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JazzNights: Evenings of Great Music in Princeton

by Maitland Jones, Jr.
January 30, 2004

In the late 1950's Mary Wisnovsky was a student at Barnard College and singing at the Vanguard and other clubs in the village on weekends. Maitland Jones was a student at Yale, somewhat further from the action, but spending as much time as possible in New York listening to Monk at the Five Spot and Mingus ...

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The Non-Classical Nature of America's Classical Music

by Emmett G. Price III
November 8, 2003

"Every civilization is known by its culture, and jazz is America's greatest contribution to the world--it is our “classical" music. Jazz is spontaneous, honest, and natural, and it is a celebration of life itself." --Tony Bennett (Hasse, 1999: Foreword) “The music, consequently, is being misrepresented, distorted, misconstrued, and capitalized upon by others than its ...

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A Talk with Dr. Larry Ross

by Emmett G. Price III
October 3, 2003

The history of jazz has been told, re-told, written, re-written, presented and re-presented ad nauseum. An often revisionist chronicle of jazz neglecting certain aspects and exaggerating others has overwhelmed the amassing literature. With African-American Jazz Musicians in the Diaspora, Dr. Larry Ross a trained anthropologist but more importantly a skilled, seasoned, award-winning musician aims to set ...

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Ginsberg's 'America' and Jazz

by AAJ Staff
April 8, 2003

Current events, such as they are, prompted me to go back and re-read Allen Ginsberg's poem “ America ." There is much good literature on the relation between the Beat movement and jazz, I'll not try and revisit that topic here. I will however dwell on one characteristic all great jazz players' posses and which this ...

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From Bach To Bop

by AAJ Staff
March 3, 2003

Stravinsky said that Jazz is the only art form that America can call its own. Although I generally agree with Stravinsky I also believe that the spirit of Jazz has danced through many centuries of music including the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Most musicologists will agree that J. S. Bach's intuitive quality was that ...

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Social Skills

by AAJ Staff
February 3, 2003

We, as a society, are rapidly losing all of our important social skills. I'm not talking about etiquette things, like which one is the salad fork. I'm talking about the skills needed to have any type of meaningful interaction with our fellow human beings. Things seem to be conspiring to keep us more and more isolated. ...

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