December 2008 Blog Posts (80)
Happy New Year 2009!
Love you all! Sharon
Added by Sharon Rae on December 31, 2008 at 12:23pm — No Comments
drmike's 2008 radioIO Real Jazz TOP 20 JAZZ RELEASES
Added by Michael Matheny on December 31, 2008 at 11:50am — No Comments
New CD Review from Review You
2008, Electric Shadow
Gary E is a fabulously talented multi-instrumentalist whose primary instrument is the trumpet. He has studied under Lee Konitz as well as at Berklee School Of Music. His prior credits include work with several bands as well as composing music for PBS documentaries. His second release, now&then, displays a penchant for reserved musical theatrics and a conservative approach to composition that is classy and… Continue
Added by Gary E on December 30, 2008 at 6:42pm — No Comments
Great jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard dies at 70
12/30/2008
Freddie Hubbard, the Grammy-winning jazz musician whose blazing virtuosity influenced a generation of trumpet players and who collaborated with such greats as Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins, died Monday, a month after suffering a heart attack. He was 70.
Hubbard died at Sherman Oaks Hospital, said his manager, fellow trumpeter David Weiss of the New Jazz Composers Octet. He had been hospitalized since suffering the heart attack… Continue
Added by m j on December 30, 2008 at 12:56pm — No Comments
Martin Luther King Jr. on JAZZ
ON THE IMPORTANCE OF JAZZ
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Opening Address to the 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival,
God has wrought many things out of oppression. He has endowed his creatures with the capacity to create—and from this capacity has flowed the sweet songs of sorrow and joy that have allowed man to cope with his environment and many different… Continue
Added by Steven Charles on December 30, 2008 at 6:50am — 1 Comment
New Calender page
www.myspace.com/donkblack
Added by Don Black on December 28, 2008 at 2:30pm — No Comments
JAY KING’s Professional Domino Association - It’s More Than a Game!
Define Your Place in the Domino World!... at www.pdadominoes.com
Producer, songwriter, singer, JAY KING, as well as founder, CEO…
JAY KING’s Professional Domino Association - It’s More Than a Game!
Define Your Place in the Domino World!... at www.pdadominoes.com
Producer, songwriter, singer, JAY KING, as well as founder, CEO and commissioner of the Professional Domino Association (PDA), and an undisputed domino champion stated in an ESPN interview, "ESPN has declared dominoes the next big spectator sport. It is… Continue
Added by Joan-Adrienne on December 28, 2008 at 2:30am — No Comments
December 28th, 2008 - The Last Word. Maybe.
So... hey… Continue
Added by Esquizito on December 27, 2008 at 11:00pm — No Comments
THE ESSENCE SHOW - Play List - December 28th, 2008
Host Kara Johnstad
December 28th, 2008
Sundays - 5 hours of great programming
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Kara Johnstad - Hurried Nights
Zap Mama - New World
Rivertribe - Morning Prayer
Tiger Forest - A New Beginning
Alex Shapiro - Current Events First Movement
Kara Johnstad - Open Up and Receive
Miten and Deva Premal - So Much Magnificence
Sacred Earth - kyaponna
Deepak Chopra - The… Continue
Added by Kara Johnstad on December 27, 2008 at 8:48am — No Comments
My best wishes to friends!
I Wish to all my friends from The Jazz Network, for This Season and all Seasons:
Health and Happiness
Peace and Prosperity
Joy and Jazz
Added by Magdalena Vaida on December 27, 2008 at 8:14am — No Comments
Duke Ellington’s Posthumous Revenge
Long ago, I worked part-time at a Boston radio station that mostly played what its announcers solemnly called “serious music”—Bach, Beethoven, Bartók and other such cats. That reverential term was common around the country on such stations. On the air, I refused to categorize only European-derived classical music as “serious”—as if Armstrong, Ellington, Basie and Billie Holiday were only transient forms of impermanent cult music.
In 1965, the three-man music… Continue
Added by m j on December 25, 2008 at 10:33pm — No Comments
Wynton Marsalis -- Black codes From the Underground
SIDEMAN
Charnett Moffett (bass), Ron Carter (bass), Jeff Watts (drums), Branford Marsalis (tenor and soprano saxophone), Kenny Kirkland (piano).
DESCRIPTION
One of the hardest swinging and best-loved of his 1980s recordings wraps listeners in the astonishing group sound that… Continue
Added by m j on December 25, 2008 at 10:31pm — No Comments
Eartha Kitt, sultry 'Santa Baby' singer, dies
12/25/2008
Eartha Kitt, a sultry singer, dancer and actress who rose from South Carolina cotton fields to become an international symbol of elegance and sensuality, has died, a family spokesman said. She was 81.
Andrew Freedman said Kitt, who was recently treated at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, died Thursday in Connecticut of colon cancer.
Kitt, a self-proclaimed "sex kitten" famous for her catlike purr, was one of America's most… Continue
Added by m j on December 25, 2008 at 9:10pm — No Comments
A Complete Jazzman
I am greatly indebted to Thomas Bellino, whose Planet Arts—a not-for-profit company involved in a network of educational and culturally awakening projects—includes Planet Arts Recordings. His latest release, Turn Up the Heath by the Jimmy Heath Big Band (planetarts.org), made me realize that in all these years writing about this music, I have ignored one of the most deeply satisfying and personal arranger-composers in jazz—especially evident when his instrument is a… Continue
Added by m j on December 25, 2008 at 6:13pm — No Comments
Is Jazz Black Music?
In January, I was on a panel at Jazz at Lincoln Center. The subject, “Is Jazz Black Music?” is still a lively and even combative one in some quarters. When I was invited, what first came to mind was Duke Ellington telling me long ago that in the 1920s, he went to Fletcher Henderson and said, “Why don’t we drop the word ‘jazz’ and call what we’re doing ‘Negro music’? Then there won’t be any confusion.” Henderson took a pass. But years later, when Louie Bellson was in… Continue
Going Inside Jazz With Wynton
Of the many books on jazz I’ve read, much of the permanent illumination has come from those written by the musicians themselves. I can now add to the list Wynton Marsalis’ Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life (Random House). I don’t look for analysis of techniques. That’s obviously not my bag. I want to know more of the musicians, and how they hear one another. Wynton gets into the jazz experience from the inside. (Geoffrey C. Ward helped in the… Continue
Added by m j on December 25, 2008 at 5:33pm — No Comments
Jazz’s First Lady of Charity
When Phoebe Jacobs, longtime friend and associate of Louis Armstrong, says, “Don’t let anyone tell you Louis is dead because he’s not,” she’s not talking only about the continuing presence of his music all around the world. As the central force of the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, Phoebe keeps providing grants to a range of projects fulfilling Louis’ wish “to give back to people some of the goodness I’ve had from them.” Particularly notable in its worldwide… Continue
Added by m j on December 25, 2008 at 5:00pm — No Comments
What About Mingus?
In our conversations, Duke Ellington never called his music jazz. He opposed putting any music in categories. So too did Charles Mingus, who said of his compositions and performances that they were—and still are—“Mingus music. I’m trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it’s difficult is because I’m changing all the time.”
For most of us for whom jazz is a common part of our language, no other originals in the history of the music so far have… Continue
Added by m j on December 25, 2008 at 5:00pm — No Comments
SHOW YOUR FEELINGS!
So many things in our world are "smoke and mirrors" and we get very caught up in the illusions we see.
- We see people with gorgeous homes, luxury cars, expensive possessions...and we think they are living the good life - much better than our own.
- We see people with more money than they will ever need or know what to do with...and we think they must be so very happy.
- We see people with "perfect faces and bodies"...and we think EVERYBODY must… Continue
Added by Sandi on December 24, 2008 at 9:37am — No Comments
A BIG HUG FOR ALL
My friends, i fell very happy sharing this wonderful website with all of You. Is the day to give you a big hug with all my love and send You a card... HO! HO! HO!
Added by Diego Losada Muñoz on December 24, 2008 at 8:41am — No Comments
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