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Ethan Iverson: Roll Call
by AAJ Staff
By Ethan Iverson This is my tribute to musicians who are no longer with us but that I managed to see perform. Their names are in bold. I spent my first night in New York City at the Village Vanguard. It was August 1991, I was 18 years old and ...
Modern Jazz Criticism
by AAJ Staff
By Jeremy Pelt Some time ago I was having dinner with a musician friend of mine and we started talking about the state of modern jazz criticism. Ever since I can remember, I never understood the profession of criticism. I always thought that everyone's a critic in some way or another, so why ...
Re-Imagining "Ascension"
by AAJ Staff
By Bruce Ackley Some of us still remember record stores where one could ask to hear something they'd never heard before. Imagine, the hunger to hear undiscovered sounds... In 1966 I was living in Cincinnati and headed to my local record shop with some friends to get some Coltrane music. ...
Bill Dixon: The Benefits of the Struggle
by AAJ Staff
By Bill Dixon I appreciate your interest in having me say some things that you can present in your paper to interested readers, readers that may be interested in my work, how I go about it, how I have existed, what my work means, how that work is arrived at and my general ...
Cyro Baptista: The Benefits of the Struggle
by AAJ Staff
By Cyro Baptista In the summer of 1980 I was living in Rio de Janeiro when I got the news that I was awarded with a kind of scholarship to go to the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock because of a cassette that I sent to them. My English at the time was ...
Pocket Philosophy
by AAJ Staff
Defining “The Pocket In music, the pocket isn't a place where the musician holds something -- it's an intangible place that holds the musician. While this sounds a bit odd, the closest thing that I can think of to describe it is a spiritual experience that goes beyond playing the right notes, great timing, or being ...
Anthony Coleman: Ambiguity is a Richness
by AAJ Staff
By Anthony Coleman Tradition. Sometimes I really don't like that word. It feels so limiting, conservative. And so much current discourse revolves around it. And we've seen something many of us hoped for: “jazz", or whatever you want to call it, put on the pedestal with the other great music of the world. ...
Cooper-Moore: A Journey on the Road
by AAJ Staff
By Cooper-Moore Confucius said, “To learn and to practice what is learned is pleasure, is it not? To have friends come from afar is happiness, is it not? To be unperturbed when not appreciated by others is gentlemanly, is it not?" My 58th birthday, 4 am on a Sunday morning and ...
The Role of Silence in Music
by AAJ Staff
Silence isn't just the canvas upon which music is painted. It's one of the colors on the composer's palette. What sets jazz apart from other music forms is that each musician (through improvisation) is also a composer and needs to know how to use silence effectively. I've often thought that a master class should be taught ...
Anat Fort: Make It Happen
by AAJ Staff
By Anat Fort Confusing place, New York City. I may be planning on an early night (you know, going to bed around 12-1 am) when I get an email from a burning group that's playing somewhere. Soon enough, my phone rings and it's a friend, going to see this “really amazing band, you ...
