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The State of Woodstock 40 Years Later: Janis Joplin and Johnny Winter

by C. Michael Bailey
October 31, 2009

Rock music ascended into heaven the minute guitarist Jimi Hendrix left the stage on Max Yasgur's farm, Monday morning, August 18, 1969. The Woodstock Music and Art Fair was a cultural hinge between the soulful, struggling 1960s and the sinful, superfluous 1970s. The release of The Woodstock Experience commercially mirrors this hinge. The box contains two-CD ...

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The State of Jazz Reissues 2009: Miles Davis and Art Pepper

by C. Michael Bailey
October 30, 2009

Jazz is a Romance language. It relies as much, if not more, on music already played and pondered over than that being performed right now, much less germinating in a musician's mind for the future. How does a classic become a classic if not through the passage of time and repeated listenings? The beauty ...

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The State of Classical Music 2009: Andras Schiff and Rolf Lislevand

by C. Michael Bailey
October 19, 2009

Contrary to popular belief, “classical" music is not dull, static or lifeless. Rather, it is a dynamic creative event that is as fresh as its most recent performance. It is also untrue that improvisation has no place in “classical" performance. Both Mozart and Beethoven were very capable improvisers of their own and others' compositions. Capturing these ...

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The State of the Trombone 2009: Steve Davis and Luis Bonilla

by C. Michael Bailey
October 13, 2009

Jazz offers ample opportunity to hear diametrically opposed ideas and approaches coming from similar ensembles (and sometimes the same ensemble, as with saxophonist John Coltrane). Consider, on one side, the middle-of-the-road, mainstream, standards jazz made early on by trumpeter Miles Davis and the free jazz of saxophonist Ornette Coleman. The trombone has had players in both ...

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The State of the Piano 2009: Cyrus Chestnut and Jessica Williams

by C. Michael Bailey
October 13, 2009

The jazz palette is long and wide. Within any given performance format there exist seminal artists as different as saxophonists John Coltrane and Lester Young, trumpeters Miles Davis and Lester Bowie, and pianists Art Tatum and Gene Harris. When speaking of solo piano performances, two beacons performing today are Cyrus Chestnut and Jessica Williams. ...

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J.S. Bach's Problem Child: Die Kunst Der Fuge (The Art of Fugue)

by C. Michael Bailey
September 26, 2009

Old man Johann Sebastian Bach begat 20 children by two wives. Those that lived to adulthood turned out pretty good. Rather, it was one of the children Bach created that went bad, his last one, Die Kunst Der Fuge (The Art of Fugue), and it killed him on July 28, 1750. Okay, it was old age ...

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The State of the Tenor 2009: AJ Kluth and Ricky Sweum

by C. Michael Bailey
August 28, 2009

Saxophonists AJ Kluth and Ricky Sweum look more like the backfield from Friday Night Lights than they do jazz musicians. But jazz musicians they are, playing what may be heard as the logical, evolutionary result of post-bop: a dry ice eutectoid of smooth, free, avant-garde, cool and modal jazz. Their music is characterized by open composition ...

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Leonisa Ardizzone: A Constellation in the East

by C. Michael Bailey
August 11, 2009

"For unto whomsoever much is given, of her shall be much required..." Renaissance men and women still exist. For example, the intrepid Dr. Leonisa Ardizzone is the executive director of The Salvadore Center, a non-profit educational organization centered in New York city dedicated to educating young students and their teachers about architecture, structural engineering and urban ...

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The Sisterhood Of Saxophone Players: Sharel Cassity, Nancy Wright and Pattie Cossentino

by C. Michael Bailey
July 14, 2009

Once a novelty, women saxophone players have been claiming center stage in the last twenty years. Virginia Mayhew, Idit Shner, Clair Daly and Christine Jensen are among the most notable artists in this sisterhood. Add to this list three more names to consider. Sharel CassityJust for YouDW Records2009 Sharel Cassity ...

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High On Classical Gas: Jacques Loussier, Tiempo Libre and James Galway, Burgstaller Martignon

by C. Michael Bailey
June 17, 2009

Jazz and classical musics should be friends. They have much in common. It is conceivable that a synthesis of the two could be achieved as successfully as that existing between jazz and rock. However, most attempts to meld jazz and classical have yielded mediocre results. Some headway has been made. The recent appearance of pianist Enrico ...