#Jazzlives -- the Twitter campaign aimed at demonstrating that there is a big and enthusiastic audience for live jazz -- is one year old. What has it wrought? First: What is #jazzlives and how does it work? To participate in the campaign, audience members at live jazz performances "tweet" - write a post on their Twitter account-- about who they heard and where they heard them, including "#jazzlives" in the total 140 characters. You can view all #jazzlives posts as a "stream" on various websites and blogs, including this one. You can … [Read more...]
Jazz discoveries abound! Soundscape, Creative Music Studio, Varese
August 23, 2010 by
Amazing, historic, never-before-public recordings from an under-documented, under-appreciated but highly developmental era of jazz and new music comes to light! Complete sets and interviews from the international stars who gave birth to world jazz and downtown improv at the Manhattan arts loft Soundscape will be broadcast by WKCR-FM and archived online starting Sept. 6 -- and are also at the core of the subscription-based CMS Archival Project, recently launched by the Creative Music Studio (Woodstock, NY, circa 1971 - '84). And … [Read more...]
Larry Harlow’s “A Salsa Suite” success
August 20, 2010 by
"La Raza Latina," composer-pianist Larry Harlow's hour-plus Latin big band extravaganza, drew thousands to Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors' penultimate concert last week, proving that driving, multi-layered live music has staying power decades after its creation. "A Salsa Suite" featured vocalists Ruben Blades and Adonis Puentes, choreographed couples and a 40 piece band with strings and extraordinary soloists on trumpets, congas, flute, saxes and violins. Harlow conducted the music he'd recorded in 1978 but never performed … [Read more...]
Live jazz broadcasts — back to future formats
August 9, 2010 by
Hail NPR.org for putting 14 Carefusion Newport Jazz Fest sets on the 'net, and Wynton Marsalis for live-streaming from France's Marciac Jazz Festival video of his Modern New Orleans concert. Back-to-the-future, as broadcasts allow music fans geographically anywhere (and now any time) to get in on the action. … [Read more...]
jazz in italy
August 3, 2010 by
In Italy jazz is an object of serious study and practice, aspiration and envy, emulation and celebration, creativity and commercial draw. So I found last week at the Siena Jazz Summer Workshop and Tuscia in Jazz fest in Soriano nel Cimino. At both sites there were top-notch players of several generations from the US teaching young acolytes, offering life lessons a step or two beyond the fundamental mastery of instruments. Specially convened ensembles mixing players of diverse experience from multiple countries caught the attentions of … [Read more...]
