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Jazz on the Bayou

For the past 20 years, a festival not to be missed has been Jazz on the Bayou. Held at the Bayou Liberty estate of Gardner and Ronnie Kole, this “backyard festival” has raised more than $1 million dollars for the charities it supports. Every year, Jazz on the Bayou spotlights many of the area’s top…

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The Story of Louis Armstrong’s Final Tape

A lovely piece by the very excellent Ricky Riccardi who tells the story. One could just imagine how big, musical and wild “Pop’s” funeral would have been were it held in NOLA (see the Italian coverage of the Flushing funeral that Ricky has posted). ArmstrongJack TeagardenJazzLouis ArmstrongRicky RiccardiVelma Middleton

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25 Years of Jazz at Lincoln Center

Right on Wynton – an amazing achievement. His intense belief that jazz must be based on swing rhythms fused with elements of the blues and firmly rooted in black traditional music has long rubbed many in the jazz community the wrong way. JazzJazz at Lincoln CenterLincoln Center for the Performing ArtsTraditionWynton Marsalis

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Why Jazz Happened

Review from Reason As I later became interested in political theory, the relationship between the cultural individualism of jazz and the political individualism of libertarianism seemed so natural to me that, with all the innocence of youth, I frequently expressed surprise upon discovering that few of my libertarian friends shared my interest in this form…

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Jazz network

Here is a lovely and dynamic visualization of a Jazz network. Place your cursor anywhere and begin playing around (zoom in/out, drag, click). Maybe “Pops” should be designated the equivalent of an Erdős number. Linked Jazz’s new visualization tool developed by Matt Miller visualizes the social connections between jazz musicians. Various modes allow the user…

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Bryan Ferry’s “The Jazz Age”

Brian Ferry has a new album out. Ferry is of course not new to exploring his parents’ and grandparents’ music: he has dabbling quite convincingly long before it became a fashionable late-career move by some (i.e. Rod Stewart). Ferry, I think, did a damn fine job of  playing the crooner on his first two solo…

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fMRI Study of Jazz Improvisation

Though there is much talk about this study, check out this study that goes back a few years: Our results strongly implicate a distinctive pattern of changes in prefrontal cortical activity that underlies the process of spontaneous musical composition. Our data indicate that spontaneous improvisation, independent of the degree of musical complexity, is characterized by widespread deactivation…