Bud Shank dies at 82; alto saxophonist was immersed in West Coast …
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- Jazz up SAfrica’s musical industry: Hugh Masekela
- Media Matters: Jazz fans bemoan switch
- Paris’ Quai Branly Museum celebrates ‘Jazz Century’
Bud Shank dies at 82; alto saxophonist was immersed in West Coast …
Los Angeles Times
BITUARIESBud Shank dies at 82; alto saxophonist was immersed in West Coast jazz sceneLos Angeles TimesBud Shank was a major jazz figure in the 1950s and ’60s playing in Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All-Stars and Stan Kenton’s Innovations in Modern Music rchestra. By Jon Thurber April 6 2009Bud Shank the alto saxophonist who was a key figure in the West Coast jazz scene of the 1950s has died. Shank died Thursday night at his home in Tucson of pulmonary failure friends said.
Jazz up SAfrica’s musical industry: Hugh Masekela
AFP
Brashly outspoken the musician is far from frail after turning 70 this weekend with a performance at Africa’s biggest jazz festival in Cape Town. The trumpeter longs back to the kaleidoscope of music art and culture which thrived in segregated communities under the otherwise grim days of minority white rule where dissatisfaction bred artists with a message. Masekela remembers it as a period of carnivals singing churches marching bands and orchestras: a time when people had entertainment all weekend. “If all those things are not brought back into our lives our kids will say ‘They say we used to be Africans’ and that day is coming and it is very sad” Masekela told reporters in Cape Town.
Media Matters: Jazz fans bemoan switch
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Paris’ Quai Branly Museum celebrates ‘Jazz Century’
Los Angeles Times
The Big Bad Wolf is a lousy trumpeter trying to sit in with a swinging trio of pigs. He gets the bum’s rush blows down two clubs and ends up in hell after a mishap with TNT. But the wolf’s ghost returns wailing as sweetly as Rogers himself. The pianist porker proclaims the moral: “You gotta get hot to play real cool.