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Dutch Jazz and Performers at the 2005 North Sea Jazz Festival
by Mark Sabbatini
“There is a long jazz tradition in the Netherlands, from post-bop styles to a thriving avant-garde scene that developed in the 1960s. American jazz musicians have sometimes criticized Dutch jazz, arguing that it doesn't swing, or that it isn't sufficiently rooted in the blues. But with its philosophical roots in absurdism and slapstick, it's one of ...
Free Jazz, eh? Scores of MP3s from North of the Border
by Mark Sabbatini
A pretty free exchange of ideas and culture seems to exist between the U.S. and Canada. As a college student in Washington right next to the border, I saw the young flock north for its lower legal drinking age and older folks camp at our malls in RVs every weekend so they could bargain shop.
Performers at the Medicine Hat Jazz Festival
by Mark Sabbatini
(Note: This is part of the occasional “Back Roads Beat" series about jazz at lesser-known festivals and locations around the world.) Theresa Sokyrka might be hard to get tickets for, but getting saturated by her live performances is easy. The runner-up of “Canadian Idol 2" was the headline act at the 2005 Medicine Hat ...
A Long List of Free Recordings for the Long Days of Summer
by Mark Sabbatini
These may be the longest days of the year, but for some reason it doesn't seem like there's any extra time to catch up on the music scene. The legal and free downloads keep sneaking onto my hard drive faster than I can listen to them, much less write proper reviews. So it's time ...
Nils Petter Molvaer: Live at Rockefeller Center in Oslo
by Mark Sabbatini
A new Ferrari with a bunch of dents is still a pretty nice gift. Norwegian trumpet modernist Nils Petter Molvaer is offering its acoustical equivalent in an hour-long concert video recently posted free at his web site. It's a large file (291MB) that may frustrate novices trying to save it on their computers, and ...
A Ton of Music (and Frustration) at www.mp3unsigned.com
by Mark Sabbatini
It's this close to being a near-perfect source of free music downloads. But one problem is so critical it's like saying Halle Berry is the perfect date - if she weren't missing her head. The site www.mp3unsigned.com offers, as its name indicates, songs from musicians lacking big label contracts. Selection is vast and varied, many of ...
Not On Mars: Live and Studio Debuts
by Mark Sabbatini
"Louder than jazz, smarter than rock. It's a catchy slogan for Not On Mars, a new fusion quintet from Madison, Wis., and good shorthand for describing the merits of their composing and playing. They may not be the smartest guys in class, but they get their assignments done and still throw parties that get ...
Charlie Hunter Trio: Live at The Magic Bag
by Mark Sabbatini
This being America, we'll blame guitarist Charlie Hunter's talent and generosity. The person who labored to make this recording is merely the victim of unfair competition. Hunter is among a handful of top-tier jazz musicians who allows audience taping of his shows for distribution and even goes a step further by offering three albums' ...
Weirdomusic.com: Free Albums Glorifying the Distortions of Musical History
by Mark Sabbatini
Somebody should post a personality test at this site, where people assess themselves based on which albums they consider “weird and “normal. Old-time jam sessions by King Richard's Fluegel Knights (by which they mean caveman-era)? The latest from Pastor McPurvis' Weekly MP3 Talent Show (a high school marimba band)? Hearing the theme from ...
Polish Jazz Network: 102 Free MP3s
by Mark Sabbatini
Jazz didn't exactly get off to a good start in Poland. Society rejected it as “jungle music. Critics and even the musicians said little originality existed in performances. One of its few commercial successes came from a band using it as a road show jingle to sell American “Indian motorcycles. But the ...
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