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Post by bebop on Sept 30, 2015 11:43:53 GMT -5
I'm a perpetual business traveler, so I pass through a lot of places, without any one to call "home". Jazz seems to doing well in some places I'm not sure I would expect -
thriving in Oakland; not so much in San Francisco;
Cafe Stritch enlivening San Jose but the rest of Silicon Valley?; Kuumbwa still doing it in Santa Cruz;
Denver living on one club (that I've found);
new "Blue Note" club opening in Waikiki).
What's up where you live?
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Post by jmuscara on Oct 1, 2015 6:29:29 GMT -5
I know a lot of jazz players here, and some of them seem pretty busy. But I think a lot would say it's not good. However, when have you met a musician that didn't complain? Of course, the really aspiring jazz musicians from Houston moved to NY (Jason Moran, Robert Glasper, Kendrick Scott, the list goes on).
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Post by billf on Oct 2, 2015 0:55:54 GMT -5
Here in Manchester I am well placed for live jazz (though not of course as it used to be in the golden era of the music when just about every jazz musician of note came through the city.) Now I regularly visit up to 7 venues, ranging in distance from my home from 3 miles to 30. I listen to local musicians, national figures and international names. Of the latter, recent visitors have been Christian McBride, Dave Liebman, Rossano Sportiello, Joe Magnarelli and Pat Martino.
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Post by JamesP on Oct 2, 2015 9:30:29 GMT -5
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Post by tomd on Oct 2, 2015 10:14:59 GMT -5
I live in a rural area, but not too far away from Woodstock, NY, which has quite a few good jazz events, though no dedicated jazz clubs per se. Similar situation for the Hudson Valley area around Woodstock. I think Jack De Johnette, Marilyn Crispell and Sonny Rollins actually reside in Woodstock, and the former two perform in the area reasonably often.
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Post by tom1960 on Oct 2, 2015 10:20:44 GMT -5
I now reside in southern Maine where jazz is a four letter word.
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Post by bebop on Oct 3, 2015 20:12:20 GMT -5
Interesting. As much as I travel, these aren't places I get to very often. (Richmond, Norfolk and suburban DC, but not Roanoke; Buffalo and Albany, but not Woodstock; seldom closer to Manchester than Birmingham; I remember getting lost in Portland, ever so long ago). When I go to a place like Oakland and find clubs proliferating, I wonder "why?" Having a big, popular, mainstream club like Yoshi's probably helps, though Yoshi's has been around 30+ years (and now offers as much pop as jazz). I'll be in Japan before long, though not Tokyo; I'm curious to check that out; I haven't been in five years, and then it was Tokyo.
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Post by billf on Oct 4, 2015 2:28:54 GMT -5
It's decades since we had a jazz club in Manchester. When we did, we got Rollins, Mobley, Webster, Griffin, Dexter, Roach, Shepp, etc, so you can tell how long ago that was! Now it's a question of jazz creeping occasionally into establishments run for more popular activities, such as what Bebop calls "mainstream" music clubs, like The Band on the Wall, where I've seen Jerry Bergonzi, Pharoah Sanders, Kenny Garrett and others and political or sports clubs which have local or national jazz musicians once a week.
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Post by JamesP on Oct 4, 2015 21:10:45 GMT -5
I understand Bebop. There was a time I racked up tons of business miles, both in the States and abroad. The thing I always found was the shortage of good radio station playing music other than Rock or Pop.
Admittedly, that was long before I phones, Spotify, etc.
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Post by jmuscara on Oct 8, 2015 8:01:59 GMT -5
One cool thing we have is an organization called Da Camera that brings six big name jazz concerts per season here. We've had McCoy Tyner, Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, Christian McBride, Gerald Clayton, Jason Moran, Manuel Valera, and many others the past few years. www.dacamera.comWe also have a church that has an annual jazz festival that has had some big acts. www.trinityjazzfest.net/about.html
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Post by kh1958 on Nov 25, 2015 9:32:03 GMT -5
Not much jazz activity here in Dallas, Texas. The University of Texas at Dallas does bring in a couple of jazz names each year (this year, Bill Charlap and Joey DeFrancesco). Random jazz events occasionally appear at two old movie theaters that present concerts (Granada Theater and Kessler Theater). Once in a blue moon there will be a jazz concert at the AT&T Performance Center (with two very nice venues rarely utilized for jazz, Meyerson Symphony Hall and Winspear Opera House). There's a modest local scene, though mostly not at what I would call decent venues. Shelley Carroll is a fine Texas tenor saxophonist living in Dallas deserving of greater renown. There's a jazz club of sorts in Fort Worth, Scat Jazz, which has a terrible sounding piano and mostly local players. There's some activity in Denton, at the University of North Texas, but it's a bit hard to find out about events, and many center around the One O'Clock Lab Band (I'm not a fan of this style).
Mostly I have to travel at least 200 miles to hear jazz artists i like.
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Post by billf on Nov 26, 2015 3:03:01 GMT -5
Not much jazz activity here in Dallas, Texas. The University of Texas at Dallas does bring in a couple of jazz names each year (this year, Bill Charlap and Joey DeFrancesco). Random jazz events occasionally appear at two old movie theaters that present concerts (Granada Theater and Kessler Theater). Once in a blue moon there will be a jazz concert at the AT&T Performance Center (with two very nice venues rarely utilized for jazz, Meyerson Symphony Hall and Winspear Opera House). There's a modest local scene, though mostly not at what I would call decent venues. Shelley Carroll is a fine Texas tenor saxophonist living in Dallas deserving of greater renown. There's a jazz club of sorts in Fort Worth, Scat Jazz, which has a terrible sounding piano and mostly local players. There's some activity in Denton, at the University of North Texas, but it's a bit hard to find out about events, and many center around the One O'Clock Lab Band (I'm not a fan of this style). Mostly I have to travel at least 200 miles to hear jazz artists i like. Hadn't heard of Shelley Carroll, but have found an album by this group on Spotify. Nice! austinjazzartists.com/webx/tag/black-red-black/
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Post by kh1958 on Nov 28, 2015 13:53:36 GMT -5
For Shelley Carrol, I have four of his CDs, and they are all good: A Distant Star, Gentle Friend, I Heard That, and With Members of the Duke Ellington Orchestra.
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