Exposed: The Plot to Keep Jazz Down!
The News Review:
- Exposed: The Plot to Keep Jazz Down!
- Celebration of American and African Jazz Ahead of bama’s Inauguration
- Don Ward Joins Sunset Jazz Recordings ‘” The Label is Dreaming …
- Anthony Braxton: The Complete Arista Recordings
Exposed: The Plot to Keep Jazz Down!
Jazz.com TX
This is not just a trend. It is part of a carefully calculated and widespread plot among many people in power to quash jazz in our society. ver the years many more celebrities and important figures than you are aware of have shown their undying support for jazz music. But you?ve never heard much about it because their views have been either altered or even wiped clean from the history books. In an anti-jazz cabal the mainstream media the vast right-wing conspiracy and even the liberal media have joined forces to keep jazz down. This must be investigated. I?ve gotten the ball rolling by uncovering important documents obtained through the little known Freedom of Jazz Information Act that prove that there has been a systematic cleansing of much of that history.
Celebration of American and African Jazz Ahead of bama’s Inauguration
Voice of America
And tonight will be awonderful night for all of us and those who will be coming to the KennedyCenter. I promise you that anybody who comes to see us tonight is goingto enjoy him or herself” Addy noted. Addy said the idea of mixing African traditional music with jazz wasconceptualized in the early 1950s after he saw American jazz legend LouisArmstrong in Ghana. “I have had this idea for a very long time since 1953 when Louis Armstrongvisited Ghana which at the time was known as the Gold Coast. I had thatidea since then because there was no rock and roll only jazz around theworld at that time. And I found out from Louis Armstrong that New rleansis the city where jazz came from” he said. Addy gave the idea to Marsalis to create a piece of music honoring CongoSquare a historic site in New rleans where African slaves were allowedto play their own music and dance every Sunday for over a hundred yearsfrom the 17 ? 1800s.
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Don Ward Joins Sunset Jazz Recordings ‘” The Label is Dreaming …
PR.com (press release) NY
Myers Kevin Hart) and Laff House Comedy Club owner to work with Ward in the studio. Saxophonist Don “Juan” Ward is one of the leading sax players in the world. His playing has been described as a picture perfect blend of sound and is one of the premier signings in the jazz music world. The tandem is currently putting the finial mixes down on the final 6 songs for the label. Sunset jazz aim is to build this into a legendary jazz label with analogous love for classic music styles of John Coltrane Miles Davis and Charles Mingus among other legends in jazz. “He is a major addition to the Sunset Jazz artist roster” added Lichterman “which should attract more great players to the label. ”The new Ward CD Dreaming highlights the labels devotion to that classic style of jazz music showing of its melodies textures and great grooves.
Anthony Braxton: The Complete Arista Recordings
All About Jazz PA
Braxton opened the door for a brief foray by major labels into the world of creative improvisation in the 1970s. Labels like Arista (and sub-labels Arista-Novus and Arista-Freedom) Columbia and Impulse! counted such musicians as pianist Muhal Richard Abrams and saxophonists liver Lake Arthur Blythe Dewey Redman Sam Rivers Pharoah Sanders and Marion Brown in their rosters. Clearly producers Steve Backer and Michael Cuscuna saw the validity of Braxton’s music and his place in the jazz canon a player and composer who was firmly in the tradition while simultaneously hurtling that tradition forward on an enormously individualistic structural path one which at times aligned him with the celestial concepts of Sun Ra and Stockhausen. Indeed Braxton’s titles were based on esoteric diagrams from the language of metaphysics (he has since employed opus numbers). Braxton’s run of sessions with Arista was also extraordinarily ambitious including projects like a single composition spanning three LPs with four 39-piece orchestras participating (Four rchestras 1978). They have nothing to do with commercial viability and everything to do with artistic vision. Guitarist Joe Morris who recorded a four-disc set of duet improvisations with Braxton in 2007 for Clean Feed Records characterizes him as someone whose process relies on continual restatement.