{"id":977,"date":"2012-08-01T18:14:06","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T22:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/?p=977"},"modified":"2019-09-12T18:48:39","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T22:48:39","slug":"are-there-new-songs-play-whats-recorded-on-gigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2012\/08\/are-there-new-songs-play-whats-recorded-on-gigs.html","title":{"rendered":"Are there new songs? Play what’s recorded on gigs?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The venerability, relevance and novelty of the “jazz standard” is being questioned in the jazzosphere, but I wonder about the dearth of new songs that are sticking in my latest column in CityArts-New York<\/a>. In my just-\u00c2\u00a0previous column<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0I reviewed recent albums by a few musicians gigging in NYC, and warned there’s no reason to expect them to do live what they committed to record.<\/p>\n

Abiding by space limits on both these columns, I didn’t expand as I would have, to say that while there aren’t necessarily new songs that are sticking with us or being played scene-wide, there are<\/em> a lot of current musicians coming up with personal sounds (for themselves and\/or their ensembles). And if I wasn’t completely blown away by any of albums I surveyed by players \u00c2\u00a0around town last month, there are a couple of dozen recent releases that are<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0rewarded repeated listening, and I’ll have to write about them soon — watch this space!<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, I’m looking forward to attending the Newport Jazz Festival<\/a> this weekend — it’s got a great lineup for Saturday and Sunday, and I’ll boil down a lot of impressions for coverage in my next CityArts-New York column, to be published Aug. 14.<\/p>\n

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The venerability, relevance and novelty of the “jazz standard” is being questioned in the jazzosphere, but I wonder about the dearth of new songs that are sticking in my latest column in CityArts-New York. In my just-\u00c2\u00a0previous column\u00c2\u00a0I reviewed recent albums by a few musicians gigging in NYC, and warned there’s no reason to expect […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/duke-and-strayhorn.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1i3CL-fL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1974,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2016\/02\/mavis-staples-hbo-doc-hits-relevant-civil-rights-notes.html","url_meta":{"origin":977,"position":0},"title":"Mavis Staples’ HBO doc hits relevant Civil Rights notes","author":"Howard Mandel","date":"February 28, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\"I'm not as frisky as I used to be but I feel like I am,\" Mavis Staples speaks the truth with a grin and a twinkle in Mavis!, an endearingly upbeat bio doc premiering on HBO tonight (Monday, February 29). 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