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On Drumming and Boxing
by Mark Merella
Drumming and boxing are traditions that on the surface may seem unrelated but with further inspection share qualities both primal and sublime. Each can be traced to the beginnings of civilization, boxing being one of the first Olympic games and the drum being the first musical instrument fashioned by human hands. Comparisons can be traced to ...
Representing the Jazz Self in Song
by Vincent Stephens
In the nearly ten years since the revised edition of Will Friedwald's Jazz Singing (1996) and Bruce Crowther & Mike Pinfold's Singing Jazz (1997) “jazz singing has generated several familiar conversations among jazz critics. Generally these criticisms, discussed in the “Original Recipe Vs. Extra Crispy chapter of The Future of Jazz (2002) and Stuart Nicholson's Is ...
Race Relations and Their Expression in Jazz
by Nadav Haber
The word “Blacks will be used here to describe the Americans of African descent, and “Whites will refer to Americans of European descent. Our subject will be “black music , of which theologian James Cone has written: “It is an artistic rebellion against the humiliating deadness of western culture... through song, a new political consciousness is ...
How to Advance Jazz Radio: Judy Carmichael Has the Knack
by Norman Weinstein
As someone who was educated by jazz radio as a teenager, and a tip of the hat to Joel Dorn's programming on Philly's WHAT-FM is in order here, I've had a special appreciation of how enlightening jazz radio programming can be. Yet my appreciation of jazz radio from the 60s has often turned to disappointment in ...
Melody and Mind
by Robert J. Lewis
When we say we are moved by the music we love, what part of us is being moved? Or what part of us is left unmoved, or moved the wrong way by music we don't like? If we listen repeatedly to only the music that pleases us, is the prime mover the music or the pleasure ...
Jazz Matters Panel Feb 22: Associations and Collectives for Musicians and Journalists at the New School 5th floor performance space Free (6 - 8 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 22)
Associations and Collectives for Musicians and Journalists Jazz Matters panel of the Jazz Journalists Association 6 - 8 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 22 5th floor performance space 55 W. 13th St. NYC Free Premise: Collective activity, for artists or journalists alike, aids empowerment and expression. ...
Precocious Teen Pianist Has Feel for Jazz
Lenny's girl already has a name that befits the way her hands manipulate piano keys. Kne-O'Chaw (knee-O-sha) Hampton of Willingboro is a musical prodigy who plays as if she were raised in a smoky Harlem jazz club. She can sight read and play by ear. Compose a song before breakfast. Transpose for horns and write for ...
What Music Tells Us about Our Lives; or, "Well, Git It" by the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
by Michael Palmer
In “The Opposites in Music class at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation in New York, I'm so fortunate to be learning about what makes for beauty in music and what it can teach us about ourselves. In one class, the teachers, Barbara Allen, Anne Fielding, and Edward Green asked, “Can music be used to be a courageous ...
Impulsive-Compulsive-Repulsive
by AAJ Staff
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.You're relaxing at home after a hard day's work listening to your favorite jazz station. The deejay announces John Coltrane's “Acknowledgement." You must have heard it a thousand times, but a smile crosses your ...
America's Been Tough On Jazz
by Eric Pettine
In America, he's his own man—he's got to be—no corporation seeks him out or needs him. Her attitude and attire doesn't always “cut it" with the latest vogue. He doesn't really have a particular deadline or agenda to meet. She's “got her ax down" and she's ready to carve out her own market share. He's got ...
