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Lennie Tristano
by Peter Madsen
"It would be useless for me to play something I don't feel. I wouldn't be doing anything. If I played something that I'd have to impose on myself, I wouldn't be playing anything good." (Lennie Tristano - 1950) “Everybody in this country is very neurotic now. They're afraid to experience an intense emotion, the ...
Benny Golson
by Peter Madsen
You know it's easy to get overlooked in the jazz world today. There are too many musicians on the scene from all over the world. The market is flooded with more new CD's than we can really handle and every day there are dozens of classic reissues showing up to add to the competition. Often if ...
Thank You Mr. Burns
by Peter Madsen
Dear Mr. Burns: I want to take this opportunity to thank you so much for your attempt at telling the entire history of jazz music in a mere 18 hours or so. Hey B. good job! I know it took you years and years of research with the perfect advice and guidance of one Mr. Louis ...
Bassist Dwayne Dolphin
by Peter Madsen
The number of fantastic improvising musicians not living in the Big Apple has got to be enormous. There must be tens of thousands of unknown creative musicians from Minneapolis to Albany and from Dresden to Osaka living a passionate jazz life struggling to get gigs in their local clubs and recording CD's to sell to their ...
We Play Because We Must
by Peter Madsen
Jazz musicians are an amazing group of humans. Like any serious professional we put countless hours of work into learning our craft, practice until our bodies are sore, play endless sessions during the day in some piano players living room and hang out 'til all hours of the night to keep in touch with all the ...
Thanks for the Memories
by Peter Madsen
Happy New Millenium everyone. I'm glad you survived Y2K and the end of the world. I hope you're all looking forward to the 2000's as much as I am, lots of music to play new compositions to write and plenty of articles to compose. As I stand here looking forward to the future I want to ...
Drummer Mike Clark
by Peter Madsen
If you have a natural inclination toward the blues like I do, it will well up inside your life and pour out of your soul when the groove really hits. A really great blues can cripple you. For me, this is the big payoff. This is why most of us are still playing. That feeling is ...
Jeff Williams: Drums in the House
by Peter Madsen
Good communication. Support. Awareness. Understanding. Growth. Creativity. Fun. These are just some of the important ideas that come to mind when I think about a good relationship, whether as a partner in love or in music. One such talented musician embodying these ideas and many more is the amazing drummer Jeff Williams. Jeff Williams ...
Cry Out In Your Weakness
by Peter Madsen
As I feel quite overwhelmed by all that has happened to the world these past few weeks I simply want to share with you a poem written by the great mystic scholar and poet Jelaluddin Balkhi known as “Rumi." He was born in Balkh Afghanistan about 800 years ago. CRY OUT IN YOUR WEAKNESS ...
Peter Madsen: Prevue of Tomorrow
by Robert R. Calder
Aimez-vous Prokofiev? Granados? These composers' piano pieces are good markers of the genre of most of this set, which is based on compositions by the most fascinating individual jazz pianists. The chosen pianists were (and some still are) idiosyncratic and individual, although some were nearer than others to “Legit techniques and 20th Century piano music. There's ...
