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Article: Year in Review

Jeff Dayton-Johnson's 2015 Mixtape

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The narrator of Jean-Jacques Schuhl's 2002 novel Ingrid Caven muses, “I like the connection, the splice, not the things themselves; what's between them, their rapport. Two ideas, images, the bridge between two harmonies for the jazz musician..." It's an interesting esthetic statement regarding jazz: that part of the music's appeal lies not in its components, but ...

Album

Sun Ra at Inter​-​Media Arts, 1991

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2015
Track listing: Percussion intro / Springtime Again; Advice to Medics / Friendly Galaxy; Love in Outer Space; Hocus Pocus; The Mayan Temples; Yeah Man!; Prelude to a Kiss; Space is the Place / We Travel the Spaceways; Opus in Springtime; Early Autumn; Retrospect / East of the Sun; Carefree; Cocktails for Two; Planet Earth Day; Space Loneliness; We Travel the Spaceways.

Album

Live in Ulm 1992

Label: Leo Records
Released: 2015
Track listing:
CD 1:
Ankhnaton; The Mayan Temples; El Is a Sound of Joy; Fate in a Pleasant Mood; Hocus Pocus; Love in Outer Space; Nameless One Nº 2; Prelude to a Kiss; Theme of the Stargazers
CD 2:
Unidentified; Lihts on a Satellite; The Shadow World; Space Is the Place / We Travel the Spaceways / Out Spaceways Incorpored; They'll Come Back; Destination Unknown; Calling Planet Earth; The Forest of No Return.

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Article: Book Review

Free Jazz / Black Power

Read "Free Jazz / Black Power" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Free Jazz / Black Power Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli 256 Pages ISBN: ISBN 978-1-62846-039-1 University Press of Mississippi 2015 Forty four years after its publication in French, Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli's thought-provoking, fiercely intellectual book Free Jazz/Black Power finally finds its way into English, ...

Article: Album Review

William Parker Raining on the Moon: Great Spirit

Read "Great Spirit" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Finalmente sono pubblicati gli inediti della session di Corn Meal Dance (Aum Fidelity, 2007), registrata dai Raining on the Moon di William Parker il 3 gennaio 2007. Come spiega Steven Joerg nelle note del disco, in quel giorno vennero registrati 14 brani ma fu scartata l'ipotesi del doppio CD e cinque di essi restarono fuori.

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Article: Live Review

Arpeggio Jazz Ensemble: Motown Meets Jazz at the Annenberg Center

Read "Arpeggio Jazz Ensemble: Motown Meets Jazz at the Annenberg Center" reviewed by Victor L. Schermer


Arpeggio Jazz Ensemble Annenberg Center: Harold Prince Theater Motown Meets Jazz Philadelphia, PA December 11, 2015 Philadelphia-based Lifeline Music Coalition has for over a decade sponsored jazz events which are eclectic in taste and attract fans by making the music listenable and providing enjoyable atmospherics. Thus it has been ...

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Article: What is Jazz?

Jazz and Moral Theory: Swinging the Right Way

Read "Jazz and Moral Theory: Swinging the Right Way" reviewed by Douglas Groothuis


Morality matters to all of us. We protest when we are robbed or defrauded. We praise heroes and heroines. We condemn moral monsters. We laud a Mother Teresa and condemn a Ted Bundy. We recognize good and bad habits. We rebuke those who do evil; we praise those who do good. We attempt to honor our ...

Article: Lyrics

Rob Mazurek and Black Cube Sp al Torrione di Ferrara

Read "Rob Mazurek and Black Cube Sp al Torrione di Ferrara" reviewed by Luca Canini


Bologna Jazz Festival Torrione Jazz Club Ferrara 20.11.2015 Fissiamo una data: gennaio 2007. Non che Rob Mazurek fino ad allora si fosse risparmiato in quanto a dischi e collaborazioni (soprattutto sul fronte Chicago Underground), ma è innegabile che il debutto su Thrill Jockey dell'Exploding Star Orchestra, We Are ...

Article: Album Review

Roots Magic: Hoodoo Blues

Read "Hoodoo Blues" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


L'inizio è di quelli da far tremare i polsi, perché “The Hard Blues," originariamente registrato nel febbraio del 1972 durante le session di Dogon A.D. ma pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1975 come brano conclusivo di Coon Bid'ness, è totemico marchio di fabbrica di uno straordinario improvvisatore e compositore quale è stato Julius Hemphill. Ma ...

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Article: What is Jazz?

Hashtag Jazz

Read "Hashtag Jazz" reviewed by Margret Grebowicz


In his 1994 study Thinking in Jazz: The Infinite Art of Improvisation, Paul Berliner describes American jazz as a community cutting across “boundaries defined by age, class, vocation, and ethnicity" and concludes that “it is their abiding love for the music that binds this diverse population together." (Berliner, 1994, p. 36) Twenty years later, jazz community ...


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