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Article: What is Jazz?

Jazz Cosmos: Music and Modern Physics

Read "Jazz Cosmos: Music and Modern Physics" reviewed by Victor L. Schermer

by Victor L. Schermer

To the memory of Leonard Bernstein, the greatest musical educator of all time, a great conductor and composer who loved jazz and whose televised lectures brought a whole generation of listeners into insightful contact with the music. Maybe you remember how astrophysicist Carl Sagan's vision of “billions and billions of stars" captured the awesome ...

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Article: Album Review

Steve Wiest And Phröntrange: The High Road

Read "The High Road" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

You don't encounter a lot of trombone-centric fusion dates these days. But then again, you also don't encounter too many musicians like Steve Wiest, the unabashedly enthusiastic veteran trombonist fronting this project. He's a true polymath, respected as a performer, educator, science fiction author, cartoonist, and composer-arranger. But he also clearly knows how to let rip ...

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Article: What is Jazz?

How Teachers can Swing in the Classroom

Read "How Teachers can Swing in the Classroom" reviewed by Douglas Groothuis

by Douglas Groothuis

I am a jazz aficionado as well as a philosophy professor. Being in front of a classroom teaching is my favorite place on earth, second to a good jazz club with hip friends. In the midst of a philosophy class, I may wax enthusiastic about the transcendent qualities of a John Coltrane saxophone solo or the ...

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Article: Book Review

The Miles Davis Lost Quintet and Other Revolutionary Ensembles

Read "The Miles Davis Lost Quintet and Other Revolutionary Ensembles" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann

The Miles Davis Lost Quintet and Other Revolutionary Ensembles Bob Gluck 256 Pages ISBN: #022618076X University of Chicago Press 2016 In the history of jazz, no one has been written about more than Miles Davis. No one has been more debated, reviled and revered than the difficult genius who ...

Article: Interview

Gianmaria Testa

Read "Gianmaria Testa" reviewed by Luca Muchetti

by Luca Muchetti

Nessuno è profeta in patria. Forse anche per questo il nome di Gianmaria Testa, cantautore fine, colto e amatissimo dallo scrittore Erri De Luca (con cui ha collaborato in diverse occasioni), è rimbalzato in Italia grazie all'attenzione riservatagli da etichette e critica d'Oltralpe. Storia vecchia quanto il mondo. Prima Montgolfières per la francese ...

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Article: Live Review

Vossa Jazz 2016

Read "Vossa Jazz 2016" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

Vossa Jazz Various venues Voss, Norway March 18-20, 2016 Perched high on the mountain side, the weather-beaten wooden farm houses of the Voss folk museum command a truly impressive view of the town below, ringed by snow-capped mountains, interlocking valleys and ice-covered fjords that stretch to the four points ...

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Article: Interview

Walt Weiskopf: All About the Sound

Read "Walt Weiskopf: All About the Sound" reviewed by Bob Kenselaar

by Bob Kenselaar

What is it that drives Walt Weiskopf? It's all about the music, all about the sound.He's reached a large audience in ten years of touring with Steely Dan. He's written a half dozen books on jazz improvisation techniques and methods, and he's taught at the Eastman School of Music, Temple University and New Jersey ...

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Article: Book Excerpts

The Royal Roost: Birthplace of Bop

Read "The Royal Roost: Birthplace of Bop" reviewed by Richard Carlin

by Richard Carlin

The story of the development of jazz in New York is tied to the story of a few seminal clubs and promoters who helped nurture the music. Just as new musical styles were developing during World War II that would lead to the birth of bebop, so was the jazz scene changing. The clubs that thrived ...

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Article: Live Review

Roy Haynes Fountain of Youth Band Featuring Pat Metheny at the Blue Note

Read "Roy Haynes Fountain of Youth Band Featuring Pat Metheny at the Blue Note" reviewed by Koby Hayon

by Koby Hayon

Roy Haynes Fountain of Youth Band Featuring Pat Metheny Blue Note New York, NY March 13, 2016 Jazz luminary Roy Haynes has forever captivated audiences with his innovative playing and his concert (and 91st birthday celebration) on March 13th, at New York City's Blue Note was no different. The ...

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Article: Album Review

INNERrOUTe: Fourmation

Read "Fourmation" reviewed by John Ephland

by John Ephland

Starting with keyboardist Joe Vincent Tranchina's steady, alarming tone, Fourmation suggests an emergency of some kind. “Consensual Motion" gradually includes the other three members entering the fray, a fray that's loose and free-form, and eventually calming, not to mention a little bit funky. Michael D'Agostino's drum fills combine with Bill McCrossen's probing basslines to form a ...


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