… in 2002 after studying jazz in Belgium Hsieh Chi-pin has…
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- Prince William Community Events Aug. 26-Sept. 1 2007
- Still Singing Those Post-Katrina Blues
- Jazz fest untarnished on its golden anniversary
… in 2002 after studying jazz in Belgium Hsieh Chi-pin has…
Taipei Times – Aug 26, 2007
com) a project begun in 2000 to promote jazz by writing about the local and international scene Hsieh also published Urban Jazz for two years before it closed. Hsieh contrasts Taiwan with Japan’s larger and more established jazz scene. “You go to Japan [and] you have swing journals and all kinds of different jazz music and the market is bigger” he said. “The audience musicians and students buy the magazine[s] and they won’t only see the international scene but local musicians. Though this year’s Taipei jazz festival and academy were a great success Hsieh says there is still a long way to go before Taiwan reaches the kind of jazz consciousness seen in Japan. “Most people have become lonely in a way because when you listen to jazz for longer and longer you develop your own personal taste. And somehow you cannot share the music you love because the community isn’t big enough” he said.
Prince William Community Events Aug. 26-Sept. 1 2007
Washington Post – Aug 26, 2007
SUMMERSUNDS CNCERT Latin jazz music by Los Gatos. Harris Pavilion 9201 Center St.
Still Singing Those Post-Katrina Blues
Washington Post – Aug 26, 2007
And then hand the loot to Boutte the son of seven generations of musicmaking New rleans Creoles. "I’m rich" Boutte says sardonically fanning out the bills in his hands like a deck of cards. Two years post-Katrina it’s like this for the city’s musicians: New rleans may be the music mecca the birthplace of jazz the place where you go to get your juice. But it’s no place to make money. "People tell me I should get the [expletive] out" says Boutte at 48 and 5-foot-3 a bronze-skinned bellicose curly-haired Pan. Why should I leave? This is my home.
Jazz fest untarnished on its golden anniversary
San Diego Union Tribune – Aug 26, 2007
It has survived and thrived because the event has always offered something more than music with a wide-open quintessentially Northern California vibe that emanates from the luxuriant landscape. The parklike fairgrounds invite musicians and fans to linger outside in the afternoon with lawns and craggy California aks that beg for a picnic. With five venues offering music simultaneously for most of the weekend Monterey presents more music than even the most restless fan can handle. Tenor-sax titan Sonny Rollins pianist Dave Brubeck guitarist Jim Hall and vocalist Ernestine Anderson who all performed at the first festival are also returning for the golden anniversary… Dwight Eisenhower was well into his second term as president Hawaii was still a territory and the Giants had just relocated to the Bay Area when San Francisco Chronicle columnist Ralph Gleason and disc jockey Jimmy Lyons organized the first festival in 1958. Like Norman Granz's Jazz at the Philharmonic and George Wein's Newport Jazz Festival (which started four years earlier but hasn't run continuously) Monterey's goal was to take the music out of smoky joints and clattering nightclubs to present jazz as a creative endeavor worthy of close attention. Lyons and Gleason sought to showcase jazz's most significant artists and the first year featured a glittering firmament of stars including Louis Armstrong Dizzy Gillespie Shelly Manne and His Men Jimmy Giuffre Harry James and Billie Holiday. What's striking is how visionary those early years were. Lyons quickly recruited the Modern Jazz Quartet's brilliant pianist John Lewis as musical director the first time a musician held a real position of power in such a high-profile event.