Archive for July 2008

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July 12, 2008

Jazz Impressions of Paris

Jazz interpretations of the many songs that have been written about the City of Light.

Jazz Icons Series 3 Update

Jazz Icons Cannonball The Jazz Icons website has posted discographical information about the previously-announced third set in their ongoing series of jazz-performance DVD releases. Due out in September…

Uproar Over Jazz Singer Rene Marie’s Take on the National Anthem

Jazz vocalist Rene Marie recently sang the melody of "The Star-Spangled Banner" with lyrics from "the black national anthem."

From the Archives: Let Freedom Ring

Night Lights Mulligan Night Lights made its debut on WFIU four years ago almost to the day–or night, as it were–with a program called Let Freedom Ring that aired on the eve of the July 4th holiday. I had been working at WFIU for exactly two years, subbing for weekday afternoon jazz host Joe Bourne and producing WFIU jazz specials such as Bix Beiderbecke: Never the Same Way Twice and Jump for Joy: Duke Ellington’s Celebratory Musical. When the syndicated “Worldwide Jazz” show that we carried on Saturday evenings suddenly ceased production, I proposed Night Lights as a replacement to our station manager, Christina Kuzmych.

More on Rene Marie, Jazzwax’s interview with Roy Haynes, Claude Thornhill in the Wall Street Journal, and inside comments from Mosaic’s Scott Wenzel

A few items of interest from around the online jazz world over the long holiday weekend:Marie’s website statement.

Jazz Impressions of Paris

Jazz interpretations of the many songs that have been written about the City of Light.

Golden Arms and Glasses: When Algren Met Holiday

Novelist Nelson Algren and singer Billie Holiday are two iconic figures of mid-20th-century American culture, though Holiday is surely better-known than Algren.