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Plunge: Dancing on Thin Ice
by Raul d'Gama Rose
There is a plangorous significance to Dancing on Thin Ice. Built on the symbolic thin ice of New Orleans' ecology, it depicts a city that has bounced back from Katrina but only just. It also tells a broader allegorical tale about the planet's teeter-tottering cultural ecology--hence the cover silhouettes of a mastodon and hammerhead shark, representing ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Jimmy Blanton
All About Jazz is celebrating Jimmy Blanton's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Jimmy BlantonJimmy Blanton - acoustic bass (1918-1942) In his short tenure with Duke Ellington, Jimmy Blanton became the first great double bass virtuoso in jazz... more Website | Videos | Articles Follow Jimmy ...
John Patitucci: Celebrating Jazz Heroes
by R.J. DeLuke
As sayings go, “One man's trash is another man's treasure" is pretty straightforward, especially for those enamored with garage sales. For lovers of jazz music, it may hold a bit more significance, for it played a fateful role in the life of one of today's superlative artists in the genre. John Patitucci is one ...
Jymie Merritt: Dedication Personified
by Victor L. Schermer
Jymie Merritt came up in Philadelphia during the evolution of bebop and hard bop, when the town was a hotbed of musical activity. Players like John Coltrane, Benny Golson, and Philly Joe Jones were getting started there, and musicians like Charlie Parker, J.J. Johnson, Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis would come to the city to perform ...
Duke Ellington: Symphony of the Body and Soul
by Raul d'Gama Rose
A study in sepia It was the package that arrived, which prompted me to open an album of memories in the first place. Looking at the photograph, I recall some--not all--of the many details of the evening it was taken. The boy in the photograph is I, and I am in a black mood. ...
Birth of the Bass: Blanton Inspired a Line of Successors
by Dirk Sutro
Listen Jimmy Blanton brought jazz bass into the modern era in 1940 with his Ellington recordings including “Pitter Panther Patter" and “Jack the Bear," proving that the big instrument could move through the music like a sleek animal. In the decades that followed, dozens more jazz bassists picked up Blanton's innovative vibe, from ...
Remembering Jimmy Blanton
by Scott Pollard
The saga of Duke Ellington's orchestra is an epic that lasted from the 1920s to the 1970s and has spanned the history of jazz itself. It is not only the story of a man and his music, but of the musicians that he wrote for and that interpreted his songs. Ellington prided himself on knowing his ...
