Ornette Coleman

Goings on About Town: CD Boxed Sets

Atlantic Vocal Groups 1951-1963” (Atlantic)--American popular music in the fifties was a stew of jazz, jump blues, and close-harmony groups; by the middle of the decade, rock and roll had taken hold. This four-disk set lovingly...

What’s Old is New Again: Stadiumred Unveils New Harlem Digs

Via TRD: Recording studio and production house StadiumRed is getting set to reveal its newly renovated Harlem digs, in the former studio of Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz musician Ornette Coleman. Twenty-year-old StadiumRed...

Richardson/Carter/Jordan/Moss/Gruner at RUCMA

From New York’s RUCMA: Richardson/ Carter/ Jordan/ Moss/ Gruner Monday, November 17 @ 7:30 PM Yippie Café: 9 Bleecker Street, near Bowery General Admission: $10 Students and Seniors: $7 Jam Session @ 9:00: $5 Demian Richardson...

December 2008 at the Stone

Next month at the Stone. December 2008 at the Stone curated by Jennifer Charles 12/2 Tuesday (JAW) 8 and 10 pm Butch Morris Conduction Butch Morris and his new ensemble 12/3 Wednesday (MP) 8 pm Sylvie Courvoisier Solo Sylvie...

Neshui Ertegun Paid Tribute With Boxset from Rhino Handmade

Nesuhi Ertegun was the younger brother to Altantic Records label founder Ahmet and from 1955-1967 was the VP of the Jazz division of that label. The always-fantastic Rhino Handmade is releasing Hommage A Nesuhi on December...

Night and Day: New currents in world jazz - Oud master Rabih Abou-Khalil makes unlikely...

andldquo;Itandrsquo;s like when youandrsquo;re making love, you really donandrsquo;t want to know anything about gynecology andmdash; you have other things in mind,andrdquo; is how Lebanese-born composer and oud master Rabih...

John Fordham explains the basics of jazz

If Tom Stoppard and Almost Free Theatre could play a 15-minute Hamlet to cut out the prevarications and welcome the masses in the 1970s, we can do the same for jazz in 2008. So here's how to translate jazzspeak, follow the...

John Fordham on how to speak jazz

Acid jazzDJ-derived term for clubbers' enthusiasm in the late 80s and early 90s for 60s soul-bop styles. Spawned a new generation of jazz dancers.Check out The James Taylor Quartet: Absolute.Bebop/BopMostly small-group reaction...

DATE LINES / News, notes and updates from the Bay Area arts and culture scene

Cunningham tribute If America honored its artists as living treasures, 89-year-old Merce Cunningham would have earned the distinction decades ago, as the country's single greatest embodiment of the avant-garde. Cal Performances...

JazzTimes Magazine (March 2009 Issue)

JazzTimes Magazine (March 2009 Issue)Deadline: Dec 9, 2008 at 11:59 PM Eastern TimeJazzTimes Magazine dates back to Radio Free Jazz, a publication founded in 1970 by Ira Sabin when he was operating a record store in Washington,...

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