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Poets of Action: The Saint Louis Black Artists' Group, 1968-1972 (Part 1-4)
by Benjamin Looker
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 St. Louis has always been careful to cover its tracks, razing its history so it can start over again with a clean slate. Occasionally, though, the past sticks a foot in the door of the future and demands to be let in. One ...
'Poets of Action': The Saint Louis Black Artists' Group, 1968-1972 (Part 3-4)
by Benjamin Looker
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 ST. LOUIS, PARIS, NEW YORK CITY After four years of operation in St. Louis, the leading musicians of BAG had grown frustrated with the lack of opportunities in St. Louis and in the United States. As mentioned earlier, Hemphill's record label ...
UPSTARTS! Young Lions of Jazz
by AAJ Staff
UPSTARTS! The word itself pulsates with youthful energy and vigor, a yearning for learning, to participate, to contribute. Music is the universal language.UPSTARTS! is the program presented at 7:30pm and 9:30pm on Monday nights at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, in the home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, where college level jazz bands mix it up ...
Remembering Jazz at the Brooklyn Paramount
by AAJ Staff
You get a few clues as soon as you enter the building. A glimpse of marble here, a bit of Baroque grillwork there, let you know you're not just in some run-of-the-mill, multi-purpose university hall. Duck through the doorway to the right and the cavernous student cafeteria, with its grand staircase, wrought iron Juliet balconies, huge ...
Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall
by Russ Musto
When Jazz at Lincoln Center opens the doors to the Frederick P. Rose Hall this month it will welcome the jazz community to an impressive state of the art facility representing the greatest commitment of resources, both human and financial, to the presentation and preservation of the art of jazz in the music's hundred-year-old history. Located ...
Re: Sonny Simmons
by AAJ Staff
For too long I have read Sonny Simmons' disingenuous remarks (see interview ) about the labels that go to bat for him and offer an uncompromised canvas for his artistry. In July, he refers to his current labels as “little outhouse labels with no distribution in Europe." I am familiar with those labels (i.e. since 2002: ...
Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola
by AAJ Staff
There's a hot new club comin' to town. New York City, the Jazz Capital of the World, is about to get even hipper.Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola is located at Jazz at Lincoln Center's brand new digs. Columbus Circle at Time Warner center is where it all happens. It's located at a focal point of the ...
Lukas Ligeti's Free Zone Series
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
There can never be enough venues for creative, improvised music. And there aren't any clubs on the upper west side serving this music and catering to the potential interest of Columbia students and the resurgence of Harlem.Enter the Free Zone Series: a weekly concert program curated by drummer/composer Lukas Ligeti and guitarist/promoter/designer Ty Cumbie. ...
Frederick P. Rose Hall
by AAJ Staff
July 6, 2004 was my first day as Assistant Director -Public Relations for Jazz At Lincoln Center. A dream come true. I find myself surrounded by jazz lovers in the Jazz Capital of the World.Located smack dab in the middle of Columbus Circle in Manhattan, overlooking beautiful Central Park, Jazz At Lincoln Center is ...
Vision of the musicWitness
by AAJ Staff
Visual artist Jeff Schlanger has helped document some of jazz and improvisational music's most memorable moments of clarity ever since his music Witness® (mW®) project first took shape in 1975.Schlanger first got the “drawing bug" back in the mid to late '50s. He attended concerts by Sonny Rollins, Dizzy, Miles and Coltrane in Philadelphia ...
