RIP Freddie Hubbard QEPD

Legendary jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard has died. Bio
El legendario trompetista del jazz, Freddie Hubbard, ha muerto. Biografía



Aquí está haciendo su malabarismo de trompeta en 1962 con los Jazz Messengers del finado Art Blakey.
Here he is doing his trumpet acrobatics in 1962 with the recently deceased Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.



And here he is in 1987 in a more subdued (but always Hubbard-ly pyrotechnic) mode on "Bodt and Soul" with McCoy Tyner.
Y aquí está en 1987 con un sentimiento más lírico (si bien con la pirotécnica que le carectizaba siempre) en el clásico "Body and Soul" con McCoy Tyner.

Latin jazz de primera, bueno, bonito y ... gratis

Bobby Sanabria Big Band
w/ Special Guest Cándido Camero
Friday, September 26th
7:00 pm
Harlem Global Jazz Festival
Waleigh High School
114th St. (between 7th and 8th Avenue)
Sponsored by the Jazzmobile
FREE

Bobby Sanabria, Vijay Iyer at the Jazz Standard

I don't usually do this, but I like them both...
Normalmente no hago esto, pero ambos me gustan ...

BOBBY SANABRIA BIG BAND
AUGUST 5TH & 6TH AT NYC'S JAZZ STANDARD
The Jazz Standard
116 East 27th Street New York City
August 5th and 6th, 2008– Showtimes- 7:30 PM & 9:30 PM
Admission $25 - For information call (212) 576-2232

Plus Vijay Iyer (with Rudresh Mahanthappa) will be playing, also at the Jazz Standard, the 1st and 2nd.

Buenas nuevas/news

Since there's free internet in the Bogotá airport (very civilized, as opposed to the exorbitant fees in US airports!), I can't help but post.

Habiendo internet gratis en el puente aéreo de Bogotá (muy civilizado, en comparación con las carísimas tarifas en los aeropuertos gringos!), no puedo sino hacer unos posts.

• Yale University Visiting Fellowship - $10,000 and access to the Latin American collection
• Becas en Yale University - $10,000 y acceso a su colección latinoamericana
• Diáspora, nación y diferencia. Poblaciones de origen africano en México y Centroamérica - Conferencia en Xalapa, Veracruz, México en junio
  
• African Diaspora in Mexico and Central America, conference in Xalapa, Mexico in June
• Kioku's back at the Issue Project Room with Ravish Momin and Bradford Reed. One of my favorite CDs I bought off the street from Bradford Reed, who is a certified eccentric - he built this crazy instrument (somewhere between a lap steel and some kind of metal carángano) and was playing said contraption on the street when I bought the CD.
  
• Bay area composer Andrew Imbrie has died.
• Ha muerto el compositor californiano Andrew Imbrie
• Ernesto McCausland está bravo por la "fiushon"
• Ernesto McCausland hates fusion (musical, not nuclear)
• Happy Fun Smile (without me) will be back at Forbidden City Weds. night. We just played the NY Anime Festival.
  

Kioku

Some friends' excellent avant-garde/traditional electronic/jazz Asian/Japanese band, KIOKU, has gotten some good press from All About Jazz: New York. They have an ongoing residency at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, and they're highly recommended, so go check them out and get over the whole Stockhausen thing.

Joe Zawinul, RIP

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RIP Mario Rivera QEPD

I never heard of Dominican Latin Jazz saxophonist Mario Rivera until this morning when I heard that he passed away. I can't believe what I'd been missing! Link (with video)

Nunca había oido del saxofonista dominicano, jazzista Mario RIvera hasta hoy por la mañana cuando oí que había fallecido. Pero estaba perdiendo mucho! Enlace (con video)

RIP Max Roach QEPD

Cerebral, musical y compremetido. Max Roach ya nos está haciendo falta. Biografía de MR
Cerebral, swinging, committed. We will miss Max Roach. Link

La emisora WKCR va a estar colocando la música del maestro por unos 6 días, sintonizate aquí, cliqueando donde dice "Live Broadcast."

WKCR will be playing Roach's music for 6 days. Check it out here.

Photo by Francis Wolff/Richard Horowitz, Morrison Hotel Gallery