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Listening back 2020: Oregon recordings from a fraught year Spotlighting a last batch of 2020 Oregon recordings I know the last thing many of us want to do is revisit 2020. But we can’t let it slip away without spotlighting one final batch of musical recommendations gleaned from the many recordings Oregon musicians released last year. Some explicitly respond to the crises that plagued what ArtsWatch’s Bob Hicks calls “The Year That Should Not Speak Its Name.” Others were made earlier and released last year. Whether soothing or invigorating, they’re all worth hearing even after the ye...

By Jon W. Poses An email last week from the University of Missouri School of Music had me at the mere mention of an upcoming event centered on Mary Lou Williams, the late, iconic jazz pianist. To say Williams is a seminal figure in modern jazz is, well, beyond an understatement. She’s that important and remains that influential. At 4 p.m. Thursday, the Middleton Center for Race, Citizenship, and Justice and the School of Music are co-sponsoring the Zoom gathering “Mary Lou Williams: Jazz Composer, Pianist, Activist.” The event features a pair of MU faculty, Stephanie Shonekan and S...

Stacey Kent I've Got A Crush On You When Your Lover Has Gone Isn't It A Pity? You Are There Dreamsville Violets For Your Furs Thanks For The Memory ...Dreamsville is a superb addition to an already highly distinguished series of albums by one of the finest intepreters of a song since Ella Fitzgerald.   Album Description ...Dreamsville is a superb addition to an already highly distinguished series of albums by one of the finest intepreters of a song since Ella Fitzgerald. Similar CDs | 03/07/2006 (5 out of 5 stars) "The first time I heard Stacey Kent sing (Bali Hai on "In Love Again"), I sai...

Sonny Rollins interview: “I love music of course, but I don’t listen any more... It’s too frustrating to listen to music when I can’t participate” Sonny Rollins interview: “I love music of course, but I don’t listen any more... It’s too frustrating to listen to music when I can’t participate” Kevin Le Gendre Tuesday, February 16, 2021 Kevin Le Gendre speaks to the jazz legend Sonny Rollins about looking back on a lifetime of music-making and his quest to keep on growing as a human being and art...

The Portfolio: Geoff Dyer 5 Feb 2021 Extended duration: In But Beautiful Geoff Dyer reflects on this image of jazz musicians Ben Webster, Red Allen and Pee Wee Russell. Photo: Milt Hilton Photographs sometimes work on you strangely and simply: at first glance you see things you subsequently discover are not there. Or rather, when you look again you notice things you initially didn’t realise were there. In Milt Hinton’s photograph of Ben Webster, Red Allen and Pee Wee Russell, for example, I thought that Allen’s foot was resting on the chair in front of him, that Russell was actually dra...