Around The Jazz Internet: Week In Review, Feb. 19, 2010

by Patrick Jarenwattananon
Links from this week we hain't blogged about yet:

--Ethan Iverson's blog entry on Wayne Shorter now has a long addendum which might as well be a full post. He stops short of drowning kittens, but he does say: "When respect is all you have left, not love or passion, that's bad news."

--Peter Hum reads Graham Collier's book and listens to Graham Collier's newest double-album, as he discusses in this big-ol' blog post. Collier sets forth an idiosyncratic, complex perspective on jazz; Hum does a great job at parsing through it sympathetically.

--Greg Osby on the need for more dynamic contrast. Also, more articulation. He sounds like my high school band director, but he's right.

--Hank Shteamer on a Sunny Murray documentary, which he describes as a mixed bag -- not entirely unlike Sunny Murray himself, it would seem.

--Marc Myers interviews John Levy, the 97-year-old bassist with legends turned personal manager of many, many musicians. Five parts, all at JazzWax: here's the fifth.

--John Zorn curated a two-night Masada songbook marathon with all sorts of different groups this week at Abrons Arts Center in New York. A profile of the tireless musician by Aidan Levy in the Village Voice.

--From the New York Times: Leonard Bernstein explains the blues using Macbeth, captured on video. Charming stuff.

--I don't link enough to The Jazz Session, but this week, Jason Crane talks to two active musician-bloggers in Chris Kelsey and Jason Parker.

--What in the world is Christian McBride wearing in this photograph? (He was playing with Dee Dee Bridgewater's Billie Holiday tribute.)
http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2010/02/around_the_jazz_internet_20100219.html