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Oleg Kireyev, born in Bashkiria (aka Bashkortostan, more on which follows), is a dynamite soprano and tenor saxophonist who smiles broadly when he asks audiences to chime in with Mongolian throat-singing and quick-tonguing techniques. In New York City, a small group of listeners at Symphony Space complied, giving Kireyev's Feng Shui Theatre quartet, making its Stateside debut, a sweet welcome.

April 28, 2008 11:40 AM | | Comments (2)
Another victim of global economics? Or of flawed leadership? The 40-year-old International Association for Jazz Education has announced its bankruptcy, following an ill-attended conference in Toronto and unexpected departures by its executive director and president. "Industry of jazz" players are shocked, shocked! 
April 18, 2008 1:42 PM | | Comments (2)
Way out northwest last weekend for the Experience Music Project's 7th Annual Pop Conference, I also visited Earshot Jazz fest and concert producer John Gilbreath doing his weekly late night show "Jazz Theater" on KEXP.org

Listen to Ornette Coleman's "Law Years" and a track from his concerto grosso "Skies of America," as well as Miles Davis's "Freedom Jazz Dance" remixed by Nas and "Black Satin" from On The Corner, interspersed with our conversation, for two weeks, as archived. Gilbreath interviewed author, Black Rock Coalition co-founder and Burnt Sugar guitarist-conspirator Greg Tate (who wrote the preface to my book) right after me. 


April 15, 2008 12:22 AM | | Comments (0)
Who presents and supports the articulation of ambitious thinking about American vernacular music? The Experience Music Project/Science Fiction Museum (Seattle's answer to NYC's American Museum of Natural History?) holds its seventh annual Pop Conference April 10 - 13, with dozens of scholars, journalists and musicians giving 20-minute run-throughs of their specialities on panels regarding the overall theme "Shake, Rattle: Music, Conflict and Change."  I'm among the presenters, offering "Jazz Beyond Jazz: Breakthroughs and Coalitions" in a discussion moderated by Nate Chinen, music reviewer for the New York Times, columnist for Jazz Times. The panel is unfortunately (in my view) titled "Freedom Then." What about now?
April 5, 2008 12:25 PM | | Comments (3)
It's a sad day when an established stage for national and local jazz closes, as JazzWest.com's Wayne Saroyan reports will happen to Jazz at Pearl's in San Francisco's North Beach (right across the street from City Lights Books ) at the end of April. One such closing does not signal a trend; small independent venues come and go. San Francisco does have its newly opened Yoshi's in the historically fascinating Fillmore district.
April 2, 2008 1:22 PM | | Comments (1)

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