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Grammy Nomination Musings...
The Recording Academy (formerly the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences) is out with its nominations for the 52nd annual Grammy Awards. The full list of nominees is available at the Grammy Web site. It is encouraging to see that a former jazz categories for so-called “smooth jazz" recordings are listed this time around where ...
CDs of Note
Hal Weary, A Rendezvous with Deja Vu (Musichal Entertainment) There's more than a little influence of Horace Silver on this hard-bop project. This is a good thing, as rarely can you gone with the funky sort of swing that graced the best of Silver's projects. All right, all of his projects. Weary, a New York-based pianist, ...
On the Plus Side...
After all of the angst and financial mess following the Festival Productions-Festival Network LLC transaction nearly three years ago, one positive has emerged. Ben Ratliff had the details this month in the New York Times in his article Historic Sounds of Newport, Newly Online.Before Festival Network essentially collapsed from its self-inflicted financial woes, the ...
Interesting Developments at J@LC
Remember the halcyon days when to be considered a university, you had to have six or seven accredited colleges as well as graduate and professional divisions? In our society's more recent cavalier and clever language-mashing, it seems anything goes.It started with Hamburger University, then Dunkin' Donuts University and probably thousands' more corporate training initiatives ...
Is the Pot Calling the Kettle Black?
I got a chuckle today when reading a Web posting (Kenny G Steps Back Into the Spotlight) by AOL's PopEater entertainment news and celebrity gossip site about the Pied Piper of non-jazz saxophonists. It's an update on his career including work on a track ironically called “I'm Your Daddy" on alternate rock band Weeezer's latest album, ...
Jazz and Folk Intermingle - Paying It Forward
Louis Armstrong is credited with saying: “All music is folk music; I ain't never heard no horse sing a song." Another variation on the quote is “All music is folk music, because we're all just folk."Quotations aside, there are some interesting jazz-folk synergies at work this autumn. Some may have been surprised when 90-year-old folk troubadour ...
When Music Meets Science
In addition to their strong musical interests, John Medeski, Billy Martin and Chris Wood share interests in biology and science. The longtime bandmates melded those interests philosophically with their latest, and perhaps most ambitious project, The Radiolarians Series. It is named after the Radiolarian, a type of single-celled marine organism with a very intricate exoskeleton. MMW ...
Keeping the Faith, Growing the Jazz Faithful
There are examples here and there of jazz clubs, jazz festivals and jazz musicians doing their part to increase the audience and give the jazzfaithful an economic break in these difficult times. Some do it low key, some even anonymously. Wynton Marsalis is doing his part. The trumpeter and Jazz at Lincoln Center artistic director will ...
A Must Read: Wynton Marsalis's Enduring Opus
The Thursday, September 24 edition of the Wall Street Journal contains a terrific piece by Larry Blumenfeld taking a close look on the positive impact that Jazz at Lincoln Center has had on the New York and national jazz scene since its founding in 1986 and principally since moving into its own three-venue performance space five ...
Good Business to Take Care Of
The jazz community has learned how to take care of its makers--past, present--and way in the past. The greatest examples come out of the the Jazz Foundation of America's Jazz Musicians Emergency Fund, which is run out of New York by a jazz angel named Wendy Oxenhorn. She and the JMEF step in when they hear ...
