Jazz
“One of the great things about improvisation is that it teaches you the importance of the moment and how to live in that moment and place importance on this life and making this life better.”
If you can’t make the Montreal International Jazz Festival this time, put it on your bucket list.
One of drummer Ra-Kalam Bob Moses’s most resonant teachings was that it is better to find the infinite possibilities within a single idea than to keep changing ideas every ten seconds.
If drummer Ginger Baker’s staring into the abyss, he’s doing it with defiance and a good beat.
He knew what he wanted to do, he did it, and he took millions along for the ride.
Kris Adams is one of those singers who can do amazing things without ostentatious showiness.
The big “destination” jazz festivals are major events, but aficionados making vacation plans will be missing out if they don’t at least take a look at the musical offerings of the smaller festivals.
Ken Schaphorst and Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts made the case for Sun Ra as an egyptologist (who claimed to be from Saturn).
Jazz Week 2014′s theme of “No Walls: A salute to the power of jazz to bring people together” emphasizes the place of jazz on the world stage.
Music Commentary: Looking for the Real at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
Mostly, I’m looking for that most elusive and hard-to-define quality — authenticity.
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