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Blue Note Records on NPR's Talk of the Nation
Bruce Lundvall, president of the Blue Note Label Group, and Michael Cuscuna, co-founder of reissue label Mosaic Records, were both on NPR's Talk of the Nation today, discussing the history, present, and future of the iconic Blue Note Records imprint. They also took some phone calls from jazz fans who reminisced about the musical and cultural ...
A Freddie Hubbard Tribute with David Baker
Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, who died on Monday at the age of 70, was one of Indiana's true jazz giants, rubbing historical shoulders with the likes of J.J. Johnson, Wes Montgomery, and Hoagy Carmichael. On Tuesday, December 30, longtime Hubbard friend and musical colleague David Baker stopped by the studio while I was guest-hosting WFIU's Just You ...
Living Theater Revives "The Connection"
The Living Theater is reviving Jack Gelber's groundbreaking 1959 play The Connection, a study of drug addicts (some of them jazz musicians) pontificating on their lives and chemical loves. The cast includes saxophonist Rene McLean, whose father Jackie performed in the original version, and will be directed once again by Judith Malina, who will also play ...
Blue Note Records Announces More Catalogue Deletions
Blue Note Records sent out an e-mail today announcing more catalogue deletions, on the heels of a similar announcement two weeks ago. You can view the entire list (which includes titles from a larger family of Blue Note-related labels) at True Blue Music. Warning, folks: it’s a veritable bloodbath. Lots of great Lee Morgan, Tina Brooks, ...
Obama: We'll Have Jazz at the White House
President-elect Barack Obama appeared on NBC's weekly Sunday-morning program Meet the Press yesterday and gave indication that we'll be seeing more jazz performances at the White House after he takes office: The president-elect said his administration is interested in “elevating science once again, and having lectures in the White House where people are talking about traveling ...
West Coast Jazz: Get It While You Can
Jazz aficionados generally have little use for various-artist anthologies. They're seen as gateway collections for beginners, whereas hardcore veteran listeners tend to want all-inclusive single-artist monoliths replete with alternate takes, unissued masters, etc. (Sony/Legacy's Miles Davis series is an excellent example--even though the later electric boxes have drawn in some younger, non-aficionado buyers.) Exceptions are made, ...
Sassy's Happy Sobs: Sarah Vaughan at the White House
An article in the Sunday, November 9 New York Times about the history of African-American visitors to the White House came with a jazz twist at the end involving Sarah Vaughan. Vaughan performed at the White House in 1964 as part of a state dinner hosted by president Lyndon B. Johnson for the prime minister of ...
Songs of Peace
This week on Night Lights it’s “Songs of Peace,” in anticipation of the coming holidays. We’ll hear instrumental themes using “Peace” as a title from John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, and Horace Silver, as well as Louis Armstrong’s 1970 take on John Lennon’s “Give Peace a Chance,” Bill Evans’ improvisation on Leonard Bernstein’s “Some Other Time” that ...
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