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A gentle breeze carried the sounds of cool jazz through Renfrew Park Sunday during the annual Renfrew Institute Jazz Festival. Almost 1,000 people relaxed under the shade on the lawn behind the museum house, listening to five world-renowned jazz musicians. The free afternoon of music has been a staple community event for the past 19 years. News and notes from around the web, including the Seattle scene, a Brad Mehldau essay, Branford at 50, Mulgrew Miller, #jazzlives, Dennis Hopper, more Abbey Lincoln archival goodies and jazz musicians who are really good at table tennis. ? E-Mail This ???? ? Add to Del.icio.us Louisville, Ky. The website JazzCorner has been steadily producing audio podcast interviews with jazz musicians. Meanwhile, journalist Anil Prasad has been posting deep conversations with a wide range of musicians online for well over a decade now. ? E-Mail This ???? ? Add to Del.icio.us “Jazz in Ramadan” shares jazz with everyone! “Jazz in Ramadan” proposes the idea that social peace comes first and foremost from the sharing artistic inspiration, will feature world-renown jazz musicians from the Muslim world all through the Ramadan. We will celebrate Ramadan, a time of peace that strengthens social ties, spontaneously calls to mind the importance of mutual life and cultural … Jazz musicians Jessie Bates and Haftor Medboe were in Princes Street Gardens yesterday for the launch of the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival. The recently completed workshop, whose students were as accomplished as its faculty, was designed to give jazz musicians access to new developments in orchestral writing. In the process, it appeared to be jazz history in the making. ? E-Mail This ???? ? Add to Del.icio.us Film director Roman Polanski, freed earlier this week from house arrest in Switzerland, attended a Saturday-night concert given by his wife at the Montreux jazz festival. Rey Scott is one of those consummate jazz musicians who can play out or in. He’s performed with the swinging vibes master Lionel Hampton (in), and, since 1988, as a member of the Sun Ra Arkestra under the direction of the legendary Marshall Allen, he’s played some pretty adventurous charts (out). Plain and simple folks, as I’ve been preaching for many moons, the biggest issue facing jazz music is not a matter of lack of gigs or venues, dying record companies or jazz masters checking out for ancestry, or the lack of widespread 24/7 jazz radio; the biggest issue is audience, and our collective ability to grow the audience for this music. I’ve long held that they’re out here–”they” being …
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