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The Testimony of Sweet Baby James
James Benton is chock full of soul, man. So much that he can barely control it. Take the song “The Body,” for instance. It’s a boogie-woogie groove authored by Benton himself that was banned from Portland radio in 1955 because of its sexually suggestive underpinnings. Sure, after performing “The Body” to throngs of jazz and R&B ...
Steve Schankman Gives $50,000 to UMSL Jazz Program
According to a story in this week's St. Louis Business Journal, local music mogul Steve Schankman of Contemporary Productions has pledged a gift of $50,000 to the jazz program at his alma mater, the University of Missouri-St. Louis. The story says UMSL will use the gift for equipment, scholarships and to support the Greater ...
The New Lincoln Center, Act I, Part 2
So what can I tell you about the Diller, Scofidio + Renfro refashioning of Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center? It's still a construction site the official re-opening isn't until February but I previewed some substantially completed portions last week with Liz Diller and Charles Renfro. As I mentioned in an earlier post, from the day ...
Other Places: Europe
Among Rifftides readers in Europe are the proprietors of three web logs helpful to those who wish to keep up with developments on the continent. Tony Emmerson's Prague Jazz concentrates on music in the Czech Republic. George Mraz, Emil Viklicky, Frantisek Uhlir, Gustav Brom, Miroslav Vitous and a few other Czech musicians are widely known. Emmerson ...
U.K. Musicians Claim Copyright Coup
Government to extend rights to 70 years. British musicians and record companies are celebrating a major victory after the governments culture secretary Andy Burnham recommended that the copyright term in sound recordings should be extended from 50 to 70 years. The announcement marks a complete turnaround in government thinking, as up until recently the ...
Music is More Than Kids Stuff to Jazz Phenom
While some kids idea of making good music may still be limited to an afternoon session of Guitar Hero, 14-year-old Chase Morrin is building a reputation as a master of the piano. Be it performing alone or in a group or composing his own tunes, this Canyon Crest Academy sophomore is making his own brand of ...
What is Working? - An Indie Label and D.I.Y. Series
Later this week we'll begin publishing a series of posts produced in conjunction with U.S. indie label trade group the American Association Of Independent Music (A2IM) called “What Is Working". I'll be asking some of the leading figures in independent music: In this fractured media landscape, what is working? What outlets and tools are helping your ...
Obama Should Follow Carter's Lead and Bring Jazz Back to the White House
If President-elect Barack Obama wants to make a bold cultural statementone that resonates deeply with his autobiography and with the legacy of his adopted hometown, Chicagothere's a compelling way to do it: Teach the White House to swing (again). That's what President Jimmy Carter did in spring 1978, casting the unique brilliance of a presidential spotlight ...
Pharoah Sanders: Welcome to Love
As an ice-cold rain fell yesterday in New York, I reached for Welcome to Love, a 1990 album by Pharoah Sanders that I hadn't heard in a few years. The Sphinx-like tenor saxophonist is best known for his spiritual and avant-garde jazz recordings of the 1960s and 1970s, most notably Karma, which includes the dazzling 32-minute-plus ...
Other Places: Cerra on Feldman
In his Jazz Profiles blog, Steven M. Cerra's stock-in-trade is thorough examinations of the careers of important jazz musicians. His current project is Victor Feldman, the late, astonishingly talented drummer, pianist and vibraharpist. Steve just posted the third of three parts about Feldman. In the first installment, he tells of going to The Lighthouse in Hermosa ...
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