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Red Callender's Gentle Swing
The 1940s and 1950s were frightening decades for bass players. In addition to big-band timekeepers like Jimmy Blanton, Don Bagley, Chubby Jackson and Ray Brown, there were thumping small-group upright masters like Slam Stewart, Curly Russell, Milt Hinton and Tommy Potter. And if that crowd wasn't daunting enough, you had the Big Three solo specialists: Oscar ...
Music and the Creative Class: How Music Can Transform America's Cities
Part 2 (Read Part 1 Here) When Richard Florida wrote The Rise of the Creative Class in 2005 music was barely a blip on the social economist's radar. Now Florida and his colleagues are beginning to recognize music and the businesses and professionals that follow and service it as “fruit fly" industries - early indicators of ...
Not Your Grandpa's Big Bands
On a recent Friday evening in the trendy Brooklyn neighborhood of Dumbo, a line snaked around the corner of the Galapagos Art Space and buzz swirled about Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, one of the leading new big bands in jazz. Two weeks earlier, across the river in SoHo, a line full of excited patrons formed ...
Amid West Banks Turmoil, the Pull of Strings
RAMALLAH, West Bank The young man was handy with tools. A carpenters nephew, he liked to fix chairs, windows and door locks. At other times he would stand idly on the street corner. Ramzi Aburedwan noticed him. Like the Pied Piper, Mr. Aburedwan, a French-trained violist raised in a Palestinian refugee camp, was trying to lead ...
Hidden Jazz Dowloads (Vol. 9)
During one of my recent swings through iTunes and Amazon, I stumbled across five terrific jazz albums you may not know about. Or if you do, you may not be aware that these albums are now available as downloads. As readers of this ongoing feature know, I often come across such gems while hunting for other ...
Jazz at Holmes Annnounces Summer Schedule
The Jazz at Holmes series at Washington University has announced its schedule of free concerts for summer 2009.Pianist and former St. Louisan Linda Presgrave and her quintet will kick off the series at 8:00 p.m., Thursday, June 11, with concerts to follow on subsequent Thursdays through July 23 (except July 2). .Other ...
Mill Valley's Sweetwater May Reopen as Nonprofit Venue
Storefront slated to be the new Sweetwater in Mill Valley. The owners are in talks to turn the club into a nonprofit organization similar to 142 Throckmorton Theatre. I had the pleasure of speaking to a community group last week about Marin's rock history. Afterward, the first question from the audience was about Sweetwater. What's going ...
Music Industry Sees Nightclubs as a New Source of Revenue
PARIS: In Australia, every nightclub-goer is now a lucrative V.I.P. to the music industry, at least. To pump music out to their dance floors, Australian clubs used to have to pay record companies and artists a nominal 7 Australian cents in royalties per guest, per night. Under a recent copyright settlement, that rate has risen to ...
West Valley Jazz Orchestra Renamed San Jose Jazz Orchestra
San Jose Jazz and West Valley Jazz announced a collaboration to provide enhanced performance and education programs to music fans throughout Silicon Valley. As part of the collaboration, the West Valley Jazz Orchestra will be renamed the 'San Jose Jazz Orchestra' and will continue under the leadership of Artistic Director, Gus Kambeitz. San Jose Jazz will ...
56 Years of Rust: Pell Rescues Prez's Horn
The following article appeared in the Fall, 2008, issue of the British magazine, Jazz Review. By Doug Ramsey Lester Young drew on Louis Armstrong, Frank Trumbauer, Bix Beiderbecke and his own genius to create one of the most personal styles in music. In the 1930s he provided an evolutionary step between Armstrong and Charlie ...
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