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Jazz Musician of the Day: Jack DeJohnette
All About Jazz is celebrating Jack DeJohnette's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Jack DeJohnetteBorn in Chicago in 1942, Jack De Johnette is widely regarded as one of jazz music\'s greatest drummers. Music appreciation flourished in De Johnette\'s family... more Website | Videos | Articles Follow ...
Le Jazz de Paris Avec Amour
Autumn in Paris Alive with Sounds of Jazz There are are few countries in the world to rival France in its respect for Jazz as an art form and for Jazz Musicians. Many of the leading exponents, particularly American musicians, have found both temporary and permanent homes there, enhancing both their artistic and personal lives in ...
Can Jazz Be Saved?
The audience for America’s great art form is withering away. In 1987, Congress passed a joint resolution declaring jazz to be “a rare and valuable national treasure.” Nowadays the music of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker and Miles Davis is taught in public schools, heard on TV commercials and performed at prestigious venues such as ...
Indianapolis Jazz Festival Sept. 19th-27th 2009
Jazz isn’t just alive and well in Indianapolis, it’s busting out at the seams! It's a stellar line-up for the Indianapolis Jazz Festival, scheduled for the week of September 19th through the 27th. Features artists such as Joshua Redman, Claudia Acuña, Branford Marsalis, Kurt Elling, Marcus Miller and a host of others. Spread across town at ...
Improvised Silence Amid the Sounds
The drummer Tyshawn Sorey confounds easy assumptions, including the assumption that because he is a drummer, his own music should favor the drums, or the assumption that because he plays jazz, all of his music should sound like jazz. His new band is a trio with guitar and bass, but its pretty far from any standard ...
Pirate Troubadour Roaming the Seas of Improvisation
THERE was a time when Papo Vazquez, an Afro-Puerto Rican trombonist, did not understand jazz. Blame it on John Coltrane, whose classic 1961 album, “Live at the Village Vanguard,” landed in Mr. Vazquez’s record collection when he was 14. “That was the second jazz record I ever owned,” Mr. Vazquez, 51, said at his apartment here. ...
Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, NY Screen's and Discusses Woody Guthrie Documentary, "Ain't Got No Home"
On Tuesday, July 14th, at Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, New York about a hundred ticket holders found residence in Peter Frumkin's biographical documentary on Woody Guthrie called Ain't Got No Home." Opening the evening, which included a discussion from Mr. Frumkin and Guthrie's daughter Nora, Jacob Burn's program director, Brain Ackerman described the initiative ...
At Age 82, Still Serving up Jazz with Soul
THE alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson burst on the jazz scene around 1950 with a bebop style that many listeners likened to Charlie Parker’s. A few years later, he adopted a more basic blues approach that evolved into a popular, and profitable, jazz corollary to the work of soul singers like James Brown. Today, at 82, he ...
Improvised Silence Amid the Sounds
The drummer Tyshawn Sorey confounds easy assumptions, including the assumption that because he is a drummer, his own music should favor the drums, or the assumption that because he plays jazz, all of his music should sound like jazz. His new band is a trio with guitar and bass, but it’s pretty far from any standard ...
Seattle Times: Nine Jazz Acts at Nine Venues in Shoreline
The business district along 15th Avenue Northeast in Shoreline, called North City, got its new sidewalks three years ago when the city spent millions to put utility lines underground, widen the walkways and install new light standards. Inspired by the neighborhood facelift, three local businessmen, one of them a jazz musician, came up with the idea ...

