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Buddy Rich’s Photo by Paul Slaughter

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:49:59 +0000

Marc Myers: “This image of Buddy Rich by Paul Slaughter is a personal favourite of mine. I think it’s one of the most dynamic and revealing photos of the drummer. For a brief second, you get to see Rich’s intensity, anxiety and aggression in one fleeting glance (or glare).” Read more.

Lithuania’s Renewed Independence Day – Rector’s Congratulation

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:49:48 +0000

ANTI – JAZZ

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:42:18 +0000

Howard Mandel: “Anti-Jazz: The New Thing Revisited” is the provocative title of a four-program series at International House Philadelphia that began in October 2009 with a performance by the Sun Ra Arkestra under the direction of Marshall Allen, and continues through March 6, 2010 with a concert by the Art Ensemble of Chicago. Curated by the independent non-profit organization Ars Nova Workshop, the series features ensembles rooted in a musical movement that emerged in the late 1950s, cohered in the ‘60s, and has become recognized as an integral part of the historic jazz narrative.” Read more.

Fred Ho: Afro-Asian Revolutionary Concepts in New Music

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:48:48 +0000

In this talk, Chinese American composer, baritone saxophonist, scholar-writer, producer, matriarchal revolutionary socialist and aspiring Luddite Fred Ho explores the role of music, both in imagining a new society, and in its applied role in foreshadowing or prefiguring a revolutionary society and a transformed humanity.

Fred Ho has created a dozen operas, multimedia suites and martial arts ballets/manga music/theater epic works, recorded 15 albums of his music, and authored and edited/co-edited five books, including the 1996 American Book Award-winning Sounding Off! Music As Subversion/Resistance/Revolution (with Ron Sakolsky); Afro Asia: Revolutionary Political And Cultural Connections Between African Americans And Asian Americans (Duke University Press); and Wicked Theory, Naked Practice: A Fred Ho Reader (University of Minnesota Press)

Thursday, March 4, 2010, 7:30pm
301 Philosophy Hall, Columbia University Morningside Campus
Free and open to the public

Film.Woman.Coffee – have you seen the films by Martin Scorsese?

vika — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:01:04 +0000

Scorsese rarely directs films about love or family. He concentrates on an individual, who is occasionally violent and who is angry with the corrupt society that is trapping him. His characters are workaholics, driven and feeling alienated from the people around them, including lovers, wives and family. We keep watching these people because we know that there is hope that these people will be redeemed and transformed by their experiences. That hope is rarely rewarded with a happy ending.

This Monday at 9pm we are talking about Martin Scorsese – about his life, about his films and about life of his films. Get tuned!

Cork Marcheschi’s Memorial for Art Tatum

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:00:43 +0000

“After winning a competition, public sculptor Cork Marcheschi creates the Art Tatum Celebration Column in Toledo, Ohio, in honor of that city’s jazz genius Art Tatum, a beautifully-illuminated 30 foot sculpture of a piano keyboard with a twist.The Art Tatum Celebration Column in Toledo, Ohio, the most expensive piece of public art ever installed in that city, was dedicated on September 11, 2009. The column was conceived, designed and built by Cork Marcheschi, a San Francisco public artist and sculptor with a 33-year career in public art, who has gained international renown for his use of energy and light in large public projects as well as in his unique fine art pieces, inspired originally by the Dada movement.” Read more.

Herbie Hancock’s Tribute to Joni Mitchell

admin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 07:59:56 +0000

“LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Jazz icon Herbie Hancock has rounded up another all-star cast for the multimedia follow-up to his Grammy-winning tribute to Joni Mitchell.

ABC NEWS anounce: “The Imagine Project” aims to unite “a myriad of cultures through song and positive creative expression,” according to a statement. Collaborators include pop singer Pink, guitarist Jeff Beck, sitarist Anoushka Shankar, Irish folk group the Chieftains and Colombian rocker Juanes.

The self-financed album will be released on June 22 through the pianist’s own Hancock Records label, and will be promoted with what a spokeswoman called an “extensive” world tour. Dates are already set for New York’s Carnegie Hall on June 24 and the Hollywood Bowl on September 1.” Read more.

A Note from Trio Curupira

admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:24:43 +0000

Today we got an email from Trio Curupira (Brazil) about a posibility to play their music on our radio. It is absolutely impossible to refuse:

75 Years for The Village Vanguard

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:09:22 +0000

The Village Vanguard is observing its 75th anniversary this week. Joe Lovano and the band he calls Us Five are playing there through Sunday. I wish that I could attend. But I shouldn’t be greedy; in my New York years, I was fortunate to be in the club often. I heard music there that echoes in my mind to this day. Frequently on Monday nights, I wrapped up the newscast, jumped into a cab and headed for the Vanguard.

Video: Maiden Voyage

admin — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:39:12 +0000

Jazz can gather big crowds. Watch “Maiden Voyage” performed in Mt. Fuji jazz fest, August, 1986 by Herbie Hancock, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams.