Jazz News No. 23/2014 (10 – 16 July 2014)

10 – 16 July 2014	Ausgabe 23, 2014
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10 July 2014   Dorothy Masuka / Fred Hersch   The 77-year-old South African singer Dorothy Masuka, born in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), speaks about her music career, about the band Harlem Swingers, about the singer Dolly Rathebe, about her composition "Pata-Pata", made famous by Miriam Makeba, about songs documenting life in segregated South Africa, political songs which eventually forced her into exile for more than 30 years, and about teaching students at Boston University ( Mail and Guardian, Zimbabwe). — Jeff Beaudoin talks to the pianistFred Hersch about changes in his pianistic style, about taking chances in his performances, about the music of Thelonious Monk, and about continuing taking lessons with his teacher of at least 34 years ( KMUW).
11 July 2014   Marcus Miller / Charlie Parker   Tom Cumming talks to the bassist Marcus Miller about the basic origin of all American music as a fusion of traditions, about similarities of slapping the bass in a funk way and in the African Ghimbri way, about the importance of roots for African-Americans, about changes in his own musical approach over the years, and about the influence of Miles Davis on his musical aesthetic ( The Arts Desk). — Chris Walker reflects about a party the legendary Charlie Parker took part in on 15 July 1952 at Zorthian Ranch, an artists' commune in northern Los Angeles which ended in a jam session at which first a single woman performed a striptease while Charlie Parker played "Embraceable You", which was followed by most of the guests, including many of the musicians, getting naked ( L.A. Weekly). A recording of the session survived the years and had been issued as a low-quality bootleg some years ago. Walker also describes how the tape recording survived and eventually was found and rescued by a "Bird Detective", a Charlie Parker fanatic named John Burton. The "Embraceable You" part of the party can also be found on YouTube ( YouTube).
12 July 2014   Regensburg / Hamburg (Germany)   Claudia Bockolt talks to the new mayor of Regensburg, Germany, about the jazz festival this weekend as well as about controversies between some of the jazz initiatives in his city, among them the Bavarian Jazzinstitut and the local jazz club, all of whom he plans to invite to a jazz summit hoping to solve the problems ( Mittelbayerische). A review of the festival weekend can be found in the Monday edition of the paper ( Mittelbayerische). —Hamburg, Germany, will have a new jazz club in September, when the Cascada will offer sessions every Wednesday and concerts every Friday, replacing the Birdland which closed a year ago ( Die Welt).
13 July 2014   Joe Segal / Cemetery Space   Lloyd Sachs talks to the club owner Joe Segal (Jazz Showcase) who has been presenting jazz in Chicago for the last 67 years and now will be named NEA Jazz Master in January 2015 ( Washington Post). Segal is the second club owner after Lorraine Gordon of New York's Village Vanguard to receive the award. He praises the quality of young performers but thinks that today's jazz scene is lacking in innovation. At 88 he just started writing his memoirs. — The Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx has unveiled new burial plots close to its "Jazz Corner" where Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Max Roach and other jazz musicians are buried to be sold to jazz fans who want "to spend eternity near their favorite players" ( New York Daily News).
14 July 2014   Arrangement   Jeff Sultanof sheds light on the problems working with original arrangements by some of the jazz greats of the past ( Do the Math). He explains the task of an editor who tries to publish new editions of historic arrangements and gives insight into some of the approaches he uses in order to get information about composers / arrangers. He also gives examples of his own corrections of wrong notes in historic scores. Sultanof discusses Charlie Parker's string sessions and its different arrangers and how one can identify specific writers. He argues against arrangements which have all solos transcribed note-for-note ("How many students can actually play this?") and criticizes those who transcribe an arrangement of a recording when the original score and parts exist. He discusses a possible publication of the manuscripts of Duke Ellington's band book, concluding that original music should be made available for researchers and students, but that editors of such publications need to be just as experienced as those of the great European classical composers.
15 July 2014   France / Uri Caine   In his Diary of Jazz, Karl Lippegaus reports about protests against changes in French radio programming which eventually would cut down the time for jazz, as well as about the closure of the Centre d'Information du Jazz, a national information and lobbying center for jazz ( Diary of Jazz). Lippegaus talks to musicians and jazz experts from all over all of whom plead to save such important organizations for jazz in France, and he encourages his readers to sign a petition which has found more than 3,000 supporters already within 3 days ( Petition at change.org ). — David Patrick Stearns talks to the pianist Uri Caine about his jazz/gospel oratorio "The Passion of Octavius Catto" which will be premiered in Philadelphia on Sunday ( Philadelphia Inquirer). Caine explains what interested him in the commission about the 19th century abolitionist, and how the struggles of the civil rights movement had touched his own home when his father headed the American Civil Liberties Union in the 1970s, telephones were tapped and Caine Sr. had an FBI file. The premiere of the oratorio will be given by the Freedom Festival Community Choir which Caine Jr. sees as an especially intriguing aspect of the project, emphasizing "the communal aspect of making music".
16 July 2014   … what else …   Don Cheadle's crowdfunding efforts for his film on Miles Davis exceeded the target, receiving $335,766 from 1,984 funders ( Gulfnews). — Daniel Nagel talks to David Maier, the artistic director of the Jazz and Joy festival in Worms, Germany ( Regioactive). — The content of the home of the late pianist Marian McPartland is being sold in auction (Estate Sales).
Obituaries   We read another obituary about the flutist Paul Horn who had died last week at the age of 84 ( New York Times). — We learned of the passing of the British saxophonist Kathy Stobart at the age of 89 ( The Independent, The Guardian), the bassist Charlie Haden at the age of 76 ( Los Angeles Times, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Variety,The Independent, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Die Zeit, Spiegel Online, Die Welt) Frankfurter Rundschau, Hamburger Abendblatt), the club owner Lennie Sogoloff (Lennie's on the Turnpike) at the age of 90 ( NEPR), as well as the British critic and manager of the Marquee Club, John Gee, at the age of 86 ( The Guardian).
Last Week at the Jazzinstitut   Last Wednesday we had another of our Darmstadt Music Talks, a series of public discussions about music and other arts. Last week's topic was "Artists Colony 21 or: The Utopia of Art". The location was the Osthang Project at Darmstadt's historic Mathildenhöhe, a temporary architects' colony, so-to-speak, which will also be the site for some projects of this year's Ferienkurse für Neue Musik (Holiday Courses for Contemporary Music). Our guest of honor this time was the art historian Julia Bulk. The discussion between her, Thomas Schäfer of the Internationales Musikinstitut, Cord Meijering of the Akademie für Tonkunst, and Wolfram Knauer of the Jazzinstitut, the three municipal music institutions in our city, centered around utopian models in the arts and in literature, the need for spaces to be filled by contemporary art, and musical concepts that might constitute utopian ideals. A lengthy review of the evening can be found in our local newspaper ( Darmstädter Echo).   We received a donation of about 50 historic Eastern European (Czech, Polish) jazz magazines which will find their place in our comprehensive periodical collection.   Otherwise, and like most Germans, we were quite busy with other stuff: We had to watch the World Cup, of course, and celebrate Germany winning the trophy last Sunday.   In between games we read … Kevin Whitehead's "Warum Jazz? 111 gute Gründe". The review of this and other books can be found on the book review page of our website.
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