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(Copyright © 2001 Al Aronowitz)
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COLUMN
FIFTY-EIGHT, APRIL 1, 2001
(Copyright
©
2001 Al Aronowitz)
ART ATTACK®
MARGARET DAVIS
Resources
for musicians (grants,
prizes, funding, housing,
legal,
medical, scholarships, health care, etc.);
listings
of concerts & special events for music lovers.
Copyright
Margaret Davis, Editor & Publisher. All
rights reserved.
N
O T I C E :
Our
Web address will be changing soon, &
temporarily
there will be several sites where this
publication
can be found, but probably the simplest
one
to use & remember is <http://www.jazznewyork.org>.
Please
bookmark this address, or enter it into your
"favorites"
file, so that you
never
lose track
of "Art Attack!"
Choices
& opinions in this publication are entirely personal, with primary focus
on
the miraculous art form known as jazz (meaning original, creative, heartfelt,
improvised
music that embraces & extends the tradition ~ or as John Birks
"Dizzy"
Gillespie put it, "You've got to keep one foot in the past & the other
in
the
future"). Preference for
listings is partly given to free or reasonably priced
events
in Manhattan. Please double~check
all information before acting on it,
since
mistakes & changes do happen. Phone
numbers shown without area
codes
are (212). The newsletter is divided into 3 sections: (1) special
announcements
& survival news (though creative endeavor is inherently
non~competitive
except with oneself, a few contests are sometimes listed
among
the survival announcements because they offer significant prize money
to
winners); (2) continuous events; (3) upcoming events. Events are listed in
order
of chronology first, then time, then alphabetically by venue within NYC,
then (last) out of town.
Many
performers these days make careers as imitators, in music negotiating
their
way neatly through charts & copying other people's solos, sounds, &
styles;
often they receive strong support from political, social & corporate
powers
seeking to appropriate cultural riches that belong to others, or to kill
what
they do not & cannot own. Meanwhile,
many living masters with original
voices,
true creativity, & real passion struggle on in relative obscurity, trying to
add
something new to what has already been said in the music.
To quote Billie
Holiday,
if you aren't being original, "It's close~order drill or exercise or
yodeling
or something, but not music." By
this definition, wherever possible,
only
authentic musicians are listed herein.
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