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1 February 2016

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Mark Lomanno looks at some politically charged albums of 2016 and asks for their connection to last year's US presidential elections; he also asks "why did all this (music) happen now?" ( Rhythm of Study).
 --- Howard Reich hears the singer  Sheila Jordan performing with a string quartet at the Green Mill in Chicago ( Chicago Tribune).
 --- Mark Giuarino asks why Chicago's most famous cultural export, the blues, is not promoted better ( Chicago Business).
 --- Willard Jenkins talks to the pianist Jason Moran in a video interview, part of the "Meet the Artist" series in Washington, D.C. ( Open Sky Jazz).
 --- Mane Stelzer reports about the composer Hazel Leach and some of her recent projects ( Melodica).
 --- Mark Shanahan reports about Jan Mullen who will succeed Fred Taylor as artistic director of Scullers Jazz Club in Boston, Massachusetts ( The Boston Globe).
 --- Greg M. Schwartz hears the saxophonist Kamasi Washington in San Francisco ( Pop Matters).
 --- Jon Caramanica looks at the jazz content in the celebrated Hollywood movie "La La Land" ( New York Times), Emily Yahr sorts out some of the other criticism towards the movie ( Chicago Tribune), and in their "popcast" A.O. Scott, Wesley Morris and Joe Coscarelli talk about the film's flaws and merits ( New York Times).
 --- We learned of the jazz-related Lego project for an ECM Studio session featuring Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, Nana Vasconcelos, Manfred Eicher and Jan Erik Kongshaug ( Lego).
 --- Birgit Schellbach reports on the jazz club in Eisenach, Germany, which was founded 58 years ago ( Thüringer Allgemeine ).
 --- Yavuz Baydar reports about the story behind jazz concerts in the Turkish embassy in Washington, D.C., organized by the ambassadors sons Nesuhi and Ahmet Ertegün in the early 1940s, and the meaning of jazz for Turkey over the years ( Süddeutsche Zeitung ).
 --- Thomas Meyer reports about the art of improvisation in classical music ( SRF).
 --- The German computer music pioneer Hans Deyssenroth turns 80 ( Die Oberbadische).
 --- John DeSanto talks to the drummer Adam Nussbaum ( RecordOnline).

Obituaries
We learned of the passing of the pianist James Hamilton at the age of 80 ( Minneapolis Star Tribune ), the drummer Charles "Bobo" Shaw at the age of 69 ( St. Louis Jazz Notes, New York Times, St. Louis American), the jazz historian and author Tom Jacobsen at the age of 81 ( St. Louis Cremation), the German drummer Jaki Liebezeit at the age of 78 ( The Quietus, Spiegel Online, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, New York Times, Die Zeit), the photographer Chuck Stewart at the age of 89 ( WBGO, New York Times), the jazz historian and photographer  Ed Berger at the age of 67, the guitarist Bill Horvitz at the age of 69 ( The Press Democrat), as well as the violinist Michael White at the age of 86 ( LA Weekly).