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Anthony Dean-Harris
Editor-in-Chief
anthony.deanharris[at]nextbop[dot]com / @retronius
Photo of the Undead Jazz Fest by the highly lauded Patrick Jarenwattananon
To be quite honest, I don’t really have a topic this week. Part of that is because things are a little topsy turvy here at Nextbop but we’re sure to come out of it really soon to continue to bring you quality content to show the best that jazz can offer. The other reason why is because I frankly think our good friend, Patrick Jarenwattananon has said everything I’ve wanted to say quite perfectly this week.
The Line-Up for 23 July 2010
Anthony Dean-Harris
Editor-in-Chief
anthony.deanharris[at]nextbop[dot]com / @retronius
As I state at the end of all my columns, I host a show on [KRTU San Antonio] called The Line-Up on Friday nights at 10/9 Central that deals primarily with all the kinds of music in which Nextbop specializes. It's this show that caught Seb's eye and was part of what got me this gig here at Nextbop. The other day, I was talking with Seb and wondered why I wasn't posting the playlists for each episode of the show on this site, especially since I would be simultaneously posting the same thing on [my personal blog]. Seb said all is cool so here is the playlist for this last Friday's Line-Up. Check out the show at [KRTU's audio archives] and live on KRTU on Friday nights.
The Jazz Community Starts at Home
Anthony Dean-Harris
Editor-in-Chief
anthony.deanharris[at]nextbop[dot]com / @retronius
photo: "Harlem 1958" originally published in Esquire magazine in 1959
As I say quite often, I have a show on my local jazz radio station, [KRTU San Antonio], that deals primarily with the kind of jazz in which Nextbop specializes. If you ever wanted to hear the voice attached to the posts you read every week, you should probably tune in Fridays at 9pm Central time (we have a [webstream and audio archives], you know). Yet while my little hour on the radio plays nothing but (to hijack Seb again) SiCK modern mainstream jazz, the rest of the station runs the whole gamut of the genre.
When the Artist's Work Finds the Right Audience...
Anthony Dean-Harris
Editor-in-Chief
anthony.deanharris@nextbop.com / @retronius
photo by Michael Benevento
If you’ve been paying any attention to my radio show lately (Fridays at 9pm CDT on [KRTU San Antonio]) or following me on Twitter, you may know I’ve been obsessed with Marco Benevento’s latest album, Between the Needles and Nightfall . I first saw him on the rather impressive documentary series, Icons Among Us, speaking at length about the virtue of jam bands. (By the way, if you want to know what Nextbop is all about in a purely visual sense, Icons Among Us captures the feel of this site perfectly. There’s a reason why we’ve been ranting and raving about it so much.) I may have been thrown off a bit by Benevento’s embracing the title of “jam band” but I did bristle a little less at the sound after his explanation. What is jamming other than improvisation? What is the free-wheeling hodgepodge of music Benevento makes other than jazz that seems more palatable to an audience?
That’s really the matter at hand. We can go on and on about the split between traditionalists and modernists or the distribution of record sales or if the “pay what you want” model works when your name isn’t Yorke (according to Jason Parker, [it does]). The real challenge that jazz faces today is making sure the music finds an audience and ensuring that audience can sustain the creation of future music.
Jazzaneutics
Anthony Dean-Harris
Editor-in-Chief
anthony.deanharris@nextbop.com / @retronius
A. G. Amo statue
Back in my time at Morehouse College, I was greatly enamored with Antonius Gulielmus Amo’s ideas concerning hermeneutics, the study of interpretation. In his 1736 text, The Art of Philosophising Soberly and Accurately, Amo trumpeted the idea of a hermeneutic circle, the interconnectivity but clear delineation between the artist, the work, and the audience. Upon hearing this idea, I was shaken to my shoes thinking about all new ways to analyze a text. Even now, I think about it when I listen to music.