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28th October

The News Review:

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- The Story of a Sound.
- Joni Mitchell is back ‘” and she’s mad
- Moondog – Music – New York Times
- Pitt Jazz Seminar aims to show universality of music
- ABC TV – Sunday Arts
- Pat Patten: Music producer.

… – Tyshawn Sorey – Jeremy Pelt – 13th Floor Elevators – Music…
New York Times – Oct 28, 2007
” This music “simply is” he writes. “It does not want or need. ” Much of the music here is written for a quartet with drums bass piano and trombone and some tracks (like “Sacred and Profane”) use all of them at once working in something like the post-’60s jazz-vanguard tradition of small gestures open space and European classical harmony. But there’s also “Permutation for Solo Piano” right out of.

The Story of a Sound.
New York Times – Oct 28, 2007
Jazz performers he asserted had no business embracing (as Coltrane did) Indian African and Latin music. Grumpily counter-countercultural as the 1960s progressed he didn’t have much time for.

Joni Mitchell is back ‘” and she’s mad
Providence Journal – Oct 28, 2007
I understood the price of it at an early age. ”Mitchell enjoyed her biggest commercial success in the early ’70s as she exposed her emotional vulnerabilities on such albums as Blue and Court and Spark but she found the folk-pop sound too constraining for her complex lyrics. She turned to unorthodox harmonies jazz and world music and edgier social commentaries starting with 1975’s The Hissing of Summer Lawns. “I did five albums four with praise and then for the rest of my career it was always unfavorable” said Mitchell dressed elegantly in a black Issey Miyake outfit her silvery blond hair down over her neck. “You’re supposed to get a decade the artist from the ’60s the artist from the ’70s.

Moondog – Music – New York Times
New York Times – Oct 28, 2007
“And everybody had his own Moondog. “Even after he moved to Germany in 1974 where he remained until his death in 1999 at 83 he was remembered in New York as an emblematic street character though not as a serious classical composer. As the British music critic Kenneth Ansell observed in the mid-’90s while jazz greats like Count Basie and.

Pitt Jazz Seminar aims to show universality of music
pittsburghlive.com – Oct 28, 2007
open(targetUrl); } Benny Golson is not one to rest on his honors. The tenor sax star and composer received this year’s Mellon Living Legacy award at a ceremony ct. 12 in Washington D. But this week he will be back doing what he does best as he brings his power as a player and writer to the Pitt Jazz Seminar and Concert. “Benny is pretty much the senior guy at the whole thing” says Nathan Davis University of Pittsburgh director of jazz studies about Golson’s multifaceted career.

ABC TV – Sunday Arts
abc.net.au – Oct 28, 2007
He is a veteran drummer and has been playing in the Australian jazz music scene for over forty years. In 2000 Allan won the Don Banks Award for his contribution to Australian music only the second jazz musician ever to win this prestigious award. This week on Sunday Arts we hear him perform with some of the young and emerging talent on the jazz scene including the acclaimed trumpeter Eugene Ball. Allan is a regular feature at Jazz Festivals throughout Australia and he will be appearing next month at Victoria’s.

Pat Patten: Music producer.
Free with registration – Columbus Ledger-Enquirer – AccessMyLibrary.com – Oct 28, 2007
28–The stairs leading up to the Loft Recording Studio in Columbus are long and steep. Upon reaching the top Pat Patten — sporting jeans a black T-shirt and white Nikes — emerges from a dimly lit studio. The 51-year-old jazz and blues music producer has already been there for an hour or so that morning. Inside the studio Patten and affiliates from his record label Jammates Records have been hard at work on their latest project an extended play CD for Columbus-based roots and blues artist Marshall Ruffin. Lately LaGrange Ga. -based Patten has been spending every weekday at the cozy Columbus music laboratory to wrap things up. Typically Patten — a soft-spoken 6-foot-5-inch man sporting a white beard and long braid down his back — devotes eight to 14 hours a day to his craft.

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