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Archive for the Tag 'Jazz'

Books &Music | 21 Sep 2009

How Jazz Can Change Your Life

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 [...]

Music | 03 Jul 2009

A Jazz Voice Finds a Mellower Range

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, [...]

Music | 07 Jul 2007

Jazz Messenger

Haruki Murakami at his jazz bar, Peter Cat, in Sendagaya, Tokyo, 1978. I never had any intention of becoming a novelist — at least not until I turned 29. This is absolutely true. I read a lot from the time I was a little kid, and I got so deeply into the worlds of the [...]

Music &Poetry | 05 May 2006

A Brief Guide to Jazz Poetry

Jazz poetry is a literary genre defined as poetry necessarily informed by jazz music—that is, poetry in which the poet responds to and writes about jazz. Jazz poetry, like the music itself, encompasses a variety of forms, rhythms, and sounds. Beginning with the birth of blues and jazz at the beginning of the twentieth century, [...]

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