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The Importance of Vince Guaraldi’s A Charlie Brown Christmas
by C. Michael Bailey
Into my heart on air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come ...
Derrick Bang: Vince Guaraldi at the Piano
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Vince Guaraldi at the Piano Derrick Bang 390 pages ISBN: 978-0-7864-5902-5 McFarland Books 2012 Based on Derrick Bang's encyclopedic biography of pianist Vince Guaraldi, you can draw two perhaps surprising conclusions about the subject's contribution to jazz. First, Guaraldi arguably hipped more listeners to this musical form ...
Jerry Granelli Trio’s Debut CD, "Let Go," Is The Latest Gem In Percussion Master’s Multi-faceted Career
“Let go of what you want it to be. let go of how you think it too should be. even let go of your vision.and so we began by bringing in compositions and tearing them apart to find out what worked. This recording is a crystallization of that process.” In the middle of 2011, after releasing ...
Great Jazz Deserves To Be Heard And Seen At It's Best
by Toby Gleason
Why I'm filing a mass take-down notice on YouTubeFor several decades, my father committed himself to championing the popular emergence of jazz, and engendering proper respect for the musicians who devoted their careers and lives to the music that had long been dismissed to the sidelines of main stream American culture. Ralph J. Gleason ...
Gowanus Reggae and Ska Society: GRASS on Fire: Gowanus Reggae and Ska Society Plays Catch a Fire
by Chris M. Slawecki
At first look, jazz seems to have little use for reggae. After all, isn't the essence of jazz its flights of improvisatory fancy, while reggae's trademark is that resolute, lockdown rhythm? But a solid point from which to take off and return is most helpful when flying, and reggae provides a rhythmic foundation more solid than ...
Jazz Mergers & Acquisitions
by Chris M. Slawecki
T. K. BlueLatin BirdMotéma Music2011 Saxophonist Charlie “Bird" Parker is primarily remembered as an incendiary, revolutionary, improvisatory soloist, but he often expressed his style through composition, and many of Parker's original tunes became part of the modern jazz canon. Latin Bird, saxophonist T.K. Blue's label ...
Jerry Granelli: Let Go
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il 21 e il 22 gennaio del 2011 erano certamente giornate fredde e scure, in quel di Halifax, Nova Scotia. Anche le statistiche lo confermano: gennaio è il mese più freddo dell'anno, in quel lembo del Canada orientale bagnato dall'Atlantico. Ma il freddo non può ostacolare il sogno di intrepidi condottieri come Jerry Granelli. E infatti ...
Jerry Granelli Trio - Let Go (2011)
verytime I've examined a Jerry Granelli record, like Song I Thought I Heard Buddy Sing or News From The Street, I've marveled at how a guy who drummed for all those Charlie Brown children's TV specials with Vince Guaraldi ended up being such a creative risktaker as a leader. At the same time, I think it's ...
