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Chicago Jazz Festival 2018
by Patrick Burnette
Chicago Jazz Festival Chicago, IL August 29-September 2, 2018 A Beginner's Guide to the Chicago Jazz Festival The Chicago Jazz Festival is a free event scheduled each Labor Day weekend and offering over fifty concerts in various outdoor venues. The 40th edition--running from August 29 to September 3, 2018--is now ...
Val Wilmer: Dues And Testimony
by Ian Patterson
Free-jazz, which marked the first revolution in jazz since bebop, and, some might say, the most significant revolution in the entire history of the music, was controversial and divisive. Still today, over half a century later, free-jazz is sometimes dismissed out of hand as just so much noise, or worse, finds itself simply airbrushed from the ...
Louis Armstrong: Pops Is Tops. The Verve Studio Albums.
by Maurizio Zerbo
Grazie alla nuova storiografia del jazz, sono ormai caduti i vecchi e fuorvianti clichès sulla produzione discografica di Louis Armstrong negli anni Cinquanta e Sessanta. Ingiustamente relegati, fino a qualche decennio fa, nell'alveo dell'intrattenimento commerciale e nel degradato processo di sclerotizzazione esecutiva del geniale trombettista, i dischi qui recensiti risalgono al 1957 e sono l'esito di ...
Blue Highways and Sweet Music: The Territory Bands, Part II
by Karl Ackermann
Part 1 | Part 2 Part 1 of Blue Highways and Sweet Music: The Territory Bands looked at the roots, drivers and challenges of the travelling groups who brought jazz music to the non-urban areas of the Southern Plains, through one-night-stands, in often impromptu venues. A black phenomenon, often misappropriated by white musicians, promoters, ...
Notable Songs by 21st Century Women
by Mary Foster Conklin
In this episode of A Broad Spectrum we feature some gorgeous new releases and we give birthday shout outs to Louis Armstrong, Jeri Southern, Hank Jones, Kevin Mahogany, Josh Nelson, Tony Bennett, Connie Converse, Kat Edmonson, KJ Denhart, Terri Lyne Carrington, Aaron Weinstein, and Baby Jane Dexter among others, focusing on some notable songs written by ...
Steve Coleman and Five Elements: Live at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 1 (The Embedded Sets)
by Mark Corroto
Do you long for the days when jazz was punk? Not meaning music that is loud and out-of-control. but punk as in innovative, nonconformist, and seditious. One hundred years ago, the music of Louis Armstrong was punk, and a few decades later so was Charlie Parker's revolutionary bebop. You probably did not witness those rebellions, nor ...
Growing Older Jazzfully
by Peter Rubie
So there I was the other day, taking a yoga lesson, trying to loosen my aching muscles. I'm at that age where it aches if I do exercise, and I stiffen if I don't. The instructor was a young woman with the flexibility of a baby who can suck her own toes. She asked us to ...
Alan Broadbent Trio at the Deer Head Inn
by Victor L. Schermer
Alan Broadbent Trio Deer Head Inn Delaware Water Gap, PA August 11, 2018 Believe you me, it wasn't by choice that I hadn't been to the Dear Head Inn in a few years to take in some great jazz in its secluded setting on a wooded hill ...
Satchmo Summerfest 2018: Two Birthdays For Louis Armstrong
Satchmo Summerfest Louis Armstrong House and Museum Queens, NY August 3-5, 2018 New Orleans, the birthplace of Louis Armstrong celebrated August 4th, 2018 with this three day affair for the eighteenth year produced by French Quarter Festivals at the New Orleans Jazz Museum at the Old U.S. Mint ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Louis Armstrong
All About Jazz is celebrating Louis Armstrong's birthday today! By virtue of the role he played in its evolution during the first quarter of the 20th century, Louis Armstrong is regarded as the most influential jazz musician in history. This distinction is coupled with his stewardship of jazz around the world over the next five decades ...
