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Music Shows How We Want To Be: Artie Shaw's "Nightmare"
by Michael Palmer
The education Aesthetic Realism, founded by American poet and critic Eli Siegel (1902 -1978), describes what makes for beauty in music and shows how music comments centrally on what we're hoping for in our lives. “All beauty," Mr. Siegel stated, “is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are ...
Obituary: Artie Shaw
by AAJ Staff
Artie Shaw died December 30th at the age of 94. It seems almost befitting that Shaw, the musician that despised fame, would pass on after all the magazines and newspapers went to press with their year-end tributes to the entertainers who died in 2004. “The public and I have nothing to do with each other," Shaw ...
The Stone: John Zorn's Latest Downtown Venture
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
It's a common refrain: there aren't enough places to play. Lately, it seems truer than ever, as several venerable clubs stare down financial hardships and possible eviction, while others have been forced to close, move, or change their programming to court a wider audience.In such a climate, only the uncompromisingly independent composer/saxophonist John Zorn ...
Italian Jazz in New York
by AAJ Staff
This month past, present and future generations of Italian jazz will parade throughout Manhattan. Besides having some of the most famous jazz festivals such as Umbria, Pescara, Roccella, and Rome's Villa Celimontana -many Italian towns and cities host smaller jazz festivals and celebrate the music in coffee houses and pubs, a phenomenon of only the past ...
Guernsey's Jazz Auction
by Andrey Henkin
Much has been made in the popular press of the once-in-a-lifetimeness of this auction. More coverage was given to the event, held Sunday, Feb. 20th at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Theater, than jazz usually gets in a year. The son of Thelonious Monk, T.S., made the opening remarks and spoke optimistically about history and what ...
Bill Milkowski: Rockers, Jazzbos & Visionaries
by AAJ Staff
About the AuthorBill Milkowski is a New York-based freelancer who contributes regularly to Jazz Times, Modern Drummer, Guitar Player, Bass Player, Jazziz, Audio, Pulse Guitar Club (Italy), Jazzthing (Germany) and (until its recent demise) Fi magazines. He has written more than 4,000 articles for these and various other magazines since publishing his first article ...
Tour of the Louis Armstrong House Museum
by Bob Jacobson
When Louis Armstrong came home from a road trip one day in 1943, he handed the cab driver the address of the new home his wife Lucille has picked out as a surprise, the first home he had ever owned. Since the house they pulled up to was in a racially-mixed neighborhood, Louis thought the cabbie ...
Top Ten "Most Read" Articles & CD Reviews: 2004
by AAJ Staff
Earlier this year we placed a counter on each article page to track how many times an article was read. The articles and reviews below represent our top ten for 2004. This list excludes the following pages: Welcome to AAJ! , New to Jazz? and the monthly greetings --all located in the “Getting Started" ...
'Poets of Action': The Saint Louis Black Artists' Group, 1968-1972 (Part 4-4)
by Benjamin Looker
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 SOURCE ESSAY The most thorough overview of the Black Artists' Group to date is Peter Madden's unpublished Master's Thesis, “Creative Collectivism: A Study of the AACM, BAG, and the CAC," (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, April 1996), though Madden's focus is ...
Poets of Action: The Saint Louis Black Artists' Group, 1968-1972 (Part 2-4)
by Benjamin Looker
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 ACTIVISM AND AFROCENTRISM The new intersection of politics and the arts that emerged in the 1960s enabled BAG members to engage in projects reflecting some of the political and social tenor of the time. The theater component of BAG, in particular, ...
