Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes

Friday, June 26, 2009

CDs of Note...

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Here’s a dose of CDs of interest, as I head out for a week of travels to Freihofer’s Jazz Festival in Saratoga NY and the Montreal Internati...
Monday, June 22, 2009

Singing about a vanishing icon

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If you want to find Kodachrome after this fall, you’ll have to go see Paul Simon in concert or dig out an album. Kodak announced today that ...
Saturday, June 20, 2009

Montreal’s amazing block party

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One of these years, I am truly tempted to go to the Montreal International Jazz Festival strictly for its free, outdoor concerts. The great ...
Monday, June 15, 2009

CDs of Note...

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Grant Geissman, Cool Man Cool (Futurism Records) With the fun-filled spirit, wide stylistic range of original material and plethora of gues...
Sunday, June 14, 2009

More thoughts on the current state of jazz media

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All companies and nonprofits great and small are reassessing their viability and putting creativity to the test as they weather the effects ...
Saturday, June 13, 2009

First music gets spotlighted Monday

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With the assistance of several nonprofits, First Lady Michelle Obama will use jazz on Monday June 15 to open the White House Music Series. T...
Tuesday, June 9, 2009

JazzTimes confirms troubles

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I just spotted this fresh posting today on JazzTimes' Web site, jazztimes.com. An Important Message From JazzTimes Management To ou...
Saturday, June 6, 2009

Economic domino effect on jazz is troubling

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These are indeed troubling times for the general economy – and the spillover to the jazz world was inevitable. Just as some companies and so...
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Thursday, June 4, 2009

Montreal jazz expands

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When most of us outside of Canada think jazz and Montreal, we think early summer. Equipe Spectra, the organization that produces the Festiva...
Sunday, May 31, 2009

CDs of Note...

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Bobby Sanabria conducting the Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra, Kenya Revisited Live!!! (Jazzheads) The mouthful of a ti...
Friday, May 29, 2009

No slowing down

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June’s issue of Hot House includes my profile of tenor saxophonist Ernie Watts, who is on the road as special guest with the new tribute pr...
Thursday, May 28, 2009

The Jazz Forum lofts and their legacy – 30 years later

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Mark Morgaanelli had producing events in his genes even as a 24-year-old trumpeter. For four years, starting in 1979, Morganelli ran the Jaz...
Tuesday, May 26, 2009

DVD of Note...

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Miles Davis , That's What Happened: Live in Germany, 1987 (Eagle Rock Entertainment) This 1987 concert DVD captures Davis and his late-...
Monday, May 25, 2009

A-Team / Essentially Ellington overlap

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Seattle’s Garfield High School and Roosevelt High School jazz bands have been perennial top finalists and/or winners at Jazz at Lincoln Cent...
Tuesday, May 19, 2009

CDs of Note

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Lynne Arriale, Nuance: The Bennett Studio Sessions (Motéma) After a series of 10 highly regarded trio recordings over the past 15 years, pi...
Friday, May 15, 2009

Some golden jazz projects take on a new spin

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A golden anniversary only rolls around once, so producers and promoters are smart to make the best of it. To some ears, 1959 was the greates...
Thursday, May 14, 2009

CDs of Note

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Melody Gardot, My One and Only Thrill (Verve) In terms of a very intimate and endearing sound, Melody Gardot seems comparable to my ears to...
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