The New Jazz Thing Live! Tonight 6-9 pm PT, Jazz 88, KSDS San Diego 88.3 FM It's all in the blog. Other than how it all comes out and what kller jazz we blow tonight!! If you've got something to say about tonight's show, use the ment[]k below.
Much Love....I'm rushed...look at the time...VO |
Snowboarding Record Attempt Ends In Tragidy ABCNews: Stranded at 18,000 Feet: An Alaska Tragedy
Woa. What a story. And the rescue sounds like it was totally hairy too. Thanks for the link Jeff! |
Bill Russo RIP - Great Jazz Composer, Arranger, Player Passes at Age 74 NYTimes: William Russo, Composer and a Leader in Jazz Repertory, Dies at 74
![]() In other words, he was probing those boundaries or edges where Jazz and Classical music meet. The work was both complex and fully listenable. I've sent email to Terry Vosbein, whose killer writings on Russo are inspiring and informative about this artist. Maybe we'll get an impromptu celebration of Russo on tonight's show. [Later...] Terry will be coming on at 6:40 to talk about Bill.
And I think he's aging rather gracefully!! And the dude can lay down some heavy Jazz poetry, excepted here...
spontaneity and
discipline...coming together in the pens of Jelly Roll and Duke and Monk and
Mingus...what magical ink must they have used to fashion such voodoo mystical
magical everlasting sounds
jazz...from then
till now...flowing from the horns and creating swirls of sounds that never leave
us long after the axe is packed and the cats are gone...gone cats blowing for us...blowing
for themselves...sharing an inner journey...spontaneity and
discipline...discipline
and spontaneity...long may they blow
[Later...] Here's the interview wrap-up with links to MP3 streams and downloads for your listening pleasure! |
Terri Lyne Carrington Talks of Spirituality and Jazz On The New Jazz Thing Live UPDATE: Terri Lyne has had to bow out at the last minute. Damn! We totally want to follow up on the spirituality Thing! Stay tuned. Terri Lyne Carrington will be talking about spiritual things on The New Jazz Thing Live tonight around 8:20 pm PT (live from a Los Angeles Gig with Herbie Hancock, no less). She recently moderated a panel at the IAJE 2003 conference titled "Jazz Is A Spirit: Exploring the Spiritual Process of Jazz Artists". We are always trying to understand the inspiration behind Jazz artists (and artists of all disciplines) and the art they create. How can we all live an improvised life guided, all or in part, by the spirit inside of us all?
In the Summer 2K1 issue of Yamaha's All Access, Terri breaks it down this way...
Should be a great time! |
Howard Mandel Speaks Of Learning Jazz and The Jazz Apprenticeship System Howard Mandel, will be joining me this evening on The New Jazz Thing Live in the 7:00 pm PT hour. We will discuss how Jazz musicians are getting trained these days and how this is a change from the traditional model of young musicians developing under the tuteledge of one or more Jazz Masters.
![]() Howard Mandel just recently filled in for Don Lucoff on an IAJE panel, "Is The Apprenticeship System in Jazz Being Dismantled?", one of the many promising offerings on the agenda at the recent IAJE 2003 conference that wrapped up last Saturday. Members of the panel included Dr. Billy Taylor, Don Braden, Dr. Herb Wong, and others. Howard has written for DownBeat, Jazz Times, Swing Journal magazines, among others, and wrote Future Jazz, which looks to be a totally promising read (and listen, there's a companion CD) itself (will have to shoot for one of those autographed editions...hehe). Howard is also the president of the Jazz Journalist Association and editor of it's website at http://JazzHouse.org, so he's right up our alley technically too! In Howard's words, we get a taste for some of the ground they covered on the panel and what we'd like to just scratch the surface of tonight, "What we talked about was essentially mentorship in jazz -- from Billy Taylor discussing how Art Tatum took him around and besides teaching him about music taugght him about life, to Don Braden's discussions of Betty Carter's educational initiative and tough mother on-the-job training, to Dr. Herb Wong's discussion of jazz teaching in school systems as "subversive activity that must be continued," to Ralph J. Peterson's stories about Art Blakey's "academy" and how he's trying to keep that tradition going with his students and bandmembers." Should be a great discussion and add some insight to how the musicians we learn about and love become the musicians they are. And isn't Howard's art cool?!
[Later...] Follow this link to listen to our interview online. |