Tag: jazz
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Jazz died in 1959, and I can prove it (or Nicholas Payton can)
My good friend and bandmate John Venter just shared this with me. On Why Jazz Isn’t Cool Anymore Read it. Read it all. It sums up a lot of the feeling that I have had, and shared, for a long time. Sure I love the sound of a good jazz band. But the real deal…
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Fox Tossing, and other musical concepts
Over the past two years I have been pursuing my musical goals with more focus, specifically on my commitment to “free music” and improvisation. I caught the free jazz bug early in life and it has continued to be a fundamental force in my musical life. One of the things that has become more clear…
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HEBBY ROTAYSHUM!!!
fuchsprellen update: Fuchsprellen Fever! Catch It! Our friend Ernst shot a video at the January 3, 2013 Best Video show and it is currently experiencing “hebby rotayshum” on New Haven Cable Access… Two videos up, and a few more in the pipeline: https://www.youtube.com/user/fuchsprellen3000 Audio from 3 January, 2013 at Best Video now free, or best…
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Fuchsprellen follow-up and thoughts on 2012
As luck wold have it we were jumped by a snow storm on December 26, resulting in a cancellation of the Fuchsprellen gig at Best Video in Hamden. The forecast called for aout an inch, maybe, and mostly rain, and we got half a foot of snow instead. That is typical of southern New England,…
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Music Update!
Exclamation points aside, there is nothing really shocking going on with my tenuous grasp on vibrating air molecules. Tonight I get to play another set with my “fuchsprellen” project. That alone is good news. If it is nothing else it is my way of saying that “music” is like “wine” or “food” in that the…
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RIP Dave Brubeck
News just in that Dave Brubeck passed away at 91 My first exposure to the music I came to know as “jazz” was listening to my dad’s Dave Brubeck records. I listened to them side-by-side with the soundtrack to South Pacific, Bill Cosby, Bluegrass, 60’s folkies, Bird with Strings, Jimmy Smith, etc… basically rummaging through…
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Back in the Saddle
Quick update before I get back to blogging again… The Halloween Storm did a number on things here at the ranch. A few trees down, a week without power, and a general setback for musical, photographic, and otherwise enjoyable productivity. If productivity involved a rake or a chainsaw, then yes, it has been a productive…
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