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Posted by: editoron Thursday, March 04, 2010 - 10:20 AM |
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4. März 2010
Nils WĂĽlker
Florian Zinnecker starts by claiming that jazz is losing its audience these days (and once again, we ask ourselves where he gets this information from), then introduces the Hamburg-based trumpeter Nils WĂĽlker, who is getting a lot of public attention these days (die tageszeitung). "Are guys like him the future?", Zinnecker asks and then reports about how WĂĽlker was the first German jazz musicians to sign a contract with Sony Records in 2001, only to turn his back towards the label four years later and found his own label. WĂĽlker is willing to think outside of stylistic boxes, says Zinnecker (and insinuates that "his colleagues" are not); he is not afraid of either classical or pop. "If a record company would ask their pop department to assemble an ideal jazz musician, the result would be WĂĽlker. Good-looking, not too smooth and not too edgy, suitable for younger audiences." Besides music, WĂĽlker also knows about the importance of marketing, yet he knows that once you've got the people to attend a concert, it is the music that counts.
Jazz Index: Bibliography on Nils WĂĽlker.
3. März 2010
Paris
Talking up the centennial of Django Reinhardt's birth, Gemma Ware seeks the "Best Gypsy jazz bars in Paris" and recommends La Chope des Puces, the Bouquet du Nord, La Locandiera, La Chope de Château Rouge, L'atelier Charonne, and the Clarion de Chasseurs, and gives information about each venue (The Guardian).
1. März 2010
Moers Festival
The financial situation of the city of Moers has an impact also on the world-renowned Moers Festival. The conservative CDU party suggests returning the festival into the palace court of the city, thus cutting down on costs for security, an extra festival fence and the festival tent. The CDU also suggests cutting costs for the festival radio project and a festival book (Der Westen). The Green Party meanwhile fears for the festival's future after the festival's artistic director Reiner Michalke made it known that he is not sure he wants to continue his work under the current conditions (Rheinische Post). The Green Party emphasizes Michalke's achievements, for instance in installing an "improviser in residence" or establishing a "contemporary music network" in the city and appeals to the city government to find ways to make Michalke interested in continuing his successful work for the festival.
28. Februar 2010
Bill Frisell
Brad Hundt calls 59 year old Bill Frisell a "veteran jazz guitarist", an observation certainly true yet a bit unconventional for the ever-exploring Frisell who talks about his newest group and his latest CD "Disfarmer" inspired by Depression-era photographs taken by the photographer Mike Disfarmer (Observer-Reporter). And he talks about how making music for him is a continuous and never-ending learning process.
Jazz Index: Bibliography on Bill Frisell.
27. Februar 2010
Jon Hendricks
Eva Maria Magel sees the new film "Blues March -- Soldier Jon Hendricks" about singer Jon Hendricks produced by the Frankfurt-based German film director Malte Rauch (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung). In 1944 Hendricks was drafted into the Army and sent to Normandy. He experienced racism in the army and decided together with some fellow soldiers to desert from the army. He was caught and sentenced for black market trading, and after his return to the US found that nothing really had changed at home in regard to racism. Hendricks himself tells the story, both seriously and self-mockingly at times, and the film shows him on location in France, Germany and in New York clubs, talking to French farmers, former black market customers of his and World War II veterans. The film, Magel explains, is only 76 minutes long, because some scenes had to be cut: The music rights to them would have been too expensive -- they don't belong to Hendricks.
Jazz Index: Bibliography on Jon Hendricks.
24. Februar 2010
Jamie Cullum
The pianist and singer Jamie Cullum will present a jazz program on BBC Radio 2, as John Plunkett reports (The Guardian).
Jazz Index: Bibliography on Jamie Cullum.
23. Februar 2010
Charlie Hunter
The guitarist Charlie Hunter has lived in a hippie commune as a child, learns Paul Clark, but that does not mean that he was a hippie kid; it only means that he was the kid of a hippie mom (Cincinnati Enquirer). Hunter's latest album has been recorded in mono and directly to tape, "because it grooves so much harder in mono", Hunter says. He uses a boxing metaphor, "contrasting the nimble, artistic Muhammad Ali with brawling slugger Joe Frazier" and sees himself as a "Frazier kind of guy".
Jazz Index: Bibliography on Charlie Hunter.
22. Februar 2010
John Coltrane
In his latest work the choreographer Lar Lubovich based the dance upon a live recording of John Coltrane's "My Favorite Things" from 1963, as Gia Kourlas reports (New York Times). Jazz choreography or dance has largely become a lost art, laments Lubovich and remembers the highlights of jazz choreography, such as Audrey Hepburn's dance in a Paris beatnik club in the movie "Funny Face". In "My Favorite Things" he tried to connect Coltrane's "sheets of sounds" and Jackson Pollock's action paintings (Pollock's "Autumn Rhythm (Number 30)" is serving as a backdrop for the performance).
Jazz Index: Bibliography on John Coltrane.
21. Februar 2010
Stan Kenton
Nick Duerden meets with Leslie Kenton, author of 35 books on health, beauty and spirituality, who in her latest autobiographical book tells about how her father, the pianist and bandleader Stan Kenton, had sexually abused her (The Guardian). In her book she describes with relentless openness that she had been raped by her father when she was 11 years old and how this had continued for the next two years. At the same time, she describes her relationship with her father as intense and how she saw herself as his confidante. Although she had been angry, she never had hated him, and for the last 15 years of his life she saw him just as much as a victim as herself, a victim of his own childhood. The guilt that plagued him eventually drove him into alcoholism. She had buried the abuse experience within her subconscious for a long time, until "in 1967, after a medical trial in London with LSD, she remembered precisely what he had done to her between the ages of 11 and 13".
Jazz Index: Bibliography on Stan Kenton.
20. Februar 2010
Renaud Garcia-Fons
Francis Marmande reports on the double bassist Renaud Garcia-Fons, whose band Linea del Sur blends elements of French and Arab-Andalusian music (Le Monde). This may not sound like jazz, says Marmande, but it clearly comes from the improvisational spirit of jazz. Garcia-Fons also talks about the late trumpeter Roger Guerin, with whom he collected his first jazz experiences at the conservatory.
Jazz Index: Bibliography on Renaud Garcia-Fons.
18. Februar 2010
Jazz Education
Hans Hielscher states that fewer and fewer fans visit the clubs and buy jazz records, and yet jazz education is booming (Spiegel Online). In the US, universities vie for their students; German musicians such as Dieter Ilg or Gabriel Coburger studied there with the financial aid of scholarships. The lessons of the city with all its energy, though, was "more important than the lessons in the schools". Jazz musicians today need better technical and theoretical training to compete on the scene, Hielscher explains. Even though professionals complain about the "over education" of jazz, Hielscher concludes. "they nevertheless scramble to get the teaching positions at schools and universities. The market situation leaves them no other choice."
17. Februar 2010
Kevin Eubanks
The guitarist Kevin Eubanks may be leaving Jay Leno's "Tonight Show" the band of which he led since 1992. In recent years, reports say, "Eubanks has been criticized for being too quick to laugh at his bosses’ jokes" (Wall Street Journal). The New Jersey Star-Ledger already looks at possible replacements and suggests: guitarist John Pizzarelli, trumpeter Chris Botti, saxophonist David Sanborn or guitarist George Benson.
Jazz Index: Bibliography on Kevin Eubanks.
16. Februar 2010
Hamburg
The (non-ruling) SPD in the Hamburg Parliament has introduced a paper into the Senate of the state of Hamburg asking about "the situation of jazz music in Hamburg" (BĂĽrgerschaft Hamburg, then search for "Dokumentennummer 5141"). They state that Hamburg jazz, especially in the last fifteen years, saw "many new, modern, experimental developments". They analyze the working conditions of musicians who often play "for the door", and they also note that a creative music such as jazz cannot get by without public subsidies -- by which they do not only mean the distribution of money but also the establishment of networks. Specifically, the paper addresses 62 (!) issues about the general cultural and political assessment of the economic situation of jazz in Hamburg, about a possible "minimum fee" for musicians or a specific "venue support system." They ask about the educational situation for jazz as well as about ample practice rooms for jazz musicians. The Senate will have to do some work to answer all the questions. PS: The response is online as well by now (see link above).
15. Februar 2010
Kenny Garrett
Joshua Philipp meets saxophonist Kenny Garrett during the intermission of Shen Yun's classical Chinese dance and music show at New York's Radio City Music Hall from which Garrett hopes to gain some inspiration (The Epoch Times). On his album "Beyond the Wall", Garrett had already tried to blend of Jazz and the sound of the Chinese erhu. Now, he is "trying to learn more about the rest of the Chinese instruments".
Jazz Index: Bibliography on Kenny Garrett.
14. Februar 2010
Lorraine Feather
Hugo Kugiya talks to the singer Lorraine Feather about life with her husband, the drummer Tony Morales, in San Juan Islands, about seeing herself as a "lyricist who sings", about being 60, about growing-up with jazz (her father was Leonard Feather, her mother a big band singer who once lived with Peggy Lee), and about how she wanted to become an actor but ended up a singer/lyricist (The Seattle Times).
Jazz Index: Bibliography on Lorraine Feather.
13. Februar 2010
Gil Scott-Heron
Jonathan Takiff talks to Gil Scott-Heron about hip-hop, about a recent inconclusive HIV test, about drugs and prison time he served for them, and about his newest album, "I'm New Here" (Philadelphia Daily News).
Jazz Index: Bibliography on Gil Scott-Heron.
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