History:
Jazz is the only musical form that originated in America which influenced musical development throughout the Western world. Created by obscure African American musicians in the late 19th century, it began as a synthesis of Western harmonic language and rhythms and melodic inflections of African music. Using the popular tunes of the day, musicians created variations of them through improvisation (variations on a melody line), syncopation (placing accent on the normally weak beat of a measure) and intonation that was considered "out of tune" to Western classical music.
In its beginnings jazz was more an approach to performance than a body of musical compositions. The black marching bands of New Orleans, which often accompanied funeral processions, played traditional slow hymns on the way to the cemetery; for the procession back to town, they broke into jazzed-up versions of the same hymns, ragtime tunes, or syncopated renditions of popular marches. The instruments in the marching band--a cornet or a trumpet to carry the melody, with a clarinet and trombone to fill in, and a rhythm section of drums or a string bass--formed the nucleus of the first jazz bands, which usually added only a piano, guitar, or banjo.
Now:
Jazz has become the blueprint of American/World music. People have taken the theories of traditional jazz and have morphed it into more complex theories and even fused it with several different types of music. Jazz reigns supreme as the most sampled genre of music in the world. Proof? Lincoln Navigator commercials feature an old jazz track reworked by Mr. Scruff, a dance DJ. Not enough proof? Hip Hop fundamentalist Mos Def gets most of his instrumentals through jazz rips, if he’s not playing the instruments himself.
About the host:
Greg Thomas has written about jazz and related cultural topics in numerous publications, including Salon.com, the Guardian Observer, American Legacy, Africana.com, Savoy, BlackAmericaWeb.com, and Callaloo, to name a few. He co-produced the Jazz Museum in Harlem's bi-weekly series, Harlem Speaks, along with Executive Director Loren Schoenberg and co-Executive Director Christian McBride. Guests have included: Hank Jones, Roy Haynes, Dr. Billy Taylor, Gloria Lynne, Melba Joyce, Johnny Colon, Bobby Sanabria, and Mercedes Ellington. Mr. Thomas also taught jazz education at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Thurgood Marshall Academy and the Frederick Douglass Academy for the Harlem Speaks Education Initiative. Along with teaching, he hosted a number of jazz radio specials on WBAI-NY (99.5FM).
Who I'd like to meet: All lovers of jazz, be it musicians or fans. This genre is for the people!
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Life without FUNK is no FUN…K? So let’s have some funky fun at The Baggot Inn in Greenwich Village NYC in a couple weeks from now on Friday, April 11th!!
Show starts at 9:45; entrance fee is just $5. If you’re interested and want another reminder a day before the show, let me know.
Help me put the “FUN” in “FUNKY” this Friday, January 11th at the Baggot Inn in Greenwich Village NYC! Show starts at 9:45; entrance fee just $5. If you’re up for putting it down and want another reminder the day before the show, let me know.
First Hour
Tubbs - Missing U / Carbon
Visioneers - The World Is Yours / BBE
Middlewood Sessions - Fallback / Brownswood
Yesterday's New Quintet - Fourty Days / Stones Throw
Gerardo Frisina - Calle De Candela (Vibes Version) / Schema Promo
Gerardo Frisina - Es Diferente / Schema Promo
Janko Nilovic - Giant Locomotion / Cosmic Sounds
Rex Illusivii & Marina Perazic - Plava jutra / unreleased
Astrud Gilberto - Black Magic (Tangoterje Edit) / Supreme
Second Electronic Hour
Alex Smoke - Don'T See The Point (Henrik Schwarz Vocal Mix) / Soma
Paul Randolph - Believer Jazzanova Instrumenta / Sonar Kollektiv
Tracey Thorn - It's All True (Martin Buttrich Remix) / Virgin UK
Jay Shepheard - Pipes & Sneakers / Compost Black Label
Luke Vibert - Ce Porte / Rephlex
Soultourist - Lowfield High / Drummpoet
Thabo - Take Root / Drummpoet
Coldcut - Walk A Mile / Ninja Tune
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Erik Truffaz Quartet - Trippin' the Lovelight / Blue Note
A Tribe Called Quest - Luck Of Lucien / Jive
Jazz Liberatorz - Ease My Mind feat. Tre Hardson Fatlip Omni / Kif
Metropolitan Jazz Affair - You Can Dig / Infracom
Herbie Hancock Ft Chaka Khan - The Essence (Joe Claussell Remix) / CDR
Fat Freddy's Drop - Flashback / Sonar Kollektiv
Jamie Lidell - Music Will Not Last / Warp
Eddie Roberts - Sugar / One Note
S Tone Inc - Naked Ground (Paolo Fedreghin&Merco Bianchi Remix) / Schema
Mark Murphy - Stolen Moments (Nicola Conte Remix) / Verve
Kevin Yost - Deep Inside My Soul / I Records
Hird - Getting Closer / DNM
Spyritual - Offtune Soulseeds / Kitty-Yo
David Stellmach - Spring Lake / CDR
Su-Paka-Pooh - Aya / Flower
Moodorama - Ir Facil (Remix) / Mole
Re:Jazz - Donaueschingen (Swell Session Remake feat Atradies) / Infracom
Ursula Rucker - Journey's Prelude (NuLife Vocal) / Vega US
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Dj Petko
Playground Radio Show
Radio Studio B
Masarikova 5
P.O Box 10
11000 Belgrade
Serbia
playground@studio-b.co.yu
Middlewood Sessions - Fallback / Brownswood
Curtis Mayfield - Give Me Your Love (Tangoterje Edit) / Supreme
Astrud Gilberto - Black Magic (Tangoterje Edit) / Supreme
7 Samurai - Lazy In Frankfurt / CDR
Dj Day - Gone Bad / Melting Pot
Gagle - Shikabane Wo Koete (Instrumental) / Jazzy Sport
Frankie Valentine - Brazil 1 / P-Vine
Robert Strauss - THE Empire Strikes Back (Middlefield's Shake N' Bake Remix) / Freerange
Malik Alston - Butterfly / Third Ear
Gianmarco Liguori - Penta / Sarang Bang
Stockholm Jazz Beat Project - Fly / Ausfahrt
Mark Murphy - Stolen Moments (Nicola Conte Remix) / Verve
Indigo Jam Unit - Spin a Top / Basis
Thunderball - Elevated States(Nicola Conte Remix) / CDR
Soular Sound - Things We Do (Nicola Conte Deep House Jazz Remix) / CDR
Marcina Arnold - Forefathers / Counterpoint
Dino And Franco Piana Quintet - Calypso / Deja Vu
Oscar Sulley - Bukum Mashie / Soundway
Spanky Wilson & The QS Orchestra - Waiting For Your Touch / Tru Thoughts
Dorothy Ashby - Soul Vibrations / Cadet
Freestyle Fellowship - Park Bench People / Deaf, Dumb & Blind
Outlines - Outro / Sonar Kollektiv
interesting. you ahve to let us know when the series airs!!! hopefully we can be included on your show; we are a premier jazz station with some beautiful artwork in our office.
Thanks for considering us worthy enought to be in your Jazz circle. We would like to welcome you to THE PRODUCTIONISTS circle of music listeners, makers, and players.
-Mr. Snyder
I just wanted to stick my head in to say thanks for your support and your friendship.
Since March 1st I’ve been able to add over 10,000 friends to my site and I’ve been overwhelmed with the incredibly nice comments of encouragement. Its great folks like yourself that make Myspace the place to be for independent musicians and I for one can’t thank you enough.
I wish there were a more personable way to express my gratitude but please know that I’m speaking from my heart with unspeakable thanks.
