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Dave Holland Tribute: Table of Contents
by Ludovico Granvassu
To celebrate Dave Holland's 80th birthday, All About Jazz invited musicians, colleagues and friends from around the world to share their memories and reflections on one of jazz's most influential bassists, composers and bandleaders. The alphabetical list below provides direct links to each contributor's tribute. You can also read the complete Dave Holland at 80 tribute ...
Libero Farnè, teche visive e urgenza della memoria
by Gaetano Fiore
Nel periodo giovanile mi sono avvicinato al jazz, leggendo interessanti testi, alcuni monografici, altri dei veri e propri saggi la cui trattazione relativa alle relazioni del jazz con l'arte contemporanea mi incuriosiva tantissimo. Particolarmente illuminanti e formativi per me furono quelli di Libero Farnè apparsi su Musica Jazz dagli anni '80: un artista a tutto tondo nonché autorevole critico di ...
Old School with Wendel Brunious
by Thomas Cole
Growing up in my family, there was quite a bit of music around the house, as my brother John Brunious would be practicing and my daddy would be doing the same. John had actually taught me to play the blues, beginning with Going to New Orleans, first learning it on the piano. Of course, there were ...
Sequoia Snyder: Growing in the Light of the Masters
by Paul Rauch
It was day three of the 47th annual Detroit Jazz Festival, a sunny Sunday late afternoon with just enough white, puffy, high sky clouds to keep the massive crowd gathered at Hart Plaza comfortable. The JP Morgan Chase stage at the southeast corner of the plaza seemed to hang perilously on the edge of the Detroit ...
The Discreet Charm of Tete Montoliu
by Con Chapman
In 1947 tenor saxophonist Don Byas, a transplant from America following a tour of Europe, joined a society orchestra--complete with strings--to play dates in Spain. After their ballroom engagement was over, Byas and the band's rhythm section would jam until the early morning hours when they would be forced to quit “either because the police burst ...
Percy France: Live from the West End
by Daniel Gould
If you know Percy France, most likely you are a fan of “greasy" organ jazz, particularly on Blue Note Records during their classic era. He was an integral part of Jimmy Smith's Home Cookin' (1959) and Freddie Roach's Down to Earth (1962). Or perhaps you came to jazz through r&b acts like the Bill Doggett combo. The ...
Phil Schaap: A Life in Jazz
by Daniel Gould
Phil Schaap, a jazz historian, radio host, record producer, archivist, six-time Grammy Award winner, and 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master, called himself “a Johnny Appleseed through the transmitter." Of course, the subject of his proselytizing was jazz, and few did it as long, or through so many different media--broadcasting, teaching, audio engineering, and ...
Ronell Johnson: A New Orleans Life and a Horn Played with Joy
by Thomas Cole
Born in Marrero, LA, on the West Bank of New Orleans, I am the youngest of four boys, all musicians. In addition to L.B. Landry High School, I attended St. Augustine High School, a local college preparatory school for boys. Membership in St. Augustine's Marching 100 band was significant in my music training. Ultimately, it was ...
In From the Beginning: New Orleans Music History with Deacon John Moore
by Thomas Cole
Well, you know, growing up I was the golden boy of the family, because I could sing. I recall my mother singing arias from operas to herself while doing housework and playing classical and popular music on the piano in our home while taking care of the kids--13 of us all together. Her background was classical ...
Carlos Nathaniel Ward: libertà, spiritualità e rigore
by Gaetano Fiore
“Arte e Jazz? Non facile e acritica gestualità ma concentrato di analitica ponderatezza". In occasione di un mio omaggio pittorico espositivo a Bill Dixon a San Vincenzo (LI) nel 2010, Libero Farnè scrive la suddetta frase che ben fa riflettere su quanto sia importante procedere con “lentezza" per tradurre i concetti di libertà, spiritualità ...
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