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- Jazz legend Oscar Peterson dies
- The Year’s Best Jazz CDs
- Tuesday ‘” December 25
- Music – Education – Classical Music – New York Times
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eJazzNews – Dec 25, 2007
One of the sounds that seem to have resurrected at least on Indian shores is that of Jazz. Why resurrected you may ask? After all for the average Indian music lover Jazz is apparently a new phenomenon or so it seems. According to Jazz aficionados if we look back in history the 50s 60s and 70s were the sunshine years for Jazz in India when many Jazz greats like Dave Brubeck John Coltrane and Duke Ellington looked to India for inspiration. ?My first impression as a teenager was the Duke Ellington big band which performed in Mumbai well over thirty years ago. The musicians attired in their white sharkskin suits and black bow ties have left an inedible mark on my mind and the music just got to me… But Indian audiences are opening to new acts? says Bangalore based composer and Jazz musician Amit Heri whose guitar strumming has gained him accolades in major international music festivals. In fact the past year has seen numerous Jazz musicians perform across the country; from Grammy Award winning American pianist Herbie Hancock New York based Rhythm Road Jazz All Stars artists to Australian Jazz fusion guitarist Frank Gambale and Italian classical guitarist Maurizio Colonna. Despite the fact that Jazz music has never been seen as populist and has always had niche audiences the Jazz scene in India is gaining tempo. What is noticeably different is the changing perception about Jazz possibly due to easy accessibility to the music through the Internet. ?The awareness for Jazz has certainly gone up as music is easily available on the Internet. You can log on to YouTube and watch footage of shows. If you take the average Indian youth he or she has many resources available today? says Delhi-based Samiran Gupta of Indiabeat ? an Internet radio station launched in 2006 where you can listen to non-stop music in genres such as Jazz fusion Indo-jazz fusion Jazz rock and Indipop.
Jazz legend Oscar Peterson dies
BBC News – Dec 25, 2007
The first time I heard this number I made a wish that this track would be played at my cremation as my smoke wafted up the chimney. That’s still the plan. If there’s a heaven Oscar will be there and the music will live on. Peter Relf Ockley United KingdomHe was number ONE of all jazzmusicians. I met him 6 times in concerts in Norway. Last time two years ago in Oslo Consethall… Lihaug Dals?Hours of pleasure that man’s music has given me. Kate Paine Honoloulu USAJust to say the Poker of Aces Louis Amstrong Duke Ellington Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Peterson no one will replace those diamonds perfectly polished now the Jazz music remain orphan I was several years looking for his “C Jam Blues” record in spite of Duke Ellington’ stamp Oscar Peterson did his special touch but in an unrepeatable way that no one can do. It is a sad day to me. Iglesia Sevilla SpainMy first time seeing Oscar Peterson was solo piano for a CBC radio concert at the Manitoba Centenial Concert Hall. My father and two brothers were with me.
The Year’s Best Jazz CDs
NPR – Dec 25, 2007
Brecker’s style owed a lot to John Coltrane but he found musical partners far and wide from Joni Mitchell to Paul Simon to James Brown. What follows are the Top 10 jazz recordings of 2007 led by Brecker.
Tuesday ‘” December 25
NEWS.com.au – Dec 25, 2007
5 Jive At Five (Classic Jazz). 7 Film Music 2nd and 4th Tuesday Interlude other Tuesdays. Midnight Midnight Music Overnight.
Music – Education – Classical Music – New York Times
New York Times – Dec 25, 2007
Bloomberg’s announcement last summer that New York City schools would be required to teach the arts and that principals would be rated annually on their success much as they are in other subjects. In theory this could put some muscle behind the adventurous curriculum (or blueprint as it is called) that the city’s Department of Education and a panel of arts consultants drew up in 2004: a kindergarten-through-12th-grade program that envisions choral and instrumental performance the fostering of musical literacy and the consideration of the role music plays in communities and the world at large. The music proposed for this course was admirably boundary-free cutting a swath from.