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Article: Under the Radar

The Politics of Dancing: Jazz and Protest, Part 2

by Karl Ackermann
May 5, 2017

Part 1 of Jazz and Protest took an in-depth look at two landmark artists and the songs that laid the groundwork for protest within the jazz community. Billie Holiday's “Strange Fruit" took a circuitous route from its origins as a poem to its successful recording on a small label that was not afraid to lend a ...

Article: Album Review

Michael Rabinowitz: Uncharted Waters

Read "Uncharted Waters" reviewed by Roger Farbey

by Roger Farbey
April 11, 2017

Like the harp, oboe and tuba, bassoon in jazz is not a common instrument but all have been occasionally successfully employed as lead soloing instruments. Amongst a handful of others, Illinois Jacquet and Lindsay Cooper both played bassoon in a jazz context. Cooper, who died of MS in 2013, was depicted playing the bassoon in John ...

Article: My Blue Note Obsession

Leo Parker: Rollin' With Leo – 1961

by Marc Davis
November 21, 2016

What if I told you there's a saxman who was there at the birth of bebop--literally, he played on the very first bebop recording--and you've never heard of him? And what if I told you his life story is the very archetype of the tragic, drug-addicted jazz musician? Would you still want to hear ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Illinois Jacquet

October 31, 2016

All About Jazz is celebrating Illinois Jacquet's birthday today! Illinois Jacquet is considered to be one of the most influential tenor saxophonists in the history of jazz music. Born on October 31, 1922, in Broussard, Louisiana, Jean Baptiste Illinois Jacquet, at the age of 19 on the very first recording of his career, spawned an entirely ...

News: Education

Music Education Monday: Jazz theory with Barry Harris

June 6, 2016

Today for Music Education Monday, here are some lessons in piano and jazz theory from the veteran pianist Barry Harris, via a series of short videos produced by the Jazz Academy program of Jazz at Lincoln Center in NYC. The first of these four clips was part of a previous post here with some other piano-related ...

Article: Lyrics

Piccola guida al nuovo jazz italiano

by Luca Canini
November 30, 2015

Non è vero che il jazz italiano sta bene. Non è vero che siamo il paese dei festival e che abbiamo musicisti che tutto il mondo ci invidia. Possiamo raccontarcela tra di noi, se vi va. Facendo finta che questo sia il migliore dei mondi possibili e che il sole dell'avvenire splenda alto sopra l'orizzonte, ma ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Illinois Jacquet

October 31, 2015

Article: Live From Philadelphia

Philadelphia's Cutting Edge Big Band: Bobby Zankel's Warriors of the Wonderful Sound

by Victor L. Schermer
October 5, 2015

Anyone familiar with the music business can tell you that it's hard enough to get a big band together for an occasional gig, let alone sustain it over an extended period of time. The time and effort involved in composing and arranging new charts, covering the cost of twelve or more musicians, and meshing their complicated ...

Article: Book Excerpts

Zappa and Jazz: Did it Really Smell Funny, Frank?

by Geoffrey Wills
September 15, 2015

The following is an excerpt from “Chapter 2: Early Encounters with Jazz" of Zappa and Jazz: Did it Really Smell Funny, Frank? by Geoffrey Wills (Matador, 2015). When, at the age of fourteen, Zappa entered Mission Bay High School in San Diego in 1955, his first exposure to the elitist snobbery of a ...

Article: Profile

James Clay: Texas Tenor, Second Generation

by David Perrine
August 13, 2015

The term “Texas tenor" was originally coined to describe the sound and style of such swing era players as Herschel Evans, Illinois Jacquet, Buddy Tate, Budd Johnson, Arnett Cobb and others, and has subsequently been applied to second generation players from Texas that included James Clay, David Fathead" Newman and Marchel Ivery. What these players had ...