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News: Interview

Correspondence: Bruno and the Singer

August 30, 2009

Jack Brownlow has been dead nearly two years, but stories about him keep surfacing. Among his other attributes, the pianist was admired for his harmonic ingenuity, chord placement, taste and timing in accompanying instrumentalists and vocalists. At Brownlow's memorial service in the fall of 2007, drummer Phil Snyder told several stories about his musical adventures with ...

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Photostory8: Sammy Davis Jr.

August 30, 2009

Photos of Sammy Davis Jr. in action have always grabbed me. The energy, the enthusiasm and the wham. Always the wham. Davis continues to be highly underrated as a jazz and pop singer, probably because he sadly recorded so much junk. But Davis' gems are priceless. Which is why Herb Snitzer's photo of Davis here knocks ...

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News: Recording

Massive Attack: New EP Features Tvotr Tunde and More

August 30, 2009

Massive Attack Set To Release New EP October 6 Followed By New Album In February Massive Attack Legendary trip-hop duo Massive Attack has announced the release of their first new material in three years - an EP of four new tracks due for release October 6. The lead song “Splitting The Atom" features Robert ...

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Charlie Parker's Birthday

August 30, 2009

Charlie Parker was born in Kansas City on this date in 1920. The Rifftides staff debated whether to observe the occasion by publishing a 5000-word essay tracing Parker's musical heritage, analyzing the components of his style and evaluating his influence on several generations of musicians. You'll be happy to know that we decided instead to take ...

News: Recording

Magnolia Electric CO.:Josephine

August 30, 2009

By: Dennis Cook There's not many voices with more exposed nerve endings, more unpasteurized feeling than Jason Molina, a sound as lonely as the world's first ghost and as comforting as gospel music to folks in turmoil. Molina and his ever-searching, ever-honest tunes are the shifting, moving heart beating inside Magnolia Electric Co., who've very quietly ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Kenny Dorham

August 30, 2009

All About Jazz is celebrating Kenny Dorham's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Kenny DorhamOvershadowed for most of his career by the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro, Miles Davis, Clifford Brown, and Lee Morgan... more Website | Videos | Articles Follow Kenny Dorham ...

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News: Technology

#Jazzlives: A Twitter Campaign by Listeners of Live Jazz

August 29, 2009

A grass roots group of jazz journalists and broadcasters, websites, bloggers, and presenters have launched a #jazzlives campaign on Twitter, using the social networking platform to demonstrate that recent reports of jazz's demise are, in the words of Mark Twain, greatly exaggerated. According to data from a 2008 survey of audience participation in the arts released ...

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News: Obituary

Berle Adams Dies at 92; Co-Founder of Mercury Records and an MCA Executive

August 29, 2009

Adams booked road dates for big bands in the '40s. At MCA, he was in charge of packaging new TV programs. For two decades he was the sole international distributor of the Emmy Awards. Berle Adams, a onetime big-band booking agent who co-founded Mercury Records in the 1940s and later became a senior executive at MCA ...

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News: Obituary

Sergei Mikhalkov Dies at 96; Author of Soviet, Russian National Anthems

August 29, 2009

Sergei Mikhalkov, who wrote the lyrics for the Soviet and Russian national anthems and also persecuted dissident writers as part of the Soviet propaganda machine, has died. He was 96. Mikhalkov, who fathered two noted film directors, died Thursday in a Moscow hospital. A cause of death was not given. He was born March 18, 1913, ...

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Prez, Continued

August 29, 2009

If I had known of Ethan Iverson's conversation with Lee Konitz about Lester Young, I would have included a link to it in the previous exhibit. On his blog, Do The Math, Iverson, the pianist and polymath of The Bad Plus, posts what amounts to a Prez master class with Konitz. The alto saxophonist has been ...