Jazz Festival Season and the Aesthetics of Chance
Joseph Murphy | August 16, 2012
Festival • n. 1 a day or period of celebration, typically for religious reasons. 2 an organized series of…
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Festival • n. 1 a day or period of celebration, typically for religious reasons. 2 an organized series of…
read moreJoseph Murphy | May 24, 2012
Palimpsest: Jazz and the Generational Continua am Palimpsest – 1.A parchment or other surface which later writing has been…
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In a year of global turmoil, occupied streets and roiling markets, jazz continued its plodding pace in the new…
read moreJoseph Murphy | January 4, 2012
The sword that caused the wound must also heal the wound Wagner/Parsifal One spring evening in the early eighties,…
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In 1964, arguably the height of what MLK Jr., called, “The Freedom Movement,” that found expression politically in the…
read moreJoseph Murphy | December 20, 2011
“The sword that caused the wound must also heal the wound” Wagner/Parsifal One spring evening in the early eighties,…
read moreJoseph Murphy | June 8, 2011
Billy Bang And while still on strings, we note the passing of the exquisite jazz violinist Billy Bang, in…
read moreJoseph Murphy | June 1, 2011
If you poke around the closets of your average jazz writer you are bound to come across the forlorn…
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*They come in search of the source of the mystery” – Ralph Ellison The task of writing about jazz…
read moreJoseph Murphy | November 29, 2010
“At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of…
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