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FESTIVAL/CRUISE: Tanglewood Season Closes with Annual Jazz Festival
With the end of August and the upcoming Labor Day holiday, a week of relative repose makes for a natural demarcation point between the musically hyperactive summer festival season and several imminent regional fall chamber and college series, which start up after Labor Day. I'll focus on several of those next week...
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FESTIVAL/CRUISE: Ode to Ornette
Chicago's certified jazz genius talks the deeper meaning of free jazz.
By Ken Vandermark
EDITOR'S NOTE: In 1959, a 29-year-old Ornette Coleman released his second album for Atlantic (and just his fourth in all), The Shape of Jazz to Come. The title told the simple truth: Coleman thought outside the bop and charted new territory that's still being explored in the 21st century...
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FESTIVAL/CRUISE: Legend, Rising Star Highlight Tanglewood Jazz Festival
Some critics use chronological age as a crucial standard for measuring talent, just as powerful publicity machines fixate on youth as a prime marketing point for peddling jazz products.
But in the real world of the musicians themselves, there isn't any generation gap, no cultural chasm between Old Masters residing atop Mount Olympus and rising New Masters...
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FESTIVAL/CRUISE: Chicago Jazz Festival Starts Today
Grant Park; Thu 28-Sun 31
When jazz fans scan this year's lineup, two names will jump off the page: Sonny and Ornette. Sonny Rollins (Pritzker Pavilion), who kicks off the fest Thursday night, may be the exemplar of bebop's thorny relationship to its past. At 78, Rollins remains a mercurial and thrilling live performer, refusing to fit his unpredictable solos into the neat box jazz historians have assigned him. (Aging jazz musicians, take note.) And Ornette Coleman (Petrillo Music Shell)? Ditto what Ken Vandermark said...
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GENERAL: The Next Generation of Jazz
You could say it all began with a blue Porsche.
It is what jazz musician Chris Brubeck remembers distinctly about his junior high music teacher Ray Tiezzi, who gave him his first few trombone lessons more than 40 years ago in Connecticut.
"It was a cool-looking car -- part of his persona," Brubeck, son of noted jazz pianist Dave Brubeck, said of Tiezzi's wheels. "He was a really cool cat...
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FESTIVAL/CRUISE: Best Bets for the Detroit International Jazz Fest
Detroit and Philadelphia have such similar jazz histories that the cities might well be twins separated at birth. Both reached their zenith of influence in the hard bop 1950s. Both graduated countless players to the national scene. Both produced R&B juggernauts, Motown and Philly soul.
The 29th annual Detroit International Jazz Festival, which runs Friday through Monday, is dedicated to these meccas. More than 100 national, local and school groups will perform under the banner of "A Love Supreme: The Philly-Detroit Summit." Some of the most famous musicians from both cities will be on the bill...
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FESTIVAL/CRUISE: Distinct Sounds of Jazz Take Center Stage
Fox Jazz Fest set for weekend in Menasha
At Fox Jazz Fest, expect to let what you hear expand your definition of jazz. Advertisement
Like a language with many dialects, jazz speaks to its listeners in many forms. There are Dixieland and bebop, Latin and fusion. If you don't like one sound, chances are you'll like another...
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RADIO/PODCAST: JazzWeek Radio Chart: August 18, 2008
Roy Hargrove Earfood (Emarcy)
David Sanborn Here And Gone (Decca)
Cassandra Wilson Loverly (Blue Note)
Ahmad Jamal It’s Magic (Dreyfus)
Don Braden Gentle Storm (HighNote)
Ted Nash The Mancini Project (Palmetto)
Cedar Walton Seasoned Wood (HighNote)
Steve Turre Rainbow People (HighNote)...
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FESTIVAL/CRUISE: Moe. to Play Farm Aid
moe. Postpone Hiatus to Play Farm Aid in September
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moe. has announced that they will postpone their planned hiatus to participate in this year's Farm Aid Concert at Mansfield, MA's Comcast Center (Great Woods) on September 20. moe. will join Neil Young, Willie Nelson, Dave Matthews, John Mellencamp and others. Severe weather and extreme conditions have made this year particularly challenging for our country's independent farmers and moe. looks forward to contributing to this cause...
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RADIO/PODCAST: Jazz Director Opening at Wrir
The following notice comes from Mary Claire, Music Director at WRIR, Richmond Independent Radio:For those of you who haven't heard, Giz Bowe has stepped down as Jazz Director after a good long run. He did an awesome job, and we really appreciate the time, effort, and love he put into it.But now ther...
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