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21st Century Interview Paradigm: The Jazz Session
The Jazz Session is an online jazz interview show focusing on in-depth interviews with jazz musicians at thejazzsession.com. Proprietor of The Jazz Session is broadcaster-poet Jason Crane. After participating in one of Jason's interview sessions, I wanted to know more about the whys & wherefores of The Jazz Session and asked a few questions. What's the ...
Mining Brooklyn's Jazz Legacy
Brooklyn had more jazz clubs and related venues than Manhattan in the 1950s and '60s. So say Randy Weston and numerous other observers and historians of the bigger, brilliantly-multi culti, undeniably colorful and richly historic borough across the East River. This and other fascinating facts of Brooklyns storied jazz history are becoming clearer by the day through ...
Audience Friendly? Check Maurice Brown...
Trumpeter Maurice Brown has been one to watch for more than a minute. Early on, courtesy of his Hip to Bop release it was apparent that here was a young artist intent on filtering his jazz-steeped improvisations through the prism of the music of his life hip hop, funk, and a healthy sense of “I love ...
Thinkin' About Jackie
At the recent and successful launch of the Mid Atlantic Jazz Festival (check Facebook for the Jazz Video Guy Bret Primack's clips from the festival), successor to the mid-winter DC classic East Coast Jazz Festival, the event was capped off by a joyous Saturday night tribute to Charlie Parker. “Word on Bird" (title liberally lifted from ...
One Night @ Snug
Any trip to New Orleans without at least one night at Snug Harbor on Frenchman Street is incomplete. A recent trip to the Crescent City on a NEA Jazz Masters Live site visit for the Contemporary Arts Center's presentation of the great Phil Woods' musical realization of A.A. Milne's poetry, yielded one such splendid evening. Eagerly ...
Tri-C Jazzfest 2010 Lineup
Bass master Charlie Haden will be in residence at the 2010 Tri-C JazzFest By John Soeder, The Plain Dealer February 23, 2010, 12:00PM Pianist Ramsey Lewis, a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master, and the Grammy-winning hip-hop group the Roots are among the artists booked for the 31st ...
50 Years Later: A Landmark Recording Session
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Randy Weston's signature recording session Uhuru Afrika, certainly a good time to reflect on that singular record in this Randy's 84th year on the planet. And Im happy to report that our as-told-to book African Rhythms: The Autobiography of Randy Weston, composed by Randy Weston, arranged by Willard Jenkins, ...
Crate Digging: The Jazz Record Store as Endangered Species
The demise of four-wall record stores has been painful to many of certain generations, myself included. Leafing through the stacks or crate digging as its popularly referred to these days is the way many of us educated ourselves about various forms of music. There are indeed survivors of this demise, stalwart record dealers who I suspect ...
The Ancient Future Radio Program 2/18/10
The Ancient Future radio program, produced/hosted by Willard Jenkins, airs on WPFW 89.3 FM (listen live at wpfw.org), Pacifica Radio for the Washington, DC metro region. Artist Tune Album title Label Adonis Rose Lil Liza Jane Untouchable House Swing Louis Armstrong Basin Street Blues (CDR compilation) Leroy Jones Bourbon Street Parade Mo Cream Columbia George French ...
The Be MO Jazz Project
Baltimore has a significant jazz history. Deep in Mid-Atlantic region jazz presenting lore is B'more's historic Left Bank Jazz Society. People in the Baltimore-Washington area still speak fondly of their now-legendary presentations, with their BYOB good-time atmosphere, coupled with the true joy-of-jazz. Some of those singular LBJS presentations were preserved on CD by the late Joel Dorn ...
