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Happy Birthday Matthew Shipp.
Matthew meets his half decade today in his prime and fully immersed in Dionysian musings shaped by Apollonian sensibilities. It's quite a feat. It turns on his use of the most basic primal song forms, the first ones most people here were exposed to... Frere Jacques, etc. The melody kernel that the “The New Fact" grows ...
Forbes Gets Around.
The Outpost Chronology was a hit and now I'm looking over web video snippets for other area notables. Forbes Graham is engaging in a run of performances over the course of December at the Outpost and he was recently featured in a piece by Gordon Marshall at All About Jazz. In many ways Mr. Graham is ...
"When Money Comes in the Door, Duende Goes out the Window"
By Steve Provizer Duende was first a fairy or goblin-like creature in Spanish and Latin American mythology. Eventually, it became a concept-something that you could have, or which inhabited you; a way of describing the passion inherent in flamenco or other folk musics. The concept has had two main popularizers: Frederico Garcia Lorca and George Frazier. ...
Transparency in DC with Bobby Hill.
MOM2. 1.Describe your discovery of Music. “I'm 51. When you say discovery of music, I am assuming that you mean what we affectionally call “the music." While still strongly into a jazz-fusion bag musically during my teens (Brand X, Return To Forever, Passport, Gong, etc.,), I sifted through my father's record collection and came across a ...
"The Myth of 'The First'"
By Steve Provizer There's a guy who recently said he's identified the World's First Rock-and-Roll Song Id'ing the first of anything is alluring; even better than finding the Biggest Spruce Tree or the Skinniest Model. Arguing about the First Of Something has the same kind of endless circularity you get in a stoned conversation about “Best ...
"Let Us Now Praise Charlie Shavers"
By Steve Provizer Charlie Shavers. Why is this man's work not better known? The only other swing trumpet players who could give him a run for his money in all facets of playing were Roy Eldridge and Buck Clayton. If you happened to like the particularities of their sounds, you might rate Harry Edison, Harry James, ...
Grandpa's Rainbow.
By Matt Lavelle Just how and why does anybody dedicate their lives to Art in a fallen world? To make such a choice in 2010 would be over the top from my perspective.When I was a kid in the 70's I had no idea that the gentrification express was all ready rolling along and that standards ...
Outpost Video Chronology 2007 to 2010.
I did some research for brother Chalfen to find out how many videos are out there for the gallery since it began. I began with 2007 where we have Todd Brunel performing Messiaen's “Abîme des oiseaux" from November of 2007 and Chris Pert and an ensemble during the same month. Chris studied at NEC and plays ...
Junko Simons Cello Magic.
Ms. Simons with Tom Plsek, (Courtesy of Thomas Simons) Ms Simons has made major contributions to the quality of my life as a music gallery gnome. She brings out the best in her collaborators and rides a whirlwind of activity teaching and performing in the region. What brought you to music? “I come from a family ...
"Jazz Cops on Patrol"
By Steve Provizer So, my band is working toward the out-chorus of “All of Me," when this stocky guy with a crew cut comes up to the stage. He's a tough looking mug, wearing a blue drum major hat with “this space for rent" written on his forehead. “Alright," he says to the drummer, “Put those ...
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