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Spotify wants to be a platform

December 1, 2011 By gigadmin Leave a Comment

Streaming music service Spotify wants to be more than a music app: It’s aiming to be a platform for everything you would ever want to read, see, do or share around the music that fills your days. Spotify took the first step toward that vision Wednesday by launching Spotify Apps, a new system developers can […]

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Happy birthday, Saint John!

October 3, 2011 By gigadmin Leave a Comment

Many jazz musicians have been devoutly religious, but only one has been canonised – Saint John Will-I-Am Coltrane, who would have turned 85 on 23 September 2011. The influential tenor player was born in Hamlet, North Carolina, in middle class circumstances into a family with deep religious roots. He started playing other instruments, especially alto, […]

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Albert Ayler’s September Surprise

September 29, 2011 By gigadmin Leave a Comment

“Then along came Ayler. Holy shit! Brash and bold . . . Wailing, parading Albert Ayler – Psalm-swinging, Song-singing to you. Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty free at last.” – Hal Russell Albert Ayler (pronounced “Eyeler”), the soft-spoken but hard-blowing free jazz saxophonist took many of his devoted fans by surprise […]

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The one man jazz university – Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers

September 25, 2011 By gigadmin Leave a Comment

“I’m gonna stay with the youngsters. When these get too old I’ll get some younger ones. Keeps the mind active.” – Art Blakey (1954) In a career that spanned more than 40 years in jazz master drummer Art Blakey, also known by his Islamic name of Abdullah Ibn Buhaina (Bu), stuck tenaciously to that principle […]

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The famous 1959 Charles Mingus albums

September 22, 2011 By gigadmin Leave a Comment

Jazz’s “annus mirabilis” Mingus recorded four albums in this annus mirabilis of jazz: Mingus in Wonderland, a live album recorded on 16 January at Nonagon Art Gallery in New York City; Blues and Roots recorded on 4 February with Nesuhi Ertegun again doing the producing; and the two Teo Macero-produced albums Mingus Ah Um recorded […]

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Take Five plus Fifty!

September 18, 2011 By gigadmin Leave a Comment

The making of music history What happened when producer Teo Macero, who had just months before had Miles Davis and his musicians in the Columbia 30th Street Studio to record, brought Dave Brubeck and his quartet into the same studio, was to make more jazz history – the album Time Out with the hit track […]

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Mingus magnificus Ah Um

September 14, 2011 By gigadmin Leave a Comment

A unique and brave musician “This is the uniqueness of this man: he jolts with the unexpected and the new. He has something to say and he will use every resource to interpret his messages.” – Dr Edmund Pollock, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist. (From the liner notes to the album The Black Saint and the Sinner […]

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From Antibes to a New York Penthouse with Mingus

September 10, 2011 By gigadmin Leave a Comment

The 1960 albums The year 1960 saw Mingus record five great albums, three released in 1960, one in 1961 and one in 1980. The 1961 release was the result of his collaboration with conductor and musicologist Gunther Schuller and entitled Pre-Bird Mingus. The album released in 1980 was the live set at the Antibes Jazz […]

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Tijuana to ‘Frisco – more Mingus moods

September 6, 2011 By gigadmin Leave a Comment

The albums This article will look at Charles Mingus albums released in 1962, 1963 and 1964. The first of them was actually recorded in 1957, with Danny Richmond on drums for the first, and most definitely not the last, time with Mingus. This was the ever-popular Tijuana Moods , which Mingus wrote, “was written in […]

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West End Production Of South Pacific

September 4, 2011 By gigadmin Leave a Comment

Alison Cryer, UK Director, Samoa Tourism Authority commented “We are delighted to support the talented cast and team behind the production of the musical South Pacific as it opens in London. Samoa is often referred to as the ‘Treasured Islands of the South Pacific’ and offers UK visitors an authentic and affordable South Pacific option. […]

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