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The Jazz Entrepreneur-Threat or Menace
By Steve Provizer Blogmeister Chris R. bemoans the lack of entrepreneurial spirit among local jazzers. I more or less demur. There are musicians out there exercising the old entrepreneurial spirit and bestirring themselves to various exotic gig locales and this is surely a better strategy than bemoaning one's fate while passively waiting to be discovered. But ...
Fear and Confidence-the Jazz Tight Rope
By Steve Provizer If you're an improviser who completely lacks confidence, you'll never get out of the practice room, but if you have no fear, you won't find The Edge. Most of us struggle to find a balance between the two. Some people have no fear in a studio, but freeze up in front of audiences. ...
Comfort-Food Jazz
By Steve Provizer As Flann O'Brien once wrote, in “At-Swim-Two-Birds": “When things go wrong and will not come right, Though you do the best you can, When life seems black as the hour of night, A pint of plain is your only man." Well, the man was an alcoholic, so ...
Growing Pains
By Matt Lavelle Everyone that plays,listens,and is a part of Jazz,.has their own version of what the music is,what is important to them in the music,and especially,.the music they like and don't like.That's true across the board in all music,and life,.but in Jazz I feel we are ever more particular.I don't think there are even 2 ...
Unions and the Fame Myth
By Steve Provizer Seattle Negro Musicians Union-1925 Music is a collaborative art, but the sketchy history of unionism in American music seems to say that the spirit of collaboration has too often ended at the edge of a bandstand. Believe it or not, there actually is something called the American Federation of Musicians (AFM), under the ...
The Jazz Lexicon of Expressive Grunts
By Steve Provizer So-Maybe our sexually permissive culture has cleared the way for greater freedom of The Gutteral Utterance. At least, women tennis players now feel free to let it rip. But jazz musicians have long had a lot to say that has nothing to do with lyrics or, for that matter, with any known language. ...
Belabored Day.
“Because americans are concerned with market share and sales. conflict leads to sales. I met these guys from Finland...in their late 30's, like, in their 18th year of university or some shit like that—and getting paid to go. they played all day long, did some teaching, and that was set up for them...I remember they said ...
Coltrane and the Jazz Fracture
By Steve Provizer Tom, one of our commentors, speculates about Coltrane's contribution to the fracturing of the jazz audience and the concomitant loss of jazz audience in the early 1960's. This fracturing was certainly underway before the early 60's; chiefly through Ornette and somewhat via Cecil Taylor and Dolphy, but for several reasons-and for better or ...
Music from the Future. Matt Lavelle.
I often refer to the Spiritual side of Jazz and in particular,.free Jazz,.no less than like a preacher on the pulpit.Some folks consider a spiritual perspective on music an excuse to just play wild and free with no real focus and or maybe no real skill.How much skill do you need to engage any music from ...
"Coltrane on Coltrane"
By Steve Provizer I just received a copy of the book Coltrane on Coltrane, edited by Chris DeVito. There are a number of interviews here-especially European and Japanese-that I'd never seen. Also, some good candids that I don't think had been published. Chris included an interview I did with Isadore Granoff, who ran the Granoff Studios ...
