Longtime jazz magazine exits the stage
The News Review:
- Longtime jazz magazine exits the stage
- Playboy Jazz Festival plays to wide audience
- Regional Calendar
- ‘How the Beatles Destroyed Rock ‘N’ Roll’ by Elijah Wald
- Columbus Jazz rchestra review: Three tenors earn admiration on sax
- MARK STRYKER Stephen Hartke’s delightful take on the blues
Longtime jazz magazine exits the stage
Examiner.com
I kind of like the feeling of belonging you get from listening to music you know other people are enjoying. That may be an imagined social involvement but it’s still a good psychological buzz. With the typically small audience for jazz music related magazines function as much as trade publications as they do consumer magazines meaning they advertise band equipment and other insider products more than say Volkswagens or shampoo. And with people now pinching pennies thanks to the recession music listening and relevant reading become more of a luxury purchase punishing some of the greatest artists on the planet with the tragedy of simply being ignored by listeners and hence out of work. com recently pondered the question.
Playboy Jazz Festival plays to wide audience
Los Angeles Times
"Because it's a cross-generational festival. That's the good news. " Given the state of the music industry it's tough to argue with the logic. The festival's East Coast counterpart the JVC Jazz Festival in New York City had a reputation for booking more strictly jazz artists for its multiple stages than does Playboy. It was recently canceled for the first time in 37 years after losing its sponsorship. The Playboy Jazz Festival is without a sponsor for its second consecutive year and it's tempting to worry about its health in a tough economic climate. Chan acknowledged that ticket sales are somewhat down from last year with many fans now opting to attend just one day instead of two.
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Regional Calendar
Wicked Local Roslindale
For more information visit BYSweb. MUSIC N THE BSTN HARBR ISLANDS – The Boston Harbor Islands will have Dixie swing and jazz music with guitarist David Ehle on Sundays June 14-Sept. 27 from noon to 4 p. on Spectacle Island. This is an opportunity to hear all the songs people know from the American songbook of the last century.
‘How the Beatles Destroyed Rock ‘N’ Roll’ by Elijah Wald
Los Angeles Times
Because the mythology of the rock era tends to suffocate all that came before it Wald’s backroads journey has real moments of enlightenment. Can you dance to it?Starting with ragtime Wald recounts a nascent industry that was built around sheet music sales at a time when a piano was a common instrument in many homes. Eventually ragtime gave way to jazz swing and pop along with advancements such as radio records and jukeboxes which musicians and the music business fought every step of the way (a reactionary behavior that still exists given the music industry’s reluctance now to embrace the digital marketplace). For much of the century Wald notes live performance was ubiquitous and sonic innovation took a back seat to the will of the dancing ticket buyers. “The geniuses and innovations are exciting but if we want to understand how the music sounded in its time and how it changed over the years” Wald writes “we need always to keep in mind the submerged mass of journeyman dance bands part-timers amateurs and dancers who kept the whole mass afloat. “Jazz was the first genre to embrace improvisation and though it is regarded as the “blossoming of black culture” a white Denver-born musician named Paul Whiteman was the biggest star during the genre’s formative years. Still it wasn’t until the big band era spearheaded by Benny Goodman in the mid-1930s that the personality of the band became as important as the song.
Columbus Jazz rchestra review: Three tenors earn admiration on sax
Columbus Dispatch
The Columbus Jazz rchestra’s final concerts of the 2008-09 season are cleverly called “TheseThree Tenors Play the Blues. ” The three in question — Red Holloway Houston Person and RickeyWoodard — are tenor saxophonists not opera singers although their performance tonight in theSouthern Theatre had even the orchestra’s reedmen applauding. The orchestra got right down to business with a blaring version of one of jazz music’s greatesthits the perennial St. After the first chorus pianist Bobby Floyd played one of hiswhere-is-he-going-with-that solos before Woodard followed by Person and then Holloway eachoffered choice improvisations that not only brought the tune back to the Midwest but also hintedat what was to come. This concert wasn’t a cutting contest as you might have had in the old days but rather a tenortown-hall meeting with three veteran players mutually admiring their peers including the CJ. Fifty-something Woodard 74-year-old Person and 82-years-young Holloway hail from the boptradition: smooth on the ballads and boisterous on the blues.
MARK STRYKER Stephen Hartke’s delightful take on the blues
Detroit Free Press
Saturday rchestra Hall Max M. Fisher Music Center 3711 Woodward Detroit. JAZZSpeaking of fund-raisers Music Hall’s Cars & Stars 2009 features the extraordinary tap dancer Savion Glover and one of the top drummers in jazz Jeff (Tain) Watts. The relationship between jazz and tap has always been close but Glover — who has worked with McCoy Tyner and frequently cites John Coltrane as a personal hero — takes that connection to a new level of modernist sophistication and soul. Friday Music Hall 350 Madison Detroit.