Jim Hall: The Elegant Guitarist
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- Jim Hall: The Elegant Guitarist
- All About Jazz Reader Q&A: Jim Hall
- Saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa and pianist Vijay Iyer launch jazz …
- Brazilian Pop: Sambas With a Twist
- Sirius XM Radio Launches Beyond Jazz Show on Real Jazz Channel
- SXSW Music festival big draw despite economic woes
Jim Hall: The Elegant Guitarist
All About Jazz
Though the music gigging around Cleveland wasn’t usually jazz music still it was work. “We had a trio and we worked in a club on weekends. I even played string bass on gigs sometimes. Weddings and things like that. “Says Hall “Somehow I knew I wanted to be a musician.
All About Jazz Reader Q&A: Jim Hall
All About Jazz
It also has Pat playing beautifully on every kind of guitar imaginable. I think you’ll like it. Glenn Astarita Would be interested to see your comments on the state of jazz today. JH: Jazz music seems to be in great shape (even though “jazz” is a term I’m not particularly conformable with). Jazz is an art form which is alive and growing changing and which will always attract bright musical people—musicians and audiences young and old. Most of the best of what we hear now (with the exception of classical music) has more to do with sociology than with music – it’s incredibly primitive musically—and as intelligent humans we need more than that. From: Reese Erlich Your version of Concierto de Aranguez is one of my favorites.
Saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa and pianist Vijay Iyer launch jazz …
Chicago Tribune
Each has gone a long way toward infusing the music with elements of South Indian culture. Together they have pointed jazz in a new direction—or at least developed Eastern elements that long have been dormant in the music. Yet each has a perspective of his own as Mahanthappa made clear Saturday night at the. If Iyer has been the dominant figure in previous Chicago outings this time Mahanthappa sounded more imposing than ever with Iyer tamping down his volcanic approach to the keyboard.
Brazilian Pop: Sambas With a Twist
New York Times
The music-school techniques showed in Mr. liveira’s most distinctive songs. His set on Saturday began with compositions that were full of musicianly convolutions like the odd meter and gnarled jazz chords of “Contigo Sempre” all packed into syncopated guitar patterns that he delivered with quick-fingered ease. In their harmonies some songs suggest a Brazilian answer to.
Sirius XM Radio Launches Beyond Jazz Show on Real Jazz Channel
JazzTimes Magazine
Each week Beyond Jazz will broadcast the roots of modern jazz music featuring the legendary musicians who 30 years ago were trying to change the very definition of the music?s form. Sirius XM listeners will hear music from Herbie Hancock Miles Davis Chick Corea Wayne Shorter and many others. The channel broadcasts jazz from the 1920s to today.
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SXSW Music festival big draw despite economic woes
Houston Chronicle
Fans are snapping up four-day passes to the famed South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival that starts this week when thousands are expected to hit the town’s storied nightclubs to catch the hottest new acts. It’s too soon to say how the 23rd annual SXSW will compare to last year but hotel room bookings are up jazz legend and 27-time Grammy Award winner Quincy Jones is opening the show and nearly 2000 bands from 52 countries will be playing promoters say. “There is really nothing bigger” said Rose Reyes music marketing director for the city convention bureau. “It is Christmas for cab drivers restaurant owners for hotels for businesses all around the city. While Austin has been hit by the same economic woes that are spreading across the globe the hip college town remains an incubator for sizzling new bands and a thriving music scene that brought SXSW here nearly a quarter century ago. Back then about 700 attended; last year there were nearly 13000 paid registrants at the music festival and thousands more who showed up to absorb unofficial sideshows.