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Ellington Uptown: Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson and the Birth of Concert Jazz

August 10, 2009

By Daniel Kassell In the first Chapter “On Tone Parallels to Harlem" John Howland states the premise that Symphonic Jazz of the 1920's influenced “a wide variety of American musical traditions" covering an awful lot of ground but stipulating it was merely “a minor footnote" in its own time. Mr. Howland writes, “Why our we to ...

Album Jackets Make a Classic Fit for Cool Jazz

August 7, 2009

A psychedelic flowered skull laughing into the darkness. A wave of text twisted across a blank field like a quicksilver melody line. A photographic lineup of serious young men in dark suits, staring back at the viewer with jarringly direct eye contact that offers an invitation as much as a confrontation. These are just a few ...

AllAboutJazz-New York August 2009 Issue Now Available!

August 1, 2009

One of the more compelling facets of jazz as a musical form is the pliability of its practitioners. Unlike most classical musicians who play scores written for them or rockers who are serial monogamists when it comes to bands, jazz players, for reasons both artistic and economic, usually exist simultaneously as leaders and sidemen. Some start ...

The 3 Biggest Reasons Music Magazines Are Dying

July 30, 2009

It's no secret that music magazines a rapidly becoming a relic of another era. Most blame a decline in advertising revenue coupled with the growth of free online music media. But ex-Blender staffer Jonah Weiner suggests there are other factors killing our once beloved music rags in his Slate piece “Spinning In The Grave“. There are ...

Courtney Fortune in the October Issue of Glamour Magazine

July 22, 2009

"1959: The Year Everything Changed" by Fred Kaplan

July 20, 2009

The end of the 1950s was a pivotal time, a cabinet of wonders, the author contends, that overshadows every other year, including those of the '60s. When a writer needs a break these days, he picks a year -- 1968 was popular last year -- and spends a few hundred pages arguing how it's central to ...

Innovative Memoir of Jazz Genius Dizzy Gillespie Back in Print

July 14, 2009

To Be, or Not... to Bop Dizzy Gillespie with Al Fraser University of Minnesota Press | 576 pages | 2009 ISBN 978-0-8166-6547-1 | paperback | $19.95 BACK IN PRINT! This extensive biography is intertwined with reflections from famous Gillespie associates Cab Calloway, Count Basie, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Mary Lou Williams, Ella ...

Jazztimes Resuscitated

July 14, 2009

JazzTimes magazine announced today that it will come back to life with an August issue. A post on the magazine's web site says that a Boston company, Madavor Media, has acquired JazzTimes. It describes Madavor as “a market-leading enthusiast publishing and trade-show group." Jazz Times announced in early June that it was temporarily suspending publication. A ...

Nick Catalano's "New York Nights"

July 13, 2009

Includes intriguing details about the hangouts of jazz legends Miles Davis, Lionel Hampton, Duke Ellington, and Max Roach Catalano shares his personal experiences, gossipy anecdotes and critical commentary as a television and concert producer who was once firmly entrenched in the unpredictable and exciting comedy and jazz scene coming out of New York City. It is ...

JazzTimes Will Play On

July 13, 2009

JazzTimes, one of the country’s most prominent jazz magazines with a circulation of more than 100,000, announced last month on its Web site, jazztimes.com, that it was ceasing publication because of financial trouble. Much of the magazine’s audience — as well as contributors who hadn’t been paid for their recent work — assumed that this was ...