Steve Provizer
The Jazz at Lincoln Center vice president of education discusses the growth of Essentially Ellington, the rise in student playing, and the organization’s push for wider access.
Being a one-man or one-woman band while toiling in the shadows is not glamorous work. Over the last 13 years, producer Alex Lemski undertook this role and supplied a great deal of exciting, important music to the people of Boston.
I take a look back at the compelling documentary “Let’s Get Lost” because of the recently released “Chet Baker Performs and Sings: Swimming by Moonlight”, 15 unreleased studio recordings made by the trumpeter.
Our financial establishment is being hijacked in a car driven by a greedy, vengeful man, his industry cronies and a doormat Congress cowering meekly in the back seat.
The musicians assembled here for the updated recordings of tunes from fifty years ago are first-rate, and Peggy Lee still convincingly inhabits a wide range of material.
There will be no winners in this battle for control, whatever the judicial outcomes. Once the AI bubble bursts, many people will be hurt.
Pianist Marcus Roberts is aware of the artistic community’s criticism of AI, but maintains an attitude of optimism tempered by realism.
Perhaps the most well-known jazz piano-vocal duo recordings were made in 1975 by Bill Evans and Tony Bennett. For me, these performances are sui generis — a high-water mark of the form.
The letters of this protean figure in American musical theater induced in this reader a pleasurable mixture of nostalgia, voyeurism, and insight.
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