I wanted to write a year-in-review piece about jazz in 2012, so I looked through the archives of my recently ended show, The Jazz Session, to find a narrative thread…
Jazz Don’t Hurt
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Jason Crane
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The first album I ever bought with my own money (earned, I think, by babysitting for one of the neighborhood kids) was a two-cassette version of Chuck Mangione’s 1978 concert…
Jason Crane
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Drummer Ted Sirota and his band Rebel Souls have a new record out called Seize the Time (Naim Jazz, 2009). It’s an explicitly political instrumental album, very in line with…
Jason Crane
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I was (briefly) in college in 1992. My best friend was a very talented drummer name Mike. We played in a jazz group together called, for no apparent reason, the…
Jason Crane
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Jazz don’t hurt — in fact, as Jason Crane points out in his latest column, it sometimes channels the mustachioed ghost of Frank Zappa.
Jason Crane
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What is “jazz,” exactly? I sure as hell don’t know. And neither, I would suggest, does anyone else. Sure, everybody knows what they think jazz is, and which particular elements…
Jason Crane
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Do you think jazz is hard to appreciate or understand? Jason Crane is here to set the record straight, starting with an appreciation of Darius Jones’ Man’ish Boy.
Jason Crane
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Recently, the fine folks over at NPR’s A Blog Supreme have started asking young jazz aficionados to recommend five recordings from recent years that they would give to someone who…
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