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The Atlantic: Without Jazz and Blues, There’s No Americana
May 17, 2016Blues history celebrates mythical turning points. Robert Johnson going to the crossroads to sell his soul. Leadbelly being discovered in—and sprung from—prison by John and Alan Lomax. The 1913 arrest that set ...
Newport Jazz Festival gets new leader, $10M promise
March 11, 2016PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Jazz impresario George Wein took another step to secure the future of his 62-year-old Newport Jazz Festival on Thursday, as the nonprofit foundation that runs it named Grammy-winning bassist ...
Nielsen: Brands That Engage Jazz Fans Won’t Be Left Singing The Blues
March 10, 2016Think jazz is just a genre featured in movies from the 1960s? Think again. Take artist Kamasi Washington, for example. Last week, the Millennial jazz artist won the inaugural American Music Prize. He was also ...
The Art of Cool announces its 2016 lineup, gets back to jazz
October 23, 2015by Eric Tullis Tonight, before Los Angeles jazz adventurer Terrace Martin hit The Pour House stage in Raleigh for The Art of Cool Project and 9th Wonder’s monthly soul series Caramel City, Art of Cool president ...
Variety: Film Review: ‘Miles Ahead’
October 10, 2015Source: Variety Don Cheadle flails about trying to channel the spirit of late jazz-trumpeting legend Miles Davis in “Miles Ahead,” a biopic that rejects typical genre conventions to the point of chasing itself down ...
Willis Conover, The Voice Of Jazz Behind The Iron Curtain
July 27, 2015Willis Conover was known around the world, but not so much at home. He was the voice of jazz over the Voice of America for more than 40 years, most of it during the Cold War. Imagine what it was like to sit in the ...
Luc Burgelman: How Jazz Music Prepared Me for Life as a CEO
July 26, 2015Last week, I found myself in an Italian restaurant playing improvised jazz music with a few other musicians. Despite what it might sound like, I’m not a full-time musician. I’m actually CEO of a big data startup, a ...
UK Telegraph: Blue Note to open jazz club in China
July 4, 2015The great jazz trumpeter Buck Clayton would fondly recall his time in China in the 1930s, when jazz was the soundtrack to Shanghai. Although jazz was massively popular in China during the 1920s and 1930s, it ...
Jazz at Lincoln Center and Sony Music Team Up for Blue Engine Records
June 30, 2015Jazz at Lincoln Center has shelves upon shelves of recordings from concerts it has presented since its founding in 1987, including a studio recording featuring the pianist Chick Corea, a musical Mass with a gospel ...
LA Times: Ornette Coleman, jazz innovator and disruptor, dies at 85
June 10, 2015When saxophonist Ornette Coleman played clubs in Los Angeles in the mid-1950s, audiences often covered their ears and waited outside until his set was done. He shunned the conventions of melody and harmony and ...