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From the Stacks: Pico's 2010 Stacks, Volume 5
By Pico This bundle extracted from The Stacks is a real mish-mash of jazz styles: whack (of course), third stream, rock fusion, ethnic fusion and more. Established vets showing us how it was done in the old days and open minded newcomers infusing new ideas. Heck, there's even older guys trying out new ideas. That's what ...
Unsigned Treasures: Alex Hirsch - Naturally (2009)
By Nick DeRiso In a time of buttoned-down, procedural rock records, Alex Hirsch is still admirably working toward one of those old-school Grand Statements that defies category. Hirsch, whose dad is television and Broadway star Judd Hirsch of “Taxi" fame, brilliantly races through musical subgenres—and personas—on Naturally. That makes for an album that's simultaneously brash and ...
"Let Us Now Praise Charlie Shavers"
By Steve Provizer Charlie Shavers. Why is this man's work not better known? The only other swing trumpet players who could give him a run for his money in all facets of playing were Roy Eldridge and Buck Clayton. If you happened to like the particularities of their sounds, you might rate Harry Edison, Harry James, ...
Latin Jazz Conversations: Jovino Santos Neto (Part 4)
Every musician carries a tool box around to their gigs—it's not a physical collection of devices, but rather the sum total of their experience. Each performance arms them with another piece for their tool box, providing some insight or technical development that allows them to bump their performance to another level. In some cases, the tool ...
Beyond Good and Evil
Esperanza Spalding Chamber Music Society + Zoe Rahman—London Jazz Festival, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank, London. Saturday 13th November 2010 I'd heard lots of good things about pianist Zoe Rahman in recent years, so I was really pleased to see she was opening this double bill playing solo. The plaudits are justified, as she was great. Her ...
Jazzwax List: Pardon My Bop
If you're familiar with the music of the Doors, then you know that Jim Morrison was a fairly competent lyricist, in a drug-haze sort of way. His Warren Beatty looks made him highly charismatic, and his deep, masculine voice and bedroom eyes had a particularly hypnotic effect on women. On March 1, 1969, a stoned Morrison, ...
Brian Wilson: Canadian Tour
TOUR STARTS JUNE 15 IN KITCHENER, ONTARIO Brian Wilson will embark on his first-ever cross-Canada tour in June of 2011. For many Canadians, the tour represents their first opportunity to directly experience and pay homage to this unrivaled mainstay of the cultural soundtrack. Audiences can look forward to a musical tour de force as Wilson performs ...
Cascadia Yulegrass Dates: Anger, Gilchrist, Grisman
2ND ANNUAL ACOUSTIC HOLIDAY CELEBRATION TO TOUR THE NORTHWEST Looking for an alternative to traditional holiday entertainment this season? Acoustic holiday bluegrass visits the Pacific Northwest, December 3-5, with the 2nd annual Cascadia Yulegrass celebration. Featuring world- renowned musicians and regional favorites including Darol Anger, Sharon Gilchrist, Scott Law and introducing Samson Grisman, son of mandolin ...
Laurie Anderson | Santa Barbara | Review | Pics
Words & Images by: L. Paul Mann Laurie Anderson :: 10.19.10 :: UCSB Campbell Hall :: Santa Barbara, CA Laurie Anderson, the godmother of multimedia performance art in America, brought her latest work to Santa Barbara. Playing in familiar surroundings at the University of California Santa Barbara's Campbell Hall, she performed her third piece there in ...
Helping Artists Embrace, Make Sense of the Chaos
(Read part one and two of this interview.) In his book Cognitive Surplus, Clay Shirky argues that the single greatest predictor of how much value can be derived from this surfeit of free time is how much we “allow and encourage one another to experiment, because the only group that can try everything is everybody." In ...
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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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Six new releases from Michael Pagan Big Band, Ron Vincent,...
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Enrico Rava: The Secret Corners of a Master
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