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Moja Radio/Weekly Features ( June 28 - July 4, 2010)
This Monday, June 28th, we'll present another “Happy Birthday" edition of our special feature, MONDAY WITH THE MASTERS on MOJA Radio. This time the focus is on the great bassist, composer, Grammy-winner and MOJA Master, STANLEY CLARKE. You'll hear of his career beginnings growing up in Philadelphia, his work with the seminal fusion supergroup Return To ...
Honoring Heroes of Jazz, with Words, Silence and Improvisation
Jazz has a long tradition of heroism, both in practice and reception, in the acts of musicians and how they are understood. For the last few generations, hard-core jazz audiences have spent a lot of time worrying that the academic might be riding up on the intuitive, and that the sense of heroism might be slipping ...
The Jazz Session #180: Matt White of Fight the Big Bull
Guitarist Matt White and his band Fight The Big Bull are part of the creative music scene in Richmond, Virginia. Their new album All Is Gladness In The Kingdom (Clean Feed, 2010) features the playing and arrangements of Steven Bernstein, perhaps best known for his band Sex Mob. In this interview, White talks about the surprisingly ...
Mary McBride at Housing Works, June 16 2010
by Ernest Barteldes
Mary McBride Housing Works June 16, 2010 New York, NY On her New York stop of the promotional tour for her new release The Way Home, soul-folk singer-songwriter Mary McBride hit the stage of lower Manhattan's Housing Works backed by a solid power trio that at once made you ...
Gene Ess - Modes of Limited Transcendence - Concert - June 25
Award winning guitarist Gene Ess will perform with his stellar quartet on June 25th. The group will feature Gene's original compositions from his Modes of Limited Transcendence album. This album received a prestigious award from SESAC on March, 2010 for “outstanding jazz performance". Accompanying Gene Ess on guitar is Greg Tardy on saxophone, Thomson Kneeland on ...
The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University & American Composers Orchestra Present First-Ever Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute
July 20-24, 2010 34 jazz composers ranging in age from 17 to 67 years old converge on the Columbia University Campus to explore writing for the symphony orchestra Culminates with two public concerts: Wet Ink Friday, July 23, 2010 at 8:00pm American Composers Orchestra Saturday, July 24, 2010 ...
Kalmen Opperman, Master Clarinetist and Teacher Dies
Kalmen Opperman, a master clarinetist whose intensive teaching methods helped mold some of the top players of the last 50 years, died on Friday in Manhattan. He was 90. The cause was complications of congestive heart failure, said his daughter, Roie Opperman. Mr. Opperman began his professional career playing for ballet and Broadway, but it was ...
Free-Jazz Manifestoes Declared Nightly
Nate Wooley, sitting and aiming his trumpet toward a microphone about four feet in front of him, played free improvisation almost without affect. On Monday, at the Lower East Side bar Local 269, he was a third of the band Crackleknob, the guitarist Mary Halvorson, the bassist Reuben Radding. Mr. Wooley used a lot of extended ...
Kid Millions a Percussion Obsessive Adds Even More Drums
Kid Millions, the anchor of the band Oneida, is a mild-mannered 37-year-old by day. He has built a career on percussive longevity, bashing away at his instrument for hours on end with fury and expert precision. For 13 years he has been the anchor of the Brooklyn band Oneida, whose songs mix hypnotic Minimalism with skull-rattling ...
WWII Nurse in Iconic Times Square Kissing Photo Dies
A nurse famously photographed being kissed by an American sailor in New York's Times Square in 1945 to celebrate the end of World War Two has died at the age of 91, her family said on Tuesday. The V-J Day picture of the white-clad Edith Shain by photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt captured an epic moment in U.S. ...
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