Results for "Opinion"

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De Barcelona a Nueva York

by Joan A. Cararach
October 12, 2009

Gracias a la colaboración de la Dirección de Relaciones Culturales y Científicas del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y de Cooperación, la colaboración de la Spain Usa Foundation y de la embajada de España en Washington, el Festival Internacional de Jazz de Barcelona va a afrontar este año el que quizá sea el reto más importante en ...

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The Music Instinct: Science and Song

by AAJ Staff
July 9, 2009

Elena Gillespie reports on Daniel Levitin's PBS film The Music Instinct: Science And Song and explores new directions in music cognition theory. Long ago when I was caring for a woman dying of Alzheimer's, she gifted me with a beautiful rendition of a classical piece of music on her piano. I remember that moment ...

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Michael Jackson: The Possibility of Communion

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
July 5, 2009

Can anyone write about Michael Jackson's music without talking about themselves? My story goes like this. An after-school dance in the multi-use room at Charlotte Wood Junior High School. I'm 13 years old, my back firmly affixed to the wall, together with my coterie of friends, watching the less socially awkward kids dance in the center ...

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Remembering Michael: Help Me Sing It

by Chris M. Slawecki
June 29, 2009

“Lift your head up high / And scream out to the world I know I am someone / And let the truth unfurl Ain't no one can hurt you now / Because you know what's true Yes, I believe in me / So you believe in you Help ...

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You are wrong Billy Cobham

by Michael Epstein
December 19, 2008

Billy Cobham was featured in the the November 2008 issue of JazzTimes sounding off about fellow drummer Tony Williams. I respect Cobham's contribution to modern music, but he made comments about Williams that will no doubt spark debate. Here's the context. In the magazine's Before & After column, Cobham was asked for his opinion ...

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The Projo on Dave McKenna

November 7, 2008

On election day, the Providence Journal ran two editorials concerning matters important to Rhode Islanders. One was about the governor's suggestion that it's time to end the state income tax (a questionable idea, the paper said). The other was on the death of pianist Dave McKenna, one of the state's cultural heroes. To read the Mckenna editorial, ...

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Jazz Critics Gone Wild, Volume 1

by Jack Bowers
April 1, 2008

Using words such as “unprecedented," “mind-boggling," “preposterous" and “what the s--t is going on here," the editors of BummedOut magazine, the country's leading Jazz periodical since the Original Dixieland Jass Band recorded “Livery Stable Blues," expressed their utter shock and disbelief this week when ballots submitted in the magazine's umpteenth Annual Critics' Poll listed not a ...

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NYC Jazz Journalism Conference/Live Blog, Sept. 29

September 26, 2007

Jazz Journalists Association Consults Columbia University Center for Jazz Studies on first international conference of jazz journalists to be held in the U.S. “Jazz in the Global Imagination: Music, Journalism, and Culture" With live, globally interactive blog from and about the conference at Columbia School of Journalism, 2950 Broadway (at 116th Street), New York. 9:00 am ...

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An Open Letter to Keith Jarrett

by Daniel Biro
July 27, 2007

Dear Keith:After being present at your concert in Perugia as part of the Umbria Jazz Festival 2007 I feel the need to express my views on what has become predictable but unacceptable behavior on your behalf. I know this is not the first or last attempt to discuss the matter, but what the hell...

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2007 Jazz Journalists Association Winners

June 29, 2007

JAZZ JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION Promoting the interests of journalists covering jazz NEW YORK - June 29 2007: Two icons of avant-garde jazz -- saxophonist-composer Ornette Coleman and pianist-composer Andrew Hill - were celebrated with highest honors at the 2007 Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards, during a luncheon at the Jazz Standard on June 28, attended ...