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fromPitchfork
1 month ago

Willie Colon, Pioneering Salsa Trombonist, Dies At 75

Willie Colón, pioneering trombonist, bandleader, and composer central to the creation and political energy of salsa, has died at 75.
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fromFast Company
1 month ago

Why the best problem-solvers think like jazz musicians

Organizations that toggle between wonder (imagination) and rigor (discipline) generate novel value and shape disruption better than those relying solely on technical systems.
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fromOpen Culture
1 month ago

Herbie Hancock Explains the Big Lesson He Learned From Miles Davis: Every Mistake in Music, as in Life, Is an Opportunity

Mistakes should be framed as valuable, creative learning opportunities rather than binary failures, especially when guiding perfectionist children.
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fromJAZZ LIVES
2 months ago
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(Part Two) "JAZZ IS MUSIC MADE BY AND FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE CHOSEN TO FEEL GOOD IN SPITE OF CONDITIONS": DAN BLOCK, ROBERT REDD, SEAN SMITH (Cafe Ornithology, Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York, October 30, 2025)

fromJAZZ LIVES
2 months ago
NYC music

(Part Two) "JAZZ IS MUSIC MADE BY AND FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE CHOSEN TO FEEL GOOD IN SPITE OF CONDITIONS": DAN BLOCK, ROBERT REDD, SEAN SMITH (Cafe Ornithology, Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York, October 30, 2025)

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fromPitchfork
2 months ago

Wynton Marsalis, Jazz at Lincoln Center Founder, Steps Down

Wynton Marsalis will step down as Jazz at Lincoln Center's artistic and managing director in 2027, then serve as advisor through June 2028.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

I'd never heard anything like it': the prepared piano revelations of jazz star Jessica Williams

Jessica Williams’s rare prepared-piano and synth recordings were rediscovered and compiled, culminating in Blue Abstraction released posthumously despite her 2022 death.
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fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
1 month ago

What does blue mean to you?: Cecile McLorin Salvant at Alberta Rose * Oregon ArtsWatch

Cécile McLorin Salvant delivers technically masterful, emotionally expressive, and visually distinctive jazz performances that enthrall audiences.
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