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October 2008
Studs Terkel, RIP
Studs Terkel died today at 96. Here’s the obit from the New York Times.
Thanks for everything, Studs!
Birth of the Cool
Thanks to the wonderful blog BAGNews Notes for the link
Tagged Jazz, obama, Politics & ActivismDJ Z-Trip’s Obama mixtape
Do yourself a favor and go download DJ Z-Trip’s Obama mixtape. Then turn the volume way up and groove your way to a better day!
Tagged hip hop, Music, Politics & ActivismMy Birthday Poem
My sister, mom, dad and friend Kevin at my 2007 birthday shindig.
Here’s a poem I wrote in 2007 after celebrating my birthday with friends and family at Thali, our favorite Indian restaurant in Rochester.
Birthday
by Jason Crane
This is my birthday poem:
Stuffed full of Chicken Makhani,
Squeezing the plastic skull
With its bulging brains.
This is my birthday poem:
Grumpy-faced children
Fight [...]
Takin’ It Back With Barack, Jack!
(Thanks to poet and jazzer David Budbill for the links!)
Tagged Jazz, Politics & ActivismThe Jazz Session #48: Marcin Wasilewski
Jason Crane interviews Polish pianist and composer Marcin Wasilewski. His new recording, January (ECM, 2008), features his own compositions alongside those of Gary Peacock, Carla Bley, Ennio Moricone and … Prince. Wasilewski’s trio is very much a part of the new European piano trio renaissance, featuring inventive material played democratically.
LISTEN TO THE SHOW
CONTEST! The [...]
Thomas Flynn’s Bikeman
People react to tragedy in different ways. For Thomas Flynn, a network news reporter covering the 9/11 tragedy as it happened, the story became more than an object to be studied. It became an all-encompassing, life-or-death struggle through the debris-strewn, dust-blind streets of New York.
Seven years later, Flynn tells his tale through the underused medium [...]
The Jazz Session #47: Satoko Fujii
On the new episode of The Jazz Session, I interview pianist and composer Satoko Fujii. Fujii has released four new recordings in 2008, her 50th birthday year. These records find her with her New York trio; on accordion in the avant-folk-jazz group of her husband, trumpeter Natsuki Tamura; in a quartet with some of Japan’s [...]
Tagged Japan, Jazz, piano, Satoko Fujii, The Jazz Session