Here is a great online resource for all you Jazz heads.
jazzdisco.org
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A great new online resource for all things Canadian Jazz.
- archived performances from 30 years of the JAZZ.FM91 Sound of Jazz (formerly Sound of Toronto) Concert Series
- in-depth documentaries on iconic Canadian jazz artists
artist biographies and a chronology of jazz in Canada
- fun classroom-ready teaching tools
canadianjazzarchive.org
destination-out.com is a site I’ve linked to before, and is still one of the best music blogs I’ve found to date. Focused on free-jazz, these guys generally publish twice a week some of the best writing you’ll find on the subject.
Up this week Archie Shepp Live at the Donaueschingen Music Festival. Check it out.
Been wondering where all those great photograghs come from on all your favorite albums? Well chances are a fair few are from photographer Pete Turner.
Many know these records by their cover photos alone: the “Giraffe” album (Antonio Carlos Jobim’s “Wave”); the “Cheetah” album (Hubert Laws’s “The Rite Of Spring” – Mr. Laws’s albums were always on the receiving end of some of Turner’s best work); or “Road Song”, Wes Montgomery’s final album and one of Turner’s most iconic photos. These are just a few of the examples of how Pete Turner’s photographs defined the music they were attached to.
Check out an album cover discography of Pete Turner’s work here.
Sonny Rollins turns 77 today – September 7, 2007 – and on the eve of the saxophonist’s 50th Anniversary Concert at Carnegie Hall, his newly revamped web site debuts, celebrating an extraordinary life in jazz. Beginning today, and every day leading up to the Carnegie Hall concert on September 18, the site will be broadcasting rare performances, including a 1956 gig with the Max Roach/Clifford Brown All-Stars.
Guitarist John McLaughlin’s latest tour will include a stop at Toronto’s Massey Hall on October 5th, so check out this interview at allaboutjazz.com with the man himself.
“I’m not a big fan of what they call smooth jazz, simply because it seems too plastic for me. So I found myself, twelve or thirteen years ago, looking into the underground, and a lot of what you hear with these young guys, what they’re doing with these underground records, is basically noise, but it’s very interesting. Because what is noise? In a way, if you have the right perspective everything is musical. People don’t walk, they dance; and they don’t speak, they sing, depending on what state of mind they’re in.”
And while your at it swing over to johnmclaughlin.com
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