Dear Jazzlover,

I’m writing this post in the media center of Jakarta International Jazz Festival 2008 (JakJazz).

Well, for just a quick and straight review of today’s festival..

The first performance i watched was Boi Akih feat Mike Del Ferro. They played a smooth mixture of world music, fusion, and naturalist music

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I’ve just realized that i’m talking too much about Obama on this site =)

So let me be fair by posting a video about Republican Presidential Candidate, John McCain. This is very funny!

 

The video is posted by Industrial Jazz Group

Have fun!

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Being unproductive is actually something that I hate the most. I always want to update this site, but I always have to deal with my main task as a college student of social sciences, and pay more concern of the recent US election update. Basically, I have a big interest in US politics and I love the American jazz that much. At first I thought that I should let my jazz life off for a while, just to make me more focus on my study. But then I realize that I can find a lot of facts that complement each other between the US politics and American Jazz.

It was started from an article I read on the AAJ. I came to the latest article on Detroit Jazz Festival which was hyped from 29 August until October 1st. It was quite surprising that this annual festival, which theming on A Love Supreme: the Philly-Detroit Summit, the 29th Annual Detroit International Jazz Festival this year became the largest jazz festival in North America. Since I believed that the god of jazz lives in New York or New Orleans, not in Detroit or Philly, so I raised a question inside my head, “how could this festival become the largest in America?” And again, this festival was held for free, so everyone could come and enjoy the festival without the committee counting for profit. I continued reading the article and surprisingly found out that this festival was supported (if not sponsored) by Obama campaign. Moreover, Obama was also appeared at this festival along with the celebration of Labor Day. Sadly, I didn’t have any opportunity to be at that festival. And unfortunately, there are no particular pictures on Obama’s visit to the festival or the audiences hype there. But my wild imagination goes to the big party of Democrat National Convention in Denver. With all those party symbols on t-shirts, buttons, and posters, a jazz festival becomes beneficial for the interest of politics.

In the first day in October, there was a concert called Jazz for America’s Future Presents: “Jazz for Obama” Concert. The musicians who took a part on that concert were mostly the famous ones. They are Dee Dee Bridgewater, Diane Reeves, Roy Haynes, Brad Mehldau, Joe Lovano, Roy Hargrove, Christian McBride, Stanley Jordan, Hank Jones, Charlie Hunter, and many more. Some of them also appeared on the last Detroit International Jazz Festival. The price of the tickets was quite expensive, and it will go for Obama’s campaign. Beside the financial profit, there are also several advantages that can be beneficial for Obama and his party. Firstly, it is the voters. Obama realized that jazz has been spreaded in the US along from the West to the East Coast, from the uptowners luxurious life to the downtowners street musicians. As the Afro American, Obama also has the idiosyncratic power  to persuade jazz musicians & jazz maniacs who are quite dominant in jazz world such as Christian McBride for example. Jazz musicians, jazz audience, jazz society, might have a quite amount of percentage of the voters in America. Secondly, it is the soft instrument. I’m not talking about the musical instrument, but it is the political instrument. Both candidate of the US presidency is looking for as many instruments as they can. Media publicity, public debate, Youtube, become more common for the presidential campaign. But Obama smartly pick jazz as his soft instrument. According to neurologist Oliver Sacks, who is famous for his book titled “Musicophilia”, humans are truly a “musical species”. Music plays a very vital role to human brain, and however music has a power to touch human’s emotion. Thus, music as a political instrument is just the right choice for such a presidential campaign. Thirdly, when we’re talking about instrument,  we’ll also talk about the approach. Soft instruments and soft approach are believed as the most effective way to get the American people’s attention in today’s situation. People are tired of war, people are also tired of high politics, what people want is just simply peace. I define peace as a situation where everyone feels comfortable living along together in this planet. Music might only give a very small contribution to peace. But i believe that music has its own power to approach people beyond people’s mind.

Somehow we can’t deny that jazz is very close to politics. Politics is not something new in jazz world or vice versa. Remember when Sinatra supported for Reagan’s campaign? He could give $4 million for Reagan’s campaign. Wasn’t it fantastic?

Jazz is often called as democracy in music. It might be because jazz is the only music that brings freedom and equality. Everyone is free to express themselves and criticize the music. In the land of democracy, jazz born and developed throughout the country. No wonder that democracy’s values are highly respected in jazz. From the socio-cultural perspective, jazz has become a part of the American identity. Rooted in the history, jazz has successfully blended the Afro-American and the white American. Moreover, Jazz has met the grassroots and the elites, the youngsters and the seniors. For these reasons, I can say that jazz has it all. From freedom to power.  

 

 

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When some of my radio audiences ask me to explain about jazz history, it really makes me stressed out. I’m just a person who appears not as expert as the real jazz experts, so it’s a big challenge for me anyway. There are so many sources and so many things that need to be focused. Firstly, jazz cannot be separated from the American History. Second, jazz is the part of African culture. Third, jazz has been spread and developed not only in America but also in Europe. It’s very complex, but i made it as short as possible, because i only have an hour to explain it. In the next edition i’m going to talk about the jazz forms and jazz styles time line. It’s a haaaard work but i hope that you can also enjoy my radio program here. I’m glad that my radio audience give some good critical response. And if you want to listen to an hour of my jazz program, you can just download it. It’s in Bahasa Indonesia anyway, but I’m very open for your comments.

Listen here

Enjoy

Jazzebelle

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Nial Djuliarso is back with his second album “New Day New Hope”. This is not a new album actually, because the songs are recorded in 2004, but anyhow the process of distributing an album from US to Indonesia surely takes a long time. If you haven’t heard about Nial Djuliarso, I’ll give you a short background of a man who is claimed as ‘Mini Oscar Peterson’.

Profile

Nial Djuliarso is a young pianist and vocalist from Indonesia. He held a scholarship of BA at the well-known Berklee College of Music in Boston, and continued to focus more on jazz music at the Juilliard School, New York City. He has also won some international jazz award, the latest one is from the San Francisco State University as the Emerging Jazz Combos along with his two colleagues. I’d prefer not to mention all of the awards because the pianist himself hardly talks about his awards, so you better try to google it and you’ll see how many achievements he received. Nial released his debut album At Juilliard in 2005 and it covered some popular songs packaged with a simple touch of jazz.

To know more about Nial and how American jazz influenced his music, Jazzebelle had an exclusive interview with Nial Djuliarso that was taken at Jazz Goes To Campus 2007.

JB: When we search on the google ‘Nial Djuliarso’ it always comes up that Nial was bitten by the jazz bug while he was watching Pat Metheny. What makes Metheny’s concert so interesting to you?

ND: His music touched my heart. And after the concert, i heard Metheny’s song at the mall, and i still feel the same way. His music is just different, and i like it when he tries to build an interaction with another players on the band. It was one of the first jazz concerts i’ve seen. And the interaction is just lively and free.

Jazzebelle (JB): After being hypnotized by Metheny, then you went to Tennesse for high school. Did you straightly focus for the music, or you get into a basic lessons first in high school?

Nial Djuliarso (ND): The school is just a usual school, but at that time i already like music. So, i actually like music better than any school subjects even though i still have to do my homeworks. But, when i was in high school, i started playing music at some restaurants. I met elder people, they are thirty-forty and i learned a lot from them. So, when i go to the university, i have much of performing experiences. Some of my friends in university haven’t had any performing experience.

JB: With all those experiences, you got a scholarship for BA in Berklee College of Music in Boston. Knowing that there are a lot of successful musicians come from Berklee, do you think that formal education is important to bring a success for a musician?

ND: I think it is important. At the university, students who major in music, taking BA for example, they aren’t only learning the music techniques but also learning some non-music lessons such as psychology for example. Even though the non-music lessons aren’t that much, that is what makes the study of music complete. Some of professional musicians learned autodidact, but if there’s an opportunity to have a degree from university, it will be important. Music education creates more structure and let you know your path.

JB: After graduated from Berklee, you went into Julliard School in New York to take Jazz Studies. For me it is really an interesting subject, because in Indonesia, we don’t really have this kind of subject at the university. What do you learn in Jazz Studies?

ND: It’s almost the same with Berklee. There is a private lesson with the lecturer once a week, playing with the band with usually 6 persons minimum twice a week. There’s also a class of music bussiness. And i have a class for arrangements which learn about the arrangements of jazz musicians like Duke Ellington also learn about alathium and big band. There’s also a master class with jazz musicians like Donald Harisson. The focus is to play the music.

JB: Besides holding scholarships, you received a lot of achievement awards. And you also received a local (Indonesian) award from Jazz Goes To Campus. From all the achievements, which one that makes you feel most proud of?

ND: I like this one (Upcoming Jazz Musician - Jazz Goes to Campus Award, University of Indonesia). I never live in Indonesia, but they know that I exist. So I like it, because they appreciate local musicians while I never have a career here.

JB: Everyone has an opportunity to get a scholarship or awards. But the opportunity to have collaboration with legendary musicians can only be enjoyed by jazz musicians. What’s the story behind the song “Blues for Hank”? I heard that the song would be added to Hank Jones’ album?

ND: Yes, that’s the plan. But, I haven’t heard anything again from him. Hank Jones was invited to give a residential lecture at Juilliard for four days. And we work together, make some interactions, and students can also make a song for him. So, I made one song for him.

JB: Not all of Indonesian musicians can have a golden opportunity to meet Hank Jones, etc. Another project that you’ve been involved is the one with Lewis Pragasam (from Malaysia). What sort of project is that?

ND: Lewis was helping me in my first album. He plays drums. We have also played some live performances together in Malaysia at No Black Tie.

JB: What music do you guys play together? Mainstream jazz?

ND: Yes. Mainstream of course, because I play mainstream.

About the American Jazz

JB : What’s the difference between American Jazz and another Jazz such as European Jazz/ Brazilian Jazz?

ND: American jazz is more focus on the roots, swing. Jazz is now is very diverse, because now jazz is 100 years old already. And lots of different influences from Brazil and all over the world. European jazz tends to sound different, they don’t focus on the swing. They play looser feeling, and Indonesian Jazz is also different. American jazz is focus on the roots although they have everything in America. They play everything else too.

JB: As a musician that have lived in Tennesse, Boston, and New York, what’s the different between the characteristic of the musicians at those places?

ND: Actually they are almost the same. The jazz musicians play same music, and same style. There is more musicians in Boston and New York and they have different styles. If you like bebop, you can find bebop people or the more modern, but in Tennesse there are only handful of jazz musicians and they play the same style like hard bop.

JB: You have performed at the Lincoln Centre and many places around the U.S which one is more interesting to you, watching jazz at the Lincoln Centre or watching jazz at the Grand Central Subway Station?

ND: They’re both have their own energy. Sometimes we underestimate, we should try to listen to the music because most of the musicians that i heard in the subway or clubs but theyre good musicians and the music is good. maybre it’s more interesting at the subway.

JB: What about the appreciation of the New Yorkers? Do they appreciate the music or they don’t really care about it? What do you think?

ND: I think they really appreciate the music, and i think New York audiences are different than in another places.

JB: What about in Indonesia?

ND: Indonesians also appreciate but the jazz here is said as segmented, but today we have a lot of audiences (in JGTC) even if it’s small but still it’s full of audiences. And that’s good. Some people say that jazz is bad, jazz is dead in Indonesia but you know we have a lots of groups and lots of audiences.

JB: What is the main thing you recommend us see in NY? Jazz clubs or jazz performances?

ND: Legendary clubs Village Vanguard, Blue Note, Minton’s Playhouse at the uptown, Smoke, etc. But the first one is Village Vanguard, that club is 70 yrs old. A lot of the legends like John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Stan Getz, they are all performed at Village Vanguard.

About the Album

JB: What is the different between “At Juilliard” and “New Day New Hope”? Can you just tell us a short preview?

ND: The first one covered repertoire songs. Famous songs from another musicians, plus two of my own songs. I improvised more plain in the first album. I played smooth jazz because I should meet the needs of the producers. In “New Day New Hope” I give more exploration because most of the songs are created by me.

JB: Some say that what you play daily at school is different with what you play for the album. Is it true?

ND: For the first album, yes it is quite different. But I think every song can be play with jazz feelings, so it shouldn’t be that different actually.

JB: You’ve released At Juilliard and the upcoming New Day New Hope. What’s your next project?

ND: I want to play with Christian Mc Bride, he’s a great bassist, and another jazz musicians in New York.

JB: What about playing with Indonesian musicians?

ND: Hemm.. yeah I want, of course.

Because the interview was taken a year ago so I didn’t ask more about the second album. But now the good news is the second album has just released in Indonesia, and you can just check it out soon.

New Day New Hope tracks (plus short comment from Jazzebelle):

1. Horace

Jazz rock in a Nial way (no distortion, rock with a soft touch, cannot be called as fusion)

2. Memories

Full grooves

3. Mr.Silver

One song is not enough for explaining how great Mr. Horace Silver is

4. Reminiscence

A bit bluesy..a bit gloomy..but still classy

5. Song for Family

Happy family gathering song, but I can still hear a family debate from the improvisation

6. Sabda Alam

Sweet, soft, smooth, touchy

7. Hip Hop Hopping

Experimental samba

8. Today for Tomorrow

Speed, deep exploration

9. Mutiasari

Expressing deep feelings?

10. New Day New Hope

The melodies show the optimism of tomorrow

11. Hi-Lo

Shows uniqueness and differences, full of energy

12. My Smooth One

Smooth and easy

In this album, Nial is working with Warren Wolf on drums, and Yasushi Nakamura on bass. They’re both his colleague from Berklee.

Basically New Day New Hope still shows the soft, sweet, and smoothes image of At Juilliard. But, Nial Djuliarso tries to put deeper feelings into his exploration of music.

It’s a recommended album for those who want to know more about Nial Djuliarso and his music.

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Jakarta International Jazz Festival or famously known as JakJazz 2007 has made me confused. It was my first time going to JakJazz, and it was also my first time reporting for JakJazz. The theme of JakJazz 2007 was ‘paint the town jazz’. Combining visual art and jazz. Quite interesting actually. But unfortunately, i didn’t really enjoy the shows that much. Firstly, i was blank about the performers. JakJazz is a little bit different with its competitors because JakJazz’s musicians are more vary from Sadao Watanabe to Rani Singam, from Tompi to a finalist of Indonesian Idol. Secondly, it was hard for me to find a reliable guide and recommendation such as which stage i should be in, or which performance i should watch. After trying to enjoy three-minutes-each-stage survey, i decided to stay at the lounge, which was named as Ireng Maulana’s lounge. The name came from a senior Indonesian musician who has been making the festival dream come true every year. What made me stay at that lounge was Singaporean pianist Jeremy Monteiro (well, i’m a big fan of his music). It was also my first time seeing his performances. At first i thought that he would play some instrumental songs, but i was wrong. He brought a lady named Rani Singam to the stage. “Owh..who is she? I even never heard about her name. Is she a newbie?”

Yep, she’s a young Simone from Singapore. When i first listened to her voice, wow..it wasn’t that hard for me to find out that Nina Simone gave her so much influences. But don’t worry, Rani has her own style. She sings with so much emotions and expressions, which is rare for another jazz youngsters. A touch of legendary voices such as a little bit of Simone, Vaughan, and Holiday may become an important value for Rani. For all of those reasons, Jeremy Monteiro has never been in doubt to offer his big support for Singam’s debut in jazz and recording. Jeremy becomes a producer and arranger for Ranis’s music.

Rani’s debut album titled “With a Song in My Heart” is one of the best albums for Asian vocalist in 2007. If i should rate it, i’ll give it three stars. The first star is for her genuine voice. Second is for Jeremy’s genius piano. And the third is for the easy listening songs that are packed with genuineous (combination of genuine and genius) musicality. There are 10 tracks on the album.

01 With A Song In My Heart
02 You Go To My Head
03 Just Squeeze Me
04 Little Girl Blue
05 I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free
06 Sometime Ago
07 I Got Rhythm
08 Moon River
09 Blue Skies
10 The More I See You

The most played track is number 09. At the intro, it sounds like Vaughan sings this song, but in the chorus Rani gives a deep exploration.

So..Asian, be prepared for “the next big thing in jazz vocals in Asia”!

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Firstly, I should give credit to my girlfriend who introduced me to Pizzarelli’s jazzy pieces. It was another evening as we spent it with laptops and a pointless chit-chat when suddenly she was so occupied with her laptop. She was watching a YouTube video on one of Pizarelli’s performance on “Here Comes the Sun” and seemed to be very enthusiastic about it.

So, later that night, I tried to search Pizzarelli’s songs over the internet to find out what the fuss is all about. Luckily, I found a Spanish website that provide free MP3s of Pizzarelli and some of his album. Although I couldn’t understand most of the website (its on Portuguese!), I managed to download two albums of him and one of them is this very nice album.

Titled John Pizzarelli Meets the Beatles, the album is a tribute for the legend. The first thing came to my mind when I finished the first track of the album is that this is surely one of the best tribute-to-Beatles album ever. And that was even before I listened to the other tracks.

The first track is the well-known Can’t Buy Me Love. Here is a direct link to download the song.

With a touch of his trio, the song turns into one enchanting piece. With his light-blues and cheek melodies throughout the song, Pizzarelli has already showed me what the fuss is all about. The NYT’s review of this album even praise this song; “You haven’t really heard the Beatles’ song Can’t Buy Me Love until you’ve heard the guitarist and singer John Pizzarelli lead his trio…”

The second track, I’ve Just Seen A Face, puts Pizzarelli’s guitar play and Ray Kennedy’s piano on the spotlight. While the original version of the song itself is a joyful one, Pizzarelli puts another dose of cheers to the song. Playful and energizing. Next track on the list is the evergreen Here Comes The Sun. With light and sleek piano play, the song comes out as one minimalist arrangement, yet beautiful.

The song You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away put Pizzarelli on a solo with only his guitar and vocal throughout the song. You can feel a strong romantic nuance on this song. Eleanor Rigby on the 6th track is the only instrumental song on the list. With bold piano play and beautiful guitar melody, you can easily recognize the song.

Another playful track from this album comes from When I’m Sixty-Four on the 8th track. Funny lyrics and cheek melodies proofed to be one great combination. And If you look for a big-band arrangement, Sinatra-like nuance, Get Back on the 10th track would certainly do the job.

Other songs included in this album are Things We Said Today, And I Love Her, Oh Darling!, The Long and Winding Road and For No One.

Overall, must-heard album for both Beatles and Pizzarelli fans!

This article is contributed by ScratchyScribbles

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Java Jazz Festival is one of the biggest jazz festivals in Southeast Asia. Java Jazz is annually held in March, and in 2008 Java Jazz show its jazzy existence by inviting hundreds of musicians from all around the world. One of the artists was Sara Gazarek. For those who haven’t heard her name, might be more interested to watch Renee Olstead’s performance. But, if you checked Agus Setiawan Basuni’s recommendation on his site, you might be curious to know about the singer. I was the one who also curious about Gazarek’s music. I had also checked her site before i went to Java Jazz festival.

After waiting in about 20 minutes, i luckily got the seat at the second row. And i saw that Agus was sitting right in front of the microphone, of course he wanted to get the best picture. And btw, what was written on Gazarek’s bio was exactly the same as what i saw on her performances. Her music is actually light but full of melodies. At first, i thought that her music was an easy listening music, and at last i’ve found out that what i listen is different with what she plays. I mean, it might be easy for us to listen to the music, but to play it is not easy at all.

So far, Gazarek has released an iTunes album and two albums titled Yours and Return to You. In the album and performances, Gazarek is always bring her own band. They are Josh Nelson on piano, Erik Kertes on bass, and Matt Slocum on drums. Basically, four of them begin from the music education. So, no wonder that their performances do show music techniques and various styles of jazz. Especially, Nelson’s piano which is expressive and full of emotions. Nelson also plays a big contribution in the latest album, because he appears as the composer and lyricist for four songs. Another songs are came from well-known songwriters like Leonard Cohen, Paul McCartney, Joni Mitchell, Harry Connick Jr., and Gillian Welch. With amazing  arrangement and touchy lyrics, Gazarek shows that she has her own style and voice character - and she proves it with her achievement of Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation Outstanding Jazz Vocalist Award and no wonder that she got the prize to have a collaboration with Wynton Marsalis on her first gig.

Sara and her bands are great musicians but they never forget to put a spirit of jazz youngsters.

Listen to Gazarek’s music and i welcome you to give some comments here.

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If you are planning to go to NY for the Liberty, Empire State Building, SoHo, or the Central Park, it’s a very normal of you. But if you are a first timer in NY, make sure that jazz is also on your top agenda.

The best part on your ten or twenty hours flight to NY, is when you are very sure that you have “New York New York” from Sinatra on your iPod. Landing in JFK, listening to that song, will create an amazing atmosphere, even if you have to talk to the crazy security staffs at the airport.

Driving from the airport to meet Central Park at the Manhattan will be perfect with the “Autumn in New York” from Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong. This song written by Vernon Duke will take you to fall in love with the city and the park.

From the uptown, don’t forget to take a subway to Bronx.
The downtown is the core of the jazz in NY city. Most of the population is the Afro-American and Latin people. The place that is a must visit is the Bronx. Artistic expression, parks, and historical districts can be found there. Jazz comes and influence the characteristics of music in the Bronx. And the music itself is very open to the new influences and so the music becomes very rich, lots of energy, and very diverse. From hard bop until Latin music, it’s all here in Bronx. And don’t forget to listen to “Bronx Blues” from Mel Torme.

Your tour won’t end there. The National Jazz Museum is in Harlem. It is located at 126th St. Duke Ellington, Benny Carter, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Count Basie, John Coltrane, Billie Holiday - all of their unique sounds reverberated throughout these fabled streets. Back to The Jazz Museum in Harlem it is dedicated to fostering this spirit -the music as a living/ breathing entity that looks as far into the future as it does into the past. There are many events being held there, from concert to a formal discussion which invites all the jazz over to join for free.

To complete your tour, better take a subway throught 66th St. Lincoln Center Station. You should take a short walk to Lincoln Center Building which is the center of the art performances. Lincoln Center is the world’s leading performing arts center. Located on 16.3 acres in New York City, the Lincoln Center complex is comprised of 12 Resident Organizations and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc is one of those 12. The 11 other organizations are The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Juilliard School, Lincoln Center Theater, The Metropolitan Opera, New York City Ballet, New York City Opera, New York Philharmonic, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, and the School of American Ballet.

Visiting Juilliard School is also a must if you love playing music instruments and plan to have a music degree. Located at the same complex of Lincoln Center, Juilliard School is always full of its students from all around the world. If you are lucky enough, you can catch a recital concert from students of Juilliard on weekend. It’s going to be amazing to see the students jammin with the teacher such as Donald Harisson Jr. for example.

If you still have some bucks in your pocket, make sure that you reserve a table at Blue Note. It is located at the 6th St. Since its inception in 1981, Blue Note has become one of the premier jazz clubs in the world and a cultural institution in Greenwich Village. Owner and founder Danny Bensusan had a vision to create a jazz club in Greenwich Village that would treat deserving artists with respect, while allowing patrons to see the world’s finest jazz musicians in a close and comfortable setting. Artists who had stopped playing in jazz clubs decades before/ such as Sarah Vaughn, Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, and Tito Puente, soon called Blue Note as their home.

If you prefer a more classic jazz setting club, you should choose Village Vanguard. The club has been established since 1935. It is located at the 7th Avenue, and it’s better for you to check the schedule before you come and see the live performances there.

Tired of jazz clubs? Try jazz in the subway. You can meet many street musicians will surprise you both at the station or even in the moving subway train!

Watch this!

Enjoy your jazzy trip in NY!

Jazzebelle

NB: Manhattan from Stacey Kent and Boy from NYC by The Manhattan Transfer are also recommended to be sync to your iPod

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Why should jazz be introduced?

I hate the title actually. It shows that Jazz is something that incomprehensible and full of theories and history. It is true that jazz is a very historical thing, but if you prefer watching documentary rather than reading loads of books, i suggest this short video of Ken Burns’ jazz documentary to you. Many musicians and jazz experts suggest this video too.

Please enjoy it..

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