Slipped Disc: Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um (Mixed Media)
- 11:42 AM — Jan 04 —
- Source: PopMatters
1959 remains, arguably, the most important year in the history of jazz music. Read More
1433 — The Grand Voyage
- 9:38 AM — Jan 04 —
- Source: The Seoul Times
The 2010 Taiwan International Festival (TIF) will present a brand new production 1433－The Grand Voyage, a music theater directed and designed by famed American theater master Robert Wilson. 1433 is one of the two flagship productions by National CKS Cultural Center and will be presented from 20th to 28th of February in 2010. Read More
Hit me with your rhythm shtick: How did Ian Dury become one of the most fascinating rock stars of the 1970s?
- 7:23 PM — Jan 02 —
- Source: The Independent - Music
He won lots of awards a few years ago for portraying a vulnerable, self-serving, treacherous, addicted, grasping, malodorous, dimensionless little reptile, and for doing so in such a way that you cared about his character's pain. Read More
CONTEST/GIVEAWAY: Enter the Motema Music 4-CD Giveaway!
- 4:11 PM — Jan 01 —
- Source: All About Jazz
All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Motema Music 4-CD giveaway contest starting today. Read More
Year-End Odds and Ends: Jazz, Vol. 1
- 11:59 AM — Jan 01 —
- Source: Something Else!
The other day, I explained our lack of year-end lists that all good music review sites do by a still-bountiful stack of unexplored CD's that deserved some checking out before I can put together a tally that looks somewhat informed. Read More
DownBeat magazine's 75-year history is one for the books
- 9:30 AM — Dec 30 —
- Source: Victoria Advocate - Victoria TX
Seventy-five years ago, a new Chicago publication began chronicling a fast-growing music: the big bands. Read More
2009 Jazz Poll: Tom Hull's Alternate, Unsettled Top 10
- 8:56 PM — Dec 29 —
- Source: Village Voice - New York NY
Hard-luck stories abound in the industry, but the flow of 2009 jazz records was scarcely dampened. Read More
The best albums of 2009: 10 peaks in pop
- 5:05 AM — Dec 29 —
- Source: Entertainment - New York Daily News
Rude boy Kanye West and girlfriend beater Chris Brown may have hogged this year's headlines in music - at least when people weren't marveling over the Cinderella story that is Susan Boyle . Read More
Misterioso
- 3:38 PM — Dec 23 —
- Source: The Nation
"You know people have tried to put me off as being crazy," said Thelonious Sphere Monk. Read More
Pete King obituary
- 12:05 PM — Dec 23 —
- Source: The Guardian - London - UK
The instinct of most jazz musicians to chase down the unexpected improvisational twist and avoid the formulaic has been good for the art, but often bad for business. Read More
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