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2010: The Year in Jazz
by Ken Franckling
The jazz scene in 2010 was marked by a bit of cultural thaw between the U.S. and Cuba, royal honors for Marian McPartland that led honors galore for living jazz musicians, and significant acknowledgments for late jazz greats across North America. Efforts continued to expand jazz into new realms--or to hold on during the aftershocks of ...
Soul And The Abstract Proof: Searching For Soul And Its Meaning In Jazz
by Dan Bilawsky
What, exactly, is “soul?" This word is used so often in discussions and writings about music, but I wonder if anybody can actually define its very essence and place in the musical universe? The Merriam-Webster Dictionary lists no less than eight different definitions for soul and, while some of them have a decent grasp on what ...
Dreyfus Records: Crossing Continents with Music
by Jakob Baekgaard
Music, at its best, has the ability to reach across boundaries of nationality, gender and age. If there's a message in music, it's about communication, and about getting to the essence of everything: the beating pulse of a human heart. In an increasingly commercial market, where it has become more important to make music that opens ...
Toshiko Akiyoshi: The Music Keeps Her Young
by Jack Bowers
Pianist Billy Taylor, now in his eighty-ninth year, once recorded an album titled Music Keeps Us Young. I'm a firm believer in that and could point to several notable examples, one of whom is composer / pianist / bandleader Toshiko Akiyoshi who was in Albuquerque and Santa Fe last month with husband Lew Tabackin to headline ...
Orrin Keepnews, Producer: A New Video Podcast Series, Focuses on Classic Jazz Recordings.
Veteran Jazz producer Orrin Keepnews and his Keepnews Collection releases from the Concord Music Group are the subject of a new video Podcast series created and produced by Bret Primack. The second chapter of “Orrin Keepnews, Producer" is “Orrin Keepnews Meets The Saxophone Colossus," now available on YouTube and iTunes, as well as the Concord Music ...
Orrin Keepnews' Collection
by Marc Medwin
"Listen," Orrin Keepnews' no-nonsense delivery tempered by a smile. “I'm 84 years old. I'll take my legacies where I can get them," referring to the Keepnews Collection, a series launched this year by Concord Records. An astonishing study in longevity and ingenuity, the multiple facets and accomplishments of Keepnews' career as label maverick, writer ...
Orrin Keepnews: un classico produttore di classici
by AAJ Italy Staff
Intervista di R.J. DeLuke Ragazzo di città con un debole per il jazz e una promettente carriera di giornalista, Orrin Keepnews ha forse sbadatamente cambiato rotta e puntato nell'arena dei produttori di dischi per regalarci alcuni classici incisi da artisti indimenticabili. Una fortunata combinazione, forse destino. Forse c'è una parola che Keepnews usa parlando di altri: ...
