Rhythm Changes: Rethinking Jazz Cultures
Rhythm Changes Media City UK, Salford Rethinking Jazz Cultures Conference Manchester, UK April 11-14, 2013 The study of jazz in academic institutions may be a relatively modern trend, but the presence of over a hundred academics from South Africa to Russia and from America to Portugal at the Rhythm Changes: Rethinking Jazz ...
Jazz Education In The Century Of Change: Beyond The Music
Question: What values does a jazz education offer beyond the music itself? Artists have always had a supply and demand problem. Since time immemorial there have been more people with creative ideas than an audience to communicate them to, especially if the art demands more than a cursory attention span. In the current world of jazz ...
Jamming For Dollars
The History, Care, Feeding and Booking of the Jazz Jam Session “Fusion and the new stuff? It doesn't offend me, but a lot of the soloists sort of sound alike, like they all learned the same licks from the same school. When I was coming up in the 1940s, it seemed that every corner bar had ...
Booking Jazz: A Subjective Guide
There is no rule book, reference work or formal set of regulations that club and restaurant owners can consult about how to book and present jazz. There was a quasi-model of sorts in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, given the proliferation of cafés, boites, bistros, bars, ballrooms, and all types of nightspots that used live jazz, ...
Transforming Jazz From Cultural Staple to Cultural Imperative
Futurecasting is a time honored sport, ranging from questionable store front fortune tellers to Pulitzer Prize winners, giving us both hope and despair and always trumped by 20/20 hindsight. Jazz is a particularly difficult subject, given to voracious crosscurrents and turbulent discussions. Ask ten people, get eleven opinions. This year we have witnessed the heated questioning ...
