TRENDS: Jazz Today

TRENDS: Jazz Today
Poet and critic, Whitney Balliet reminds us that with the advent of the tape recorder and the long-playing record, jazz, which is the most evanescent of modern music, becomes a permanent part of our musical library. A native of New York now in his twenty-eighth year, Mr. Balliett joined the editorial staff of The New Yorker shortly after his graduation from Cornell…
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Weekly Music Agenda
Andrew Bird. Photo by Francis Chung . MONDAY “Gezelligheid” — a Dutch word loosely translatable as “cozy” — is the term Andrew Bird uses to characterize the unique and intimate series of holiday concerts he debuted last December at churches in Minneapolis and his native Chicago . This week, the show comes to D.C. for a three-night stand at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue , the dramatic …
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Shazam Helps 100 Million Users Identify Tunes
Just six months after identifying its one billionth song, mobile music discovery service Shazam has reached another milestone: It now has 100 million users.
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