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At @NewportJazzFest , @PresHall #jazz band just gave the liveliest masterclass ever in the intersection of old brass and jazz bands and New Orleans’ place as rightful home of #randb.
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Conversation with #highlife legend @EboTaylor7. ‘JID022’ out now on @jazzisdeadco. #ebotaylor #afrobeat #ghana #loveanddeath #jazzisdead #music #art #jazz #postgenre #postgenremedia #postgenremusic #africanmusic #guitar #felakuti #interview #jid.
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Many define “jazz” as the meeting of African rhythms and European harmonies. In a sense, this narrative is accurate - if you remove the influence of the church, songs of the field, or cues from the...
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Conversation with #avamendoza on #circulartrain, out now. #guitar #sologuitar #music #art #postgenre #postgenremedia #postgenremusic #thecirculartrain #goodnightirene #pinkdolphin .
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The process of mining - digging deep into the earth to find an essential material - dates back at least forty-three thousand years. However, the process was not modernized until the adoption of rail...
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Conversation with #matthewwright and @evanparker on #trancemap, out on @relativepitch1 . #music #art #postgenre #postgenremusic #postgenremedia #improvisedmusic #electroacoustic #relativepitch #relativepitchrecords.
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In the late 1850s, two decades before Thomas Edison’s phonograph, French inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville created the first sound recording device. In the generations since, the interrela...
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Conversation with #georgeburton on #whitenoise . #sunra #music #art #postgenre #postgenremedia #postgenremusic #jazz #hiphop #electronicmusic #xhosamusic #socialjustice #racialjustice #arkestra #janeelliot.
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Far too often, people tend to compartmentalize and localize matters of concern. However, such an approach minimizes the true scale of what is before us. Only in perceiving the big picture of an issue...
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Conversation with #kaliavandever on her quartet project - with #MaryHalvorson, #KanoaMendenhall, & #SavannahHarris - titled ‘In My Dream House’ . #quartet #music #art #inmydreamhouse #carmenmariamachado #postgenre #postgenremedia #postgenremusic #trombone.
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Western literature has long noted the disconnection between perception and reality. In 1175, French monk Alain de Lille "Do not hold everything gold that shines like gold.” Geoffrey Chaucer and...
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Two part conversation with #fredfrith. #guitar #sologuitar #improvisedmusic #music #art #postgenre #postgenremusic #postgenremedia #preparedguitar #guitarsolos #henrycow #rock #nakedcity #interview.
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When first learning about music, students are often taught to classify instruments by their sound. In the abstract, this basic exercise appears helpful. Woodwind reeds will inevitably produce a...
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Conversation with producer Zev Feldman on his career in archival music and releases, by #JoeHenderson/#McCoyTyner/#JackDeJohnette/ #HenryGrimes, #EmilyRemler, #BBKing, #SunRa, and more. #zevfeldman #music #art #jazz #resonancerecords #elementalmusic.
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Far too often, history is perceived through a lens of minimizing the problems of the present. According to George Santayana, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Or to...
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‘What Happens Has Become Now’ by @jessicapavone out now on @RelativePitch. #jessicapavone #viola #solo #soloviola #music #art #postgenre #postgenremusic #postgenremedia #relativepitchrecords #kenbutler #swordviola #improvisedmusic #strings.
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Pablo Picasso once noted that “Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.” In music, artists can converse in ways often words alone cannot. But there is also a great power in being alone....
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“I feel there’s something here with this particular intersection of different styles of #music in the music we’re making. There’s still a lot more to find.” - @aparksmusic . #AaronParks’ ‘Little Big III’ out now on @bluenoterecords .
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As artificial intelligence increasingly disrupts our ordinary lives, there is an ongoing concern about how the new technology will impact music. In an industry in which its chief creators are already...
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“[M]usic was my whole life. It probably still is.” - #TerryGibbs. Terry Gibbs Dream Band ‘Vol. 7, The Lost Tapes’ out now on Whaling City Sound. #dreamband #alicecoltrane #dinahwashington #jazzonasummersday #music #art #jazz #vibraphone.
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We continue our conversation with Terry Gibbs (read part one here), with a discussion of the intersection of Jewish music and jazz, Alice Coltrane, the meaning of music, and more. PostGenre: Jumping...
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“That’s what #jazz does to you. It has nothing to do with race, creed, or age; when two people play together, that’s all that counts.” - #terrygibbs. ‘Vol. 7: The Lost Tapes, 1959’ is out on #whalingcitysound. #music #art #bebop #swing #cool.
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Since 1982, the National Endowment for the Arts has bestowed its Jazz Master award to living legends of the music. The designation is considered by many to be the highest honor an American jazz...
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“This project … fostered an amazement in how many different things you can hear at any given moment … out and about in the world.” - @natemercereau . ‘Excellent Traveler’ out now on @thirdmanrecord . #natemercereau #excellenttraveler #thirdmanrecords .
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Poet T.S. Eliot once noted, “People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.” Although one can feel the impact left by another individual on them, it is often difficult to quantify or...
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“I’m always kind of longing for silence. I do think silence is something that’s not present or valued much these days.”- #travislaplante. ‘The Golden Lock,’ out now on @NewFocusLabel . #thegoldenlock #newfocus #newforcusrecordings #music #art.
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In a recently published piece titled "19 Critically Acclaimed Albums That Nobody Actually Listens To," writer Victoria Omololu attempts to minimize incredible recordings with significant artistic...
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“Everything is vibration. The physical law of conservation of energy says that you can neither create nor destroy energy. And, if that is true, then everything that vibrates on earth continues to exist, just not in the auditory realm.” - #JasonKaoHwang .
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In September of 1939, only weeks after Hitler invaded Poland, a 100,000 Imperial Japanese force converged upon the city of Changsha in the Hunan province of China. Ultimately, the Chinese kept their...
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“Honestly, I don’t even like the term genre. It means nothing to me. Genre is something that exists after the fact. Nobody creating music, who is composing music, puts it into a genre.“ - @brianmarsella . ‘MEDIETAS’ out now on @Tzadik_label .
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When viewed in the abstract, imagination is a very strange thing. A world that emphasizes logical reasoning would seemingly make no use of visions of the nonexistent. And yet, there is something...
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“Nature is a very important aspect of my artistry. I definitely have a practice of, I’d say, spirit walking.“- #lukestewart ‘Unknown Rivers’ out now on @PiRecordings.
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There is something mysterious about a river. As Eartha Kitt noted, “The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up.” Its inconsistency...
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“The music … was created, compositionally, to never have a specific beginning, middle, or end.” - Ellen Reid. Convo w/ #composer #ellenreid on new album, #BigMagestic out now on #NewAmsterdamRecords/@EclipseProjects . #soundwalk #music #art #synth.
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“Ultimately, the sound you get out of any instrument is yourself. The instrument is only a small percentage of it all.” - @TheDaveHolland . #DaveHolland Quartet w/ @krisdavismusic @jaleelshaw and Nasheet Waits at @smokejazzclub from now through 9/8.. #jazz.
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We continue our conversation (check out part one here) with NEA Jazz Master Dave Holland by digging into his solo works, bluegrass music, music from around the world, and more. PG: Since musical...
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“I think, generally, your writing follows how you play. Or at least it does with me.” - @TheDaveHolland . #DaveHolland Quartet w/ @krisdavismusic @jaleelshaw and Nasheet Waits playing at @smokejazzclub from now through 9/8. . #jazz #interview #music #art.
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Ludwig van Beethoven once noted, "Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend." Such knowledge includes a...
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