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Article: Megaphone

Gunter Hampel: Bringing Music to the People

by AAJ Staff
October 14, 2003

Submitted on behalf of Gunter Hampel. As a composer, arranger, bandleader and now the owner of BIRTH Records, I have been undergoing changes in publishing my music on LPs, CDs, cassettes and video. As a new carrier, the DVD has arrived and seems to be the new way of bringing music to the ...

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Article: Opinion

Dave Liebman: If I had $10 Million in the Bank!

by David Liebman
October 14, 2003

There's no question that I am going to get pinned to the mat, condemned for being close minded, negative, purist, sour grapes and definitely politically incorrect for what I am writing. It is very specific, concerned with jazz musicians being hired to play in pop situations. It is not about musically “crossing over" which is another ...

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Article: Megaphone

Cecil Bridgewater: Where to Create Music

by AAJ Staff
October 14, 2003

By Cecil Bridgewater Creating music requires a place and an environment within which to create. I see a number of young, talented people coming into the various schools where I teach having had no practical experience in this music outside of a classroom. They have developed tremendous facility on their instruments and knowledge ...

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Bill Cole: The Path I have Taken and the Instruments I Play

by AAJ Staff
October 14, 2003

Submitted on behalf of Bill Cole. On October 11, 2002 I turned 65. To celebrate I took my ensemble the Untempered Ensemble into the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. At the beginning of the second half all the members of the Ensemble played double reed horns that come from Asia. After the ...

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Art Davis: All That Jazz Ain't All That Jazz

by AAJ Staff
October 14, 2003

By Art Davis Many of us know the history and derivations of this topic. There can be numerous dissertations that I could present but I shall focus on education. All too often, while teaching a jazz history class, I encounter students who think that “Bird" is a famous basketball player. There ...

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Article: Profile

Patty Waters

by Kurt Gottschalk
October 14, 2003

To contemporary ears, ESP is a legendary label marking some of the lesser known free jazz experiments of the ‘60s, with a catalogue including titles by Frank Lowe, Sunny Murray, Ornette Coleman, Paul Bley, Milford Graves and Sun Ra. But during its course, from 1964 to 1975 (with many of the titles reissued by a variety ...

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Horace Parlan

by AAJ Staff
October 14, 2003

Submitted on behalf of Riel Lazarus Much of pianist Horace Parlan's distinguished jazz life has been marked by an intriguing series of ebbs and flows. At times his artistry has received the attention and praise it deserves, while at others it has been curiously overlooked and neglected. All the more interesting is that ...

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Henry Grimes

by A. Henkin
October 14, 2003

By now the news that Henry Grimes, veteran bass player and stylistic maven, has resurfaced is well-documented. The efforts of Atlanta social worker Marshall Marotte to find the 64-year-old Grimes, out of jazz or any music for over 30 years, has been written about in periodicals such as Signal to Noise (the original newsbreaker) and the ...

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Robin Kenyatta

by AAJ Staff
October 14, 2003

When alto saxophonist Robin Kenyatta's name appeared in the concert listings here in New York back in mid-late May, an AAJ trip was made to trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah's jazz club, Sista's Place, in the heart of Brooklyn. Kenyatta has lived in Switzerland for 20 years (where he ran a music school and taught), as well as ...

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Eddie Gale

by AAJ Staff
October 14, 2003

Eddie Gale's recent mid-April Brooklyn Jazz Festival appearance at Sista's Place was a grand welcome back event which the trumpeter fondly recalls as being a big reunion of friends and folks he hadn't seen since he was a teenager. People showed up who hadn't known what happened to Gale, himself born and raised in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn ...