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The Politics of Dancing: Jazz and Protest, Part 1
by Karl Ackermann
In 1964, Civil Rights workers, known as Freedom Riders, were increasingly becoming the victims of violent attacks from the Ku Klux Klan as they initiated a program to register black voters in the Deep South. As members of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the advocates were franticly racing ...
The 99 Percent
Album: Meditations on Freedom
By Noah Preminger
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2017
Duration: 3:29
Noah Preminger: Meditations on Freedom
by Franz A. Matzner
Released to coincide with the inauguration of Donald Trump as President, the message of Saxophonist Noah Preminger's Meditations on Freedom is as direct as the music is powerful. Conceived immediately after Election Day 2016 and recorded shortly thereafter without cuts or edits, the music is a testament to both Preminger's artistic prowess and deep commitment to ...
Noah Preminger: Meditations on Freedom
by Karl Ackermann
Open and civil discourse has always been a tenant of democracy. Recent political events in the U.S. have reduced that discourse to a crude, gutter-level low that has left an alienated population in its wake, marginalized and left without a strong voice. From the time of the Civil War, protest music has provided counsel for vulnerable ...
2016: The Year in Jazz
by Ken Franckling
The year 2016 bubbled with events and initiatives to strengthen jazz's place in American and world culture, as well as a variety of venue openings, closings and cancellations. Jazz hit the silver screen in many ways throughout the year, and International Jazz Day continued to thrive--complete with a major all-star concert at the White House. Pop ...
Some Other Time
Label: Newvelle Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Side A: My Little Brown Book; Semenzato; A Ghost of a Chance; Una Limosna por el Amor de Dios. Side B: Porcelain; Try A Little Tenderness; Melancholia; Boots of Spanish Leather; Some Other Time.
Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2016
Track listing: Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground; Hard Times Killin’ Floor Blues;
Trouble In Mind; I Am The Heavenly Way; Future blues; Spoonful Blues;
Black Snake Moan; Love In Vain; I Shall Not Be Moved.
Pivot: Live at the 55 Bar
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2016
Track listing: Parchman Farm Blues; Fixin to Die Blues.
Budd Kopman's Best Releases of 2016
by Budd Kopman
Of the seventy or so albums I was fortunate to review this year (with many still waiting in the wings), the releases below (in chronological order) are those that moved me the most and hence that I remember the clearest, even after a year. The quality of the music is uniformly high, and leaving something off ...
Mark Corroto's Best Releases of 2016
by Mark Corroto
Nothing gives me such simultaneous joy and grief as selecting my top discs of the year. The task is akin to choosing your favorite child. Regretfully, I give you (in no particular order) my top 12. Please email mail me separately if you want my top 30 and include your top discs, I may want to ...
