Jazz
Ben Ratliff’s volume about how to listen to music is full of fairly radical but largely undefended assertions.
Time has only made the members of this trio more adventurous as well as accomplished.
It’s easy to recommend this new two disc set, where the miracle that was Charlie Parker is on glorious display again and again.
Summer has arrived thermally and is due to arrive astronomically early next wee; New England offers a geographically diverse menu of jazz festivals.
From Providence to Burlington by way of Cambridge, the New England jazz festival season is now underway.
“My hope is that in the near future the mainstream music pendulum will swing much more heavily towards giving jazz the attention it deserves.”
Jazz groups of eight to eleven often make fascinating and unusual music, but they rarely survive.
But dissonance is at the edge of everything you hear at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival — a sound that contains multitudes.
While Freda Payne still sings “Band of Gold” on soul package revues, she has recently rekindled the jazz side of her career.
Book Review and Commentary: Testaments to the Wonderful Ears of Ralph J. Gleason
A writer has to write for the now or to write for the ages. Gleason almost always chose the now, but his best moments go deeper.
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