Jazz in Barbados – December 14-20, 2012

“The essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing & instrumental personality.”  Mose Allison jazz pianist and vocalist Here’s what’s happening this week on the jazz scene . . . Friday December 14th CiCi and the Roger Gittens Trio @ The Waterfront Café starting at 8pm featuring CiCi on vocals with Roger Gittens on […]

Jazz in Barbados – December 7-13, 2012

Andre Woodvine

. . . “Listening is more important than anything because that’s what music is; somebody is playing something & you’re receiving it.” Carla Bley,jazz pianist & composer Here’s what’s happening this week on the jazz scene . . .  Friday December 7th CiCi and the Roger Gittens Trio @ The Waterfront Café starting at 8pm […]

The End of Jazz

How America’s most vibrant music became a relic by Benjamin Schwarz Musician, composer, scholar, teacher, perhaps a bit of an operator—albeit of a distinctly nerdy variety—Ted Gioia is also the sort of compulsive, encyclopedically knowledgeable enthusiast the jazz world engenders. (Dan Morgenstern, Will Friedwald, and the winningly neurotic savant and broadcaster Phil Schaap immediately come […]