John Hammond Jr. impressed me some 20 years ago with his solo blues harp-guitar-vocal act that seemed about as close to the style of Delta blues songster Robert Johnson as exists. He did it again, just last night.
Archives for July 2007
Americana, cello solo and string trio varieties
“Americana” doesn’t gibe with “homeland,” a term which always reminds me of nativist propaganda. The Wikipedia definition of “homeland” alludes to that nuance: “When used as a proper noun, the word, as well as its cognates in other languages (ie. Heimatland in German) often have ethnic nationalist connotations.”
Diversions, tangents, expeditions
Jazz Beyond Jazz Jose Reyes’ Jazz Con Class Roanna Forman’s Boston Jazz Blog David Hadju’s The Famous Door Matt Miller’s tuneOUToptIN Richard Mitnick’s Musicsprings A Blog Supreme (NPR) George Grella’s The Big City Sebastian Scotney’s LondonJazz Alex W. Rodriguez’s Lubricity Ralph Mirlello’s Notes on Jazz
Jazz Beyond Jazz
What if there’s more to jazz than you suppose? What if jazz demolishes suppositions and breaks all bounds? What if jazz – and the jazz beyond, behind, under and around jazz – could enrich your life?
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Jazz Beyond Jazz
about my new book I’ll be speaking about the legacy of Billy Strayhorn on The Barber Shop Show hosted by Richard Steele, live from Chicago’s Lawndale neighborhood at noon Friday Nov 6 2015 (rebroadcast 3 pm Sunday) on WBEZ ChicagoPublicMedia.org. Needledrop & video-viewings of Ornette, Old and New Dreams and their world — I’ll vj […]
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The Makers of Jazz Beyond Jazz
Over the course of three decades, I’ve been privileged to get behind the scenes and meet heroic creators of jazz as well as up-and-comers, innovators and exemplars of many other genres. Please enjoy these archival interviews and articles.