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Frankie Trumbauer's Orchestra, 1925
The Gap: Bix BeiderbeckeJazz Today[31 January 2008] by Will LaymanIt's never too late to get hip to a good thing. I've finally opened my ears to '20s-era Bix Biederbecke.
Jazz Today
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something BlueWill Layman27.Jun.08 Even today there are distinctive characteristics to American and European jazz styles. Which strain of music is most forward-looking? Which suggests the most promising vanguard for a music that seems to lose listeners even as its creativity expands? 
Tangled Up in Blue NoteWill Layman29.May.08 "Blue Note" means there's a certain sound to a record, a style that is tight and sharp and funky but also adventurous. If jazz is music to shout about, Blue Note records may be the most shout-worthy of all time. 
R.I.P. Smooth Jazz, 1985-2008?Will Layman17.Apr.08 With two of the US' major "smooth jazz" radio stations defunct to the fickleness of format change, the time to mourn the cheesy sub-genre is now. But what made Smooth Jazz not really jazz at all?
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Negritude 2.0: Retelling the History of Black Music: Everything You Know about the Blues Is Wrong
By Mark Reynolds [3.Jul.08] Variations on a Theme: The Sounds of Now: Tristan Murail and Sounding Stasis
By Chadwick Jenkins [2.Jul.08] Jazz Today: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue
By Will Layman [27.Jun.08] Channel Crossings: Re-make/Re-Model and the Becoming of Bryan Ferry
By Raphaël Costambeys-Kempczynski [19.Jun.08] |
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