Riffing the Jazz Links: A few random destinations from the world wide web
February 28, 2010
Been awhile since I shared some jazz links with you all. While not a sign that I have a lot of time on my hands, I thought I'd reach into the vault and riff off a few:
- JazzStandards.com, is a website that dedicated to preserving information about jazz standards. The site indicates its information is derived the from hundreds of reference books and historical documents with additional commentary by jazz performers, historians, and musicologists.
- If you're heading over the Capital District and have a hankering for some jazz, you check out AlbanyJazz.com for a jazz calendar, reviews and other things about jazz.
- Want Coltrane, MMW or Mingus on your computer desktop? Jazzreview.com has a number of jazz-themed wallpaper images for your desktop created by the site's Artistic Director Juan Carlos Fenu.
- Chicago jazz bassist Bill Harrison created PlayJazzNow.com to provide musicians with downloadable play-along recordings that could be used to hone their skills as accompanists and soloists.
- Jazz Inside Magazine is the new magazine by the publisher of Jazz Improv Magazine and Jazz Improv NY Magazine. Each edition includes a companion CD previewing full-length tracks from new and essential/reissued recordings by leading and emerging artists.
- Mentioned in passing in riffing the best of 2009 links, but thought I'd note the WGBO radio show The Checkout, an hour-long music magazine hosted by the station's Special Projects Producer Josh Jackson that features what's new on the NYC jazz scene.
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This post was originally published on JazzRochester.
With 6-12" of the white stuff or more in the offing, some may be thinking about hunkering down. We've had it easy this year so far, right? So here are the listings for live jazz in and around Rochester for the next seven days. Get on your boots, shovel your way out of the driveway, and get out to see something if you can.
It's time for some more listings. I've got a full plate of music coming up over the next few days if I can keep up with it. In addition to the two great live jazz series, there's a lot else to check out over the next seven days. 
On Friday, February 19th, Bop Arts will be presenting the 
Trying something new on Exodus to Jazz will be presenting the 
The CD sets spoken word passages of Douglass’s writings and speeches with music composed by Brown and violinist John Blake and performed by an ensemble that also includes Bill Meek on piano, Craig McIver on drums, Melissa Locati, Beth Dzwil, Ron Lipscomb and Germaine Ingram. Douglass’s words are spoken by Paul Burgett. The idea for the CD came from Richard Peek, director of the Rare Books and Special Collection at the Rush Rhees Library at the University of Rochester, which currently has a an exhibit on "Douglass in Rochester."
, directly from Tyrone Brown's publisher 
I apologize for doubling up on the listings post. Please disregard the previous post—those gigs are all over, I'm afraid. Here you'll find the live jazz in and around Rochester over the next seven days:
Back in Roch after a few days in NYC for a conference. I'm going to have to go there sometime just to go hear some music.