from jazz@jazzinstitut.de

3. May 2016

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Robert Glasper explains hip-hop sampling of jazz tracks using three specific examples (NPR Music). --- Michael Lang talks to the musicians of the Darmstadt based band Basstubation ( Darmstädter Echo). --- Eric Delmar reports about the trumpeter Wynton Marsalis who gives "12 Tips on How to Practice: For Musicians, Athletes, or Anyone Who Wants to Learn Something New" ( Open Culture). --- Noel Murray sees "Chasing Trane. The John Coltrane Documentary" ( Los Angeles Times). --- Jessica Schlage talks to the German pianist Julia Hülsmann in her garden in Berlin ( NDR). --- Merel Blom talks to the Dutch photographer Jaap van de Klomp about jazz in Utrecht, Netherlands, from 1950-1975 ( Duic). --- Meridee Duddleston talks to the pianist Jon Batiste ( WRTI). --- The Swiss graphic artist and concert promoter Niklaus Troxler turns 70 ( Luzerner Zeitung). --- Giovanni Russonello attends a three-day festival dedicated to Tito Puente (New York Times). --- Heinrich Oehmsen hears Chick Corea at Elbphilharmonie Hamburg where the pianist first took photos of the amazing venue and the audience before playing ( Hamburger Abendblatt). --- Hua Hsu hears a new collection of Alice Coltrane's devotional music ( The New Yorker). --- For International Jazz Day Leyla Ivonne Ergil talks to expatriate jazz musicians living in Istanbul, namely the American bassist Matthew Hall, the German bassist Andreas Metzler, the Swedish bassist Kristian Lind, and the Cuban drummer Williams Richart Cardoso ( Daily Sabah). --- Keith Spera reports about how a scandal involving the trumpeter Irvin Mayfield lingers over the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra ( The New Orleans Advocate). --- James Karst unearthes new details about Louis Armstrong's arrest at age 9 for trying to steal scrap metal from the ruins of a burned building which made him "an old offender" when arrested in 1913 for firing a gun and thus sent to the Colored Waifs Home where he joined the Brass Band and started playing music around New Orleans ( New Orleans Times-Picayune).

Obituaries

We read further obituaries about the guitarist Allan Holdsworth who had died at the age of 70 ( New York Times), as well as the radio show host Steve Schwartz who had died at the age of 74 ( The Boston Globe). --- We learned about the passing of the guitarist and bassist Ray Chamberlain at the age of 86 ( The Buffalo News), the Milwaukee jazz club owner Arlis Jones ( Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ), as well as the pianist William Bell at the age of 80 ( San Francisco Chronicle).