Central New York summer music scene: Dave Matthews band Kenny G …
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- Central New York summer music scene: Dave Matthews band Kenny G …
- New York Loses Its Jazz Festival
- Talking to Myself About the State of Jazz Music
- The Allure of “Winterwood”
- downbeat magazine celebrating 75 years on jazz stage
Central New York summer music scene: Dave Matthews band Kenny G …
The Post-Standard – Syracuse.com
The Northeast Jazz & Wine Festival runs July 23 to 25 in Clinton Square; Blue Rain ECFest runs July 24 and 25 in Hanover Square. Both free-admission fests are part of ArtsWeek. They’ll feature jazz music. syracuseballoonfest. Anchoring the three days of music at Jamesville Beach Park will be the Fabulous Thunderbirds (June 12) Night Ranger (June 13) and rleans (June 14).
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New York Loses Its Jazz Festival
New York Times
“In my culture” he said “one doesn’t abandon a friend because he’s in trouble. Shields whose own tastes lean more to folk than to jazz had a modest profile in music before taking over Mr. Wein’s company. After graduating from Columbia in 1993 he worked briefly for Mr. Wein and in 1998 he developed a festival on Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard. In 2000 he worked under Mr.
Talking to Myself About the State of Jazz Music
Jazz.com
But let?s not kid ourselves. An art form without a vibrant growing audience is not healthy no matter how big the life support machinery surrounding it. Are there any heroes in this story? Although a lot has been done to support jazz music in recent years very little has been done to nurture and grow the audience. Everyone just assumes that supporting the art form means supporting the musicians. But that is only half the equation and actually the least important half. We don?t need more sax solos. We don?t need more CDs.
The Allure of “Winterwood”
JustPressPlay
? And while it seems like with the enormous amount of genre titles we?ve conjured up over the years nothing could possibly escape an exact definition of a brand of popular music. But JFJ just might be a group that could accurately be placed in some sort of gray area. nce a upon a time Jacob Fred Jazz dyssey was a fairly typical jazz band that like many bands of the time mixed traditional jazz music with George Clinton style funk. That was in the ?90s though and as the ?00s came into being JFJ dropped a number of the traditional jazz instrumentalists that toured with the group and became a trio. Lead by pianist and band leader Brian Haas the band took on a much more experimental mindset. Mixing rock funk and lots of extended improv jams Haas and the rest of the band began to create a sound that was all their own straying much farther away from even typical jazz fusion music. All the while the music they were creating began to sound less like jazz and much more like an odyssey.
downbeat magazine celebrating 75 years on jazz stage
Chicago Tribune
I’m not an avid or knowledgeable jazz fan but I do read DownBeat regularly because it deals with music. “A recent visit to the magazine offices — a tidy brick building tucked along the railroad tracks — brought forth a tidal wave of stories from staffers. There was the time in the 1970s when Buddy Rich threw his drumsticks at the magazine’s owner. (“The next day they were buddies again” recalled Frank Alkyer DownBeat publisher. ) r the time in the 1960s when one of the writers was invited to a rollicking party at Benny Goodman’s New York apartment.