Monthly Archives: June 2011

Who shot Miles?

From 1965-1985 one of the New York metro area’s hotspots for live jazz was the Blue Coronet in Brooklyn – the Bedford-Stuyvesant community to be exact. Sometimes I wonder if perhaps Brooklyn should be labeled the Second City instead of … Continue reading

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Announcing the death of jazz

May 4, 2005 Jazz is dead! It died that day around 3pm… Surviving are 1,7 million musicians who play Jazz and 20 million jazz fans throughout the world, 300 million recordings, and 500,000 trombonists without beepers. – Producer-saxophonist Bob Belden

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DC Jazz Festival closes with an absolute blast!

The 7th annual DC Jazz Festival, under the prescient guidance of Charlie Fishman and Sunny Sumter (who though still a young woman, insists she has “retired” as a jazz vocalist, but we still hold out hope…) closed last Monday evening … Continue reading

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“Africa’s grandest gathering!”

Striving to live up to its boast as “Africa’s grandest gathering” the 2011 edition of the Cape Town International Jazz Festival presented a rich cornucopia of sounds – including jazz, jazz extensions and jazz-influenced in a colorful melange. Being an … Continue reading

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