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I Love New York

by Marshall Bowden
October 1, 2002

This article first appeared on All About Jazz in October 2001. There's another reason as well. New York City is a financial and business center, certainly, and this is one reason it was marked for attack. But it is also very much our nation's cultural and arts center, the showpiece of the country that ...

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Too Cool For Words

by Marshall Bowden
August 18, 2002

This article first appeared on All About Jazz in August 2002. “Something cool...I'd like to order something cool" says the dame in the smoky, slightly seedy bar that is something out of a Raymond Chandler story. The kind of place where maybe there could be trouble at any moment; where maybe a couple of ...

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Texas Tenors and the Big Beat

by Marshall Bowden
July 30, 2002

This article first appeared on All About Jazz in July 2002. Texas is a miniature of the cultural and musical melting pot that is American music. Texas shares a border with Louisiana, inheriting some of that state's French and Caribbean roots, and when it comes to the blues, Texas has its own style. Texas ...

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Louis Armstrong's Public Image

by Marshall Bowden
August 19, 2001

This article first appeared on All About Jazz in August 2001. Louis Armstrong has long occupied a difficult place in jazz history. Unquestionably one of the music's leading architects, he presented, as his life and career advanced, a public image that was increasingly at odds with the images of most jazz musicians and often, ...

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Bill Evans: Self Confidence and the Unique Voice

by Marshall Bowden
July 5, 2001

This article first appeared on All About Jazz in July 2001. I've been listening to the Bill Evans Complete Riverside Recordings box set and thinking about jazz musicians and self-confidence. The environment of jazz has always been competitive and therefore required a lot of belief in oneself and what one was doing in order ...

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Class of 1969: Most Influential Ever?

by Marshall Bowden
November 9, 2001

This article first appeared on All About Jazz in November 2001. If you grew up listening to jazz music in the 1970s, you certainly couldn't escape the electrified jazz of the period, a style that became known (and later reviled) as fusion. Chances are that the music caught hold of you partially because you ...

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Blues, Gospel, R&B, Ramsey and Cannonball

by Marshall Bowden
April 22, 2002

This article first appeared on All About Jazz in April 2002. Though he didn't use a ring modulator or play with an army of electric guitarists, Ramsey Lewis was one of the more popular jazz musicians of the mid 1960s and helped bridge the gap between gospel, blues, soul, jazz, and rock/fusion experiments. Though ...

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Peggy Lee, Rosemary Clooney, and the Popular Singer

by Marshall Bowden
February 17, 2002

This article first appeared on All About Jazz in February 2002. Peggy Lee, the singer whose lightly husky voice sang “Why Don't You Do Right?" and many other saloon songs (as Frank Sinatra would no doubt call them) passed away January 21, 2002 at the age of 81. Born Norma Egstrom in Jamestown, North ...

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Jazz Music's Singer/Songwriter Movement

by Marshall Bowden
December 15, 2002

This article was first published on All About Jazz in December 2002. I doubt that ten years ago anyone would have suspected that the singer-songwriter movement that infected popular music in the 1970s would come back in the late '90s and first decade of the new century in jazz music. But take a look ...