When most jazz fans list the album that triggered their interest, titans such as Duke Ellington, Miles Davis and John Coltrane are often invoked.
Seeing my small film about a jazz drummer listed among the work of filmmakers I have admired for much of my life is humbling.
There's a question at the heart of best-jazz lists, such as the hundred essential jazz albums that David Remnick put together in 2008 and on which I lent a hand, or the hundred "quintessential" jazz songs that (as Sally Law reported in yesterday's Quick Pick) was chosen by listeners of NPR Music and the Northwest-based radio station Jazz24.
Other Web sites listing jazz clubs in France are rgmjapan.tripod.com /JAZZINFRANCE.html, and www.jazz-clubs-worldwide.com/docs /france.htm.htm
As of 7.21pm local time, the show's website listed jazz musician Gregory Porter as the night's musical guest.
His credits list jazz pianist McCoy Tyner and hip-hop artist Mos Def, but a month ago I had never heard of him.
"My interest and hobbies vary and alternate," Ungerer wrote to a friend around 1971. "Kites and balloons, old toys, books, bondage, erotica, mineralogy, botany, medicine, jazz — the list is vain and endless".
A site listing the fifteen most influential jazz artists does not list one living artist.
Our favorite jazz albums of 2004, listed alphabetically.
Correction: May 13 , 2001 Sunday Entries last Sunday for theater, dance, classical music and pop/jazz in the Summer Festivals listing for New York City misstated a telephone number for the Lincoln Center Festival.
Among European jazz writers of today maybe listed Stravinsky, Casella, Poulenc, Hindemith and Milhaud.
