As the jazz avant garde, as it was known, grew out of the late ‘50s work of iconoclastic artists like Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane. Scores of new voices emerged in the ‘60s, rooted in one or more schools of the jazz tradition. However, Albert Ayler was the odd ...
and independently they were both professional visual artists: Lauren, as a fine-art landscape painter (in the mode of late 19th century painters like Fredrick Church, Albert Bierstadt, and others of the Hudson River School of painting). Charlie was an...
From the early days of bebop, jazz has intrigued artists from across various creative disciplines. Poets, painters and dancers have taken the language of jazz and attempted to fuse it with the principles of their own art-form. For example, the iconic beat poet Jack Kerouac famously stated that...
All were expressions of a new futuristic physics of motion that promised the lean velocity and organic perfection of a bird in flight. What the machine age had wrought in the realm of function, artists were now shaping into a series of self-consciously aerodynamic illusions that implied movement...
The versatility of jazz allows for a diverse selection of artists, eras, and subgenres. From the timeless classics of Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald to the contemporary sounds of Kamasi Washington or Snarky Puppy, the music can match the changing landscapes, weather, and moods during the ...
The biggest way I can explain it is, some painters are just painters — that's their form, is oil on canvas. And then some artists are concept artists, some artists are emotive. It's more about the emotion or saying something. For me, it's more about what I'm saying than how I'...
Directions in Music: 1969 to 1973: Miles Davis, His Musicians and the Birth of a New Age of Jazz (BGP) ** [B+(**)] Arne Domnérus Quartet: Dompan at the Savoy (Phontastic) ** [B+(**)] Cleveland Eaton: Plenty Good Eaton (1974, Black Jazz/Real Gone Music -20) ** [B+(*)...
Jazz played a significant part in the Harlem Renaissance, which has been a social and cultural revolution in New York through the”Jazz Age”. Like most artists and musicians of the period of time, jazz musicians frequently discriminated from the artistic standards of the afternoon to make ...
They do acknowledge their deep appreciation for jazz is unusual for people their age. Their brazen approach to big names, usually sneaking or fast-talking their way backstage, “kind of takes artists by surprise,” says Adeev “They can see we’re really interested,” says Ezra. “They don...
While I'm not a big fan of the former (at least for lesser artists than Aretha), I've long had trouble getting into the latter. Three plays in, I'm barely with her, the bits of rap helping. Sex, too. ** 72. Bktherula: Nirvana (Warner) Atlanta rapper Brooklyn Rodriguez, still...