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5 Latin Jazz Bass Players Driving Today's Scene
Quite a while ago, I wrote a post entitled 5 Latin Jazz Bass Players That You Must Hear!. This article was meant as a quick introduction to some of the bassists that have defined the style since its initial development. Its been a fairly popular post, being read daily by numerous people. I wanted to return ...
Preserving the Culture of New Orleans is Essential
Strike Up the Band A musicologist and Gulf folklorist explains why preserving the culture of New Orleans is essential. “Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans," Louis Armstrong sang in the 1947 film “New Orleans." “I miss it, each night and day/The longer I stay away." The tune was actually written by two ...
Northwest String Summit | 07.18 - 07.20 | OR
Words by: Sarah Hagerman | Images by: Bill Ball Northwest String Summit :: 07.18.08 - 07.20.08 :: Horning's Hideout :: North Plains, OR Northwest String Summit 2008 Nestled in the towering pines, this nexus of shaking strings and squawking peacocks kicks the door off the hinges in anything-goes moments of ...
Best Buy Stores Expanding to Musical Instruments
Hoping to cater to everyone from the garage guitarist to a recording musician, Best Buy Co. Inc. is announcing a massive new initiative that sets aside store space for an array of musical instruments and gear in dozens of sites nationwide. The nation's largest consumer electronics retailer will announce Tuesday that it plans to open as ...
Can Amy Winehouse Be Saved?
Her phenomenal talent has been eclipsed by her terrifying ability to self-destruct. Can anything save Amy from herself? From the mayhem of the past year, if Amy Winehouse has learnt anything it might be the terrible truth contained in the saying “be careful what you wish for, you might just get it". Since giving up her ...
At 83, Jazz Legend Haynes Finds Career in Fast Lane
Roy Haynes has a soft spot for sweet rides: a '98 custom Cadillac El Dorado, '74 Bricklin, '02 Mercedes and '05 Dodge Magnum have all been in his collection. Lucky for him the cars destroyed in his latest project only existed in the virtual world. The 83-year-old Roxbury native known as the father of modern jazz ...
This Fil-AM Has Jazz in His Genes
The year is 2002. The place is Charlie O's, a comfortable, somewhat-upscale jazz club in North Hollywood, Southern California, whose claim to fame is “great music" in the jazz universe. It is Thursday night and a jam session is about to take center stage. Tonight, just like any Thursday night at Charlie O's, several musicians have ...
High Culture Meets Low Culture in a Mass-Media World
Many stigmas are gone as the lines between highbrow and lowbrow blur. But will a loss of quality be the price? It was only 50 or so years ago that critics and intellectuals were busy constructing -- and redrawing, and shoring up -- hierarchies about what kinds of culture were good for us and which ones ...
Elitism is Not a Dirty Word
Categorizing 'the best' isn't confined to art; it plays out in sports, cinema, pop music and beyond. EVERY NOW and then, writers at The Times lose a word. Mainly these are adjectives subject to misuse. Some years ago we were advised to let go of legendary. Similarly, don't expect to see iconic, which has become equally ...
Pop Music Critics Embrace the Mainstream
SHAMELESSNESS IS not a problem for pop critics. The job used to require ego and a disdain of the establishment. Ego remains but many now embrace the mainstream. Is it good? They all have opinions. Quite the opposite: It's a daily practice. Invented by rebel newspaper staffers (most notably, Ralph J. Gleason at the ...
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