Interview
Earl “Fatha” Hines at The Rising Sun: new notes from 1980
You see, the story people don’t realize is, we didn’t know we were making history.
Paul Serralheiro
Music
Jazz Amnesty Sound System: voices from the past speaking today’s language
The history of music is all about borrowing and building on the work of predecessors, whether it be Griots keeping old stories alive and telling the stories of their time, or Johann Sebastian Bach traveling to hear Buxtehude’s organ playing and transcribing Vivaldi, or jazz musicians of the […]
Book Review
Charlotte Hussey: Reclaiming Narratives in Glossing the Spoils
Hussey, Charlotte. Glossing the Spoils. Awen Publications: Stroud, England, 2017 (2nd edition), 72 pages. Montréal poet and scholar Charlotte Hussey’s most recent book of poetry, published by an Irish imprint, was sparked by a quest for reconnection to the author’s root culture’s myths and legends. As she tells it […]
Music
Togetherness: Post-colonial appropriation or welcome celebration of South African jazz?
CD Review Cultures around the world provide a rich heritage to draw from for practicing contemporary artists, but it’s always a thorny issue when a non-native draws on stylistic features of the practices of another culture, as care needs to be taken to avoid cultural appropriation and ensure respectful treatment […]