the Jazzinstitut

7 March 2018

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Ted Loos reports about a calliope project the artist Kara Walker designed for the art show Prospect New Orleans ( New York Times). --- Jessica Gelt talks to the trumpeter Herb Alpert about his "improv jazz poles" sculptures ( Los Angeles Times). --- Ami Yensi meets Cab Calloway's daughter Camay Calloway Murphy ( CBS Baltimore). --- Farina Witte talks to the German double bass player Lisa Hoppe ( Kreiszeitung). --- Howard Reich hears the trio of drummer Dana Hall at Winter's Jazz Club in Chicago ( Chicago Tribune). --- Adam Perlmutter talks to the guitarist Julian Lage ( Acoustic Guitar). --- Brandon Weber picks up a story which has circulated for a while of how Billie Holiday died because the Federal Bureau of Narcotics prevented hospital staff to administer methadone for her heroin addiction ( Progressive). --- Marc Montgomery reports about the record archive of Radio Canada in Montréal which decided to digitize its collection after which the physical records will be destroyed ( RCI). --- Howard Reich reports about the new executive director of the Jazz Institute of Chicago, Heather Ireland Robinson ( Chicago Tribune). --- Karen Ducey reports about (and shows pictures of) a 1920s jazz mural discovered in the former Louisa Hotel in Seattle, Washington ( Crosscut). --- The Japanese-German pianist Aki Takase will receive the Berlin Jazz Award ( Presseportal). --- Peter W. Ragge reports about the plans for the new jazz club "Ella and Louis" in Mannheim, Germany ( Mannheimer Morgen). --- Larry Blumenfeld remembers the impact of the late pianist Muhal Richard Abrams ( The Village Voice). --- Matthew Guerrieri reflects about the jazz content of George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" ( San Francisco Chronicle ). --- Jacqueline Quynh reports about the tuba of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band having been stolen ( WWLTV). --- Peter Hum talks to the saxophonist Branford Marsalis ( Ottawa Citizen). --- The German saxophonist Peter Brötzmann celebrates his 75th birthday these days, and Roland Spiegel sends his regards ( Bayerischer Rundfunk). --- Gene Lees' Jazzletter, a pre-Blog printed Blog of the late journalist, lyricist and vocalist, has been put online in its entirety ( Gene Lees Jazzletter). --- Aidin Vaziri hears the band Snarky Puppy at SFJazz Center ( San Francisco Chronicle ). --- Matt Sledge reports that trumpeter Irvin Mayfield asks a judge's permission to perform in South Africa ( The New Orleans Advocate). --- Toronto's Market Gallery shows an exhibition about the city's jazz scene since 1946 ( NewsWire). --- Tom Henry talks to the trumpeter Randy Brecker ( Toledo Blade). --- Yvette Feliciano talks to drummer Terri Lyne Carrington, bassist Esperanza Spalding, and vibraphonist Sasha Berliner about sexism in jazz ( PBS).

Obituaries

We learned of the passing of saxophonist Albert 'Sax' Berry at the age of 87 ( Philadelphia Tribune), the German-American composer and producer Heiner Stadler at the age of 75 ( Legacy), the Australian saxophonist and bassoonist Errol Buddle at the age of 89 ( Sydney Morning Herald), the pianist George Spaulding at the age of 95 ( Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ), the producer Rob Sunenblick at the age of 75 ( Legacy), the pianist Stephen M. Goodman at the age of 77 ( Philadelphia Inquirer), the Austrian composer Thomas Pernes at the age of 62 ( Der Standard), the German producer Achim Bergmann at the age of 74 ( Passauer Neue Presse), the trombonist Andre Stephani at the age of 83 ( Minneapolis Star-Tribune ), the founder of a record store imperium Russ Solomon at the age of 92 ( New York Times), as well as the German promoter Henry Storch at the age of 49 ( Rheinische Post).