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NEA Jazz Master Hubert Laws Interviewed at All About Jazz
After James Moody and Frank Wess established the flute as a solo jazz instrument in the 1950s, and Herbie Mann popularized it in the 1960s, the musician that has become most identified with virtuosic flute performance in jazz is Hubert Laws, who became a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Jazz Masters Fellowship ...
Latin Jazz Conversations: Wayne Wallace (Part 6)
The career of a jazz artist contains a number of plateaus, and with each additional ascent into higher artistry comes more responsibility. An artist needs to continually push themselves into new stages of their evolution through research and experimentation. At the same time, they hold a responsibility to support their musical peers and enrich their own ...
Who is Art Tatum Dating? By Steve Provizer
Was the saturation coverage of George Shearing's recent death commensurate with his musical contributions? To my ears, Shearing's music is pleasurable and well-crafted but unexciting. He was capable of playing any style, but the chosen format of his most well-known groups was harmonically consonant and the soloing, while very adept, lacked edge. Shearing's coverage was the ...
How Music Hack Day Evolved - And Why the Music Industry Must Embrace the Chaos [interview]
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This post is by Alison McCarthy (@aliiimac). She's an intern at Hypebot. Fueled by caffeine and pizza, developers, designers, hackers and music geeks gathered together this past weekend at Manhattan's General Assembly for New York City's first Music Hack Day. Designed to bring New York's tech cognoscenti together to build the next generation of music applications, by the ...
Is MySpoonful Different from RCRDLBL? [interview]
Few weeks ago, I discovered mySpoonful, which is a music discovery site and newsletter. Initially, the service made me skeptical. Why send busy people more e-mail? In my mind, there had to be a better way. Readers also pointed out that sites like Rcrdlbl and Track in the Box do similar functions. In search of answers, I ...
George Shearing: Both Good and Popular
George Shearing, who died on Monday, was a great jazz pianist. For much of his long lifetime, he was also one of the 20th century's most successful entertainers, a purveyor of supersmooth easy-listening music that was distinguishable from Muzak only because he played it with perfect taste. That was part of what made him so admirable ...
Nancy Wilson on Shearing
I am particularly fond of The Swingin's Mutual, the album that singer Nancy Wilson recorded with the George Shearing Quintet in June 1960. Her six tracks with Shearing represented a crisscrossing over at the time for both artists. For Nancy, being accompanied by just Shearing's group rather than a big orchestra created a special intimacy that ...
Quando arte e jazz s'incontrano: Gaetano Fiore
by Libero Farnè
Molto spesso quando negli ultimi cinquant'anni si è cercata un'analogia espressiva fra arte e jazz, in particolare quando si è fatto ricorso all'arte per illustrare il jazz, si è individuata una relazione immediata, quasi consustanziale, fra l'improvvisazione afroamericana e le varie esperienze artistiche che dagli anni Cinquanta in poi si sono sviluppate sotto il segno della ...
George Shearing and Latin Jazz: More Than a Footnote
Pianist George Shearing died this past Monday February 14, 2011 due to heart failure, invoking an honest outpouring of love for his work and a resurgence of attention upon his impressive career. Shearing enjoyed immense popularity throughout his career, finding a balance between artistry and public appeal. His quintet that fueled his work throughout the fifties ...
Interview: Marjorie Hyams
The George Shearing Quintet's “sound" was hugely dependent on the musical hand-holding of the piano and vibes. All of the instruments in the late pianist's quintet were vital, of course. But it was the block chords of the piano tempered by the daintiness of the vibes that both excited and charmed listeners. In the original George ...
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