Jazz As A Liberal Arts Education Liebman more directly argues that a jazz education, though unlikely to result in a full-time performance career, provides exposure to a lot more than technical knowledge. “Playing jazz combines several qualities: instinct, honesty, confidence, experience, trust, imagination and a positive attitude . . . From Why Jazz Education? david…
Coming soon – a must have for any “Pops” fan. This release has been co-produced and with liner notes by none other than the author of the terrific biography What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong’s Later Years. Bravo Ricky! JazzLouis Armstrongnew orleansRicky RiccardiSatchmoWhat a Wonderful World
Discussion from NPR jazz blog Antonio HartCongressional Black Caucus FoundationGerald ClaytongospelJazzJimmy HeathLizz WrightmusicTerri Lyne Carrington
I’ve always thought that there is a conceptual link between spontaneous order (in the Hayek sense), conversation (in the Oakeshottian sense) and jazz. Here is a small squib from a libertarian blog that makes such a link though I’m not a libertarian as such. conversatifreedomJazzMichael OakeshottSpontaneous order
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…
Some nice recollections of the great technological innovator. BeatlesJazzKeith RichardsLes Paulmusicrock and roll
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
“Von” obituary Louis Armstrong used to come by from the time I was about 3 years old, and he’d always say to me, ‘Hi Pops,’ recalled Freeman, pointing to the era when Satchmo was enjoying his first blush of success as a Chicago bandleader and emerging recording artist. “Earl Hines came over, and Fats Waller…
As usual from any Marsalis, an articulate, provocative and amusing view. It’s essentially inauthentic when I listen to it. It doesn’t sound like jazz, and I can find few situations with the exception of popular music where the music is so far removed from its roots that it’s so unrecognizable from the original form. So…
The Japanese people want to thank the United States, New Orleans and Satchmo for giving the world such wonderful music called jazz. A lovely example of the power of this music to spread the joy, the conduit the very special Yoshio Toyama. In Treme (1:5) you may recall a Japanese jazz fan does a good turn…
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