Entries Tagged as 'Jazz Music Links'
Staying on the Watch by Sonny Simmons
Alto saxophonist Sonny Simmons embraces music with his whole body, soul, mind and spirit; that much is clear from Staying on the Watch, recorded in August 1966 and reissued by ESP-Disk in 2010.
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In retrospect, Staying on the Watch is tinted with distinct shades of an approach that is more mystical and all-embracing; […]
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MySpace Offers Rock and Jazz Classics
MySpace is luring in older users with free streaming music from Lionel Richie, Neil Young, The Cure and many others.
MySpace Offers Rock and Jazz Classics
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Playboy Jazz Festival Announces Lineup
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Quincy Jones had a twofold purpose in taking the podium at Wednesday’s announcement of the 31st annual Playboy Jazz Festival. First he continued his advocacy for a secretary of the arts Cabinet position; second he introduced 23-year-old Cuban pianist Alfredo Rodriguez, whom he has taken under his wing over the […]
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Seabreeze Jazz Festival Moves to Northwest Florida’s Gulf Coast
Jazz-lovers and sun-seekers across the nation are getting ready to “shake off those winter blues”–with a remedy of white sands, beautiful water, and the best in smooth contemporary jazz. The coastal beach setting of the Pier Park Amphitheater in Panama City Beach will “come alive” as the 2009 ResortQuest Seabreeze Jazz Festival makes it way […]
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Dominican Marie Claire Giraud for Jamaica Jazz and Blues - and beyond
However, improvisational music has not gained half as much ground on the consciousness of Dominicans and probably never will, Jazz being what it is, a niche genre. Still for all, there is a cadre of Dominican Jazz musicians who continue to plug away, hoping to build a Jazz scene on the island.
At the forefront of […]
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Trinidad’s Etienne Charles Trumps Live Art Event
Imagine that. Imagine the possibilities that the Jazz idiom offers the creative and the daring.
Imagine Trinidadian trumpeter Etienne Charles’ music being used as a soundtrack to a live art painting event starring Mark Wiener.
Art Interactive with Mark Wiener & Etienne Charle from Roger Smith Life on Vimeo.
Mark Wiener, an abstract painter from New York, and […]
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Jazz Baroness
If the mysterious Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter is at all remembered today, it is for her proximity to the deaths of two legendary jazz musicians. In 1955 Charlie Parker died on a sofa in her Fifth Avenue home; 27 years later Thelonious Monk died after secluding himself for years in her New Jersey house.
Both deaths […]
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