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 [...]
Books &Music Entropy | 21 Sep 2009
Wish to share a profound & beautiful excerpt form a Book – - Moving to Higher Ground – How Jazz Can Change Your Life – by Pulitzer Prize—winning musician and composer Wynton Marsalis, which draws upon lessons he’s learned from a lifetime in jazz–lessons that can help us all move to a higher ground, with [...]
This is an inspirational excerpt from a article on Jazz vocalist Sheila Jordan in New York Times . According to Blue Notes she one of the Jazz World’s best kept secrets. Also explore this enlightening feature on NPR . When the jazz singer Sheila Jordan is in Manhattan, she has ready access to the musicians, [...]