Ornette Coleman: 'Change of the Century'

3 months, 1 week ago

The Essential Jazz Discoveries of 2024

NPR

The Essential Jazz Discoveries of 2024 toggle caption Craig Allyn For anyone in the habit of touting jazz as a living art form, it can feel both nourishing and a little perilous to stand in awe at the wonders of the past. YouTube Alice Coltrane The Carnegie Hall Concert The term "spiritual jazz" has rarely felt more warranted than it …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

The 10 Best Jazz Albums of 2024

Slate

It may be coincidence, or just a reflection of my own state of mind, that this dreadful year’s list of favorite jazz albums leans toward the meditative, the balladic, the Romantic, sometimes the Zen, though I should add that none of the music here is mellow or merely tuneful; it is all adventurous, even assertive, in its ways. David Murray …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

A Louis Armstrong relative steps up to help portray the music icon on Broadway

Hindustan Times

NEW YORK — The new stage musical about Louis Armstrong on Broadway opens with the jazz icon in a rehearsal room alongside an anonymous piano player. “I get to just spend a moment in conversation with him and ask if he’s OK and hear his voice.” The younger Armstrong is making his Broadway debut in “A Wonderful World: The Louis …

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5 months ago

Charlie Parker's Playful Spirit Captivates on Rare Hometown Recordings

Associated Press

This album captures Charlie Parker's playful and masterful saxophone playing in his hometown from 1941 to 1951. The recordings showcase Parker's improvisational prowess and his ability to create intricate and captivating music even in casual settings. The album features a variety of performances, from intimate solo solos to energetic group numbers, and offers a rare glimpse into Parker's creative process.

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Marking the centennial of jazz pianist Bud Powell

NPR

Marking the centennial of jazz pianist Bud Powell Born Sept. 27, 1924, Powell helped set the style for jazz piano after WWII. Jazz pianist Bud Powell was born Sept. 27, 1924. KEVIN WHITEHEAD, BYLINE: Bud Powell live at New York's Birdland, 1953. WHITEHEAD: Encouraged by fellow pianist, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell came up in the mid-1940s, a split second behind …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Daily quiz | On International Jazz Day

The Hindu

Q: Which famous American jazz musician and composer mooted the idea of having an International Jazz Day and when was it first observed? Q: Which African city is the Global Host for 2024 and will anchor the International Jazz Day programmes around the world. A: Modal Jazz Q: ‘Bird’, the 1988 biographical film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood, is …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

Jazz Legends: John Coltrane

ABC

It's hard to think of a musician who threw themselves into their music more than John Coltrane. Trane first rose to wide acclaim working alongside Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk during the late 1950s, but it was in the '60s that the saxophonist's music took on a much more spiritual aspect. But at some point, in the late '50s, a …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

Choral riffs: A Wknd interview with jazz icon Asha Puthli

Hindustan Times

In 1966, at the restaurant Venice at Hotel Astoria in Bombay, writer Ved Mehta, artist Vivan Sundaram and Asha Puthli turned up to listen to saxophonist Braz Gonsalves’s jazz quintet perform. In his chapter Jazz in Bombay, he would say: “As the musicians play, they throw glances at Asha, who blows kisses to them.” Braz Gonsalves called out to Asha …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Playing it forward: R Sukumar interviews jazz legend Herbie Hancock

Hindustan Times

On Monday evening this past week, Martin Luther King Jr Day, a man who released his first solo album a year before The Beatles had their first release, played in a club in South Delhi. The Monday performance, along with jazz singer Dianne Reeves and performers from the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz, was to honour King — and it …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Youngbloods, Brass: Giveton Gelin, Kalia Vandever and Summer Camargo

NPR

Youngbloods, Brass: Giveton Gelin, Kalia Vandever and Summer Camargo Enlarge this image toggle caption Graphics: Jackie Lay for NPR Graphics: Jackie Lay for NPR In 2022, we introduced our first installment of Youngbloods, a new class of jazz artists pushing the music forward. Today, behold our brass Youngbloods — trumpeter Giveton Gelin, trombonist Kalia Vandever and trumpeter Summer Camargo — …

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1 year, 7 months ago

How New York’s jazz scene is getting more accessible

The Independent

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Items currently on display include Armstrong’s FBI file, the passport used for his first UK tour, a brick from the …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Time to jazz it up

China Daily

Chinese jazz guitarist Liu Yue and trombonist Yang Ming will join in the International Jazz Day's global concert on Sunday. Jazz pianist Dai Liang, 23, better known by his stage name A Bu, made his debut at the International Jazz Day's global concert in 2015, when he was invited to join American jazz musicians Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and Marcus …

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1 year, 11 months ago

100 years ago today, Louis Armstrong wrapped his first recording session

NPR

100 years ago today, Louis Armstrong wrapped his first recording session The 21-year-old Armstrong, on cornet, was a protégé of New Orleans fellow cornetist and band leader King Joe Oliver. One hundred years ago today, Louis Armstrong wrapped up his first recording session. KEVIN WHITEHEAD, BYLINE: Louis Armstrong on cornet taking his first solo on record, King Oliver's "Chimes Blues," …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Veteran Jazz singer Louiz Banks retraces the journey of becoming 'The Jingle King of India'

Firstpost

Louiz Banks on his musical journey: ‘The thing about jazz is the freedom it affords you. The eldest, Louiz, named after the trumpet king Louis Armstrong, picked up jazz, the way one absorbs language growing up. In 2021, when Louiz would turn 80, the decades he spent between Darjeeling, Calcutta, and Bombay, between the fermenting jazz bands, the dollar-fueled world …

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4 years ago

On Sunday, a local jazz polymath could have a Grammys for the ages

LA Times

Whether you know it or not, you’ve heard John Beasley play. Beasley is nominated for two Grammys for his arranging work: In the category of arrangement, instrumental and vocals, he’s nominated for the track “Asas Fechadas,” from Maria Mendes’ album “Close to Me”; and in arrangement, instrumental and-or a cappella, for “Donna Lee,” from his own group Monk’estra, an explosive …

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4 years, 6 months ago

Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker: The tragic saxophone genius with a voracious appetite for drugs, hard liquor and jazz

The Independent

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. it was comical but still pitiful to see the …

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4 years, 6 months ago

A Beginner's Guide To Jazz

ABC

With voting underway right now for the Jazz 100, we've prepared this handy guide if you're just dipping your toes into the world of jazz for the very first time. Early New Orleans-based jazz musicians like Morton and King Oliver stood out with their unique blend of syncopated melodies and blues-tinged harmony - all the while 'making things up' and …

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4 years, 8 months ago

Trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire Mixes The Playful And Solemn On A New Album

NPR

Trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire Mixes The Playful And Solemn On A New Album The Bay Area trumpet player broke out in jazz over a decade ago. Our jazz critic Kevin Whitehead has a review of trumpet player Ambrose Akinmusire's new album with his longtime quartet. KEVIN WHITEHEAD, BYLINE: Ambrose Akinmusire's quartet from their new album poetically titled "On The Tender Spot …

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5 years, 2 months ago

How To Like Jazz, For The Uninitiated

NPR

How To Like Jazz, For The Uninitiated Enlarge this image toggle caption Bob Daugherty/AP Bob Daugherty/AP This new year, how about some new music? Sponsor Message YouTube On the idea that jazz is your grandparents' music Well, there's been a lot recorded since then. But keep in mind, too, that jazz was America's popular music at one point in the …

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5 years, 4 months ago

Herbert Chappell: TV composer and producer who brought the Three Tenors to the world stage

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Effortlessly at ease on all …

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5 years, 5 months ago

The films that brought the best jazz music to life

The Independent

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A great many jazz giants, from Duke Ellington and …

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6 years, 3 months ago

The Best Jazz Albums of 2018

Slate

It’s been a lousy year for most things, a very good year for jazz. Fresh off her masterly live two-CD/three-LP quartet album Dreams and Daggers, singer Cécile McLorin Salvant this time does duets with pianist Sullivan Fortner, who plays like Erroll Garner channeled through Chico Marx. Brazen Heart is one of trumpeter-composer Dave Douglas’ most exhilarating quintets, and this two-CD …

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7 years, 3 months ago

The Best Jazz Albums of 2017

Slate

Even as the world goes up in smoke, artists still make art, and this very much includes jazz musicians, whose best work this year plumbed old and new, tradition and innovation, structure and freedom, with—under the circumstances—heroic strivings. Celebrate Ornette A remarkable boxed set documenting an Ornette Coleman–tribute concert at Brooklyn’s Prospect Park in 2014—featuring Geri Allen, David Murray, Henry …

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7 years, 6 months ago

How jazz is becoming the sound of resistance once again

Salon

Vivid piano chords begin the song, sonically stomping in a display of defiance. As well-known music journalist Greg Tate writes, they are "the Black Power flower children of the Black Lives Matter era." "Our relationship with this country has always been documented through how the music changes," jazz pianist Jason Moran told the New York Times. The scholar Larry Neal, …

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7 years, 8 months ago

Ravi Coltrane Quartet: Tiny Desk Concert

NPR

Ravi Coltrane Quartet: Tiny Desk Concert Yes, Ravi Coltrane is the son of the John Coltrane, one of the most famous and important jazz saxophonists and composers of all time. The first song in the set, "Cobbs Hill," was written by Coltrane's good friend and colleague Ralph Alessi. The second song is Coltrane's own composition, "Three For Thee", a fan …

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8 years, 1 month ago

The mysterious origins of jazz

BBC

The mysterious origins of jazz EJ Bellocq The anniversary of the first jazz recording 100 years ago also marks the beginning of debates that are still ongoing, writes Christian Blauvelt. Wikipedia The Original Dixieland Jass Band’s Livery Stable Blues was the first jazz recording but their later song Tiger Rag would be more influential That would be a remarkable milestone …

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8 years, 6 months ago

Macy Gray turns back the clock: "I kind of learned how to sing listening to jazz albums"

Salon

There’s always been something old-school about Macy Gray, but the new album from the eccentric R&B singer makes her traditional roots more explicit. Besides some new songs, the album contains a reworking of her biggest hit — “I Try” — as well as covers of Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song” and Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters.” The distinctiveness of her voice make …

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8 years, 9 months ago

Beyond Country And Blues: The Jazz Legacy Of Houston

NPR

Beyond Country And Blues: The Jazz Legacy Of Houston Enlarge this image toggle caption Courtesy of the artist Courtesy of the artist When you think of the sound of Houston, you might think of country and western music. But Houston has also produced some of the biggest jazz musicians of today, according to the host of Jazz Night in America, …

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8 years, 10 months ago

Bollywood has been adapting jazz to their songs for long: Louiz Banks

Hindustan Times

Picture this: You are at the recording studio of the veteran jazz musician Louiz Banks, who is playing ‘My favourite things’ and ‘Nature Boy’ on the keyboard. Listen to Louiz Banks perform the Shiv Shakti at Montreal Jazz Festival here: Read: Independent music industry will soon be mainstream, says Benny Dayal What does jazz mean to you? Indian classical and …

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9 years, 4 months ago

Download Central: The greatest jazz concert ever

Hindustan Times

There are times when I dig out and play the old copy of an album that has never left my collection of music. It’s Jazz at Massey Hall by the Charlie Parker Quintet. It’s an album that I have as a CD as well as in lossless digital files and if I get one in vinyl format I shall buy …

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9 years, 5 months ago

Van Morrison, Astral Weeks - album review: An album so timeless it re-casts its spell each time you hear it

The Independent

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9 years, 5 months ago

Phil Woods: Saxophonist who emerged from Charlie Parker's shadow to become a leading light of 1950s and 60s jazz

The Independent

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9 years, 10 months ago

Cheltenham Jazz Festival, review: Top class Gershwin tributes in the Cotswolds

The Independent

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. George and Ira’s magical confluence of jazz, classical music …

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10 years, 9 months ago

It's the Jazz time of the year

The Hindu

The first feature length talkie The Jazz Singer was a cinematic pioneer, quite akin to the energy and excitement created by the phenomenal Louis Banks and his jazz troupe on the first day of the annual The Jazz Music Festival held this past weekend at the Walk-Courtyard, Phoenix Market City in Velachery. Louiz presented an upbeat track – Monk wears …

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10 years, 9 months ago

75 Great Solos On Blue Note Records

NPR

Take 75: Great Solos In Blue Note Records History Enlarge this image toggle caption Francis Wolff/Courtesy of Blue Note Records Francis Wolff/Courtesy of Blue Note Records Blue Note Records has been many things over the course of its 75 years: a label responsible for blinding jazz innovations, a home for the titans of hard bop and soul jazz, a place …

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11 years, 7 months ago

Woody Shaw: The Last Great Trumpet Innovator

NPR

Woody Shaw: The Last Great Trumpet Innovator Enlarge this image toggle caption Tom Copi/San Francisco Tom Copi/San Francisco Woody Shaw, who made his first recordings 50 years ago this summer, might be the jazz trumpet's least appreciated giant. Often described as the instrument's last great innovator, Shaw was a virtuoso who restructured the way trumpet players move between long intervals, …

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11 years, 7 months ago

Of Ingenuity And Insane Clown Posse: 5 Books On Music

NPR

The Jazz Life Of Dr. Billy Taylor by Billy Dr. Taylor and Teresa L. Reed When I first met Dr. Billy Taylor at a taping of one of his NPR shows, I asked him about a recording he'd made with Cuban percussionist Candido Camero back in the late 1940s. The Jazz Life of Dr. Billy Taylor, by Taylor with college …

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12 years, 1 month ago

Wayne Shorter On Jazz: 'How Do You Rehearse The Unknown?'

NPR

Wayne Shorter On Jazz: 'How Do You Rehearse The Unknown?' Enlarge this image toggle caption Robert Ascroft/Courtesy of the artist Robert Ascroft/Courtesy of the artist The New York Times doesn't mince words when it writes, "Wayne Shorter is generally acknowledged to be jazz's greatest living composer." Going back to his days jamming with John Coltrane fresh out of the Army, …

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12 years, 7 months ago

Von Freeman, Chicago Saxophone Godfather, Dies

NPR

Saxophonist Von Freeman, A Chicagoan From Beginning To End Enlarge this image toggle caption Jimmy Katz/Courtesy of the artist Jimmy Katz/Courtesy of the artist Von Freeman, a tenor saxophonist who was iconic within Chicago's music scene and to jazz conoisseurs worldwide, died Saturday at the Kindred Chicago Lakeshore care center. Freeman became a godfather of Chicago's jazz community not only …

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12 years, 8 months ago

No jazz like NoJazz

The Hindu

The round table was buzzing with conversations in rapid French, and I stood in the corner waiting for someone to take notice. Pascal, caught my eye and he pointed to the empty chair by his side and I gingerly made my way weaving through chairs and took my place beside the musician who plays percussion for the Parisian, electro-jazz, five-piece, …

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12 years, 10 months ago

Artie Shaw, 1910-2004: last great musician of the Big Band Era

China Daily

DOUG JOHNSON: I'm Doug Johnson with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. It still is difficult to listen to an old Artie Shaw recording and not tap your foot in time with the music. That same year, Artie Shaw and his band recorded what would be one of their most popular songs. Listen to Artie Shaw improvise with a …

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13 years, 1 month ago

Stan Kenton At 100: Artistry In Rhythm

NPR

Stan Kenton At 100: Artistry In Rhythm Last December, the late composer, arranger, bandleader and pianist Stan Kenton would have turned 100. And many of jazz's greatest improvisers passed through the band — baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan, alto saxophonist Art Pepper, singer Anita O'Day, trumpeter Shorty Rogers and tenor saxophonist Zoot Sims, among others. Though Kenton regularly employed African-American musicians …

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13 years, 2 months ago

David Baker's 21st-Century Soul Music

NPR

David Baker's 21st-Century Soul Music Enlarge this image toggle caption Courtesy of Indiana University Courtesy of Indiana University If formal jazz education is a growing part of the music's history and evolution, then there should be a considerable chapter set aside for David Baker. Sponsor Message But lingering complications from an early-1950s car accident that had injured his jaw would …

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13 years, 3 months ago

Christian McBride: Tackling Two Sides Of Jazz At Once

NPR

Christian McBride: Tackling Two Sides Of Jazz At Once Enlarge this image toggle caption Courtesy of the artist Courtesy of the artist Hear The Music Listen to a track each from 'Conversations with Christian' and 'The Good Feeling.' "Spiritual " "Bluesin' in Alphabet City" In jazz, to be a bassist usually means playing in someone else's band. McBride had an …

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13 years, 5 months ago

Von Freeman On JazzSet

NPR

Von Freeman On JazzSet Enlarge this image toggle caption Jimmy Katz Jimmy Katz Set List "Anthropology" "Four" "All the Things You Are " "What Is This Thing Called Love" "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" Earle Lavon Freeman Sr. was born in Chicago on Oct. 3, 1922 or 1923, and has lived there for all of his nearly 90 …

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13 years, 8 months ago

Von Freeman And The Case For Jazz's Hometown Heroes

NPR

Von Freeman And The Case For Jazz's Hometown Heroes Enlarge this image toggle caption Jimmy Katz/Courtesy of the artist Jimmy Katz/Courtesy of the artist When Von Freeman was named an NEA Jazz Master last month, it meant more than the recognition of another saxophonist. You can hear some of the same alchemy on "Never Fear Jazz Is Here," an uptempo …

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13 years, 8 months ago

The History Of Jazz, By Ted Gioia

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Displaying Olympian knowledge of this protean genre, Gioia combines facts and …

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13 years, 9 months ago

Charlie Parker: 'Jazz at Massey Hall'

NPR

Charlie Parker: 'Jazz at Massey Hall' Web Resources PBS Profile of Charlie Parker MURRAY HORWITZ, American Film Institute: That's the only jazz composition known to be sung by a United States president while in office: "Salt Peanuts." This should be part of everybody's basic jazz record library, Jazz at Massey Hall. SPELLMAN, National Endowment for the Arts: Absolutely it must …

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