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Articles Written by: JASON CRANE
The first album I ever bought with my own money (earned, I think, by babysitting for one of the neighborhood kids) was a two-cassette version of Chuck Mangione’s 1978 concert recording An Evening Of Magic: Live At The Hollywood Bowl. This album, if you’ ...
From JASON CRANE,
Popdose.com,
23 Nov 2009
Drummer Ted Sirota and his band Rebel Souls have a new record out called Seize the Time (Naim Jazz, 2009). It’s an explicitly political instrumental album, very in line with Sirota’s previous CDs, all of which have featured album titles, song titles ...
From JASON CRANE,
Popdose.com,
2 Nov 2009
I was (briefly) in college in 1992. My best friend was a very talented drummer name Mike. We played in a jazz group together called, for no apparent reason, the Pre-Flattened Cats.
One day I was in Mike’s room, high up in one of the dorm towers, ...
From JASON CRANE,
Popdose.com,
26 Oct 2009
“If I could go back in time, I might go back and change the name of the band,” said Andrew Durkin, composer and bandleader extraordinaire, in his hotel room in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Durkin and his band, the Industrial Jazz Group, had just finished ...
From JASON CRANE,
Popdose.com,
19 Oct 2009
What is “jazz,” exactly? I sure as hell don’t know. And neither, I would suggest, does anyone else.
Sure, everybody knows what they think jazz is, and which particular elements music has to contain to qualify as jazz — swing, the blues, improvisation, ...
From JASON CRANE,
Popdose.com,
12 Oct 2009
Man’ish Boy is music born of poverty and wealth.
Saxophonist Darius Jones grew up poor in Virginia, son of a single mother, living either on his relatives’ farm or in a trailer. He also grew up rich, surrounded by a loving family and close to an uncle ...
From JASON CRANE,
Popdose.com,
5 Oct 2009
Recently, the fine folks over at NPR’s A Blog Supreme have started asking young jazz aficionados to recommend five recordings from recent years that they would give to someone who was just getting into jazz. I’m much, much too old to have been asked to ...
From JASON CRANE,
Popdose.com,
28 Sep 2009
Now that my 1-year term as a Parent Panelist is coming to an end, I thought I’d look back at the triumphs, tragedies and day-to-day stories of the past year. Here’s Part 1 of my trip down Recent Memory Lane.
Contributing To This Blog: I started out ...
that many of the workers are still underpaid for their backbreaking work.
MACHU PICCHU, Peru — It's just past sunrise on the final day of our four-day trek along the Inca Trail, and we're standing at the Sun Gate, the entrance to the sweeping, ...
From JASON CRANE AND KARI CRANE,
Denver Post,
5 Sep 2008
OK, so I wasn’t going to say anything, but then I saw the huge ad on page A2 of today’s paper billing 518moms.com as the “online place to connect with Capital Region moms!”
If you go to 518moms.com, it takes you to, among other places, this blog. And ...
