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Summer Reading List 2021

Mingus Speaks by John Goodman, Mister Jelly Roll by Alan Lomax, The Man That Got Away by Walter Rilmer, Dead Man Blues: Jelly Roll Morton Way Out West by Phil Pastras

Published October 5, 2021
Categorized as American Music History, Jazz History

3 Compelling Stories from They All Played Ragtime

The seldom-discussed stories of three ragtime pioneers

Published November 13, 2020
Categorized as Ragtime Project Tagged Axel Christensen, Bebop, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Eubie Blake, James P. Johnson, John Stark, Joseph Lamb, Ragtime, Ragtime Project, Rudi Blesh, Scott Joplin, They All Played Ragtime, Tin Pan Alley, Tom Turpin

Listening Log: Week 7

Sissle & Blake, Ben Wendel, Charles Ives

Published November 1, 2020
Categorized as Listening Log Tagged Ben Wendel, Charles Ives, Election Day, Eubie Blake, Helen Boatwright, High Heart, Listening Log, Michael Mayo, Noble Sissle, Shuffle Along, They All Played Ragtime, Tom Sails Away

Listening Log: Week 6

Charles Ives, Scott Joplin & Scott Hayden, Eubie Blake

Published October 23, 2020
Categorized as Listening Log Tagged Charles Ives, Charleston, Eubie Blake, Fats Waller, James P. Johnson, Luckey Roberts, Maple Leaf Rag, New England Conservatory, New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble, Rag, Ragtime, Ragtime Dance, Richard Zimmerman, Scott Hayden, Scott Joplin, Sunflower Slow Drag, Willie "The Lion" Smith

Jazz and Trains: A Connected History

The American railroad system as a driving force for cultural exchange

Published October 13, 2020
Categorized as American Music History Tagged American History, Chattanooga Choo Choo, Duke Ellington, Early Jazz, Glenn Miller, Great Crush Collision, Gunther Schuller, Jazz, Lead Belly, Linin' Track, Music History, Plessy v. Ferguson, Pullman Porters, Scott Joplin, Trains, WBUR

New Single: Cabin Fever

My new single “Cabin Fever” is out now on Bandcamp!

Published October 2, 2020
Categorized as News Tagged Bandcamp, Bandcamp Friday, Cabin Fever, Drums, Jazz, Music, New Music, Saxophone

Solo Transcription: Lou Donaldson’s “Minor Bash”

A close look at a Lou Donaldson solo transcription and how it relates to moments in jazz history

Published September 27, 2020
Categorized as American Music History, Transcription Tagged Blues, Carmen, Charles Mingus, Charleston, Fables of Faubus, Georges Bizet, James P. Johnson, Jazz, Jon Batiste, Joshua Berrett, Lou Donaldson, Louis Armstrong, Paul Whiteman, Ricky Riccardi, Soloist, Summer Reading, Transcription, West End Blues

Listening Log: Week 5

Lou Donaldson, Louis Armstrong, Roy Hargrove, Earl Hines, Benny Goodman

Published September 25, 2020
Categorized as Listening Log Tagged Benny Goodman, Earl Hines, Listening Log, Lou Donaldson, Louis Armstrong, Music, Roy Hargrove

Summer Reading List 2020

Summer reading — Duke Ellington, Jane H. Hill, Gunther Schuller, bell hooks, Joshua Berrett

Published September 16, 2020
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged All About Love, bell hooks, Books, Duke Ellington, Early Jazz, Gunther Schuller, Joshua Berrett, Louis Armstrong, Music is My Mistress, Paul Whiteman, Racism, Reading, Summer Reading, The Everyday Language of White Racism

Listening Log: Week 4 (Bandcamp Friday Edition)

Henry Godfrey, Takuma Matsui, Frank Carlberg & Ran Blake, Lolivone De La Rosa, Jacob Moore

Published September 14, 2020
Categorized as Listening Log Tagged Frank Carlberg, Henry Godfrey, Lolivone De La Rosa, New Music, Ran Blake, Takuma Matsui

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