Steve Provizer
Two jazz writers for the magazine pay homage to the indispensable accomplishments of jazz writer Dan Morgenstern, who passed away on September 7 at the age of 94.
The 8-piece band Tuba Skinny is one of the most entertaining purveyors of traditional jazz around.
“Popular music in America is already so formulated and dumbed-down that the fear of AI making it more trivial is probably beside the point.”
Happily, the string orchestra A Far Cry has the skill to back up its good intentions with good music.
The real action, rest assured, will take place in the counting house, not the courthouse.
In this book, readers are given a full taste of the lives of three complicated musical artists.
Other readers may be more sympathetic to this informative book’s broader conclusions about the rise of LP’s and the “erasure of black bodies and black aesthetics.
The music works. The session is among old friends. The rhythm section cooks and every solo holds one’s attention.
Shouting and honking saxes made visceral appeals to the emotions and the body. For jazz critics, this kind of theatricality degraded what should have been ‘Art.’
Arts Remembrance: Saxophonist/Composer/Arranger Benny Golson –“I Remember Benny”
Benny Golson’s accomplishments were enormous and lasting.
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