Steve Provizer
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.
Allen Lowe is a saxophonist, composer, and historian of early jazz and roots music who doesn’t think he’s getting a fair shake from jazz’s gatekeepers.
This wake-up call — what will artists be asked to do to please the powers-that-be? — is also a good read.
This is a chilling tale of the (last) Cold War, and footage of Teslas and iPhones serves as a potent reminder that the struggle for global natural resources, in the Third World and beyond, continues.
Some rugged individualists may want to break out of the corporate cycle of dependency. If they do, they might even come across music they love that they would never have dreamed existed in the Spotify universe.
Cultural Commentary: Cryptocurrency and Artists, A Match Made in Heaven? Or Hell?
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.
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