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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 ...
"Coltrane on Coltrane"
By Steve Provizer I just received a copy of the book Coltrane on Coltrane, edited by Chris DeVito. There are a number of interviews here-especially European and Japanese-that I'd never seen. Also, some good candids that I don't think had been published. Chris included an interview I did with Isadore Granoff, who ran the Granoff Studios ...
Jung Man with a Horn
By Steve Provizer When it comes to Hollywood doing jazz bio-pics, I prefer straight-out hagiography: The Goodman story, the Dorsey Story, the Miller story-they're just the Lindburgh story, Madame Curie and Young Abe Lincoln story with swing music. Fonda coulda been Miller and Stewart could been Lincoln. Greer Garson as Marian McPartland? Anyway, it's a nice, ...
The Voice and the Horn in Jazz
By Steve Provizer Props to @JoshSinton for asking the question: “When did jazz musicians stop emulating singers and begin to emulate other instrumentalists?" It calls for more than a 140 character response... The short answer is that they never stopped. It's an admixture and always has been. Look at the popular music strains in America as ...
Abbey Lincoln-"Throw It Away"
By Steve Provizer I've been a real intellectual yente for the last several posts. I hope those posts have not been without emotional weight, but the death of Abbey Lincoln makes me want to write a piece where emotion leads and analysis creeps along far behind. In the late 1960's, I went to the old WGBH ...
Jazz and the Healthy Neurotic: How Can It Be Any Good if It Ain't That Hard?
By Steve Provizer Hey! You with the dirty mind: I'm not talking about sex. I'm talking self-torture here-masochism, not sadism. In this jazz life, we are plagued by a foundational neurosis-to be revealed below-but let's start off with the happy thought that we have found-albeit unconsciously-healthy ways to try and de-fuse or re-articulate this neurosis. Here's ...
The Cortex and the Booty-by Steve Provizer
This is Your Brain on Music The brass band I play with has been talking about the Asphalt Orchestra. In their videos, they seem to be having a great time, engaging the crowd, playing interesting, offbeat music (apart from New Orleans stuff, arrangements of Zappa, Bjork...). On the other hand, a band-mate saw them on the ...
The Night Jazz Became Itself,..By Matt Lavelle.
A few months ago,.Giuseppi Logan called me up and said,."man,.we have to work,.I can't get any work,.I'm broke man." Giuseppi is under the impression that we can make enough money playing music to have our rent paid,and and enough food in our stomachs so that they stop growling at us.I had exhausted all my limited options,.and ...
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