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Lenny White: Live and New York Hot with the Anomaly Band at Catalina's
West Coast jazz has traditionally been cool to the East Coast's hot. Dave Brubeck is always pictured in white linen slacks playing an open air concert-by-the-sea, while Charlie Parker is shown popping a Saturday night sweat in his sharkskin suit, squeezed onto a crowded nightclub stage. The iconography extends to the West Coast audience. Like a ...
Satchmo's Story, Music Substituting for Words
During the epilogue of “Louis," an energetic but muddled new silent film that played at the Apollo Theater on Monday night, a wide-eyed Louis Armstrong arrives at the Colored Waif's Home for Boys, confronted for the first time with a functional New Orleans institution, and the prospect of discipline. He's being lectured, sternly but kindly, by ...
Deep Cuts: George Harrison - "Rising Sun" (2002)
By Nick Deriso: That George Harrison kept recording until just two months before his death at age 58 in November of 2001 was its own blessing. After all, he hadn't put out a new album of solo material since 1987. But you wondered what would become of Harrison's final works, since producer Jeff Lynne had decided ...
Eden Brent - Ain't Got No Troubles (2010)
By Mark Saleski I wish I had a cool story about where I learned about the blues. I never had an older brother who gave me his Howlin' Wolf records. There was no cousin who pointed out the line that runs backwards from Jimmy Page. Despite the early appearance of my inner music nerd, I doubt ...
Music from the Future. Matt Lavelle.
I often refer to the Spiritual side of Jazz and in particular,.free Jazz,.no less than like a preacher on the pulpit.Some folks consider a spiritual perspective on music an excuse to just play wild and free with no real focus and or maybe no real skill.How much skill do you need to engage any music from ...
Seven Unconventional Ways to Use Twitter
[Editor's Note: This post is by Jonathan Ostrow (@miccontrol), the co-founder of MicControl, a music blogging network based on a social networking platform.] Discussing Twitter, its advantages and disadvantages and how it should be properly used by musicians is obviously not a new subject. If you want to learn more about the basics, check out the ...
Brad Mehldau Premiere Among NY Mag's "Most Anticipated Events of the Fall"
When Brad Mehldau performs in New York City this fall, it will be as holder of the Richard and Barbara Debs Composer's Chair at Carnegie Hall. “For the first time, Carnegie gives its composer's chair to a jazzman," says New York, “and not just any cat—a pianist with broad influences and a cerebral style." Mehldau's first ...
The RIAA's Lobbying Bill in Q2: $1.398 Million...
The RIAA spent a handsome $1.398 million on lobbying initiatives last quarter alone, according to documents obtained by Digital Music News on Tuesday. The lobbying disclosure form, shared by Congressional staffers, shows that $1,398,227 was used during the three-month period to influence a range of issues, including terrestrial radio performance royalties for recordings, global intellectual property ...
Chet Baker: Words and Music
As far as I know, this is the first time I've been quoted in Magyar. It's a blurb on the back of the Hungarian edition of Jeroen de Valk's Chet Baker: His Life and Music. That invaluable book is also available in English. Thanks to photographer Paolo Gant (behind the book) for sending the pictures. Gant ...
Benny Golson: Big City Sounds
When saxophonist Benny Golson and trumpeter Art Farmer decided to form a sextet in late 1959 with trombonist Curtis Fuller, they were stuck for a name. So Benny asked Fuller if they could use “Jazztet," a name the trombonist had come up with for a Savoy album date he led in August. Fuller agreed, and the ...
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