In Our Headphones: International Jazz Day Edition KEXP
Each month with In Our Headphones, members of KEXP s Digital Content team share the music that s resonating with them right now. For this installment, in conjunction with International Jazz Day, a few of the team members share their reflections on jazz music in their personal rotations.
John Coltrane featuring Pharoah Sanders - Live in Seattle (1971, Impulse! Records)
Almost every Sunday morning, my girlfriend’s basement condo becomes filled with the smell of coffee brewing and the sound of jazz pumping through the air.
By this point in our relationship, it’s pretty routine. She’ll sleep in, my restless mind won’t allow me to stay in bed, and I’ll get up. I brush my teeth, take a shower sometimes, put my clothes on. Maybe empty the dishwasher and clean the counters or take her dog on a walk. Maybe read one of the four or five books I’m making my way through at any given moment, maybe pull out my Bl
Chucho Valdés, La unión de raíces afrocubanas es mi legado al jazz eldia.com.do - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from eldia.com.do Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Candido Camero performs for the Chicago Jazz Festival at the Pritzker Pavilion on Sept. 4, 2016. (Nuccio DiNuzzo/Chicago Tribune/TNS)
Something to celebrate in 2021: Jazz centennials from when the art form was young
Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune
Yes, there’s something to celebrate in 2021: this year’s jazz centennials.
Several jazz luminaries were born 100 years ago, when the art form was still in its youth. How soon we’ll be able to mark the occasion in concert remains to be seen.
But until then, let’s raise a glass to these giants:
Astor Piazzolla, March 11.
Listeners can debate where (or if) Piazzolla fits in the jazz pantheon, in that he’s universally revered for his explorations and innovations in tango. But as far as I’m concerned, his genius in developing a profoundly folkloric music in the most complex, sophisticated ways places him in a league with jazz visionaries Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, among
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