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Guitarist Robben Ford Interviewed at AAJ...And More!
Few guitarists on the scene today can boast a longer, more diverse and accomplished career than that of perennial blues-jazz great Robben Ford. Having toured and recorded as a sideman with such legendary performers as Joni Mitchell, George Harrison, Bonnie Raitt and Miles Davis, Ford has also made a name for himself as a bandleader, instrumental ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Oliver Lake
All About Jazz is celebrating Oliver Lake's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Oliver LakeBorn in Marianna, Arkansas in 1942, Oliver moved to St. Louis at the age of two. He began drawing at the age of thirteen (and paints daily, using oil, acrylics, wood, canvas, and mixed ...
Tanglewood Jazz Festival - Many Great Musical Moments
I've submitted my take on this year's Tanglewood Jazz Festival to JazzTimes. I'll advise here when it is published. In the meantime, suffice it to say that overall it was another interesting and exceptional festival with only a couple of disappointments. Fortunately, the great musical moments more than compensated for them. Paquito D'Rivera opened the weekend ...
Jazz Orchestra Cuts Back, but Not on Its Ambitions
FEW show business ventures have more risks attached than the modern big band. And the Westchester Jazz Orchestra is hardly immune. With 17 in-demand musicians to pay, and the economy depressed, the orchestra is cutting costs by shortening the coming season to four concerts, from five last year. But the orchestra means to maintain the artistic ...
STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Three Views of Trio 3
The news that Trio 3 will be playing St. Louis next week offers a welcome excuse to look at some video clips of the group, which includes St. Louis native Oliver Lake on saxophones along with bassist Reggie Workman and drummer Andrew Cyrille. Their performance is being presented ...
Sat Eye Candy: Rush
HOW CAN THREE GUYS MAKE ALL THAT SOUND? Since the early 1970s Rush has served as an effective gateway into high level musicianship and smart rock construction. Long before most of us heard Return To Forever, Miles Davis or even Phish, we likely heard the hard rock majesty of “Limelight" or “Tom Sawyer," which, like most ...
McCoy Tyner Has Come a Long Way Since His Coltrane Days
For all the years that have passed and all the music McCoy Tyner has made since he went out on his own, his membership in one of jazz history's greatest groups remains a calling card. Now 70, Tyner will always be the pianist in the original John Coltrane Quartet, which he was a part of from ...
The Gould Inspiration?
My guess is that this is the Glenn Gould clip that sent Jessica Williams into a new phase (see the first paragraph of the previous exhibit). It's from the documentary Art Of Piano. Gould is at home, fairly early in his career, working out on the Bach “Partita # 2."
Record Labels File Suit Against Ellen Degeneres Show
One day shes a judge, the next a defendant: a consortium of major record labels has filed suit against Ellen DeGeneress syndicated daytime talk show. Saying that their copyrights to more than 1,000 songs were violated when they were played on the show without their permission, The Associated Press reported. The suit was filed Wednesday in ...
Jim Carroll, Poet and Punk Rocker, is Dead
Jim Carroll, the poet and punk rocker in the outlaw tradition of Rimbaud and Burroughs who chronicled his wild youth in The Basketball Diaries, died Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 60. The cause was a heart attack, said Rosemary Carroll, his former wife. As a teenage basketball star in the 1960s at Trinity, ...
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