Now, in the closing days of June, here I was, strolling down Karangahape Road; the home of indie music and the Creative Jazz Club. Live improvised music was back. I can remember every moment of my last pre lockdown gig and I savoured the memories during my period of isolation. As th...
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“Jazz is still, for me, the greatest music ever – it just ate its way into my soul, and it became a part of every fabric of my body… I remember once I was doing a record with Dexter Gordon at 30th Street called Gotham City, and Art Blakey was on drums. During the session Art...
How Jazz Music Has Influenced Modern Music Jazz is recognized among the most iconic song genres ever, having begun in the African American communities as a mix between blues and contemporary vibes. It climbed into the forefront from the ’30s through the Golden years, a time when all genres ...
The first, released as At The Village Vanguard in 1962, had whipped up a storm of criticism and, through the blues ‘Chasin’ The Trane’, served notice to a new generation about the music to come. This one went even further – India threw open the floodgates to the east in jazz, ...
The only thing better than sitting in a small, intimate club, listening to a smooth vocal jazz group deliver powerful music is taking that group's music away with you, sticking it into the CD player, and enjoying it in the privacy of your own home. With sounds so warm you can wrap yo...
Helmut Lachenmann(1935- ) is a composer who has been “on my radar” for some years now but, like a lot of names I get, I had yet to hear much of his music. Along comesGregory Oakesfrom, of all places, Iowa. The Midwest in the United States doesn’t have much of a reputation ...
I couldn’t read music, so I would just copy the person next to me. Whatever they played, I played,” he recalls. Lamarr settled on B-3 after playing drums in the band of Seattle B-3 master, Joe Doria. A year of simply observing his bandleader from behind the kit, allowed him ...
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Special Birthday Wishes go out to the "Walking Encyclopedia of Big Band and Cabaret Music" Don Dellair, who turns 82 on October 21st! Don was a singer/performer who appeared in many of the nightclubs listed on this website during their heyday. He alsomanaged the career of The Incomparable...