JazzTimes – October 2019

36 JAZZTIMES SEPTEMBER 2019 sound online and through streaming services, Rodgers seems destined for a life of perpetual pop/danc ...

JAZZTIMES.COM 37 a lot of my favorite jazz artists were getting hit records: Roy Ayers, Norman Connors, Joe Beck, Herbie Mann ha ...

38 JAZZTIMES SEPTEMBER 2019 better than I do. Why would you call me your best student?” Ted said, “Nile, let me ask you a questi ...

JAZZTIMES.COM 39 an R&B band and I got a big hollow- body jazz guitar and we’re playing funk, we’re playing pop, we’re playi ...

40 JAZZTIMES SEPTEMBER 2019 to get over the death of Bernard, I felt I had to keep the vibe of Chic intact and not make it total ...

of the guitarist’s intense nuts-and-bolts focus on jazz theory, which inspired him to write four books relating to George Russel ...

42 JAZZTIMES SEPTEMBER 2019 E arly in his memoir, Straight Life, the late jazz legend Art Pepper relates a story about being in ...

JAZZTIMES.COM 43 and feeling that it is almost impossible, while reading Straight Life, to reconcile the sublime nature of Peppe ...

44 JAZZTIMES SEPTEMBER 2019 It would be too easy to say that the insecurity and self-loathing stirred up within Pepper during mo ...

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46 JAZZTIMES SEPTEMBER 2019 9Ì ith headphone jacks dis- appearing from all Apple phones and many Android phones, listening to au ...

Top from left: Cambridge Audio’s Alva TT turntable features aptX-HD Bluetooth audio, as do HiFiMan’s Ananda-BT and PSB’s M4U8 he ...

48 JAZZTIMES SEPTEMBER 2019 P asquale Grasso has a reputation among New York guitarists and guitar geeks for his technical fluid ...

per stream. Even by those standards, however, jazz fares poorly. “In our most recent statistics for overall revenue, jazz repres ...

50 JAZZTIMES SEPTEMBER 2019 I n 1909, Chicago was the site for two events that would forever change the role of percussion in po ...

JAZZTIMES.COM 51 W New-Neu New-Neu Trendy alt-spelling and interest- ing color schemes like Skyline Blue (pictured) aside, Lud ...

52 JAZZTIMES SEPTEMBER 2019 ALBUMS x VIDEOS x BOOKS REVIEWS STAN GETZ Getz at the Gate Verve Any newly discovered vintage Stan G ...

material since 2006, when she was a student at the Manhattan School of Music, and she precisely manages its many moving parts. S ...

54 JAZZTIMES SEPTEMBER 2019 REVIEWS ALBUMS be America again,” goes the refrain to “Despite the Dream,” adding, “The land that ne ...

stringed llanera harp, and Grégoire Maret, equally adept on harmonica (a.k.a. mouth harp), meet up and make beautiful music toge ...