Benny Goodman’s music still swings
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- Benny Goodman’s music still swings
- Rwanda: ‘Jazz for Peace’ in Kigali
- Deborah Brown: Jazz Diva Extraordinaire
- Jazz finds a way today
Benny Goodman’s music still swings
San Francisco Chronicle
tmpl –>Seventy years later that music still makes your head spin feet move and spirits rise. The sound of Benny Goodman – the blazing clarinet soaring above a riotously rocking big band or dancing with thrilling fluency through improvised trio and quartet numbers – set off the swing fever that helped millions through the Depression and brought jazz to the forefront of American popular music. tmpl –> Images.
Rwanda: ‘Jazz for Peace’ in Kigali
AllAfrica.com
Jazz is new in Kigali but the turn out showed that there is great potential for it. Rick DellaRatta and his group Jazz for Peace held two concerts in Petit Stadium and at Serena hotel. GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_InsetA” );The group was specifically invited to perform in Kigali to promote peace as it is the group’s main purpose of existence. According to one of the organisers Misbah Sheikh the group extensive work in peace promotion was relevant to the aims of the ‘Peace Week’.
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Deborah Brown: Jazz Diva Extraordinaire
All About Jazz
Jazz is about using the framework about creating alternate melodies; but you have to be careful not to be confined too much by the lyric. That’s why people don’t appreciate true jazz vocalists so much because they give less significance to the lyric. AAJ: You used the word reconstruct and a lot of jazz is indeed about taking the music apart and transforming it. DB: I love the novel called Jazz (Penguin 1993) by Toni Morrison. It’s the first book I ever read that had a jazz form where it gave you the main story but the book was based on all the people who witnessed one event. It was the same event described from everyone’s point of view. AAJ: You just indirectly gave us a new way to look at jazz singers.
Jazz finds a way today
Atlanta Journal Constitution
“I just don’t think the city should be in the business of producing festivals” Cathy Woolard then City Council president said in 2002. Certainly jazz festivals are in trouble elsewhere. For the first time in 37 years there will be no JVC Jazz Festival in New York this summer according to The New York Times. Jazz music’s threatened status argues for public support said Love as does the special place that jazz holds among American-born art forms. “We think jazz music is as American as apple pie.