Art & Design Entropy | 08 Feb 2011
“I don’t need words — it’s all in the phrasing.” – Louis Armstrong The U.S. Postal Service is paying tribute to Jazz, America’s musical gift to the world, and to the musicians who play it.. The stamp will be issued in March 2011with the official ceremony in the birthplace of jazz, New Orleans. Jazz developed [...]
Books &Music Entropy | 26 Nov 2010
Listen: Herman Leonard and his World of Jazz Herman Leonard’s life was an example of the phrase “everything in its time.” Shortly after earning a fine-arts degree in photography in the late 1940s, Leonard was making a living as a commercial photographer during the day and hanging out in jazz clubs in New York at [...]
Books &Music Entropy | 11 May 2010
The Blue Moment Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Music.. The critics and jazz fans alike consider Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue an improvisational tour de force. Davis cultivated an atmosphere of creative instability by rolling tape on his ensemble’s first takes and refusing to rehearse. They turned out a collection [...]
Nat King Cole: An Incandescent Voice. Everyone knows about Nat King Cole the magisterial singer, but the popular vocalist first came to prominence in the jazz community as an inventive pianist and group stylist. Possessing a gorgeous touch, unerring taste, melodic imagination and a harmonic and rhythmic approach that hinted at the forthcoming innovations of [...]
Books &Music Entropy | 26 Nov 2009
This important new biography restores the great Satchmo to his deserved place in the pantheon of American artists — as a dazzling innovator and pioneer, who indelibly shaped the emergence and evolution of jazz. – Pl read this Book Review By NYT Books Critic Michiko Kakutani Louis Armstrong, a k a Satchmo, a k a [...]
As the title to Wynton Marsalis‘s fifth Blue Note release indicates, He and She is about that eternally compelling and most elemental of subjects: the relationship between a man and a woman. The Artistic Director of Jazz Lincoln Center,Jazz musician, trumpeter, composer, bandleader, advocate for the arts, and educator, however, hasn’t merely crafted a love [...]