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"Jazz 911: Rescuing the Great American Songbook"
By Steve Provizer When you reach into the faux-velvet bag, there's a feeling of infinite possibility inspired by the virgin letters nestled inside. But you can only get that feeling after you've swept the last set of painstakingly-created words off the Scrabble board. Oddly, I went through the same process when I read Peter Ven Der ...
Max Makes It Happen.
Maxim Micheliov is part of a robust Jazz advocacy community in Vilnius Lithuania that comes highly recommended by friends who have performed there. Max with Roy Campbell jr. 1. Describe your discovery of music. “The sounds of music have always been heard at our home. Both my parents love music. We had a quite big collection ...
Clifford Brown and the Great Tree
By Matt Lavelle Hearing the opening of the Clifford Brown birthday broadcast on WKCR at midnight this past Saturday,a 30 hour marathon,got me to reflect again on what I call the trumpet brotherhood,.and Clifford Brown's towering place inside of it.In 2010 it's hard to find members of the brotherhood,.but we still exist.Of course We all start ...
Vote with Your Ears-Dizzy for Pres
By Steve Provizer Herbert Hoover's advisers no doubt warned him that getting endorsements from Red Allen or Miff Mole might backfire. Ditto Harry Truman, who never sought the support of Bird-or even Tommy Dorsey. Ronald Reagan never thought that the backing of Archie Shepp would seal the deal. Through most of its history, even in its ...
Another Robert Johnson Mystery
Below see the semi-decipherable conversation between professor Chalfen and myself vis a vis the mystery of whether the recordings of blues giant Robert Johnson were recorded at the wrong speed and hence play back at a faster speed than they should. This is important because, if true, it implies Mephistopheles may have been less involved than ...
"The Institute's New Jazz Typology"
By Steve Provizer ..."why is the Tristano school always shown as a branch of cool jazz? Those guys were hardcore bebop heads. Is it just that they were white and some of them wore glasses so people confuse them with Brubeck?" —Ian Carey Mr. Carey, The Institute is here for you. Our first attempt at typology, ...
"Ellington on Art and Craft"
By Steve Provizer Duke Ellington said: “The wise players are those that play what they can master." Indeed, a highly controversial thing to say, especially in light of the radical shifts jazz has undergone in the last 60 or so years. Let's say it values the “craft" in jazz more heavily than the “art." Art versus ...
Horns and Hormones
By Steve Provizer Getting married tends to take a guy out of the blog loop, but like Freddie Kruger, I manage to stay alive for the sequels... I just finished reading “Hotter Than That," sub-titled “The Trumpet, Jazz and American Culture." I might add-"That's Awfully Grandiose For A Book That Slices Off Such A Teeny Tiny ...
My Conversation with Wind.
By Matt Lavelle Sometimes my worlds come together. Even NYC feels the change of the seasons at times.We actually had tornadoes touch down in Queens and Brooklyn recently,ripping up and throwing trees around,.causing electrical mayhem.The last few days I've been in wind gusts blowing new yorkers right into traffic.(Stand next to a mailbox if it gets ...
The Intrepid Mr. Demos.
Chrys 'Kit" Demos drives 113 miles, each way, for his gigs here at the Outpost. He is only surpassed by Mr. Morris, who drives 150 miles. Kit sometimes brings his daughter along and she has the ability to stretch across several folding chairs and nap while the ensemble churns away. He has much in common with ...
