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Heard Evan Christopher Yet? (PT. 2)
Part one of Twin Cities-based writer Pamela Espeland's conversation with the kinetic New Orleans-based clarinetist Evan Christopher left off with the artist commenting on his jazz education in his native California and his earlier leanings towards perhaps--tongue-in-cheek--qualifying for a spot in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. So now you are known as a New Orleans-style, Creole-style clarinetist. ...
Michael Cuscuna: Evolution of a Record Man
Michael Cuscuna is one of the most prolific record producers in jazz. His career has taken him from jazz radio to the deepest regions of some of the most fertile catalogues in recorded jazz history. He has produced records for the Atlantic, Motown, ABC, Arista, Muse, Freedom, Elektra, Novus and perhaps most significantly Blue Note labels. ...
Ancient Future Radio 1/28/10
The Ancient Future radio program is produced & hosted by Willard Jenkins for WPFW 89.3 FM (www.wpfw.org), Pacifica Radio for the Washington, DC metro area. HAITIAN RELIEF Joanne Brackeen Haiti B Tring-A-Ling Choice Mingus Big Band Haitian Fight ...
Have You Heard Evan Christopher?
Once you get past the outsized ego of its leader, trumpeter Irvin Mayfield, the burgeoning New Orleans Jazz Orchestra is potentially an exceptional representation of both the modern and traditional jazz fruits of the city. The orchestra, or NOJO as it is known, boasts such gifted players as saxophonists Ed Peterson and Derek Douget, trombonist Ron ...
Ain't but a Few of Us: Bill Francis
This latest installment in our ongoing series of black music writers telling their story comes from Bill Francis. Brooklyn-based Bill Francis is a music and jazz journalist whose byline has appeared on countless stories and profiles ranging from bebop to hip hop, in the pages of Billboard, Spin, Essence, The Source, among many other publications. The ...
NEA Jazz Masters 2010
Full disclosure: Willard Jenkins is a coordinator of the NEA Jazz Masters Live program which funds NEAJM presentations at sites around the country. Email if youd like further information Last Tuesday evening was yet another sublime NEA Jazz Masters awards concert at Jazz at Lincoln Centers sumptuous Rose Theatre. The evening commenced with each of the living ...
