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Nothing but Love in God's Water by Robert Darden
by C. Michael Bailey
Nothing but Love in God's Water--Volume 1: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement Robert Darden 224 Pages ISBN: # 978-0271050843 Penn State Press 2014 Critic Ed Ward's The History of Rock & Roll, Volume 1: 1920-1965 (Flatiron Books, 2016) is a history ...
Allan Harris at SMOKE Jazz & Supper Club
by Peter Jurew
Allan Harris SMOKE Jazz & Supper Club New York, NY September 28, 2016 Allan Harris was born in Brooklyn to a tight-knit family that loved music. His mother was a classical piano prodigy who grew up in Harlem and graduated in the first class of the High School Of Performing Arts, ...
Mahalia Jackson: A Little Higher
In the 1950s, R&B and rock 'n' roll was aimed squarely at the bottom half of the body while gospel took care of the rest. Blues shouting came out of gospel in the 1940s. So did the passion and conviction of jazz solos and jazz vocals. In the world of gospel singing in the 1940s and ...
Pensieri sull'Orchestra per una società senza pensieri
by Neri Pollastri
Arriva il secondo volume della Musica per una società senza pensieri dei Sousaphonix di Mauro Ottolini, dopo che il primo (clicca qui per leggerne la recensione) aveva ricevuto giudizi assai diversi tra loro, non tutti pienamente positivi. Responsabilità forse di un progetto ampio e, soprattutto, volutamente vario in temi e materiali, ma forse anche di una ...
AA.VV.: Jazz from America on Disques Vogue
by Maurizio Zerbo
La Sony ha pubblicato un cofanetto che l'appassionato di jazz farebbe bene a non lasciarsi sfuggire. Articolato in venti CD, il cofanetto racchiude ben quarantuno dischi originali della Vogue Records. Fondata nel 1947 dal critico Charles Delaunay, la label francese si distinse per una lungimirante progettualità rivolta sia a far incidere i grandi jazzisti ...
The New Orleans All-Star Brass Band: Do You Know What It Means?
by Ian Patterson
This article was originally published in October 2006. It has been said that the truest expression of a people is in its music and dance. That being the case, then pianist {m: Herbie Hancock was right on the money when he described New Orleans as “the soul of our country. The nation's soul however, ...
Jazz Life: A Journey for Jazz Across America in 1960
by Nenad Georgievski
Jazz Life: A Journey for Jazz Across America in 1960 William Claxton and Joachim E. Berendt 552 ISBN: 3836544687 Taschen 2013 A single photograph can say and convene more than a thousand words. Although music itself can't be photographed, only a handful of photographers ever got closer to ...
Alexis P. Suter Band at Gwynedd Mercy University
by Wade Luquet
Alexis P. Suter Band Women in the Blues Gwynedd Mercy University Gwynedd Valley, PA February 7, 2014 A frozen night in Pennsylvania was made immensely warmer when the Alexis P. Suter Band took the stage at Gwynedd Mercy University in suburban Philadelphia. The bass-voiced blues diva electrified the crowd ...
Elizabeth Kontomanou at Tanjazz Festival 2013
by Mehdi El Mouden
Elizabeth Kontomanou Tanjazz Festival Palais des Institutions Italiennes Tangier, Morocco September 21, 2013 Females have always held an important position in the jazz world, especially as singers. Since the demise of Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, and some unforgettable female voices, other singers have arisen vying for attention, willing ...
Carline Ray: Vocal Sides
by C. Michael Bailey
Vocalist Carline Ray has a musical reach that extends to the beginning of jazz. Her father played in James Reese Europe's Society Orchestra in the early years of the 20th Century. Juilliard-trained (as her father was) Ray sang and played guitar and bass in a variety of formats in the International Sweethearts of Rhythm and Erskine ...
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