Regin Dahl (Tórshavn 1918-København 2007) will be buried in Tórshavn on the summer solstice. He was a piano player and composer with a strong tenor/baritone voice we can hear on the MySpace page someone has set up for him and us. He worked as an editor and proofreader, but is best known as a poet. … More Regin Dahl
Here is a new, self-tagging meme to entertain those of us who may be in Grading Jail. What college majors, other than the one(s) you actually declared, have you seriously considered or repeatedly fantasized about declaring? These are mine: Creative Writing Economics Environmental Studies Law Near Eastern Studies Studio Art / Ceramics. Also for Grading … More Other Majors, Other Worlds
We lived, I and Lucie, in a devastated world; and because we did not know how to commiserate with the devastated things, we turned away from them and so injured them, and ourselves as well. (313) “If the mountains were paper and the oceans ink, / If the stars were scribes, and all the world … More Milan Kundera III
1. This is the Whoppin’ Blues with band leader Dr. Michael white on clarinet, Bob Wilder on sax, Mark Braud on trumpet, Fred Lonzo on trombone, Steve Blaylock on guitar, Steve Pistorius on bass, and Shannon Powell on drums. Dr. Michael White is a professor at Xavier University in New Orleans. It is my understanding … More Dr. Michael White New Orleans Jazzband
This is Louis Armstrong on West End Blues, also a clip from Ken Burns’ PBS series Jazz, with beautiful images of the town which has slipped away. This is a very famous song, and that should be Earl Hines on piano. I am not a great jazz expert, but I did write a paper on … More West End Blues/Sugar Blues
In the fifth part of Early Years of Jazz, we learn about the legendary Buddy Bolden, who never recorded. At least one band has worked to reconstruct of the Buddy Bolden sound, which included swinging ‘hot’ music with wicked lyrics. Bolden’s career was cut short because he developed a form of dementia and was confined … More Buddy Bolden
Here in the fourth part of Early Years of Jazz, we see how Jim Crow turned Creoles Black. The music of these new mixed bands would, of course, be New Orleans jazz. Axé.
This is the third part of Early Years of Jazz. Neither ragtime nor the blues were born in New Orleans, but they met here. One rag was called Dance of the Lunatics (An Idiotic Rave). And Branford Marsalis says the blues are about freedom. Axé.
This is the second part of Early Years of Jazz, and my favorite part so far, focusing on nineteenth century New Orleans, our Caribbean city. I would have loved to visit then, and hear the accents in Creole and French. Axé.
“Jazz music objectifies America. It is an art form that can give us a painless way of understanding ourselves,” says Wynton Marsalis at the beginning of Early Years of Jazz – Part 1. This film is a Florentine Films production about which I am trying to discover more. Part 6, which we have already seen, … More Early Years of Jazz
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