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Bridging the Asian Connection
One of the more fascinating aspects of ancient Chinese cultural history is the distinct African connection of the Shang Dynasty. Traversing the centuries to the 21st century, one musician who has consistently made that connection in the modern world, and who has engaged elements of ancient Chinese music culture in the way he views jazz music ...
The Jazz Lexicon of Expressive Grunts
By Steve Provizer So-Maybe our sexually permissive culture has cleared the way for greater freedom of The Gutteral Utterance. At least, women tennis players now feel free to let it rip. But jazz musicians have long had a lot to say that has nothing to do with lyrics or, for that matter, with any known language. ...
Belabored Day.
“Because americans are concerned with market share and sales. conflict leads to sales. I met these guys from Finland...in their late 30's, like, in their 18th year of university or some shit like that—and getting paid to go. they played all day long, did some teaching, and that was set up for them...I remember they said ...
Jazz & Blues Florida September 2010 Online Edition Posted
The September online edition of JAZZ & BLUES FLORIDA has been posted. This month's features include: Larry Coryell- Winning Spin “Prime Picks" Bird Dog Bobby Blues Band Doug Carn John Yarling Randy Bernsen Saxophones Gone Wild: Mike MacArthur, Jarred Armstrong, Gene Cannon, Alan Darcy, Tim Eddy, Mike Gibilisco, Valerie Gillespie, Jerry Kenney, Jeremy Powell, Austin Vickrey, ...
Jazz Poetry - "Lester Young"
By Ted Joans Sometimes he was cool like an eternalblue flame burning in the old KansasCity nunnerySometimes he was happy 'til he'd thinkabout his birth place and its bloodstained clay hills and crow-filled treesMost times he was blowin' on the wonderfultenor sax of his, preachin' in very cooltones, shouting only to remind you ofa certain point ...
Coltrane and the Jazz Fracture
By Steve Provizer Tom, one of our commentors, speculates about Coltrane's contribution to the fracturing of the jazz audience and the concomitant loss of jazz audience in the early 1960's. This fracturing was certainly underway before the early 60's; chiefly through Ornette and somewhat via Cecil Taylor and Dolphy, but for several reasons-and for better or ...
Jazzwax List: The Sonny Band
During the 1940s and 1950s, many jazz musicians had nicknames. Some were bestowed on them by band members. Others were affixed by parents or friends while they were growing up. One of the most popular sobriquets during this period was “Sonny." It seems to have been given most often by parents in need of differentiating between ...
Incomplete Communion: Engaging Contemporary Post-Bop
I'll admit it—while I find a lot to enjoy in straight-ahead jazz, it's really hard to review straight-ahead jazz CDs. Part of this is a result of questioning where tradition and the mainstream fit in together, and if indeed they actually parallel one another in creative music. Bill Dixon had a way of putting this conundrum ...
Music from the Future. Matt Lavelle.
I often refer to the Spiritual side of Jazz and in particular,.free Jazz,.no less than like a preacher on the pulpit.Some folks consider a spiritual perspective on music an excuse to just play wild and free with no real focus and or maybe no real skill.How much skill do you need to engage any music from ...
Blog It: How the Web Changed Music Criticism
Two words: Almost Famous. It may be cliché but this was the movie that spurned my foray into music. The fact that you could travel around the country with a rock band fascinated me. The ability to be able to capture the process of a band connecting with their audience and the unspeakable and indescribable quality ...
