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"Jazz Cops on Patrol"
By Steve Provizer So, my band is working toward the out-chorus of “All of Me," when this stocky guy with a crew cut comes up to the stage. He's a tough looking mug, wearing a blue drum major hat with “this space for rent" written on his forehead. “Alright," he says to the drummer, “Put those ...
The Importance of Living and Connecting in Person
Too often, artists and professionals use digital media to make local connections, forgetting that tweets and text messages are poor substitutes for real human beings. By keeping our digital devices always on, we enable ourselves to be dislocated. In the presence of others, it's now commonplace to connect to elsewhere. A message arrives and to keep in touch ...
"Jazz 911: Rescuing the Great American Songbook"
By Steve Provizer When you reach into the faux-velvet bag, there's a feeling of infinite possibility inspired by the virgin letters nestled inside. But you can only get that feeling after you've swept the last set of painstakingly-created words off the Scrabble board. Oddly, I went through the same process when I read Peter Ven Der ...
A Time for More Important Things
A note from Mike Palter of “Jazz is a Rainbow" I have just received a call from one of the supporters of our “Jazz is a Rainbow" projects informing me that Carefusion has decided to cease its support of the Newport Jazz Festival. Because part of our JIAR project involves bringing under served, Providence area children ...
The Limits of Delocalized Music Culture
Logic says that if people can get something for nothing, they will. Every day, millions of fans download music and don't pay for it. Critics are quick to regard this as stealing. Fans are taking songs—without the permission of artists—and doing so without compensating them for their creativity. The primary victims of this act are major ...
Testing the Monva-Nic Experience
Kurt's party in front of Il Vino d'Enrico Bernardo in Paris. On Sunday October 31st, at the beginning of his European Standards Trio tour, Kurt Rosenwinkel and his team were in Paris having lunch at the one star Michelin restaurant Il Vino d'Enrico Bernardo. This was in order to taste the wines selected for the Monvínic ...
Who's Really Destroying Music? Take a Closer Look...
If you want to beat up on the majors, have fun—there's plenty of material to go around. But just be prepared to beat up on the tech sector as well, because they're just as responsible for devaluing music and lowering artist welfare. It's the only balanced way to view the crisis that music finds itself in ...
Leibinger loves the conversation of music
For trombonist Doug Leibinger, the new Director of Jazz Studies at Sonoma State University, learning to play jazz is a lot like learning to talk. First, you acquire the vocabulary. Then, you figure out how to string words together into sentences. Finally, you forget everything you've learned, listen deeply, and respond to what others are saying. ...
Clifford Brown and the Great Tree
By Matt Lavelle Hearing the opening of the Clifford Brown birthday broadcast on WKCR at midnight this past Saturday,a 30 hour marathon,got me to reflect again on what I call the trumpet brotherhood,.and Clifford Brown's towering place inside of it.In 2010 it's hard to find members of the brotherhood,.but we still exist.Of course We all start ...
Vote with Your Ears-Dizzy for Pres
By Steve Provizer Herbert Hoover's advisers no doubt warned him that getting endorsements from Red Allen or Miff Mole might backfire. Ditto Harry Truman, who never sought the support of Bird-or even Tommy Dorsey. Ronald Reagan never thought that the backing of Archie Shepp would seal the deal. Through most of its history, even in its ...
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