The New Jazz Thing - Vince Outlaw's WeblogImprovising On Life's Changes.Is Jazz Back Is Jazz Front Is Jazz Newsweek Boldly Steps Into The New- April 27, 2003 Michael J. Agovino - Is Jazz Back "Old favorites like Ron Carter, Wayne Shorter and Ahmad Jamal have brought new offerings, as have younger, more irreverent musicians like Matt Wilson and Dave Douglas, to say nothing of a reissue box set to die for, the long out-of-print work of Grachan Moncur III. Is there a &147;Kind of Blue&148; in the bunch Not quite, but 2003 is beginning to look like a vintage year. There&146;s still more to come..." There is so much New stuff in, and more importantly...http://thenewjazzthing.com/2003/04/27.html#a934 The Saturday Morning Post - The San Diego Border Voices Poetry Project- April 26, 2003 Border Voices Poetry Project : Hearing Voices "If I make something clear to myself, hopefully it makes things clear for others, in an act of love." If I can do anything in my power to be involved in Border Voices, maybe as the radio-voice for the project, I will from today onward. I feel it's that important and fun. I'd like to start by having some of the winners on The New Jazz Thing Live show this coming Thursday. I'm now off make that happen. And the above quote expresses the inspiration...http://thenewjazzthing.com/2003/04/26.html#a933 I Wish My Fellow Employee's "Good Luck!"- April 26, 2003 Pentagon Sending a Team of Exiles to Help Run Iraq. The exiles are supposed to take up positions at each of 23 Iraqi ministries, where they will work with U.S. and British officials. By Douglas Jehl with Jane Perlez. New York Times: NYT HomePage Interesting and down right close to home, " The team of Iraqi technocrats was selected by Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz but is officially employed by a defense contractor, SAIC, the officials said. The team is headed by Emad Dhia, an...http://thenewjazzthing.com/2003/04/26.html#a932 What Is Happening At Blog.ColumbiaRecords.com- April 25, 2003 In my hunt through the website of The Bad Plus, I stumbled upon the following URL: http:blog.columbiarecords.comthebadplusgigs.html What is Columbia Records doing with blogs What's the grand scheme Beyond hosting the very un-blog-like TBP Gigs page. Here's what Google says. Looks like John Mayer (or buddy "Scotty") is doing something more blog-like with his Road Journal page. Oh...and here's a somewhat related but not all so musical RSS Feed for these Columbia blog efforts. Let's subscribe...http://thenewjazzthing.com/2003/04/25.html#a931 The Silence is Broken As Blogcritic Tom Johnson Get Jazz Blogged on TNJT- April 25, 2003 Blogcritics.org - Tom Johnson: Silence Is The Question Hear it (MP3, 1.6MB) as it was Jazz Blogged on TNJT Live, April 24, 2003. "The Bad Plus is just as rhythmically centered as MMW Medesky, Martin, and Wood are but the music as represented on These Are The Vistas steers back toward traditional jazz elements. If anything, the Bad Plus make better use of their heavy rhythm-section orientation - as a band of three rhythm-section instruments should - because, rather than relying on constantly...http://thenewjazzthing.com/2003/04/25.html#a930 Susie Hansen Interview in MP3 on The New Jazz Thing Live- April 25, 2003 Susie Hansen was most excellent tonight on the show. Especially with the multiple phone problems, which finally all got worked out. The interview is available via streaming and download MP3, with links below. We talked about the different styles of Latin Jazz, which is the main theme of The Salsa Never Ends, her new disc. We also got into her early influences in classical (dad), to mainstream Jazz, and the on to Latin. I learned that Salsa music came from Big Band Jazz...I always thought Salsa.http://thenewjazzthing.com/2003/04/25.html#a929 Preppin' The Talent For TNJT Does The Playboy Jazz Festival 2003- April 25, 2003 Two. Big. Two Big Screens. First Time Ever. Not 1 but Two. See Jeff. Told ya. Totally cool! Did they previously have a problem doing it both Day and Night Are there some technical issues with doing it Day or Night Who cares! Just some fun questions to ask while we contemplate cruising the rockin-with-killer-music Hollywood Bowl on Saturday, June 14, 2003 (memories). Ah ha...let's see if Nina can get us the folks that are doing the big screens at th fest...that would be an interesting...http://thenewjazzthing.com/2003/04/25.html#a928 2003.04.24 - The New Jazz Thing Live - Susie Hansen, Playboy Jazz Fest, Blogcritics, Nina Simone- April 25, 2003 We're back Live, tonight from 6 to 9 pm PT, with Susie Hansen and maybe the Blogcritics! We'll also be playing some Nina Simone in her honor. Stay tuned. 88.3 FM San Diego or Webcast at http:KSDS-FM.org. Later... The Susie Hansen Interview from the show has been published in MP3 formats. Jeff and Evan came by the studio tonight, after boys day at the park. And Evan rapped to San Diego (and the world via webcast) about his love for TNJT. Here's the MP3 to prove it. And the picture... Can...http://thenewjazzthing.com/2003/04/24.html#a927 Susie Hansen Does Playboy and The Salsa Never Ends - Live Tonight on TNJT- April 25, 2003 Susie Hansen will be phoning one in from Los Angeles this evening, around 7:20 pm PT, on The New Jazz Thing Live on Jazz 88, KSDS San Diego, 88.3 FM and webcast at http:KSDS-FM.org. We'll be talking about her new album, The Salsa Never Ends. I'm really interested to hear who she feels like are the fathers of her style of Latin Jazz, including if there were any Jazz Violinists that had any Latin leanings. Hispanic Magazine (.com) has this to say, "&147;Masterpiece&148; is also an apt...http://thenewjazzthing.com/2003/04/24.html#a926 Lose Time Checking Out These Cool Clocks- April 24, 2003 Naomi sent us checking out this cool Javascript mouse icon clock. Drag your mouse around and the clock follows. Which sent me searching for (and finding buried in the email archive) a couple of similarly cool counting clocks screensavers, for which I now post the links so I will never lose them again... http:yugop.comver3stuff03fla.html http:www.lares.dti.ne.jpyugostoragemonocrafts_ver329bclock.html(You can get this one as a screensaver.) And that http:yugop.com site (follow the 'old'...http://thenewjazzthing.com/2003/04/24.html#a925 |