Thomas ‘Papa’ ‘Mutt’ Carey [1891 - September 3, 1948] was a New Orleans cornetist who played with Kid Ory during the 1910s and 20s. He is also recognized for his work as a bandleader during the revival of traditional jazz during the late 1940s. Read more »
Charles ‘Buddy’ Bolden (September 6, 1877-November 4, 1931) was the first important name is jazz history and was a cornetist and pioneer of the kind of New Orleans rag time music that eventually came to be known as jazz. Read more »
Arturo Sandoval: Trumpet Evolution (2003). The legendary Arturo Sandoval pays tribute to nineteen of the greatest and most influential trumpeters in both jazz and classical music from the last century in this journey through the development of the trumpet. The album features Arturo’s mastery of the styles of Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, and Wynton Marsalis just to name a few. Read more »
The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time Out (1959). The album features some of the finest rhythmic innovations from Dave Brubeck and his quartet, including the simple yet elegant masterpiece Take Five. Consisting of nothing but tracks with irregular or changing meters, Time Out is one the finest and most unusual examples of West Coast Cool Jazz. Read more »
What exactly is jazz? What kinds of music can be called jazz? Where did jazz come from and where is it going? What about education: does jazz have a place in schools, and if so, what is it? And what about all the modern technology, how is jazz affected by it? These are a few of the questions that I am going to examine in this blog.
In my experiences with music, I have learned that the best way to learn jazz is to experience it: listen to it, play it, go and watch it. You can learn far more about jazz by going to a jazz concert than you could ever hope to learn from a book. But once you’ve heard the what that is a jazz musician’s sound, you should want to know the why, the reason why that musician sounds the way they do. Why does John Coltrane sound like Coltrane and not like Charlie Parker or Dizzy Gillespie or Theolonius Monk? And it’s not just because they play different instruments.
Something else I have learned is that no one should ever stop learning, and music is certainly no exception. There is always something else out there: some things are old, and there’s always something new. Music cannot be perfected because no one is perfect, it can always be better, and that’s what I like most about it. Jazz is a perfect example of this because even as new genres of jazz are born, all the old styles are still alive and kicking.
My main goal with this blog is to share my knowledge and love of jazz music. In the upcoming weeks, I will be writing new posts about different jazz musicians, genres of jazz, and charts that changed the jazz world, as well as a few articles about jazz in music education, jazz in technology, as well as a few other topics. Until then, God Bless.
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