In all his years as the legendary music promoter of the Boston area and cultivator of many renowned jazz musicians and artists, Fred Taylor hardly expected someone to be promoting musical acts for his benefit. But on the evening of September 12, at the Berklee College of Music’s Performance...
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Jazz Notes: Passing the Newport Jazz Festival Baton from Founder George Wein to New Artistic Director Christian McBride
As the new artistic director of the Newport Jazz Festival, Christian McBride has put his stamp on this year’s lineup for the 2017performances, adding a mix of incredibly diverse musicians—though, by his own account, he was totally surprised when chosen for this role. The conversations with George Wein, the...
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Review: The Jazz & Blues Art Box
As any jazz archivist can attest, filming records in the smoky nightclubs with dimly lit stages, where many jazz & blues musicians performed, were sometimes all that history had as a record. Housed in a modular cabinet, are 400 hours of music, 96 exclusive interviews and 20 yearbooks. Inside...
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Review BLO’s “The Rake’s Progress”
On a night where Stravinsky’s music was to take the stage in Boston Lyric Opera’s new production of the his opera The Rake’s Progress at the Emerson/Cutler Majestic Theater, there was additional anticipation for the character of the composer himself to appear as part of the production. He was...
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Jazz with a mission: An Interview with Danilo Pérez
Where do gifted musicians go to become student leaders of a world community and affect positive social change? The Berklee Global Jazz Institute in Boston, founded by Grammy-award winning jazz pianist, composer, professor and educator Danilo Pérez, through a curriculum that includes world-music exploration from roots up, to arrangements...
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Rolling Stones Rock-Out with first Cuban Concert
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Leonard Cohen – A Reflection
Leonard Cohen – A Reflection by David Coomber In a world of light beer Leonard Cohen was a full bodied red wine, in a world of puppy love in the corner coffee bar, Cohen was Romeo and Juliet played out in the steamy heat of a Verona night he was...
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GALADRIELLE ALLMAN’S – “PLEASE BE WITH ME: A SONG FOR MY FATHER”
“He could play rhythm, acoustic, anything you want,”… “He couldn’t read a chart but he had this amazing talent. You hear this all the time but Duane really had it. He’d hear a song one time and you didn’t have to tell him – you play any chord in...
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JAZZ ‘AT HOME’ ON THE HUDSON – JAZZ IN THE VALLEY
Please checkout my latest Post on Fresh Independence. Jazz “at home” on the Hudson Jazz in the Valley Wayras Park, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. August Summer of 2016 Imagine a weekend picnic with family and friends, with the setting of a sprawling lawn at an historic state park, with the backdrop...
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Review of John Fogerty’s Memoir “Fortunate Son”
“The sound of it! Like a bolt to the brain.” …. A recollection of the first time he heard a song and it stuck – at 5 years old – still clear for the songwriter on his 70th birthday. And still clear to me or any other fan is...
