Here’s an interesting article I read yesterday: (editor’s note: this was a JazzWax dot com article regarding the girl from ipanema) I like his inclusion of the Percy Faith recording, but what I like the BEST is his inclusion of Maynard Ferguson’s version in his 3 WORST recordings of the song! Here’s what I wrote [...]
Strange that Jazz hasn’t appeared more often in the creations of DJs and hip-hop beat wizards. But here’s 7 Light Jazz-Sampling songs
Now in its 16th year, the London’s Meltdown festival was overseen by Ornette Coleman, and he also picked all the artists that played there. He picked artists such as: Charlie Haden James Blood Ulmer Acoustic Ladyland Marc Ribot Keiran Hebden & Steve Reid Yoko Ono The Bad Plus The Roots Patti Smith Yo La Tengo [...]
There are a variety of Jazz Summer Camps around the world for young people looking to try out jazz. Here are a few of those summer camps: Stanford Jazz Workshop: The Stanford Jazz Workshop (in Stanford, CA) is a camp that offers two options, jazz camp and jazz residency. The jazz camp is the lower [...]
OK, time for some more bite-sized survival! I hope you all read/enjoyed my review of Percussion Bitter Sweet. (If you don’t have it and are thinking about getting it, please do so through my iTunes links…) Just some new tidbits for you: If you look on the right sidebar underneath the RSS and email subscription [...]
I’ve decided to do a review of a great afro-cuban album, Percussion Bitter Sweet by Max Roach. Personnel: Booker Little, trumpet Julian Prester, trombone Eric Dolphy, alto sax, bass clarinet, flute Clifford Jordan, tenor sax Mal Waldron, piano Art Davis, bass Max Roach, drums Abbey Lincoln, vocals Carlos “Patato” Valdes & Carlos “Totico” Eugenio, percussion [...]
OK, so today I decided to list some of Jazz’s greatest contributions to cilvilization. Here we go! 1. Mingus’ “Cat Toliet Training Program”: http://www.mingusmingusmingus.com/Mingus/cat_training.html. Saving our economy from rising kitty litter and strongly scented candles! 2. Miles Davis’ “The Autobiography” with Quincy Troupe: Who else wants to find a way to fit two curse words [...]
OK, Ladies and Gentlemen, here is part 1 of an ongoing study regarding what the most well-known jazz song is. To make everything more fun, I’m contrasting the votes of the public (which may be just a wee bit influenced because some people are in band, but not jazz band), and that of jazz listeners/musicians. [...]
