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Jest Finite: David Foster Wallace, 1962-2008
David Foster Wallace, the writer who reinvigorated the long-essay form to depict the wide, strange breadth of modern life, and who created a landmark in contemporary American fiction with his novel Infinite Jest, has died at the age of 46. He committed suicide Friday night at his home in California. Wallace was a favorite of many ...
Jazz Quotes: Miles Davis
Miles Davis, in addition to being one of the most talented and distinctive musicians to grace the annals of jazz history, had a unique reputation when it came to his speaking voice--both for his hoarse whisper and his pithy, rather Zen-like way of communicating with his band members, which sometimes resulted in amusing exchanges, such as ...
The Connection: The Living Theater and Hardbop Jazz
The Connection was a groundbreaking 1959 off-Broadway play from New York City's Living Theater group, written by Jack Gelber, that cast jazz musicians as heroin addicts waiting for a score. Artists that passed through the play included pianist Freddie Redd (who composed the original score), alto saxophonist Jackie McLean, tenor saxophonist Tina Brooks, and pianist Cecil ...
Last of the Lions: Gerald Wilson
Gerald Wilson has been leading big bands and recording albums for more than 60 years now, and this week he celebrates his 90th birthday. “Last of the Lions: Gerald Wilson" features two of his most significant outfits: a modernistic 1940s powerhouse that included up-and-coming musicians such as trumpeter Snooky Young and trombonist Melba Liston, and an ...
Night Lights on Labor Day-Chicago and Elsewhere
WDCB, one of two stations in the Chicago area that continue to broadcast jazz, is airing three Night Lights programs in a row on Labor Day Monday evening, from 7 to 10 p.m. Central Time--Cats Who Swing and Sing: Women Singer-Pianists of the 1940s and 50s, 1959: Jazz's Vintage Year, and Porgy and Bess: the 1950s ...
Songs for Some Jazz Fathers: Shorter, Silver and Wilson
Three significant jazz masters will be celebrating milestone birthdays in the next several weeks. On August 25, tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter turns 75. On September 2, pianist Horace Silver marks 80 years. And on September 4, bandleader Gerald Wilson--perhaps the last great living link to the swing era--sees in his 90th birthday. I have Night Lights ...
The Wayne Shorter Songbook
Wayne Shorter, one of the great tenor saxophonists and composers of the modern jazz era, turns 75 on August 25. An enigmatic and searching musician and personality, Shorter was once labeled by jazz critic Larry Kart as “one of the most dangerous players to ever pick up a horn--a man whose solos were described by various ...
Away from the Spaceways: John Gilmore
Tenor saxophonist John Gilmore, who influenced John Coltrane and helped to pioneer the challenging techniques of 1960s avant-garde saxophone, spent most of his career with Sun Ra and his Arkestra, recording outside of Sun Ras band on only a handful of occasions. His powerful, edgy style combined aspects of hardbop and outside playing; well hear examples ...
