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News: Opinion

JJA Jazz Matters, NYC, 11/20 -- Publicists, Clients, Journalists: Relationships (6- 8 p.m. Wednesday November 20, New School Jazz fifth floor performance )

November 10, 2006

"Publicists, Clients, Journalists: Relationships" will be discussed by leading jazz p.r.. professionals and the people they seek to address on Wednesday, November 20, 6 to 8 p.m., at the New School Jazz fifth floor performance space, 55 W. 13th St., NYC, in the third monthly “Jazz Matters" panel/forum of fall '06, co-produced by New School Jazz ...

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The Colossal Mess of "The Allman Brothers Band at Fillmore East"

by C. Michael Bailey
October 7, 2006

The Allman Brothers Band At Fillmore East Polygram 1971 (1986) While the recent release of Eat a Peach, Deluxe Edition is a most welcome addition to the Allman Brothers Band discography, it incandescently illuminates the pornographically haphazard release history of this important material. The original two-LP release was ...

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Jazz Matters, JJA / New School NYC: "Jazz Education: For Students Only?"

September 16, 2006

Leading New York-area jazz educators address the value of jazz education beyond school classrooms in the first “Jazz Matters" panel discussion of the New School Jazz program's fall semester, “"Jazz Ed. - For Students Only?" The free admission panel, co-produced by the Jazz Journalists Association and New School Jazz, is scheduled for 6 to 8 p.m., ...

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On Drumming and Boxing

by Mark Merella
September 1, 2006

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 ...

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Representing the Jazz Self in Song

by Vincent Stephens
July 18, 2006

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 ...

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Race Relations and Their Expression in Jazz

by Nadav Haber
June 14, 2006

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 ...

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How to Advance Jazz Radio: Judy Carmichael Has the Knack

by Norman Weinstein
June 11, 2006

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 ...

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Melody and Mind

by Robert J. Lewis
March 12, 2006

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 ...

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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)

February 14, 2006

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. ...

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Precocious Teen Pianist Has Feel for Jazz

February 8, 2006

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 ...