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A Chris Forbes Trajectory.
Photo Courtesy Chris Forbes. Chris has become a helpful regular in the comment zone and actually likes to write so I badgered him to go through the profile question ordeal and ...voila. 1. What brought you to music? I was interested in music pretty young according to my mother. She said I always seemed to gravitate ...
"Like, so Not Swingin', Gate"
By Steve Provizer Yankee Dog mentioned Frank Gorshin's hep cat role in “Where the Boys Are." I have no doubt that there's a large sub-division of the Academic Culture Industry that has chewed on the subject of jazz/beat portrayals in film and TV like a chia pet on a licorice rope. But boys, if you're reading, ...
"The Marvelous Ego Labyrinth"
By Steve Provizer Too much of a bad thing, no doubt, but being unemployed has induced hyper-posting. My Little Grey Cells, otherwise preoccupied for the last 12 years with idle strategies for world domination have lately been inspired by things people write in the comments. In this case, the ego posting. The interplay of ego on ...
Happy Birthday Bill Dixon, Wherever You Are.
Image courtesy of Stephen Haynes. “If you are you, 24 hours a day, then you do not have to remember who you are supposed to be in different situations—something that I imagine could be troublesome.“ —Bill Dixon. The Grand Old Man didn't make it to today and in the period that has followed his passing in ...
"Gimme Some Jazz-over Easy"
By Steve Provizer And one thing leads to the next...C.R. mentions in his ego postcomment the degree of effort audiences will apply to “something non essential like aesthetic nourishment." This leads to the knock heard for so long about jazz: you have to work too hard to 'get' it. It's sometimes framed as “accessibility,' a word ...
In (Mild) Praise of Ego
By Steve Provizer The conversation around the fear-and-confidence post was rejuvenated and made me think in terms longer than a reply comment. Much of the conversation-externally and internally-revolves around trying to figure out the difference between “self-expression" and “communication." But is there really a difference? I don't think there is. Ego is in both and unless ...
Finding the "Voice" in Jazz
By Steve Provizer 'Voice' has always been seen as the sine qua non of jazz-the quality that separates it from other genres and either marks a musician as worthy of attention or consigns him to mediocrity. Someone with very sharp ears might be able to tell the difference between Maurice Andre and Wynton Marsalis playing the ...
Matthew's Back in Town.
Image courtesy of Lena Adesheva. While a debate over the pros and cons of mercantilism as applied to jazz rages below, I got an e mail from Mr Shipp last night to let me know he's back from a fabulous September that began in Brazil, took him through another fat swath of former Soviet enclaves, saw ...
"Confessions of an Esoteric Blogger"
By Steve Provizer Attend the fate of Mad Sweeney, as delineated by author Flann O'Brien in “At-Swim-Two-Birds:" “Neck high sticks he must pass by leaping. Knee high sticks by bending." There are those who say that I apply that injunction to my unwitting readership. And, though it be mercantile suicide and savagely highfallutin,' that ...
Professor Provizer's Bad Jazz Art Gallery
Welcome-and abandon all hope, ye who enter here. We'll stop the bleeding and let this stand as a representative sample. Clearly, some of this stuff was knocked off quickly. Some of it seems painfully pre-civil rights, some of it falls squarely in the tchotchke category (thanks, E. Doberman, whose comment inspired this post), some of it ...
