TAKEN from an article by Terri Windling on the art of Stu Jenks: “Circles, Sprials and Stu,” as it appears on the Endicott Studios website:
Art historian John Berger, in a recent essay (“Steps Toward a Small Theory of the Visible”) comments: “The modern illusion concerning painting (which postmodernism has done nothing to correct) is that [...]
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Improvisation
Posted in Creative Process, Early Entries, Jazz, Performance on July 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Good Point…
Posted in Jazz, Performance on April 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“…when you are playing concerts every night is Saturday night. You have to give the people who come to hear your music the feeling of a weekend, not the feeling that you are punching a clock.” ( – Wynton Marsalis, Jazz in the Bittersweet Blues of Life)
Elders and the Language
Posted in Early Entries, Jazz on July 14, 2003 | Leave a Comment »
This from the liner notes of Steve Turre’s Telarc Jazz Release TNT:
“I’ve always sought out the elders. I realized early on that the elders have the key to the lineage, the key to the phrasing, the key to the language. This music [Jazz] is not just learning the notes. It’s more than emulating some records.”
And regarding his [...]
