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Article: Album Review

Mr. Zombie Orchestra: Someone Likes It Zombie!

Read "Someone Likes It Zombie!" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri

Quartetto piuttosto classico nella formazione e tuttavia abbastanza atipico per il repertorio e la sua interpretazione, Mr. Zombie riunisce quattro giovani musicisti emiliani, tutti tecnicamente apprezzabili, che hanno l'esplicito intento di “trovare un punto di accordo tra antico e moderno, tra cultura statunitense e cultura europea, tra Jelly Roll Morton e Secondo Casadei." ...

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Article: Book Review

Uncompromising Expression: 75 Years of the Finest in Jazz

Read "Uncompromising Expression: 75 Years of the Finest in Jazz" reviewed by C. Andrew Hovan

by C. Andrew Hovan

Uncompromising Expression:75 Years of the Finest in Jazz Richard Havers 400 pages ISBN: # 978-1-4521-4144-2 Chronicle Books 2014 It's probably still a bit of an understatement to suggest that Blue Note Records has become one of the most iconic labels associated with recorded jazz. Now in its 75th year, ...

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News: TV / Film

How Ken Burns Murdered Jazz

Ken Burn’s interminable documentary Jazz starts with a wrong premise and degenerates from there. Burns heralds jazz as the great American contribution to world music and sets it up as a kind of roadmap to racial relations across the 20th century. But surely that distinction belongs to the blues, the music born on the plantations of ...

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Article: Book Excerpts

On Highway 61: Music, Race, and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom

Read "On Highway 61: Music, Race, and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom" reviewed by Dennis McNally

by Dennis McNally

The following is an excerpt from the “Spirituals to Swing" chapter of On Highway 61: Music, Race, and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom by Dennis McNally (Counterpoint Press, Berkeley, 2014). Danny Barker, who in the 1930s was Cab Calloway's guitarist, told a particularly revealing story of working at the Nest Club, a Harlem ...

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Article: In the Studio

Jazz on the Screen: A Jazz and Blues Filmography

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by AAJ Staff

This article appears courtesy of David Meeker and the Library of Congress. Learn more about Jazz on Screen. Overview of Jazz on the Screen By David Meeker The cultural, sociological and technical histories of jazz and motion pictures have run in parallel, sometimes intersecting, lines ever since both forms emerged ...

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Article: Book Review

Jazz. New York in the Roaring Twenties

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by AAJ Staff

Jazz. New York in the Roaring Twenties Robert Nippoldt & Hans-Jürgen Schaal 144 pagine ISBN: 978-3836545013 Taschen 2014 Poco più che trentacinquenne, l'illustratore tedesco Robert Nippoldt ha la capacità di fare sognare. Con un tratto semplice e incisivo, ma al tempo stesso profumato di nostalgia, si ...

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Article: Interview

Horace Silver: Blue Note Records and His Lady Music

Read "Horace Silver: Blue Note Records and His Lady Music" reviewed by Ed Hamilton

by Ed Hamilton

The Q&A portion of this article first appeared on KPFK 90.7 FM (Los Angeles) in 1974. 75 years ago Blue Note Records was started by two German immigrants who loved jazz and believed that the music should be heard and preserved. Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff collaborated and built the Blue Note vault ...

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Article: Live Review

JazzNorway in a Nutshell 2014

Read "JazzNorway in a Nutshell 2014" reviewed by Henning Bolte

by Henning Bolte

JazzNorway in a Nutshell 2014 Bergen, Norway May 21-25, 2014 Bergen, the second largest city of Norway along the northwestern coast of the North Sea, is situated along an impressive mountainous bay. Protected against and open to the sea, to the world it is an illustrious place of a centuries-old merchant tradition, ...

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Article: Live Review

Live From Solihull, England: Jeff Barnhart, Jim Fryer & Martin Bennett

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by Martin Longley

The Fryer-Barnhart International All-Stars Solihull Arts Complex May 19, 2014 Over the last 15 years, this has become a regular UK touring jaunt for the visiting Americans Jeff Barnhart (piano) and Jim Fryer (trombone), both of whom also sing their ample share of rousing songs. They latch onto a ...

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Article: Book Review

Jazz. New York in the Roaring Twenties

Read "Jazz. New York in the Roaring Twenties" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski

by Nenad Georgievski

Jazz. New York in the Roaring Twenties Robert Nippold, Hans-Jürgen Schaal 144 ISBN: 3836545012 Taschen 2013 The period in the 1920's America is known as the Jazz Age, the Golden Twenties or the Roaring Twenties. The history books say that this decade after the WWI was a prosperous ...


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