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CNN: Jazz improv and your brain: The key to creativity?
April 29, 2018(CNN) Fingers graze a keyboard, poised to play. A trumpet rises to the lips. Drumsticks perch in the air, ready to fall. The improv begins, and this combo of jazz musicians instantly creates a piece of music that ...
Metro: Courtney Pine: Jazz music is very dangerous
April 27, 2018“With jazz, we play the melody, and after that we don’t know what’s going to happen,’ Courtney Pine explains. ‘It really is dipping our hands into the dark matter of music. That experience can only work if ...
LA Times: Bob Dorough, jazz artist who wrote catchy, educational ditties for ‘Schoolhouse Rock,’ dies at 94
April 25, 2018Times were lean for jazz pianist and singer Bob Dorough in the early 1970s when he got an unusual request from an advertising executive. Could Dorough write songs that might help children learn their multiplication ...
Pat Metheny to Receive PRS for Music Gold Award at Jazz FM Awards
April 24, 2018Pat Metheny will receive the PRS for Music Gold Award at the Jazz FM Awards this year. The ceremony will take place at Shoreditch Town Hall in London on Monday, April 30.
We WILL Return!
May 26, 2017The Jazz Page has been on a bit of a hiatus, but WILL return next week some overdue reviews and news! Thanks for your patience!
Grammy Award-Winning Flutist Dave Valentin Dies At 64
March 11, 2017Dave Valentin became one of the pre-eminent flutists in Latin jazz. He was known for his creative combination of fusion, pop and R&B. He won a Grammy in 2003 for best Latin jazz album for “The ...
A Rocky Road to Jazz
March 10, 2017Finding one’s calling in life is never easy, and for jazz saxophonist, pianist, flutist, and clarinet player Carol Sudhalter, that proved to be an exceptionally rocky path, despite growing up in a family of jazz ...
WTJU celebrates 100 years of jazz recordings
March 9, 2017When Rus Perry arrived at WTJU in 1972, he was really into rock ’n’ roll. But the more he hung out at the station, the more he expanded his musical horizons, playing the latest Bruce Springsteen or Elvis Costello ...
Bulgaria Public Radio bans pop music, earns more listeners with jazz and classics
February 27, 2017Bulgaria’s public radio has been given a surprise boost in listeners after a copyright war limited the broadcaster to airing music recorded at least 70 years ago. The station has been playing classical music and ...
NPR: A New Documentary Explores The Troubled, Brilliant Life Of Pianist Bill Evans
February 25, 2017Bill Evans was a genius: The jazz world, which can be roiled by factions and jealousies, usually agrees on that. He was a composer and pianist with a light, lyrical touch that was once described as what you might ...
