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The 2007 Riviera Maya Jazz Festival: Almost Free For You Today
by Mark Sabbatini
A free trip to a jazz festival near Cancun, complete with luxury trappings. All I'm expected to do in return is write something about it.What could possibly go wrong, aside from a few meddlesome skeptics questioning my objectivity?To them here's my assessment of the 2007 Riviera Maya Jazz Festival: Greatest. Festival. Ever.
Out Of The Oven, Into The Computer: 30 Years Of Canadian Jazz Concerts Now Free Online
by Mark Sabbatini
Talk about jazz that really cooks: Thirty years of Canadian concerts are being offered free online by a Toronto radio station that made it possible by baking the original analogue tape reels. The Canadian Jazz Archive at jazzarchive.ca features all of JAZZ-FM91's Sound Of Jazz concert series since they began in 1976, with performances ...
Oscar Peterson Tribute: Simply The Best
by Mark Sabbatini
Hearing Oscar Peterson late in life, his left hand rendered useless by a stroke and arthritis, could be a terribly sad thing, sometimes no more than a whisper of the giant that had me scouring CD bins after first listening to him.But his magnetism was never just about music, as his fellow Canadians and ...
Tragicomic Tones in Turkmenistan
by Mark Sabbatini
Banishment from the country takes effect with the publishing of these words.Assuming otherwise is foolishness in Turkmenistan, the most repressive and two-sided country of the scores I've visited seeking jazz in the most remote and unusual places on Earth.Brilliantly lit marble monuments and unerringly smiling faces camouflage a serpent's nest that strikes ...
2007 North Sea Jazz Cruise Days 9-12: Land-ho! Causing Waves At The Festival
by Mark Sabbatini
Day 1 | Day 2-3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 | Day 8 | Day 9-12 (Author's note: While the “gee-whiz" factor ought to be diminishing after a decade of dealing with digital music, I'm in absolute raptures discovering a large number of concerts from the 2007 ...
2007 North Sea Jazz Cruise Day 8: School Daze With McCoy Tyner, Amateurs And A 'Ship Pianist'
by Mark Sabbatini
Day 1 | Day 2-3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 | Day 8 | Day 9-12Despite the questions some cruise ship passengers ask ("how high above sea level is this town?"), learning opportunities are prominent for people supposedly on a relaxing vacation.Lectures, multi-day ...
2007 North Sea Jazz Cruise Day 7: Taking Aim At The Audience
by Mark Sabbatini
Day 1 | Day 2-3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 | Day 8 | Day 9-12 They traveled 500 miles in one day to come aboard for 90 minutes and play one of the best gigs of the cruise. Their reward? A near-empty lounge with probably the ...
2007 North Sea Jazz Cruise Day 6: History, Hucksters And Hancock On The High Seas
by Mark Sabbatini
Day 1 | Day 2-3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 | Day 8 | Day 9-12'Twas a good day to be a captive audience. The first of two days entirely at sea marked Day 6 of the inaugural North Sea Jazz Cruise, an 11-day voyage ...
2007 North Sea Jazz Cruise Day 5: Sounding Off In Oslo
by Mark Sabbatini
Day 1 | Day 2-3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 | Day 8 | Day 9-12Some days it's good not to be shocking. Peaceful stability greeted Day 5 of the inaugural North Sea Jazz Cruise, as a ship rolling heavily the previous two nights docked ...
2007 North Sea Jazz Cruise Day 4: Heaven And Hell
by Mark Sabbatini
Day 1 | Day 2-3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 | Day 8 | Day 9-12“We're here to celebrate the power of the Lord, as evidenced by this rocking boat." Healing powers were very much alive, and not just for seasick passengers, as those ...
