jazz corner
From Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize to Marvin Gaye influencing a generation, and more
Resident jazzman Sunil Sampat explores the origins of jazz
Recently, a good friend was extolling the virtues of European jazz. “Hey!” I said, “Sure they play some good jazz in Europe but it’s not quite the same as jazz in America”. But it got ...
Live music is alive, well and thriving. The Mahindra Blues Festival in February and the Angelique Kidjo concerts in March were very well attended by obviously appreciative Mumbai audiences. I was thrilled to be there ...
I am sure there are plenty of politics prevailing in the business of music. Where there is a buck to be made, you can be sure there is a crooked angle at work. But I ...
As a student of metallurgy I was explained the meaning of the word “fusion.” When two metals are completely mixed in the molten state; that is they are first heated till they melt and then ...
The starry-eyed disciple, an aspiring musician asked of his learned teacher, “In a music concert, who is the boss? Is it the composer of the music, the lyricist who wrote the words or the artist ...
A fascinating aspect of collecting jazz recordings over several years, is the appearance of “new” releases of recordings made a long time ago. For some reason these are often referred to as “lost” recordings. In ...
“Man! If you gotta ask, you’ll never know!” Louis Armstrong once opined in response to the age old question, “What is Jazz?” This is as apt an answer as you are likely to get if ...
Of all the types of popular music played and heard in the last seventy or eighty years, jazz has utilised more musical instruments than any other genre.
