John Hammond Jr. impressed me some 20 years ago with his solo blues harp-guitar-vocal act that seemed about as close to the style of Delta blues songster Robert Johnson as exists. He did it again, just last night.
Archives for July 2007
Americana, cello solo and string trio varieties
“Americana” doesn’t gibe with “homeland,” a term which always reminds me of nativist propaganda. The Wikipedia definition of “homeland” alludes to that nuance: “When used as a proper noun, the word, as well as its cognates in other languages (ie. Heimatland in German) often have ethnic nationalist connotations.”
Diversions, tangents, expeditions
Jazz Beyond Jazz
Jose Reyes’ Jazz Con Class
Roanna Forman’s Boston Jazz Blog
David Hadju’s The Famous Door
Matt Miller’s tuneOUToptIN
Richard Mitnick’s Musicsprings
A Blog Supreme (NPR)
George Grella’s The Big City
Sebastian Scotney’s LondonJazz
Alex W. Rodriguez’s Lubricity
Ralph Mirlello’s Notes on Jazz
Jazz Beyond Jazz
What if there’s more to jazz than you suppose? What if jazz demolishes suppositions and breaks all bounds? What if jazz – and the jazz beyond, behind, under and around jazz – could enrich your life?
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Jazz Beyond Jazz
I’ll be speaking about the legacy of Billy Strayhorn on The Barber Shop Show hosted by Richard Steele, live from Chicago’s Lawndale neighborhood at noon Friday Nov 6 2015 (rebroadcast 3 pm Sunday) on WBEZ ChicagoPublicMedia.org.
Needledrop & video-viewings of Ornette, Old and New Dreams and their world — I’ll vj with esteemed aficionados Kate (Hyde Park Jazz Assoc.) Dumbleton, Lofton (WHPK) Emenari and Neil (Playboy Guide to Jazz, et al) Tesser at noon to 3 pm Sat Nov 15 at the Logan Center penthouse (915 E. 60th St., Chicago). Part of HotHouse’s Old and New Dreams festival.
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Howard Mandel
I’m a Chicago-born (and after 30 years in NYC, repatriated in 2014) writer, editor, author, arts reporter for National Public Radio, non-profit organization consultant and videographer — a veteran freelance journalist working on newspapers, magazines and websites, appearing on tv and radio, teaching at New York University and elsewhere, specializing on culturally oriented media and music-related issues. Since 1994 I’ve been president of the Jazz Journalists Association, a non-profit membership organization devoted to using new and traditional media to disseminate news and views about jazz. I’m a member of the Author’s Guild and a board member of the Jazz Institute of Chicago.
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The Makers of Jazz Beyond Jazz
Over the course of three decades, I’ve been privileged to get behind the scenes and meet heroic creators of jazz as well as up-and-comers, innovators and exemplars of many other genres. Please enjoy these archival interviews and articles.