from “Keith Jarrett: Last Solo”. Tokyo ’84 Encore. —————
How We Lived on It (25) – Dreams of Kirina (Baaba Maal)
Beginning in Santa Monica, California in 2005, “Playing for Change is a movement to connect the world through music.” Through 2009 it has produced 34 videos from locations around the world. Here, the great Senegalese musician Baaba Maal performs in Kirina, Mali. The idea for this project arose from a common belief that music has […]
Jazz Is: 10 – Throw It Away
We lost Abbey Lincoln a few weeks ago. Pagamaestro has put together this lovely photo collage in memoriam, and this song is so appropriate to sending her off. The musical arrangement and performance are so fine and Lincoln’s vocal just stunning. Lincoln imbues her very wise lyric with experience and passion,and maybe a bit of […]
Jazz Is 5: Duke Ellington and “C Jam Blues”
Hey, you cats, dig the scene and the players. And check out who gets them baby vamps. ———- Related articles by Zemanta 3 reviews of Duke Ellington (rateitall.com) Book Review – Duke Ellington’s America – By Harvey G. Cohen (nytimes.com) Duke Ellington Jukebox (slideshare.net) D. C. Jazz Fest Honors Tradition, Culture and History (ybpguide.com) Wynton […]
Picture This: 3 – Chuck Koton
Born into a family of photographers, the teenage Chuck Koton began carrying his camera wherever he went. He even set up a darkroom in his parents’ Bronx apartment. Around the same time Koton began his lifelong love affair with jazz. One night he came across his older brother’s copy of Miles Davis’ Someday My Prince […]