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Video: Truth Finally Comes Out
The YouTube contributor who posted the Dave Brubeck-Paul Desmond-Gerry Mulligan “All The Things You Are" video we brought you last month promised that there would be more. He is as good as his word. The piece that Brubeck announces seems likely to be from his 1972 oratorio Truth Is Fallen, or in preparation for it. The ...
For Hard Core Audiophiles
Its the Bill Evans Riverside Recordings, pressed on vinyl at 45 RPM. 22 discs for only $600. This comes from a company called Acoustic Sounds, which caters to those with a real fetish for vinyl. The question I have is this: can you really tell the difference between a record pressed at 45 than one pressed ...
Marian McPartland Receives Honor Bestowed by Her Majesty the Queen at Ceremony in New York
On Tuesday evening, June 8, British jazz pianist Marian McPartland was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of her services to jazz and to aspiring young musicians in the United States. At the ceremony, McPartland was presented with the insignia by Sir Alan Collins, Her Majesty's Consul General, New York. ...
Saxophonist David S. Ware Interviewed at AAJ
It wasn't the kidney transplant that brought saxophonist David S. Ware very close to wheelchair confinement. Last September (2009), there were early signs of organ rejection, so he was placed on a course of steroids. These came with side effects that were more debilitating than last year's operation itself. Since then, Ware has been in a ...
Jim Fryer and Friends, Sweetly (June 2, 2010)
I was at Birdland last Wednesday, listening to David Ostwalds Louis Armstrong Centennial Band. The LACB always attracts first-rank players, but this edition was remarkable because it was an All-Star All-Leader Band (with none of the expected tensions): David on tuba and vaudeville commentaries; Vince Giordano on banjo, vocal, and guitar; Jon-Erik Kellso on trumpet; Dan ...
Findings of the Institute
In 2008, the Rex Stewart/Jabbo Smith Meme and Trope Institute undertook a multiple year study of the increasingly distant proxemics, gestural and spatial relationship between the jazz performing cohort (expanding) and the jazz audience (contracting). This is a prcis of our findings. The Institute initially proceeded under the supposition that the jazz performer-audience relationship could be ...
Frank Dawson Chicago Jazz Guitarist/Educator Dies
Chicago area jazz guitarist and music educator Frank Dawson passed away early on Thursday June 3rd, 2010 in his early 60s. He had been diagnosed with advanced spinal cancer just a few days prior to his death... He originally hailed from Pittsburgh, PA, and began studying music with Victor Lawrence while beginning to play professionally during ...
The Jazz Session #175: Sunny Jain
Drummer Sunny Jain is using his superpowers for good, choosing on his new album, Taboo (Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records, 2010) to make a series of strong statements about social issues, set against South Asian cultural norms. In this interview, Jain talks about his decision to use traditional song forms to say non-traditional things; the intricate interplay ...
The ECM Old Masters Series
Manfred Eicher's ECM label, still celebrating the 40th anniversary it observed late last year, has reissued some of its landmark recordings. Many of them are on CD for the first time. Over the decades, ECM has achieved nearly infallible sound reproduction of a broad and eclectic range of musicians including such disparate label mates as Arvo ...
The Outpost Influences of Julee and Junko.
I haven't engaged in a thorough binge of pandering to women in a while so I'm way overdue. I've also been neglecting frumpy little Boston lately. The good old Outpost is a wealth of material so let me make what I may of this convergence as I embark on yet another lazy post by exploiting meaningful ...
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