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News: 24 June 2009
Winners, 2009 Jazz
Awards
Mike Zwerin, one of the earliest contributors to
Culturekiosque in Paris, is the recipient of the award for Lifetime
Achievement in Jazz Journalism.
News: 21 May 2009
National Endowment
for the Arts Announces the 2010 NEA Jazz Masters
NEA Jazz Masters
are selected from nominations submitted by the public and receive a
one-time grant award of $25,000.
Seen:
Jazz Jam: Eldar
Djangirov
The young Russian jazz pianist continues his
quest to shake his reputation as a prodigy and gain acceptance as a mature
talent.
Portrait
Mariza, the Fresh New Diva of
Fado
Having survived near-extinction, the music that defines the
heart of Portugal has a new reigning diva who, like the music itself,
blends an African heritage with the spirit, light and spontaneity of
modern Lisbon.
Seen:
Pictures of the
Blues
On view and for sale are prints of artists whose sound had
roots in the field hollers and work songs of slavery but soon evolved into
music that was to bolster irreversibly the African American as an
individual.
Seen
Nica de
Koenigswarter: A Woman with a Passion
An exhibition of snapshots in
New York documents the passion of a Rothschild-born baroness who was muse
and patron to such jazz greats as Charlie Parker Lionel Hampton, Charlie
Parker, Theloni Monk Art Blakey, Miles Davis, Coleman Hawkins and Sonny
Rollins.
Interview
Archive
Keith Jarrett: Zen in the Art of
Jazz
With a tour of Japan coming up in April and May,
world-renowned jazz pianist Keith Jarrett talks to culture journalist C.
B. Liddell in Tokyo about his music.
Jazznet Archives: Special Feature
Sons of Miles
A 41-part series featuring personal
reminiscences and interviews of Miles Davis and the leading jazz, rock and
pop musicians he influenced during his long career, by Mike
Zwerin, one of Miles' early sidemen.
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