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Kevin Cole of Webster Groves HS Featured in JazzEd Magazine
Trombonist and educator Kevin Cole, who directs the high school jazz band program in the St. Louis suburb of Webster Groves, is the subject of the cover story in the current issue of JazzEd magazine.The piece covers Cole's background, teaching philosophy, and more, and was written by local freelance writer, pianist and bandleader Kevin ...
Voice of the Century Broke Racial Barriers
In the early 1930s, years before the concert at the Lincoln Memorial that made her an international symbol of the American civil rights movement, Marian Anderson, the great Philadelphia-born contralto, was probably better known overseas than she was in the United States. THE SOUND OF FREEDOM Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert ...
Chicago Sun-Times Files for Bankruptcy
Sun-Times Media Group Inc., reeling from a painful revenue decline and tax liabilities that date back to the looting of the company during the tenure of former CEO Conrad Black, disclosed Tuesday that it has filed for protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of the federal bankruptcy code. The publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times and other ...
Unzipped Souls: A Jazz Journey Through the Soviet Union
Across nine thousand kilometers and six republics of the Soviet Union, William Minor embarked on a “jazz journey" to observe the development of contemporary Russian jazz, as it responded to an abundance of cultural changes. A jazz writer and musician himself, Minor sat in on private performances and went backstage at several major festivals, witnessing firsthand ...
AllAboutJazz-New York April 2009 Issue Now Available
This month’s theme is one of overcoming adversity. We didn’t necessarily plan it that way but jazz is a music filled with drama, the personal struggles informing the musical statements. Our Cover Story is pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi, who has been a trailblazer as both a woman and an Asian-American leading bands since the ‘50s. Interview subject ...
Drum! Magazine's Email Neil Peart Editorial Campaign a Hit
SAN JOSE, Calif., -- Enter Music Publishing, publishers of hip, drum magazines worldwide, is experiencing a tremendous response rate to its Email Neil Editorial Campaign. Officially launched on February 11, the Neil Peart population has sent questions via neilpeart@drumlink. Additionally, questions have been sent online at http://www.drummagazine.com/features/post/just-ask-neil-yourself/; or by accessing the Questions Page on DRUM!s Youtube ...
Lost Mark Twain Story to be Published
The never-before-published story The Undertaker's Tale by Mark Twain will finally see print next week, in the pages of the mystery quarterly The Strand Magazine. Twain uses his razor sharp wit to pen a tongue-in-cheek tale about the funeral industry, which could easily have been written today. editor Andrew Gulli But Twain's story has ...
Daily D.I.Y. - Your 10,000 Hours
Malcolm Gladwell's latest book Outliers: The Story of Success outlines his belief that success only comes to those willing to practice their craft for more than 10,000 hours. From The Beatles to Bill Gates, Gladwell provides examples which show that after a certain level of talent or intelligence has provided the opportunity, 10,000 hours of concentrated ...
Kind of Blue is 50
Fifty years ago today, the Miles Davis Sextet began recording for Columbia Records the music that ultimately made up the album called Kind Of Blue. To observe the occasion, Jan Stevens of The Bill Evans Web Pages commissioned an essay about that imperishable recording and its most recent CD reissue. The piece, by John Varrallo, is ...
Cafe Society: The Wrong Place for the Right People
At the end of 1938 a former shoe salesman named Barney Josephson opened what would become one of the most legendary nightspots in jazz history. Cafe Society was New York City's first integrated nightclub, and it quickly became a gathering place for artists, intellectuals, leftwing political figures, jazz lovers, and--perhaps inevitably--the very Manhattan sophisticates it meant ...
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