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Willard Jenkins Ponders the Audience-Friendly Factor...
Robert Glasper backstage at Oberlin College the other night greeting one of his fans, the writer's daughter Iyesha Jenkins. One element of our dialogue on the black audience for creative music, as well as our conversation with Nicholas Payton (scroll down for that dialogue) and his ongoing promotion of the omnibus term “BAM" relates to the ...
Danilo Perez: Cultural Ambassador and Music Humanitarian
I have no idea who adjudicates the MacArthur Foundation's annual Fellowships, aka the “Genius" awards, but if you do... please recommend an eminently worthy candidate: pianist-composer-educator Danilo Perez. What Danilo has done in his native Panama in the name of music education for disadvantaged children is nothing short of miraculous. And that doesn't even take into ...
The Black Audience Question PT. 2
Our dialogue on the black audience for creative music, which began with filmmaker-educator Natalie Bullock Brown, vocalist-educator Alison Crockett, and vocalist Angela Stribling, has stimulated some very interesting follow-ups. The first comes from an old friend, the distinguished writer, editor and author Robert Fleming. Robert and I grew up on the East side of Cleveland and ...
Jazz in Progress/Monk in Motion Concert Series
New Year, New Voices in Jazz: Monk in Motion's Top Finalists Perform in NYC this Winter The BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center is proud to present the talented winners of this year's Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition in piano. We are especially proud to partner with Thelonious Monk Jazz Institute once again as they celebrate their ...
Songs That Made the Phones Ring for 2011
In the spirit of The Masked Announcer, the ancestor Joel Dorn, ace record producer (Atlantic Records, 32Jazz, etc.) who first made his mark on the music spinning platters in Philly and subsequently released a must-have compilation titled “Songs That Made the Phones Light Up," we present our annual “Songs That Made the Phones Ring" listing for ...
Where's Nicholas Payton Coming From?
Trumpeter, and erstwhile vocalist/one-man-band, raconteur/social commentator (at least based on his latest release Bitches on the IN + OUT label, which would appear to be the latest advance in his Sonic Trance odyssey) Nicholas Payton has been raising a literal firestorm of conjecture and debate with his recent series of blog posts, Twitter and Facebook rejoinders. ...
Part 9: What Musicians Expect from Music Journalists and Critics
This is pt. 9 in our series of observations from musicians, responding to this burning question: When you read music journalism or criticism, what qualities are you looking for in the writer and the writing? CHRIS WASHBURNE, trombonist-composer-educator (Columbia University) I do read music journalism/criticism regularly. I am reading to learn. I want a writer that ...
Some Good News from New Orleans
For the first time since Hurricane Katrina, the Cove, the hub of student life at the University of New Orleans for decades, will reopen at a ceremony on Friday, December 2. Governor Bobby Jindal, Senator Mary Landrieu, University of Louisiana System President Randy Moffett, and UNO Interim Chancellor Joe King will speak at the ribbon cutting ...
PT. 2 Anatomy of a Dinosaur: One of the Last of the Retail Record Men
Here's part two of our conversation with Joe Long, proprietor of the late Birdel's Record Store, a pillar of the Central Brooklyn community from its Nostrand Avenue perch. Unfortunately earlier this year Birdel's went the way of the great majority of record stores, stripping the Brooklyn community of yet another great traditional business and a real ...
PT. 8: What Musicians Expect from Music Critics and Journalists
This is the space where a series of musicians have responded to the burning question: When you read music journalism & criticism what qualities are you looking for in the writer and the writing? TED NASH, saxophonist-composer “It's important that the writer/critic understands the music well enough to speak intelligently about it. I occasionally get some ...
