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Jakob Baekgaard’s Best Releases of 2013
by Jakob Baekgaard
So much good music and so much to choose from. Every day provides the opportunity to hear something new or rediscover the magic in old tunes. The records on this list don't have much in common, except they all sound completely fresh and open and have their own take on what it means to create jazz ...
Love... Sorrow... Jazz... and Death
by Mort Weiss
When we think of an art form, the tendency is to look in every and all directions except inward--wherein all answers lie, although shielded and hidden from one's self and any that choose to be within your sphere of understanding and passion. Why must it take years of self- study and searching the myriad avenues and ...
A Brief History of Ragtime to 3/4 aka A Waltz Through the Cosmic Thought Process
by Mort Weiss
Opening!Screaming through the quagmire of being, I see--nay, feel--justification of the heat of singularity of thought. Yearning of (and for) all energies spinning--not only in the dance of Shiva, but in the fulfillment of a manifest destiny of understanding and love that gives forth its eternal fires of hope and the many tomorrows that ...
Enter the "Mort Weiss - A Giant Step Out and Back" Giveaway at All About Jazz!
All About Jazz members are invited to enter the SMS Jazz “Mort Weiss - A Giant Step Out and Back“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on September 10th. Click here to enter the contest (Becoming a fan of Mort Weiss at AAJ automatically enters you in the ...
Mort Weiss: A Giant Step Out and Back
by Sammy Stein
A while back, flamboyant and forthright clarinetist Mort Weiss sent an email saying he was going to make a free form album. Frankly, it was hard to believe as no-one had been more against free form jazz than Weiss. For around two years he had been taking free form apart, decrying many players and the genre, ...
Mort Weiss: In Twilight... Not!
by C. Michael Bailey
If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams... --Yann Martel, The Life of Pi The Internet has done a bang-up job of bringing everything and everybody closer together. An immediate effect ...
I Hear a Clock ... Ticking
by Mort Weiss
Hello, once again. Still above ground and taking nourishment while most any of my contemporaries who haven't left the building as of yet are listening to smooth jazz, taking their Lithium and writing with crayons. Having shared that thought with you, last month I had my 78th birthday--another strange custom (why do people celebrate one's arriving ...
I Was Too Stoned to Perform: A Love Story, Kinda
by Mort Weiss
It was some time in the early 1960s and this story finds me, still Mort Wise, and my band--still named the Wisemen--having just signed a contract with World Artist Management services, a very happening company whose roster had names like Red Skelton, Ray Charles, Jacqueline Fontaine and many others. I would be one of the many ...
Mort Meets the Mob
by Mort Weiss
Hello again. This remembrance takes us back to the early 1960s when I went under the name of Mort Wise and my band's name was The Wisemen. Go ahead and Google Mort Wise And The Wisemen, and you'll probably come up with the recording we did (on a 45 rpm) called “Wild Boy." Also, you might ...
Sex and the Jazz Musician: The Brutal Truth!
by Mort Weiss
The following is taken from the chronicles of a gold panel Committee of select persons from the international confines of various state institutions that hold such findings sacred--the long-term commitment of these individuals that have given rant to their multitudinous ravings on this highly personal topic.In my course of dumpster diving for salvation, I ...
