Monthly Archives: October, 2011
Dead, from New York!
Years ago, in an early season of Saturday Night Live, there was a phony ad for a concert featuring Elvis Presley’s coat. ‘The King’ himself had recently passed away, but the announcer cheerfully invited folks out to see the coat that started it all. Like a lot of early SNL, it was irreverent, tasteless, and …
Babes in Bopsiland
One of the things I appreciate about the AJW project is how it encourages the presentation of types of music that may be outside my comfort zone as a player. I mean, we have done Monk, Gershwin, Jobim, Ellington, Rahsaan, etc. Now we’re doing Miles, which is to say four distinct musical movements as we …
I won’t dance…
Last week, I was in a classroom full of fourth graders playing sax and talking about jazz and Miles Davis, when a young man raised his hand and asked: “Do you have any power moves?” I paused for a moment, which gave him a chance to elaborate: “you know, like sliding across the stage on …
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