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Not enough brass: Sholto Byrnes on why British jazz shouldn't blow its own trumpet - Music - This England - Brief Article
The last day of July sees the second-ever BBC Radio Jazz Awards. Hurrah, we're all supposed to say, and it's certainly true that the recognition such ......(Continue Reading) Sandoval Blows Horn for Freedom; Listening to jazz music once offered Arturo Sandoval a kind of escape from Cuba's oppression. But the trumpet master found
Byline: John Berlau, INSIGHT One of the biggest cultural blows to Fidel Castro occurred in 1990, when jazz trumpet master Arturo Sandoval, who had ......(Continue Reading)Songs of Whitman: jazz pianist Fred Hersch crowns a lifetime of achievement with Leaves of Grass, an evening-long composition based on the poetry of protoqueer
"I've been dogged by my musical choices," says jazz pianist and composer Fred Hersch. "Yes, I chose to play Billy Strayhorn and Cole Porter, who were ......(Continue Reading)Dizzy Gillespie honored with jazz club inside $10 million Lincoln Center facility - Music - Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola - Brief Article
Dizzy Gillespie spread the joy of jazz to millions around the globe during the last half-century. Now a new generation of jazz artists will be able to keep Gillespie's legacy alive in a soon-to-be-...(Continue Reading)Jazz: A History of America's Music. - Review - book review
Jazz: A History of America's Music by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns Knopf, November 2000, $65.00, ISBN 0-679-44551-X Whenever anyone attempts to write a history of something as enormous and comp...(Continue Reading)
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