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The Friday Morning Listen: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2010, Tom Waits
By Mark Saleski OK, so let's get the list over with quickly. Here are your 2011 nominee's for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Alice Cooper, Beastie Boys, Bon Jovi, Chic, Neil Diamond, Donovan, Dr. John, J. Geils Band, LL Cool J, Darlene Love, Laura Nyro, Donna Summer, Joe Tex, Tom Waits, Chuck ...
Finally, a Music Conference for Managers...
Here's a bad idea—start a music conference. There are already way too many, they all overlap, and topics and panelists tend to get regurgitated from one event to another. Here's a better idea—start a targeted music conference. Tommy Silverman is trying his luck with a DIY-focused New Music Seminar, and we just covered a small event ...
Jazz and Self-Determination in Brooklyn - PT. 2
Our series of conversations with African American jazz presenters and entrepreneurs last time took us to Brooklyn, NY, via our ongoing research project for the Weeksville Heritage Center (718/756-5250; www.weeksvillesociety.org for more information). In part two of our dialogue with the Brooklyn sage Jitu Weusi we examine the development of the East cultural center, a sadly ...
Matthew's Back in Town.
Image courtesy of Lena Adesheva. While a debate over the pros and cons of mercantilism as applied to jazz rages below, I got an e mail from Mr Shipp last night to let me know he's back from a fabulous September that began in Brazil, took him through another fat swath of former Soviet enclaves, saw ...
Finding the "Voice" in Jazz
By Steve Provizer 'Voice' has always been seen as the sine qua non of jazz-the quality that separates it from other genres and either marks a musician as worthy of attention or consigns him to mediocrity. Someone with very sharp ears might be able to tell the difference between Maurice Andre and Wynton Marsalis playing the ...
"Confessions of an Esoteric Blogger"
By Steve Provizer Attend the fate of Mad Sweeney, as delineated by author Flann O'Brien in “At-Swim-Two-Birds:" “Neck high sticks he must pass by leaping. Knee high sticks by bending." There are those who say that I apply that injunction to my unwitting readership. And, though it be mercantile suicide and savagely highfallutin,' that ...
Top 10
I remember when I first started going to jazz festivals as a fan and eventually as a participant. I was in my late teens and early twenties when I made the observation that, each year, the same personalities and groups were appearing on all of the festivals. I'm talking late 70s and early 80s. The lineups ...
The End?
With a great deal of sadness I have decided to discontinue Prague Jazz, for now at least. This is in no way because of a lapse in enthusiasm for the music of this great city. My love of the music is as strong as before, and you will still see me around at the front tables ...
The Jazz Entrepreneur-Threat or Menace
By Steve Provizer Blogmeister Chris R. bemoans the lack of entrepreneurial spirit among local jazzers. I more or less demur. There are musicians out there exercising the old entrepreneurial spirit and bestirring themselves to various exotic gig locales and this is surely a better strategy than bemoaning one's fate while passively waiting to be discovered. But ...
Miles: The Autobiography... Two Decades Later
by Victor L. Schermer
Miles: The AutobiographyBy Miles Davis with Quincy TroupeNew York: Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, 2005(Originally published in 1989)Miles Davis knew how to keep himself on the radar screen. He did it musically throughout his life, except for a five year period of “silence" when he isolated himself in his ...
