A lot of singers have sung this one, from Nat “King" Cole and Johnny Mathis to Diana Krall and the Orioles, the post-war R&B vocal quartet. For me, though, Nancy Wilson's has always been the definitive reading. She nails the sense of hopeful anxiety that surrounds Dec. 31 every year, even while continuing ...
2010 | Year End Lists
To music journalists, dedicated fans, and a swarm of other zealots, the end of each year entails making a “best albums of the year” list. To mark the occasion, Ars Nova Workshop asked several musicians playing in Philadelphia for our 2010-2011 season to contribute their lists and the responses appear below. Among their selections were numerous ...
Dr. Billy Taylor (1921-2010)
I had only two opportunities to chat with Dr. Billy Taylor. The first time I called him about 821 Sixth Avenue. I asked him if he knew Hall Overton and he said, “Of course." He didn't remember taking part in any jam sessions at the loft but he fondly remembered Overton as a congenial colleague and ...
Jason Stein's Locksmith Isidore - Three Kinds of Happiness (Nottwo, 2010)
Locksmith Isidore if bass clarinetist Jason Stein's trio with Jason Roebke on bass and Mike Pride on drums, playing a classy thoughtful blend of free jazz and more mainstream improvisation, music that would fit in well at a jazz club or art-house performance space. Stein has a strong woody tone that permeates the recording, while Roebke ...
Book Review: White Jazz by James Ellroy
The fourth and final installment in James Ellroy's epic L.A. Quartet is one of his bleakest titles (and that is really saying something) but overcomes this with a rollicking and jittery energy that never lets up. Police lieutenant Dave Klein is stuck between a rock and a hard place: he's murdered a suspect, one of many ...
The Bad Plus, Good Tidings
For the past ten, or maybe eleven, holiday seasons, The Bad Plus (Ethan Iverson, Reid Anderson and Dave King) have gathered with family, friends, and fans at the Dakota Jazz Club for what is now a three-night gig celebrating one of the most enduring collaborations among modern jazz ensembles. Reid and Dave grew up in the ...
From Student to Stellar: The Paris Strother Quartet
For a few years, I wrote about a young piano phenom from the Twin Cities, Paris Strother, as she moved from teen keyboard whiz who played the very first opening set at the relocated Dakota to standout student at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Then she came again to the Dakota a year ago, ...
Billy Taylor, 1921-2010
Billy Taylor, a pianist who became a television and radio spokesman for jazz and made the music familiar to millions, died last night in a New York City hospital after sufferingheart failure at home. He was 89. In his work on National Public Radio and CBS-TV's Sunday Morning, Taylor's playing and relaxed explanations dispelled for many ...
2010 Highlights: Best Festival Content
Professionals in the music industry love to get together to share ideas with each other. After all, like The Beatles sang, we get by with a little help from our friends. Festivals and conferences this year have been fantastic ways to network with all sorts of people and learn from each other. We were lucky enough ...
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Bill Bruford And Pete Roth: A One-Of-A-Kind Juxtaposition
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Scott Kinsey: Thought Distortions and the Art of the Left...
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801 Live at 50: A Short-Term Experiment with a Long-Lasting...
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The Quiet Cruelty of the Music Business
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Arcanum at Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene, Oslo
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Enrico Rava: The Secret Corners of a Master
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Six new releases from Michael Pagan Big Band, Ron Vincent,...
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