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Celebration Day
Decent theatrical documents of rock concerts are few and far between. Only two come to mind: The Last Waltz and Stop Making Sense. Previous efforts such as The Song Remains the Same and Shine a Light while they have their moments, are in the case of the former, a bit tiresome, and in the case…
Kid Ory
Write-up from NOLA.com: ‘Kid’ Ory bio research took author 15 years; ‘the music is why we care,’ he says. John McCusker’s website Kid Ory was a trombonist, composer, recording artist, and early New Orleans jazz band leader. Creole Trombone tells his story from birth on a rural sugar cane plantation in a French-speaking, ethnically mixed…
Marc Bolan
Remembering Marc Bolan who died on this day not far from where I used to live in SW London. I think that though Bolan was highly respected by other major artists of the day (Bowie for one) Bolan never was able to escape the teen idol yoke. Here is a recent news item: Mystery of Marc…
The science of conducting
An interesting article from The Economist: Determining a conductor’s influence is tricky. Does a “good” conductor wangle bravura performances from his players, or simply preside over a self-organising virtuoso ensemble? To find out, Dr D’Ausilio watched two (anonymous) conductors leading five excerpts from Mozart’s symphony number 40 played by eight violinists from the Città di…
Rattle, Ligeti, Wagner and Ravel
An exceptional prom in a so-so season despite this being one of London’s biggest years since VE Day. What was distinctive was that each piece cleverly flowed into each other thereby “robbing” the audience of the opportunity to clap. And no, the photo is of Simon Rattle and not Steven Pinker. See The Telegraph’s glowing…
Repercussions: A Celebration of African-American Music
Check out this rarely seen and not easily available series: the DVDs are available from some libraries featuring performances from Big Mama Thornton, Joe Liggins and the Honeydrippers, Lowell Fulson, Lloyd Glenn, Charles Brown, Big Jay McNeely, and Margie Evans with Dick “Huggy Boy” Hugg and Johnny Otis. Breaking away from the well-traveled blues trail connecting…
Les Paul stories
Some nice recollections of the great technological innovator. BeatlesJazzKeith RichardsLes Paulmusicrock and roll
New Orleans: Mon Amour
Love NOLA: Ten things you learn from living in New Orleans By Brett Will Taylor Good grief. Yesterday marked the two-year anniversary of my move from Boston to New Orleans. Has it really been two years? Has it only been two years? Forty-eight months in and it’s hard to remember ever living anywhere else. This…
Headquarters
To mark the 5oth anniversary of Preservation Hall. We are all in profoundly debted to Allan and Sandra Jaffe. Allan JaffeJazzmusicnew orleanspreservation hallPreservation Hall Jazz BandSandra Jaffe
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