Articles
07 December 2015
Jazz Icon Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck, a jazz icon who attained pop-star acclaim with recordings such as “Take Five” and “Blue Rondo a la Turk,” died 3 years ago on December 5, 2012.
16 November 2015
Piano trio GoGo Penguin consolidating new trends in jazz
In US, the birthplace of jazz, new listeners are not engaging with jazz music as much as they did in the past and jazz album sales have been dropping – in 2014 they amounted to only 2% of all music album sales. After the turn of the century interest in jazz seemed to have waned, perhaps because many long-time enthusiasts have not engaged much with the advent of digital releases or with the newly emerging trends that cross the boundaries of different music genres.
11 November 2015
The light that fired the music: the jazz pianist Wynton Kelly by Mihalis Yianneskis
In his relatively short life, Wynton Kelly, who was born on 2 December 1931, was an exceptional pianist, a greatly underrated talent, an often overlooked musician and someone who did not elbow his way into stardom. His story is «a startling example of the strange irrelevance of merit to fame in jazz». Mild mannered and fun to be with, a genial, laid-back type, an extrovert who liked to joke a lot, he played with most jazz greats of his time.
09 November 2015
When Jazz meets Classical music by Mihalis Yanneskis
The rhythms of jazz are deeply rooted in the music of black Americans, but the harmonies and melodies come from largely from classical music.
And perhaps this is the main reason that at each intersection of the two musical styles , the result is a seductive mixture ……
Four great Jazz musicians & teachers: My experiences as a student
02 January 2015
Why Jazz is important in 2015 by M. Evdemon
This is not an attempt to convince an audience to listen to jazz; neither to promote the genre as an auditory necessity. This is a try only to identify the truth; the core product of a jazz live event.
