Monthly Archives: March 2016

The Voice of Jazz gets downright indignant!

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is… — Noel Coward No truer words have ever been spoken (and thanks to WBGO deejay Sheila Anderson for that one, taken from her valuable book The Quotable Musician (Allworth Press). If jazz could only … Continue reading

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Lifting the Boats?

No question saxophonist Kamasi Washington is the current “it” man in jazz. Its not often that an unabashed jazz musician like the L.A. based tenor man garners the level of mainstream prints Washington has enjoyed. Certainly we recognize that the … Continue reading

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Introducing a new jazz-on-TV paradigm

Producer LeRoy Downs interviewing Terence Blanchard for the premier edition of “The Jazz Creative” on the Aspire network Over the last few years a fixture at Dizzy’s Den on the grounds of the Monterey Jazz Festival, has been the hip, … Continue reading

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