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A Dispatch from Steve Lantner.
Mr Lantner works an acoustic piano like a trumpeter working different mutes. Of all the exemplary pianists who are regulars at the Outpost, Steve is the only one to really open the thing up, literally. He removes all removeable covers so the thing can really resonate getting into its sonic quintessence. He doesn't want a single ...
Jung Man with a Horn
By Steve Provizer When it comes to Hollywood doing jazz bio-pics, I prefer straight-out hagiography: The Goodman story, the Dorsey Story, the Miller story-they're just the Lindburgh story, Madame Curie and Young Abe Lincoln story with swing music. Fonda coulda been Miller and Stewart could been Lincoln. Greer Garson as Marian McPartland? Anyway, it's a nice, ...
The Voice and the Horn in Jazz
By Steve Provizer Props to @JoshSinton for asking the question: “When did jazz musicians stop emulating singers and begin to emulate other instrumentalists?" It calls for more than a 140 character response... The short answer is that they never stopped. It's an admixture and always has been. Look at the popular music strains in America as ...
Jazz and the Healthy Neurotic: How Can It Be Any Good if It Ain't That Hard?
By Steve Provizer Hey! You with the dirty mind: I'm not talking about sex. I'm talking self-torture here-masochism, not sadism. In this jazz life, we are plagued by a foundational neurosis-to be revealed below-but let's start off with the happy thought that we have found-albeit unconsciously-healthy ways to try and de-fuse or re-articulate this neurosis. Here's ...
The Cortex and the Booty-by Steve Provizer
This is Your Brain on Music The brass band I play with has been talking about the Asphalt Orchestra. In their videos, they seem to be having a great time, engaging the crowd, playing interesting, offbeat music (apart from New Orleans stuff, arrangements of Zappa, Bjork...). On the other hand, a band-mate saw them on the ...
Abbey Lincoln-"Throw It Away"
By Steve Provizer I've been a real intellectual yente for the last several posts. I hope those posts have not been without emotional weight, but the death of Abbey Lincoln makes me want to write a piece where emotion leads and analysis creeps along far behind. In the late 1960's, I went to the old WGBH ...
The Night Jazz Became Itself,..By Matt Lavelle.
A few months ago,.Giuseppi Logan called me up and said,."man,.we have to work,.I can't get any work,.I'm broke man." Giuseppi is under the impression that we can make enough money playing music to have our rent paid,and and enough food in our stomachs so that they stop growling at us.I had exhausted all my limited options,.and ...
Abbey Lincoln-"Throw It Away"
I've been a real intellectual yente for the last several posts. I hope those posts have not been without emotional weight, but the death of Abbey Lincoln makes me want to write a piece where emotion leads and analysis creeps along far behind. In the late 1960's, I went to the old WGBH studios to see ...
The Cortex and the Booty
This is Your Brain on MusicThe brass band I play with has been talking about the Asphalt Orchestra. In their they seem to be having a great time, engaging the crowd, playing interesting, offbeat music (apart from New Orleans stuff, arrangements of Zappa, Bjork...). On the other hand, a band-mate saw them on the ...
Tyner-in-Amber Or: Jazz and the Kali Yuga
Hindus break up history into extremely long time spans. We're nearing the culmination of the Kali Yuga, an era of dissolution and breakdown that sets the stage for the next cycle of rebirth.It's always easy to believe you're living in a period of dissolution-it's part of a golden age/nostalgia spiral that's very appealing to ...
