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JJA Marches On
Monday, June 14 marked the annual Jazz Journalists Association Jazz (JJA) Awards event. The venue City Winery proved to be quite the ambient locale for what has become a jazz community tradition. As the tribes gathered to schmooze, catch-up on news, hugs and air kisses, and just generally revel in the greatness of jazz music (and ...
Jazz Venue Chronicles -- Part One
Following on the heels of our recently concluded series Ain't But a Few, conversations with African American jazz and music writers, we begin a series of conversations with African American and other black folks who have presented jazz music on their stages. Historically, as my current research project on jazz venues in Brooklyn courtesy of the ...
Crate Digging with Eugene Holley, Jr.
Writer Eugene Holley--Wilmington's own--is one who's always first-rate commentary I take personal pride in. I've watched his development closely, ever since we worked together in developing the National Jazz Service Organization during the first stages of my directorship. Eugene's latest liner notes enhance NEA Jazz Master Ahmad Jamal's superblatest record “A Quiet Time" (Dreyfus). Eugene has ...
Crate Digging with Bill Milkowski
A recent edition of DownBeat magazine detailed in part a new project to release Newport Jazz Festival performances online. The project is being undertaken by a company called Wolfgang's Vault, and they've had the good sense to engage longtime jazz scribe Bill Milkowski as their intrepid “crate digger", trolling through the rich archives of recorded Newport ...
The Legacy of Freddie Hubbard
The attitude pendulum towards creative artists most often swings most heavily-- as it should--to the enormity of their gifts with the passage of time for those whose careers were marked by questionable behavior. Our collective memory tends to soften towards those guilty of even the most egregious behavioral lapses after they've passed on to ancestry, and ...
A Jazz Festival in Enchanting Barcelona
Yes indeed, in addition to it's abundant charms, the capital of Catalonia, Barcelona, situated on the northeastern coast of Spain's Iberian Peninsula, also boasts an auspicious jazz festival. At a luncheon as part of last January's Association of Performing Arts Presenters' jazz component, I had the pleasure of meeting the director of the Barcelona Jazz Festival, ...
Randy Weston's 84th
Last Tuesday, April 6, NEA Jazz Master Randy Weston celebrated his 84th birthday in royal fashion. The setting was The Jazz Standard, New Yorks finest jazz club/eatery (check George Weins latest blog entry and you'll understand that tag). Tuesday was opening night of Randy Westons African Rhythms weeklong Jazz Standard engagement, and more importantly the master ...
Have You Heard Linda Oh?
Like most who've heard the young Aussie bassist Linda Oh, my starting point was hearing her fresh debut recording “Entry“. Besides the fact that she just kind of materialized on the scene untethered to advance hype, the record was first of all curious because Ms. Oh took the hang-fly route and played her music with a ...
Unsung but First Call: James Weidman
Pianist James Weidman is a thoughtful, exceedingly pleasant man who is an understated personality but as versatile a pianist as you will find. Weidman's discography as a leader is relatively short but potent. His current release is Three Worlds, on the Inner Circle Music label. On the heels of that release it was about time for ...
Still Thinkin' About Jackie
The inimitable Jackie McLean Shortly after posting the original Thinkin' About Jackie (McLean) (please scroll down) remembrance from drummer Carl Allen, the National Jazz Museum in Harlem presented another of its ongoing Jazz for Curious Listeners programs at its Harlem Visitor's Center, with a remembrance of the rich legacy of the great NEA Jazz Master Art ...
