jazz

Connections

When it comes to evolution, the public fishing pier has its own species of people, its own vocabulary spoken in an array of languages. Crazy experimental meets raw jaw traditional. Bartleby meets the Hunger Artist. Bass the fish meets bass the instrument. The tool belt and the apron meets the National Endowment for the Humanities. …

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Music Notes, part one

The diversity and inventory of music available online is enough to bring one to tears. Most of what I watch and listen to is on YouTube. Here is the first of a two-part post, mostly about jazz. Part Two, including classical and pop, will appear a week from today, on February 18. Wallace Roney – …

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Duke Ellington

It reminded me of Duke Ellington, and Murray Kempton’s piece from the October 21, 1993 issue of the New York Review of Books, when I read that Johann Sebastian Bach had “a band of 18 trained musicians placed at his disposal” by whatever patron he had at the time, whoever’s court he was at while …

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Music hath charms

Most people have a preference when it comes to the music they enjoy listening to, whether in the car, beside their bed at night or during the work day in the home office. Does your taste fit well with your Sun sign? Aries: Marches, martial music and lots of percussion likely ring your chimes – …

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