July 2007 Archives
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.
"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."
A Blog Supreme (NPR)
Alex W. Rodriguez's Lubricity
All About Jazz
Andrea Cantor's JazzInk
The Bad Plus' Do The Math
Bob Lewis' Jazz My Two Cents Worth
Bret Primack, Jazz Video Guy
Bruno Leicht's Subjective Jazz Views
Carl Wilson's cross-genre Zoilus
CelebStoner
David R. Adler's Lerterland
Darcy James Argue's Secret Society
Dave Douglas's Greenleaf Music Blog
David Ryshpan's Settled in Shipping
Dean Minderman's St. Louis Jazz Notes
Don Heckman and The International Review of Music
Doug Ramsey's Riffides
Fred Kaplan's Jazz Messenger
Hank Shteamer's Dark Forces Swing Blind Punches
James Hale's Jazz Chronicles
Jazz.com
JazzCorner
Jazz Foundation of America
Jazz Journalists Association's Jazzhouse
JazzWest
Willard Jenkins' Independent Ear
Kazue Yokoi's exblog (in Japanese)
Larry Blumenfeld's Listen Good
Marc Myers' Jazzwax
Michael Steinman's Jazz Lives
Nate Chinen, The Gig
Pamela Espeland's Bebopified
Plastic Sax, Jazz in Kansas City
Peter Hum's JazzBlog
Tim Posgate's Canadian 'jazzlife'
Rock & Rap Confidential
Thelonius Monk Institute of Jazz
U of Guelph's Improvisation, Community and Social Practice
Ralph Mirlello's Notes on Jazz
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Blogroll
A Blog Supreme (NPR)
Alex W. Rodriguez's Lubricity
All About Jazz
Andrea Cantor's JazzInk
The Bad Plus' Do The Math
Bob Lewis' Jazz My Two Cents Worth
Bret Primack, Jazz Video Guy
Bruno Leicht's Subjective Jazz Views
Carl Wilson's cross-genre Zoilus
CelebStoner
David R. Adler's Lerterland
Darcy James Argue's Secret Society
Dave Douglas's Greenleaf Music Blog
David Ryshpan's Settled in Shipping
Dean Minderman's St. Louis Jazz Notes
Don Heckman and The International Review of Music
Doug Ramsey's Riffides
Fred Kaplan's Jazz Messenger
Hank Shteamer's Dark Forces Swing Blind Punches
James Hale's Jazz Chronicles
Jazz.com
JazzCorner
Jazz Foundation of America
Jazz Journalists Association's Jazzhouse
JazzWest
Willard Jenkins' Independent Ear
Kazue Yokoi's exblog (in Japanese)
Larry Blumenfeld's Listen Good
Marc Myers' Jazzwax
Michael Steinman's Jazz Lives
Nate Chinen, The Gig
Pamela Espeland's Bebopified
Plastic Sax, Jazz in Kansas City
Peter Hum's JazzBlog
Tim Posgate's Canadian 'jazzlife'
Rock & Rap Confidential
Thelonius Monk Institute of Jazz
U of Guelph's Improvisation, Community and Social Practice
Ralph Mirlello's Notes on Jazz
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Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
Andrew Taylor on the business of arts & culture
rock culture approximately
Laura Collins-Hughes on arts, culture and coverage
Richard Kessler on arts education
Douglas McLennan's blog
Dalouge Smith advocates for the Arts
Art from the American Outback
For immediate release: the arts are marketable
No genre is the new genre
David Jays on theatre and dance
Paul Levy measures the Angles
Judith H. Dobrzynski on Culture
John Rockwell on the arts
Jan Herman - arts, media & culture with 'tude
dance
Apollinaire Scherr talks about dance
Tobi Tobias on dance et al...
jazz
Howard Mandel's freelance Urban Improvisation
Focus on New Orleans. Jazz and Other Sounds
Doug Ramsey on Jazz and other matters...
media
Jeff Weinstein's Cultural Mixology
Martha Bayles on Film...
classical music
Fresh ideas on building arts communities
Greg Sandow performs a book-in-progress
Exploring Orchestras w/ Henry Fogel
Harvey Sachs on music, and various digressions
Bruce Brubaker on all things Piano
Kyle Gann on music after the fact
Greg Sandow on the future of Classical Music
Norman Lebrecht on Shifting Sound Worlds
publishing
Jerome Weeks on Books
Scott McLemee on books, ideas & trash-culture ephemera
theatre
Wendy Rosenfield: covering drama, onstage and off
Chloe Veltman on how culture will save the world
visual
Public Art, Public Space
Regina Hackett takes her Art To Go
John Perreault's art diary
Lee Rosenbaum's Cultural Commentary
Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog