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Jazz Is Obama
by Katie Bull
The musicians I am drawn to are players who “open up." They carry the torch for the freedom of infinite possibility. They have unbounded imagination. They see a musical chart as a map into unknown territory. Not unlike healthy law, the form of a jazz vocal chart can make or break the democracy of an improvisation. ...
Michael Bates: Lessons From The Road
by AAJ Staff
By Michael Bates Touring can be both exhausting and exhilarating, especially as a bandleader. The last few months have brought reminders of this as I was planning, booking and finally, actually touring with my quartet in support of my recent CD Clockwise on Dave Douglas' Greenleaf Music label. As part of this tour, ...
Battle of the Bands
by AAJ Staff
By John Clayton If true battles were fought the way some people imagine the Clayton-Hamilton and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra are to duke it out this month (more on the “other" Duke in a moment), we might just be a world with fewer global conflicts. What you will witness, ...
Music: The Universal Language
by AAJ Staff
By Eddie Allen One of the most common phrases concerning music used by musicians and non-musicians alike is “Music is the universal language." But what does that really mean to people? When asked, for the most part the non-musician might say, “You can listen to any kind of music and appreciate it." The musician ...
Mark Dresser: Telematics
by AAJ Staff
By Mark Dresser My sense of 'community' radically changed in 1998 while I was on tour in Europe. During a break after a soundcheck, I checked my email to read the devastating communication that beloved saxophonist Thomas Chapin was being taken off of life support. At that moment I was mentally transported from the ...
All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Jazz Musicians
by AAJ Staff
By Jessica Jones Trust improvise give all you are to the bottom of the barrel don't fold don't fold know the melody before you start improvising and never avoid a solo just because you don't know the melody tell a story weave your little heart out dance like you will never get another ...
Improvisation...Like The Weather
by AAJ Staff
By Jane Ira Bloom I thought I would talk about improvising and I should say that I'd try to talk about it because words are often difficult for me. My performance world is sonic; more poetry than prose, more like the weather than the forecast--more pliable and less specific--cloud-like and always shifting shape. ...
If I can make it here...
by AAJ Staff
By Ben Wolfe In late October of 1985 I loaded my car with my string bass, electric bass, Polytone amp, record collection, some cassettes a friend gave me for the drive, a boombox, my clothes, a thermos for the enormous amount of black coffee I would drink, a full-length down jacket which I ...
Musical Community
by AAJ Staff
By Jeff Gauthier Music is all about community. The jazz musicians of New York are a musical community. Individual ensembles within that larger community are musical communities. However, so are social networking sites, record companies and the readers of All About Jazz. We can generally break communities down into two specific types: physical and ...
On a String and a Prayer
by AAJ Staff
By Christian Howes From a string player's point of view, gaining acceptance within the jazz community is a little like showing up for the first day at a new school with a big stain on your shirt. If you've ever walked into a jam session with a violin slung over your shoulder, you'd ...
