Music
21
Sep
Jazz notes
UK jazz musicians are in an uproar — as they should be — over the decision by the Mobo Awards to drop jazz as an award category. “Mobo” stands for “music of black origin.” As saxophonist Courtney Pine has argued (hat tip: Norm), “Jazz was the stepping stone for rock’n’roll, rhythm and blues — all popular music.” Great to know
1
Mar
“Is Jazz Dead?” — a book review
The following review is slated for publication in the March 2006 issue of Jazz Notes, the quarterly publication of the Jazz Journalists Association, edited by yours truly. —Is Jazz Dead? (Or Has It Moved to a New Address)By Stuart NicholsonRoutledge, New York/London, 2005; 270 pp; $19.95 paperback Review by David R. Adler With the title of this book, Stuart Nicholson