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6. Juli 2010
Jazzmobile
Larry Blumenfeld reports about the non-profit organization Jazzmobile which was founded in 1964 by the pianist Dr. Billy Taylor and the arts patron Daphne Arnstein as an organization dedicated to jazz education and to keep jazz alive all over New York, but especially in Harlem (Wall Street Journal). Jazz musicians like Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton and many others have supported the organization over the years, and from today until August 28th Jazzmobile will again organize its annual Summerfest with 47 events at 30 locations, most of them free of charge. Jazzmobile still is an important part of jazz education in the city, and it still is community-based, thus connecting music students with "professionals, older folks, former musicians or retirees or just people who want to share in this".
5. Juli 2010
Frank Foster
Felix Contreras reports that after 45 years saxophonist and composer Frank Foster finally can collect *all* songwriting royalties for "Shiny Stockings" which he had written for the Count Basie Orchestra in 1955 (NPR / A Blog Supreme). He had basically sold the royalties to a company collecting publishing rights because he "didn't know any better", and now won a legal fight in which he was helped by a Rutgers-Newark legal team made up mostly of law students. Contreras' report is a follow-up of a four-part series on "Jazz Musicians, After the Spotlight Fades" which he put together in 2005 for NPR radio and which still can he heard on the station's website.
Jazz Index: Bibliography on Frank Foster.
4. Juli 2010
Kermit Ruffins
Andrew Dansby talks to New Orleans trumpeter Kermit Ruffins about the effect of the oil spill in the Gulf had on his hometown's economy, about how the HBO series "Treme" has increased interest in New Orleans, about his time in Houston where he lived for five months after Hurricane Katrina, as well as about his most recent and his forthcoming album (Houston Chronicle).
Jazz Index: Bibliography on Kermit Ruffins.
3. Juli 2010
Jazz assessment for the city of Hamburg
There were rumors and hints humming around in the city of Hamburg for a while now that big things might be planned for the city's jazz scene (we reported). Now the German weekly newspaper Die ZEIT runs an official ad by the city government's office for culture and sciences which calls for an advisory report on the projected implementation of a jazz and pop music center in Hamburg. The city is looking for musicologists, sociologists or other experts in related fields to render a feasibility study about the establishment of a center for jazz, pop and contemporary (popular) music in Germany's second largest city. One of the main aims of this future center would be to bring together academic music education, music research and musical events. The contractor expects a market analysis, a calculation of the emerging costs as well as a study of economic and social issues relevant to the city. The report has to be finished by the end of this year.
2. Juli 2010
Oscar Peterson
The British Queen has unveiled a life-size bronze statue of Canadian jazz pianist Oscar Peterson during her latest visit to Canada (BBC News). Peterson had played for the Queen a few years before his death in 2007. Peterson's widow was present for the unveiling and said that her husband would have been very humbled by the statue, and that he had a special fondness for Her Majesty and Prince Philip. The sculpture shows Peterson sitting at a piano with space on the seat beside him for passers-by to sit down.
Jazz Index: Bibliography on Oscar Peterson.
1. Juli 2010
Paolo Fresu
Sylvain Siclier talks to the trumpeter Paolo Fresu who was born in Sardinia and today is musical director of the Bergamo Jazz Festival (Le Monde). Fresu was selected for this year's "Invitation" series at the Montréal Jazz Festival. The festival, Fresu says, chose his musical partners, Ralph Towner, Omar Sosa, and the musicians for his trio. There are plenty of other projects he is working on, he says, a trio with Sosa and the percussionist Trilok Gurtu for instance or a quartet with the trumpeter Steven Bernstein. Of course, he was heavily influenced by Miles Davis, Fresu admits, but he has explored many other roads. Apart from his musical activities he recently founded a record label, Tuk Music, which in September will release a recording by his "historic" Italian quartet which came together again in 2008, and then proceed with records by young Italian and European musicians.
Jazz Index: Bibliography on Paolo Fresu.
30. Juni 2010
Dmitry Medvedev
The Russians may have had some spies in the US, but the Washington Post is not bad in finding out some Russian secrets as well (Washington Post). Russia's president Dmitry Medvedev, we read, is a big jazz and rock fan, and recently sent two women into a Moscow record shop to buy CDs by Duke Ellington, B.B. King and Jimi Hendrix. When the shop owner told them he was out of any Ellington, the women made a call (to ... Medvedev???) and then settled for three albums by Hendrix, two by King, as well as music by Gil Evans, Blossom Deary and Mark Murphy.
Jazz Index: Bibliography on Russia.
Jazz Index: Bibliography on Soviet Union.
Those passed away in June...
We learned of the following deaths in June 2010: pianist Johnny Parker; radio DJ Tony Cennamo; composer and educator Wendell Logan; trumpeter Bill Dixon; alto saxophonist Freddie Syer; guitarist and vocalist Tam White; pianist and composer Allyn Ferguson; tenor saxophonist Fred Anderson; clarinetist Chuck Hedges; producer Francis Dreyfus; trombonist Benny Powell; alto saxophonist Earl Clark; singer Joya Sherrill. The dates of their death as well as links to obituaries can be found on our obituary page.
29. Juni 2010
Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock released his newest album "The Imagine Project" and Stefan Hentz talks to him about benefit concerts he has done over the years for social and civil rights groups or other reasons (Die Zeit). Hancock is satisfied with the first year of Barack Obama's presidency and sees more change than people usually notice. The health reform might not be the ultimate solution, he says, but at least a first step was taken. In his "Imagine Project" he wants to show that globalization also means the exchange of equal positions. Music, he says, is pretty powerful; what he and the musicians on the album can do is open up possibilities, but everybody has to decide for himself how and what the music can change in his or her life. For the album he collaborates with musicians such as Tina Turner und Seal, Anoushka Shankar und Pink, Jeff Beck, Los Lobos, The Chieftains, Oumou Sangare, but he's not afraid to alienate the jazz audience: "I've played jazz for so long that I don't think about that anymore." In recent years he moved away from the idea of a jazz musician who has to show off his virtuosity and expressiveness and tries to be more inclusive in his approach towards music, seeing himself as one part of a global community. The 1960s may have been a wonderful time in jazz, but the reality is different from the romanticized history, he explains. The air in the clubs was bad, the pianos badly tuned, the drums too loud, although -- he changes positions in mid-sentence -- the strong company among musicians was closer than it is today; one listened to one's colleagues concerts and joined them constant jam sessions. Hancock is optimistic for the future of jazz: Young people just have to find their own way, whether the older masters like that way or not. That's how he found his style -- and he gives credit to Miles Davis for that wisdom.
Jazz Index: Bibliography on Herbie Hancock.
28. Juni 2010
Ahmad Jamal
Ahmad Jamal will turn 80 this Friday and Wolfgang Sandner sends his best wishes in an article celebrating the art of a pianist (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung). Sandner asks why Jamal who was so influential and obviously a genuine inventor of his own style to this day is not more widely known outside of jazz circles. He finds one answer to this in the fact that Jamal is hard to interview, doesn't like to talk about his music. A more important reason for the discrepancy between Jamal's reputation among musicians and the lack of name recognition with a broader audience, though, may be the fact that Jamal always was one of the musically most economical artists, not just in his music but also in his forms of expression and his band's instrumentation. His most consistent band concept was that of a trio, whether it was with guitar and bass (Sandner calls those a "string trio with three equivalent voices") or with bass and drums. Miles Davis was fascinated by Jamal's classical attack, his lyrical approach to improvisation and the balance between sound and silence. Ahmad Jamal, writes Sandner, was originally influenced by Erroll Garner. "Later it was the other way around. Garner learned from Jamal to hide highly complex rhythms and harmonic experiments under the surface of catchy songs."
Jazz Index: Bibliography on Ahmad Jamal.
27. Juni 2010
NEA Jazz Masters
The National Endowment for the Arts has announced its 2011 Jazz Masters, "the highest honors that our government bestows upon jazz musicians". The 2011 recipients of the fellowship which comes with a 25,000$ award will be the flutist Hubert Laws, the saxophonist David Liebman, the composer Johnny Mandel, the producer Orrin Keepnews, as well as the complete instrument-playing Marsalis family: pianist Ellis Marsalis, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, saxophonist Branford Marsalis, trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis and drummer Jason Marsalis. It is the first time the NEA will present a group award. The awards will be presented to the recipients on January 11, 2011 at Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York's Jazz at Lincoln Center.
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