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Up Jumped Spring

May 17, 2008

I took a break from writing this morning and went for a ride with my friend Bianchi Vigorelli (pictured). Here in the lee of the Cascades, it was the first truly hot day of the year. Melted snow is rushing off the mountains, filling the rivers to the tops of their banks, running them fast and ...

Bonnaroo 2008 Announces New Orleans-Themed Venue

May 17, 2008

Copyright to Avail or to Download That is the Question

May 16, 2008

Music Download Case may be Retried A question as old as poor Hamlet, as he gazed in deep thought at the iPod held in his hand, “to download or to avail, That is the question." A Minnesota woman ordered to pay $222,000 in the nation's first music download trial may get another chance with ...

Quick Live Picks This Weekend

May 16, 2008

There's plenty of great live Latin Jazz happening this weekend, so I wanted to point out a few highlights. If you're lucky enough to be in any of these locations this weekend, please support Latin Jazz and check out the shows! In Los Angeles this week, The Jazz Bakery will be hosting legendary percussionist Francisco [...] ...

Compelling Profile of a Compulsive

May 16, 2008

After David Remnick took command as editor of The New Yorker in 1998, he curtailed the late Whitney Balliett's contributions to the magazine, relegated him to writing about celebrities like Barbra Streisand and eventually dropped the pre-eminent jazz writer altogether. Characteristically, Balliett kept quiet about the slight, but he was hurt and humiliated. In their fury, ...

Swami Lateplate - Doomjazz (Veal Records, 2007) ****a1/2

May 16, 2008

As its title and the cover suggest, the music on this album is dark, gloomy, depressing, but more than that, it is minimalistic, repetitive, slow and all about style. Jamie Saft plays piano and bass and Bobby Previte drums, two musicians who no longer need any introduction, and what they're doing here is to move away ...

Exalt Entertainment Announces Wedding Planning Tips for Entertainment Bookings

May 16, 2008

(Detroit, Michigan) -- Exalt Entertainment Group premiering celebrity jazz performing and recording artists and spoken word artists nationally. Today announced wedding planning tips for entertainment bookings. Stressing that during economic downtimes budgets for wedding planning are often reduced and adding quality jazz helps to enhance the ambiance and leave a quality impression. According to Brenda Bradley, ...

The New Yorker's 100 Essential Jazz Albums

May 15, 2008

While finishing “Bird-Watcher," a Profile of the jazz broadcaster and expert Phil Schaap, I thought it might be useful to compile a list of a hundred essential jazz albums, more as a guide for the uninitiated than as a source of quarrelling for the collector. First, I asked Schaap to assemble the list, but, after a ...

Jazz at Minton's Playhouse in Harlem Prepares to Break Boundaries and World Records

May 14, 2008

NEW YORK, NY -- Minton's Playhouse announced a massive expansion in its jazz programming and community outreach through the formation of the non-profit foundation Minton's Mentors as well as through an international partnership with South Africa's Fort Hare University and the director of its burgeoning Jazz Studies Department, Hotep Idris Galeta. New developments to Minton's include ...

7k Oaks - 7000 Oaks (Die Schachtel, 2008) ***1/2

May 14, 2008

Ferocious, fierce, frenetic, intense, wild, energetic are words that describe well the overall atmosphere of this music, yet there are moments that are calm, subdued, intimate even. The ferocity is not destructive, the four musicians build huge walls of sounds that come and go, change texture and shape, while keeping their energetic momentum most of the ...