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Anatomy of a Dinosaur: Notes from One of the Last of the Retail Record Men
Last spring after reading a New York Times account of the demise of one of the last of a dying breed, the retail record store, I knew the proprietor of this Brooklyn record outlet was someone we should interview as part of a series of oral history interviews for the Weeksville Heritage Center in Brooklyn. So ...
Young Artists Residency in Cleveland
Dominick Farinacci About 15 years ago my old friend, pianist-educator Eric Gould invited me to speak to his students at a Saturday morning music education program at Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C). When I arrived the students were running down a chart, then they took a break before my talk. As they broke the kids were bouncing ...
Benny Golson on the Value of an Interview
In our ongoing series of dialogues with artists on their expectations of music critics & journalists, and the publications they write for, NEA Jazz Master Benny Golson—one of the more thoughtful people in this music—weighed in with two essays. Here is the second of Benny's two erudite contributions to the dialogue. The Value Of An Interview ...
Proposed New Legislation on Behalf of Jazz
If anyone in the history of the U.S. Congress has ever fit the mantle of the Jazz Congressman, its the Honorable Congressman John Conyers. A tireless advocate on behalf of the art form, Cong. Conyers has proposed the following new legislation on behalf of jazz. Contact your representative in Congress and let's make this happen! H.R. ...
Part 7: What Musicians Expect from Music Critics and Journalists
This is Pt. 7 in our series of dialogues with musicians where we pose the following burning question: When you read music journalism and criticism, what qualities are you looking for in the writer and the writing? This week's correspondents: Drummer-bandleader Allison Miller, and flutist-bandleader-composer Nicole Mitchell. Allison Miller “I look for writers who are open ...
A Conversation with Kent Jordan in New Orleans
One growing sector of the burgeoning jazz education field is the number of jazz camps across the globe. A few weeks back we ran our conversation with Jackie Harris, founder & CEO of the Louis “Satchmo" Armstrong Summer Jazz Camp. Held every July at Loyola University in New Orleans, you can read more about the camp ...
NEA Jazz Masters Program Still Hanging In...
NEA Jazz Masters Program Finds New Support for Federal Funding The U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Appropriations recently insisted on the continuation of the 29-year-old Jazz Masters fellowship, which was recommended to be cut earlier in the year by the National Endowment of the Arts. The 2012 appropriations bill submitted by the Department of the ...
Part 6: What Musicians Expect from Music Journalists and Critics
Responding to the burning question: WHEN YOU READ MUSIC JOURNALISM/CRITICISM WHAT QUALITIES ARE YOU LOOKING FOR IN THE WRITER AND THE WRITING? This installment: Joe Lovano & Jason Miles JOE LOVANO: The qualities I look for are: A Clear response to the music with Wisdom, Knowledge, Love, Passion and Honesty... The same qualities I look for ...
New Book Chronicles the Life and Times of NEA Jazz Master David Baker
BLOOMINGTON, Ind.—David Baker has received just about every honor imaginable in his 60-year career as a jazz musician and educator. The Distinguished Professor at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music has recorded extensively, been acclaimed for his playing, writing and arranging, and done more than just about anyone to establish and shape college-level teaching of ...
The Poetry of Walter Bishop, Jr.
Relaxin' With Max, The Invincible Roach By Walter Bishop, Jr. There was a Roach named Maxwell. He was unusual in that he could fly, having been born with wings. He also played the drums, of all things. From his home in South Carolina, he came to the Big City, via Brooklyn. There he got hooked up ...
