The making of one of jazz's most influential albums-英语点津

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'I was shaped by growing up in segregation': Wynton Marsalis on how jazz connects democracy and liberation

BBC

'I was shaped by growing up in segregation': Wynton Marsalis on how jazz connects democracy and liberation 5 days ago Share Save Christopher Luu Share Save Natassja Ebert Wynton Marsalis says his approach to performing was influenced by his father Wynton Marsalis made history when he became the first musician to win classical and jazz Grammy Awards in the same …

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Fresh Air Weekend: Louis Armstrong as the first Black pop star; America's loneliness epidemic

NPR

Fresh Air Weekend: Louis Armstrong as the first Black pop star; America's loneliness epidemic SeventyFour via Getty Images Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, as well as new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, filmmakers, actors and musicians, and it often includes excerpts from live …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

How the CIA used jazz greats as cover for a 1961 coup in Africa

LA Times

History is a playlist crackling with fire and intrigue in “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat.” The film’s heady 2½ hours are as thick with detail as a graduate seminar yet bustle like a TikTok video, a deft and nearly breathless archival exposé that centers on the January 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba, less than a year after he was elected …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Native Jazz Quartet to Perform at Hyderabad's International Jazz Festival

Deccan Chronicle

HYDERABAD: One was looking for jazz in Hyderabad. That’s jazz too, isn’t it?” Jumping in almost immediately, Ruel Lubag, the pianist, added “Ed brought Tlingit music, and then he asked all of us to contribute something personal. But all forms of music are valid and beautiful,” Michael Glenn, the band’s bassist, joined the conversation as he objected to the eulogising …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

If Miles Davis and Kendrik Lamar collaborated we’d call the project Miles Nautu

ABC

Miles Nautu comes from a life ingrained with Jazz. “When you play bass, you can just fit into any band and just do whatever, so you know, I was going to do his rock gigs or his country gigs or his jazz gigs or whatever it was that week.” Loading Influences such as Kendrik Lamar, Denzel Curry and Joey Bada$$ …

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8 months, 4 weeks ago

Can jazz clubs survive in L.A.? The supergroup SML sure hopes so

LA Times

The debut album from the L.A. jazz supergroup SML is a thrilling elegy for a dead nightclub. “It’s super important to have that gathering place with a sense of stability to have a creative music community,” said Jeff Parker, a guitarist and jazz professor at the California Institute of the Arts. But I do wonder if people are priced out …

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9 months ago

Pop Music's First Black Stars : Throughline

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Pop Music's First Black Stars Today, the U.S. popular music industry is worth billions of dollars. You may not have heard their names, but Black musicians like George Johnson, Ernest Hogan, and Mamie Smith were some of the country's first viral sensations, working within and pushing back against racist systems and tropes. Their work made a lasting imprint on American …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Opinion: For the greats of the jazz age, life on the road was perilous as well as glamorous

LA Times

For traveling musicians, there are two versions of life on the road. Jazz greats Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Louis Armstrong gave their own sentimentalized retelling of their nomadic existence from the 1930s onward, portraying the jaunts as being as amorous as they were glamorous, a veritable luxury cruise along bucolic byways jammed with adulatory fans and a femme fatale …

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11 months 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, 2 weeks ago

Music Review: Jazz pianist Fred Hersch creates subdued, lovely colors on ‘Silent, Listening’

Associated Press

Jazz pianist Fred Hersch fully embraces the freedom that comes with improvisation on his solo album “Silent, Listening,” spontaneously composing and performing tunes that are often without melody, meter or form. Hersch returns to the Swiss studio where he recorded his first ECM album, “The Song Is You,” a 2022 set with trumpeter Enrico Rava. The animated “Little Song” swings …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Jazz Legends: Duke Ellington

ABC

As Miles Davis once said: "every day, we should all get on our knees and thank the Lord for Duke Ellington". He led perhaps the greatest jazz orchestra of all time, wrote some of the defining melodies of a generation and captured the hearts and ears of millions around the world with his style and grace – both on and …

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1 year, 7 months ago

What can friendship teach you about the experiences of jazz in New York and L.A.?

LA Times

This story is part of “Discourse,” a fresh look at the dire state of the bicoastal conversation — free from corniness and cliches. Check out the whole issue — the “New York” issue, if you’re reading between the lines — here. We’re asked, what are the different experiences of jazz on each coast, in New York, in Los Angeles? “Haitian …

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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, 11 months ago

Jazzy B Calls Bollywood 'Unprofessional' in Viral Video, Says 'They Don't Even Tell You...'

News 18

While many artists are enthusiastic about working in Bollywood, there are exceptions like Jazzy B, who doesn’t share the same excitement. Although Jazzy B has been associated with Bollywood films like Shaadi Ke Side Effects, Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster Returns, Dilliwali Zaalim Girlfriend, and Rush in the past, he has maintained a distance from the industry in recent years. The …

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2 years, 5 months ago

The gripping 'Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues' confronts the artist's complexities

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The gripping 'Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues' confronts the artist's complexities A new film depicts the jazz pioneer's multifaceted Black American experience Enlarge this image toggle caption Courtesy of Apple TV+ Courtesy of Apple TV+ Louis Armstrong made his first transatlantic voyage in July of 1932, sailing from New York City to Plymouth, England, aboard the ocean liner RMS Majestic. …

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2 years, 6 months ago

Why Tyler Perry’s passion project ‘A Jazzman’s Blues’ will mark his major film festival debut

LA Times

Tyler Perry is nothing if not prolific. I think it’s six, five or six.” His latest film, “A Jazzman’s Blues,” which premieres Sunday at the Toronto International Film Festival ahead of a limited theatrical release on Sept. 16 and Netflix launch on Sept. 23, feels like something new from Perry. Solea Pfeiffer and Joshua Boone in “A Jazzman’s Blues.” It’s …

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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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2 years, 11 months ago

Charley Crockett: ‘If you know nothing, you’re probably not gonna write a great song’

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. “If you were to look at the career of …

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3 years ago

New Orleans school board reverses little known ban on jazz

Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS — With its president saying it had racist origins, the New Orleans school board has unanimously reversed a little known but century-old ban on jazz in schools in a city which played a huge role in developing jazz and where it is still played nightly at various venues. “And I also want to acknowledge the tremendous contributions of …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Jazz Night in America: On the List

NPR

Jazz Night in America: On the List Updated monthly Enlarge this image Amna Ijaz/NPR Amna Ijaz/NPR Jazz Night in America is a radio and video documentary series that goes deep on stories across the jazz diaspora. On the List shakes loose our staff's favorite new releases every month — from traditional tunes to avant-garde adventures to electronic experiments, we'll keep …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Artists, historians examine country music's past and future

The Independent

Get Nadine White's Race Report newsletter for a fresh perspective on the week's news Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Just steps from the show's home at Bridgestone Arena, speakers addressed the …

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3 years, 11 months ago

Marcus Miller: Electric Miles

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Marcus Miller: Electric Miles YouTube Miles Davis famously once said, "I have to change; it's like a curse" – and that's exactly what he did throughout his entire career. In 2019, we commemorated the 50th anniversary of Miles going electric: Miller organized a retrospective concert, recorded at Jazz at Lincoln Center, and through the evening opened a window into Davis' …

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3 years, 11 months ago

Jazz Night In America Wants To Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month With You

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Jazz Night In America Wants To Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month With You Enlarge this image toggle caption NPR NPR April is Jazz Appreciation Month! Whether it be sharing the music with family or friends, going to a concert or playing in a band, NPR's Jazz Night in America is inviting you to tell the world about the role jazz plays …

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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, 2 months ago

'Just As I Am': Cicely Tyson Reflects On Her Long Career

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'Just As I Am': Cicely Tyson Reflects On Her Long Career Enlarge this image toggle caption Cooper Neill/Getty Images for MegaFest 2017 Cooper Neill/Getty Images for MegaFest 2017 During a career spanning more than six decades, Cicely Tyson has brought to life iconic roles in theater, film and television — from Sounder to The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman to …

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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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5 years, 1 month ago

California Sounds: L.A.’s Kamasi Washington goes ‘Live at the Apollo’

LA Times

Kamasi Washington performs at the Arroyo Seco Weekend music festival in Pasadena in 2018. He’s the subject of a new Amazon Prime documentary, “Live at the Apollo.” Kamasi Washington, “Live at the Apollo” Last year when the saxophonist Washington brought his overpowering band to the Apollo Theater in Harlem for the first time, a crew was there to document it. …

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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, 3 months ago

'Jazz Night In America' Remembers Artists We Lost In 2019

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'Jazz Night In America' Remembers Artists We Lost In 2019 Enlarge this image toggle caption Jason Davis/Getty Images Jason Davis/Getty Images Just over 40 years ago, Joseph Jarman published a book of poetry that opens with a chant: "we pray o God / for the ego / death." The radiant singer Ethel Ennis, known as Baltimore's First Lady of Jazz, …

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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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5 years, 5 months ago

Jazz by the bay

Deccan Chronicle

One year ago, when New York-based jazz musician Camille Thurman made a bucket list of the places she wants to perform and travel, she didn’t think that she would cross India off that list so soon. She and the rest of the band — pianist Keith Brown, bassist Devin Starks, and drummer Darrell Green of Darrell Green Trio — began …

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5 years, 5 months ago

Stream An Interview On The Revival Of Jazz In Black Music : All Songs Considered : NPR

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The 2010s: A Jazz Revival In Black Music Advisory: The audio on this page contains profanity toggle caption Peter Van Breukelen/Redferns/Getty Images Robert Glasper began the 2010s on a mission. He'd ended the previous decade with an album called Double Booked, which made a selling point out of his straddling of two worlds — acoustic jazz piano on one side, …

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5 years, 7 months ago

Music for soul

Deccan Chronicle

Whether you are a lifelong fan or a casual listener of soul RnB and jazz, the country’s new favourite repertoire SouldOut has plenty to offer any audience. Including an array of old and new soul music by the likes of Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, Earth Wine and Fire, Stevie Wonder and Chaka Khan, to name a few, the musicians have …

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5 years, 9 months ago

Review: ‘The Black Godfather’ Clarence Avant and the art of wielding power with honor

LA Times

If your currency as a documentary subject lay in the number of heavyweights taking time to sing your praises on camera with twinkles in each one’s eyes, then music industry executive Clarence Avant may be, like George Bailey in “It’s a Wonderful Life,” the richest man in town. A poor kid from Depression-era North Carolina who rose to become a …

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5 years, 10 months ago

Years in the making, film about jazz pioneer Bolden to open

Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS — More than two decades after the seed was planted in Dan Pritzker’s mind to make a movie about jazz cornetist Charles “Buddy” Bolden, the world is finally getting to see the story he’s been trying to tell. Up until Donald Marquis’ book, ‘In Search of Buddy Bolden,’ people questioned whether he was even real,” Pritzker said. Pritzker …

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6 years ago

Kind of Blue: The jazz album by Miles Davis that transformed music

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. Jazz musician Courtney Pine said it was “the record …

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6 years, 1 month ago

Jimmie Allen is a reflection of a new country music world

Associated Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Country singer Jimmie Allen likes to tell a story about the first time he met songwriter J.P. Williams, who is blind, before they came up with Allen’s No. “The folks that listen to Kane Brown and the folks that have started to listen to Jimmie Allen, many of them would not call themselves country fans,” said Nadine …

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6 years, 1 month ago

A Sprawling Blueprint For Protest Music, Courtesy Of The Jazz Duke

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A Sprawling Blueprint For Protest Music, Courtesy Of The Jazz Duke Enlarge this image toggle caption John Kobal Foundation/Getty Images John Kobal Foundation/Getty Images This story is part of American Anthem, a yearlong series on songs that rouse, unite, celebrate and call to action. "There's a lot of songs that I think the novice jazz listener could really latch onto …

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6 years, 1 month ago

Black composer William Grant Still drew from the blues. Forty years after his death, he still fights to be heard

LA Times

William Grant Still’s ancestors were plantation slaves, working the fields of Mississippi, far from the concert stages of New York and Los Angeles, where he would rise as the preeminent African American classical composer of his day, infusing his symphonies with the sorrows and aspirations of the blues. They show no European influence at all.” The L.A. Phil will perform …

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6 years, 4 months ago

How The 'New World' Symphony Introduced American Music To Itself

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How The 'New World' Symphony Introduced American Music To Itself Enlarge this image toggle caption Ed Clark/Life Picture Collection/Getty Ed Clark/Life Picture Collection/Getty This story is part of American Anthem, a yearlong series on songs that rouse, unite, celebrate and call to action. "It was radical, and I think that he got harshly criticized and really rejected," says JoAnn Falletta, …

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6 years, 4 months ago

How Louis Armstrong's archives give us a better understanding of the artist

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. “Posterity drove him to write manuscripts and make tapes …

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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, 9 months ago

Kamala Harris' African-American Music Appreciation Month playlist is actually pretty tight

Salon

Perhaps known best for her dogged, persistent pursuit of the truth during recent congressional hearings on the Trump administration's possible connections to the Russian government, Sen. Kamala Harris also makes a pretty good DJ. In recognition of African-American Music Appreciation Month, the Senator's office uploaded a Spotify playlist of 45 tracks that either she or her staff felt best represented …

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7 years, 11 months ago

Review: Unreleased 1976 Bill Evans Trio gig intimate treat

Associated Press

Bill Evans Trio, “On A Monday Evening” “On A Monday Evening” is the first release of a 1976 recording by the Bill Evans Trio, an autumn concert in Wisconsin that finds the influential pianist and his partners in outstanding form. Sharing the stage with bassist Eddie Gomez and drummer Eliot Zigmund on Evans originals like “Sugar Plum” and “Time Remembered” …

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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, 4 months ago

Grab A Seat In The Studio With The Miles Davis Quintet

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Grab A Seat In The Studio With The Miles Davis Quintet Enlarge this image toggle caption Veryl Oakland/Courtesy of the artist Veryl Oakland/Courtesy of the artist Music historians, biographers and diehard fans have always had a keen interest in session reels, the unedited studio banter and outtakes from recording sessions. With the release of Freedom Jazz Dance, the fifth volume …

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8 years, 4 months ago

Review: Kamasi Washington arrived at Disney Hall, but he appears to already be thinking bigger

LA Times

Kamasi Washington has had a pretty good year. Backed by a 10-piece group along with a string orchestra, choir and a spacey hero’s journey concept over three discs, “The Epic” drew energetic young crowds to an improvisation-rich and often cathartic mix of the rafter-scraping power of John Coltrane with maximalist funk, spiritual jazz and R&B. Surrounded by 40 musicians that …

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8 years, 9 months ago

Beyond Country And Blues: The Jazz Legacy Of Houston

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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, 11 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 ago

Don Cheadle on playing the drug-addled Miles Davis in "Miles Ahead," and the toxic costs of Hollywood racism

Salon

No doubt it’s an obnoxious film-critic cliché to say that there are certain actors who are always worth watching, even in bad movies or mediocre TV series. Selected as the closing-night feature in last fall’s New York Film Festival, “Miles Ahead” is an obvious labor of love, born out of Cheadle’s lifelong obsession with Davis’ groundbreaking music and troubled personal …

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