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• GO WEST! GET HOT!

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 133
  It might be a New Yorker’s prejudice, but I don’t associate hot jazz with Arizona.  In this, however, as in so many things, the evidence proves me wrong.  Our Hot benefactress, SFRaeAnn, took her video camera to the Arizona Classic Jazz Festival in Chandler, Arizona.  Here are three performances she captured ...
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• key oil figures distorted by u.s. pressure

  
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  Guardian | The world is much closer to running out of oil than official estimates admit, according to a whistleblower at the International Energy Agency who claims it has been deliberately underplaying a looming shortage for fear of triggering panic buying. The senior official claims the US has played an ...
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• BUNNY, LOUIS, WILLIS

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 133
  Two items from eBay form a lovely combination.  The first is a Bunny Berigan autograph.  Too bad that the original owner snipped out the signature and glued it to the page, but who knew about acid-free paper and archival storage then?  Probably (s)he just waggled an autograph book open to a blank page in front of ...
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• FLASHES of BIX / “FLASHES” for BIX

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 133
  Many YouTube videos of jazz performances are exuberant hot music, nearly violent in their emotional effect.  This tribute to Bix Beiderbecke’s early life, created by Mook Ryan, is something different.  It beautifully melds photographs of Bix’s early life with his composition FLASHES played by Chris Hopkins and ...
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• “WE’RE ONLY HERE TO HAVE FUN”

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 133
  I celebrate Flemming Thorbye again for sharing this clip from Danish television (October 2008).  In it, Joe Muranyi talks about Louis Armstrong and plays YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE, warming up with the Scandinavian Rhythm Boys.  Joe’s candid recollections of Louis and WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD are priceless, as is the ...
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• DARK RAPTURE (AT THE EAR INN)

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 133
  My title comes from a 1939 Count Basie Decca record featuring sweet Helen Humes, wondrous Lester Young, odd lyrics, and a difficult arrangement that Jo Jones said that gave the band trouble.  But this post is about the DARK RAPTURE found Sunday nights at the Ear Inn (326 Spring Street, 8-11 PM) when Jon-Erik ...
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• CHRIS DAWSON, SWING MASTER

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 133
  I don’t use those words lightly.  If you’ve never heard Chris play, go immediately to the clip below: Think of delicacy and intensity in every phrase, his sound, his touch, his chord voicings — the subtlety of a great jazz musician who knows how to get inside Arthur Schwartz’s beautiful melodies while ...
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• THE ELUSIVE MR. WILSON

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 133
  Although I have tried to hear all the recordings Teddy Wilson ever made over more than half a century, the man himself was harder to find.  True, I did hear him in person several times at Newport Jazz Festival concerts in New York City, once at the Highlights in Jazz concert series, at The New School (alongside ...
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• THE SPIRIT OF LOUIS, 2009

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 133
  Deep thanks to my fellow jazz cinematographer, Flemming Thorbye — http://www.thorbye.net  – who took his video camera to the Kulturhus Brønden, Brøndby Strand, Denmark, on October 25, 2009, to capture three songs by the Scandinavian Rhythm Boys with Joe Muranyi as their esteemed guest star.  The SRB ...
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• MR. TOBIAS COMES ON!

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 133
  THE BRONZE MESSENGER, by Ericka Midiri I’m very happy to report that cornetist Danny Tobias has finally come out with his own CD, aptly called CHEERFUL LITTLE EARFUL – a subtle trio session, intimate yet propulsive. I was fortunate enough to write the very brief notes for the CD: Danny Tobias is an ...
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• MONK, KNOWN AT LAST

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 133
  I’m only up to page 138 — which is the year 1948 — in Robin D.G. Kelley’s monumental THELONIOUS MONK: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF AN AMERICAN ORIGINAL (Free Press, 2009, 588 pages) but I had to write something about this book now rather than waiting sedately until I finish it.  Kelley doesn’t need my ...
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• CHARLES PETERSON’S GENEROUS ART, 1942

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 133
  The photographs Charles Peterson took offer magic windows into places and emotions we would otherwise never experience.  Here’s what he captured on a truly magical afternoon in 1942, shared with us through the generosity of his son, Don. It’s a jam session – hardly unusual for Peterson — but this is no ...
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• CHARLES PETERSON: HACKETT and RUSSELL

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 133
  To have the man you consider one of the greatest photographic artists capture your heroes at work and play . . . what could be better? I am happy to present three of Charles Peterson’s on-the-spot portrait studies of Bobby Hackett and Pee Wee Russell in their native habitat.  Hackett met Russell when Bobby was ...
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• GIFTS FROM AGUSTIN

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 133
  Agustin Perez Gasco is the sole proprietor of the wondrous blog MULE WALK AND JAZZ TALK.  Its website’s name,  http://thereisjazzbeforetrane.blogspot.com ., says a good deal about his ideological bent, one that I certainly share.  I am convinced that Agustin is the sorcerer of jazz paper — newspaper ...
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• STUDYIN’ LOUIS

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 133
  I’ve given up on academic conferences — but this is one I can recommend, not only for its Exalted Subject, but for the Presenters.  And it’s free / open to the public, too: LOUIS ARMSTRONG SYMPOSIUM , November 21, 2009   9:00 AM – 5:00 PM, at the College of Staten Island (CUNY: City University of New ...
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• PERFECT!

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 133
  The Perfect image (1932) below is a generous gift from Rob Rothberg, who has a collection that Philip Larkin would envy and a sensibility that Larkin would (at least in its more historical moments) share.   This label always cheers me, because of the two figures (Arabic?  Indian?  Pre-Colombian?) at top who ...
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• HOT JAZZ: FOR PHILIP LARKIN

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 133
  The poet and acerbic jazz lover Philip Larkin wrote in ALL WHAT JAZZ (his collected jazz criticism) that he had spent his life waiting for a reissue of the 1932 sides issued under various permutations — mostly THE RHYTHMAKERS — featuring Henry “Red” Allen, Pee Wee Russell, Joe Sullivan, Fats Waller, Frank ...
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• RARE DISCS FOR SALE

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 133
  I find it soothing to visit eBay on a regular basis to see what’s for sale and to muse about it.  Our topic for today is 78 rpm jazz records, which used to be the only kind until the early Fifties.  I was somewhat overwhelmed the profusion of them on eBay — 1,183 items!  Of course, some of them had no ...
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• 43-30 46th STREET

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 133
  I find this photograph of this commemorative plaque in Sunnyside, Queens (a New York City suburb) sad but also glorious: sad that Bix Beiderbecke lived so short a life, and that the plaque marks the building in which he died . . . but glorious in that his sound and spirit continue to inspire both listeners and ...
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• A NIGHT AT THE EMBERS

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 133
  Although I keep muttering to myself, “I really don’t like jazz violin all that much,” I find myself entranced by the new CD that the jazz violin scholar Anthony Barnett has just issued on his ABFable label.  It features about an hour of live jazz from the Embers night club — with pianist Joe Bushkin, ...
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