Music Review: John Coltrane - Side Steps
Blogcritics: Music (Free subscription) | yesterday
Side Steps is another great John Coltrane box-set from Prestige.
Blogcritics: Music (Free subscription) | yesterday
Side Steps is another great John Coltrane box-set from Prestige.
Sara Ryan (Free subscription) | yesterday
I’m working on the graphic novel all day today, and listening to John Coltrane and Miles Davis. While staring into space (because that is, of course, an important component of working) I suddenly noticed the pleasing industrial geometry above. If you look closely, you can see the reflection of Steve’s drawing table. Originally published at sararyan.com . You can comment here or there .
Sify (Free subscription) | yesterday
Art D'Lugoff (Duh-LOO'-guhf), who owned the famed Village Gate nightclub in New York City, has died. He was 85.
The Daily Swarm (Free subscription) | yesterday
Art D’Lugoff, who was widely regarded as the dean of New York nightclub impresarios and whose storied spot, the Village Gate, was for more than 30 years home to performers as celebrated, and diverse, as Duke Ellington, Allen Ginsberg and John Belushi, died on Wednesday in Manhattan…. …Though most often thought of as a jazz space — among the eminences heard there over the...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | yesterday
Miles Davis Miles: The New Miles Davis Quintet Prestige Year Miles Davis Kind of Blue:Legacy Edition Columbia/Legacy Year In 1955, after a few years working with pick-up bands and fuelled by a legendary comeback appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival, {{Miles Davis = 6144}} assembled the band that's since become known as the First Great Quintet. Miles, sub-titled The New Miles Davis Quintet, represents...
Cycling Art Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The artisan... Where framebuilding equals art the cycling world can look and marvel at Dario Pegoretti. He was well schooled in the seventies learning framebuilding from none other than the great Luigino Milani. He actually continue building in the Milani shop in Verona until 1999. his art... During the nineties pro teams sought out Pegoretti for his functional frames and badged them under different...
Jesus' General (Free subscription) | yesterday
Fred Kaplan 's 1959: The Year That Changed Everything (John Wiley and Sons $27.95) chronicles an extraordinary year. On January 1st, Fidel Castro's revolutionaries took power in Cuba. On January 4th Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan visited the United States. Fidel would do the same on April 15th, followed by Khrushchev on September 15th. On April 9th, Lenny Bruce appeared on television. On March...
DPRC - Documentary Photography Rudy (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The jazz concerts organized by Hans-Jürgen von Osterhausen, director of Jazz am Rhein e.V./EURO Jazz 21′, at Rheinisches Landesmuseum will certainly not help to make the promoter a rich man. On Thursday, November 5, only a handful of people came to the concert-hall at Colmantstrasse to attend the double concerto by Thomas Champagne Trio (B) and Boi Akih (NL), an [...]
Blogcritics: Music (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Komeda Project freshens up the music of the legendary Polish composer for new ears.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Northeastern University presents a discussion entitled The Coltranes and Humanism: Spirituality, Music and Sound, on Friday, November 13. It takes place from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the John D. O'Bryant African American Institute, 40 Leon Street on campus. The event is free and open to the public.The e...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
For the new segment of our adventure in letting bassists be our guides, author, critic and sometime Rifftides commentator Larry Kart has a fine idea. May I suggest, for Part 4, Paul Chambers behind Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Wynton Kelly and Jimmy Cobb on "So What." Like Heath and LaFaro in their various ways, where Chambers puts "one" is a place where no one who's playing with...
the echo and echoplex (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
[ November 14, 2009; 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Amiri Baraka Amiri Baraka, born in 1934, in Newark, New Jersey, USA, is the author of over 40 books of essays, poems, drama, and music history and criticism, a poet icon and revolutionary political activist who has recited poetry and lectured on cultural and political issues extensively in the USA, the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe. With influences [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Benny Golson Live Interview with Dave Schroeder at Barnes and Noble (NYC) on Friday, October 6th at 7:00 p.m. Join us this Friday, October 30th, for an in-store Barnes and Noble interview with saxophonist, epic composer and jazz legend, Benny Golson Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm Barnes and Noble 150 East 86th Street New York, NY 10028...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Tigre Hill has only released the trailer to his film, The Barrel of a Gun, but already Mumia Inc. has begun mobilizing against him.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
This week, our video spotlilght shines on guitarist Stanley Jordan, who will be in St. Louis to perform next Wednesday, November 4 through Saturday, November 7 at Jazz at the Bistro. Jordan is known for his two-handed tapping technique, which he developed as a teenager in the 1970s and is used to pr...