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Ensemble Timbre Invention.
One of the highlights of Vision Fest, to me is the array of unique larger ensembles that convene each year. These rarely tour or even perform in New York. I've gathered a few examples to give a sense of it but there are many more involving younger people I haven't had time to discover. 6/22 DROM, ...
We'll Take the High Road
No one seems happy about the fact that consciousness-altering substances have been at the center of American popular music for the past 100 years or so-and have probably played a role in 'classical' music as well-no doubt our scholarly respondents will fill in the details.The Silent Majority (still a great expression-thanks, Spiro) doesn't care ...
Findings of the Institute
In 2008, the Rex Stewart/Jabbo Smith Meme and Trope Institute undertook a multiple year study of the increasingly distant proxemics, gestural and spatial relationship between the jazz performing cohort (expanding) and the jazz audience (contracting). This is a prcis of our findings. The Institute initially proceeded under the supposition that the jazz performer-audience relationship could be ...
The Outpost Influences of Julee and Junko.
I haven't engaged in a thorough binge of pandering to women in a while so I'm way overdue. I've also been neglecting frumpy little Boston lately. The good old Outpost is a wealth of material so let me make what I may of this convergence as I embark on yet another lazy post by exploiting meaningful ...
Europe, Taxes and All That Jazz
Reading about the impending demise of the JazzBaltica festival, and noting the European allusion in Matt's recent posting, it struck me how unexamined is this business of European jazz subsidy-and how seemingly anomalous. What's actually behind their willingness to lay out tax spondulics? The meager explanation we've been fed all along is that Europeans are simply ...
Top Ten Reasons Why "Best of" Lists Suck
The “Best Of" List Industry continues to grind out the sausages. Downbeat Magazine's recent listing of the 25 Favorite Big Band Albums is not the worst example, but it did snap this camel's back. Call it vain, call it ironic, but in an attempt to undermine this international conspiracy, I offer my own top ten list: ...
