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Side Monk: Thelonious Monk as Sideman

October 13, 2008

As a musician and a man, Thelonious Monk must have provided easy inspiration for the title-namer of his 1956 Riverside album, The Unique Thelonious Monk. His singular sound on the piano, his inability to perform in New York City for several years (due to NYC's cabaret laws), and his unorthodox compositions that sounded like urban spirituals ...

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Jazz Lives Here: Bringing Jazz Back to the Home: Hour 20 & Hour 21

October 12, 2008

Hour 20 By Sunday afternoon, the previous night’s revelers may be taking it easy, but many jazz musicians are bringing jams into their own homes. In Park Slope, Brooklyn, latin jazz great Arturo O'Farrill is leading a jam session with his two sons and their schoolmate. O’Farrill’s children originally did not want to be musicians, but ...

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Jazz Lives Here: How Jazz Nourishes the City's Soul: Hour 16 & Hour 19

October 12, 2008

Hour 16 At 8 a.m. Sunday, jazz great Wynton Marsalis is in his apartment, saying it’s not so bad having the sleepy time blues. “It's early in the morning, it's still kind of dark. Well, not now, it's 8 o'clock, but I'm imagining it,” says Marsalis, before breaking into a piano improvisation. “It's just the blues.” ...

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YMCA Program Teaches Students About Music, Life

October 12, 2008

The music is opening up doors for other stuff Fourteen-year-old Tommy Fleming didn’t know playing rock ‘n’ roll could be so good. That was before he learned to play jazz. He didn’t know jazz could be so good, either. That was until he joined the YMCA Center for the Creative Arts, an after-school program of the ...

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Hitmaking Producer/Saxophonist Darren Rahn Joins De'Nate'

October 12, 2008

Saxophonist/producer Darren Rahn recently announced that he has joined De'Nate', the nuGroove band created by industry veteran David Chackler. “The chemistry between Rahn, Connors and Harasim is remarkable. In many ways, it reminds me of the magic that happened when Keith Olsen and I introduced Stevie Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham to Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac. ...

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Correspondence: About Erroll Garner

October 12, 2008

Julius LaRosa sent a reminiscence. This quote from Wikipedia: “Garner was self-taught and remained an 'ear player' all his life - he never learned to read music." A hundred years ago we shared a bill in Pittsburgh...or was it Boston...or was it Chicago...and by coincidence went there on the same flight. Anyway, during the ...

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French Quarter Has Bounced Back, Differently

October 11, 2008

Sloshing your way down Bourbon Street, past the banks of Slurpee-like machines spewing mango daiquiris by the gallon, it's hard to wrap your head around the notion that by dancing to raucous music, eating too much and drinking way too much, you're helping get a fallen American city back on its feet. Even as you grow ...

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Cynthia Basinet Petitions the United Nations

October 11, 2008

Sixty-second General Assembly Fourth Committee on behalf of issues facing the Western Sahara. From the UN official site: “CYNTHIA BASINET, singer and actress, said that the international community had a moral responsibility as steward of the Saharawi people, and that a shift in heart and not just policy was required. Anaemia, diabetes, tuberculosis, stunting and acute ...

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Grand Lady of Jazz Turns 75

October 10, 2008

She started singing at a tender age of six in stage shows which also allowed her to display her acting talent. At 12, she performed for American servicemen detailed at the former Clark Air Base in Pampanga. At 15, she was a frontliner at Jimmy’s Night Club along Dewey (now Roxas) Boulevard. At 20, she clinched ...