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Exhibit: John Coltrane vs. The Jazz Critics, 1961-1966

04 Wednesday Jul 2012

Posted by Rob Young in African American Art, Art, Improvised Music, Jazz, Mainstream-Traditional Jazz, Modern Art, Music, News, What's New?

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2012 John Coltrane International Jazz and Blues Festival, African American, David Tegnell, High Point, Jazz Critics, John Coltrane, NC, Phyllis Bridges, Yalik's Modern Art

John Coltrane

Yalik’s Modern Art presents a documentary exhibit recounting former High Point resident John Coltrane’s uneasy relationship with jazz critics during the tumultuous Civil Rights period. The exhibit titled, John Coltrane vs. the Jazz Critics: 1961-1966, coincides with the 2012 John Coltrane International Jazz and Blues Festival, Saturday, September 1st.

Through an examination of photographs, letters, record reviews, commentaries, musical examples, and artifacts, Coltrane and the Jazz Critics details the strategies Coltrane employed to weather a concerted campaign by Down Beat magazine to discredit his musical experiments in the years before Coltrane produced his most original and enduring recordings. Continue reading →

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Kristóf Bacsó Quartet -][- NOCTURNE – [Budapest Music Center, 2012] –

04 Wednesday Jul 2012

Posted by Rob Young in Biography, Creative Music, Improvised Music, Jazz, Modern Jazz, Music, New Music, What's New?

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Berklee College of Music, Budapest Music Center, Composer, Conservatoire de Paris, Kristóf Bacsó, Saxophonist

Kristóf Bacsó Quartet, NOCTURNE

Kristóf Bacsó Quartet -][- NOCTURNE –Mp3– [Budapest Music Center, 2012] –

Kristóf Bacsó was born in 1976 in Budapest, and started studying the saxophone under Dezső Lakatos Ablakos and Mihály Borbély in 1989. He graduated from the jazz department at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, then continued his studies first at the Conservatoire de Paris and later at the Berklee College of Music in Boston; his teachers included François Jeanneau, Joe Lovano, George Garzone, Hal Crook and Bill Pierce. He won first prize at the talent contest organised by Hungarian Radio for young saxophonists in 1999. Continue reading →

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