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A Timeless Celebration of Music: Exploring "The Sound of Jazz"

Introduction: On December 8, 1957, a groundbreaking moment in jazz history aired on American network television. “The Sound of Jazz,” a CBS production, became a cultural milestone, capturing the spirit of an art form that thrives on improvisation, collaboration, and raw emotional expression. This one-hour episode of the Seven Lively Arts series remains a classic, bringing together legendary…

[oldshowbiz]

1970.

Nat Hentoff on Black Perspective.

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[doylewesleywalls]

Now showing on kanopy.com: The Pleasures of Being Out of Step. A quality documentary about Nat Hentoff.

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John & Nisha Whitehead

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out … without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.”H.L. Mencken

If the three-ring circus that is the looming presidential election proves anything, it is that the Deep State’s plot to destabilize the nation is working.

The danger is real.

Caught up in the heavily dramatized electoral showdown between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, Americans have become oblivious to the multitude of ways in which the government is goosestepping all over our freedoms on a daily basis.

Especially alarming is the extent to which those on both sides are allowing themselves to be gaslighted by both Trump and Harris about critical issues of the day, selectively choosing to hear only what they want to hear when it casts the opposition in a negative light.

This is true whether you’re talking about immigration and border control, health care, national security, the nation’s endless wars, protections for free speech, or the militarization of the U.S. government.

For starters, there’s the free speech double standard, what my good friend Nat Hentoff used to refer to as the “free speech for me but not for thee” phenomenon in which the First Amendment’s protections only apply to those with whom we might agree.

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Wayne Shorter – Night Dreamer

Night Dreamer is the fourth album by American jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter. It was released in November 1964 by Blue Note Records. With a quintet of trumpeter Lee Morgan, pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Reggie Workman and drummer Elvin Jones performing six Shorter originals. In 2005, it was reissued as part of the RVG Edition series with liner notes by Nat Hentoff. The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ stars and stated “…this is a memorable set of high-quality and still fresh music”. Wayne Shorter – tenor saxophone Lee Morgan – trumpet McCoy Tyner – piano Reggie Workman – bass Elvin Jones – drums

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The Sound of Jazz” is a 1957 edition of The Seven Lively Arts and was one of the first major programs featuring jazz to air on American network television.

The one-hour program aired on Sunday, December 8, 1957, live from CBS Studio 58, the Town Theater in New York City. The show was hosted by John Crosby, directed by Jack Smight, and produced by Robert Herridge. Jazz writers Nat Hentoff and Whitney Balliett were consultants.

The Sound of Jazz features performances by musicians from the swing era, including Count Basie, Lester Young, Ben Webster, Billie Holiday, Jo Jones, and Coleman Hawkins; Chicago-style players of the same era, such as Henry “Red” Allen, Vic Dickenson, and Pee Wee Russell; and modern jazz musicians such as Gerry Mulligan, Thelonious Monk, and Jimmy Giuffre. These players played separately but joined to combine styles in one group, such as Red Allen’s group and the group backing Billie Holiday on “Fine and Mellow”. The show’s performance of “Fine and Mellow” reunited Holiday with her friend Lester Young for the final time. Within two years, both Young and Holiday had died.

The album version of The Sound of Jazztelecast is derived from a rehearsal (recorded on December 4) and is not the soundtrack. The album was released by Columbia in 1958. The recording does not include all of the performers present on the telecast and includes several who were not on the show. Bassist Walter Page rehearsed and is featured on the album, but he collapsed on the way to the studio for the telecast. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[savethelifeofmychild]

dylan 1966 playboy interview is i think maybe the most important piece of writing of his from that time in his life i mean, well maybe not but when you realize he just sat there on the phone with nat hentoff and made the whole thing up after the playboy editor fucked around with his original interview and he got really mad that they put words in his mouth... the whole thing is a put-on obviously but i think it's still so good & so revealing & it maybe speaks a bit on what he really thought at the time... tho of course thru all these layers of made up history & ridiculous answers played totally straight. hmm. and it's funny as hell

[dannyhellman]

“Nat Hentoff”

Illustration by Danny Hellman for New York Press

Art direction by Michael Gentile

2/15/98

[alphaman99]

Lakshmi Kapoor

"It was a competitive examination [in Boston Latin School]. Poor kids, Brahmans, middle-class kids. The masters, as the teachers were called, didn't give a damn about - how we felt, what was - things like at home. I mean, this goes against the current grain. All they thought about was: `You're here. You made the exam. You can do the work. And if you can't, we'll throw you out.'"

~Nat Hentoff

[unnecessarybanter]

You can't say that...Sting, "Consider Me Gone"

Churchy's got a good angle on the problem, I think, but the title of Nat Hentoff's book has got the flavor of the day for it.

[romanlightman001]

Bob Dylan 1965 interview with Nat Hentoff

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NAT HENTOFF The Day they Came to Arrest the Book Young Adult Fiction Book

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Tuesday, April 23, 2024: 8pm ET: Feature LP: Herbie Hancock - Speak Like A Child (1968)

Speak Like a Child, the sixth album by American jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, which was recorded and released by Blue Note Records in October 1968, features Hancock’s arrangements for an unusual front line of Jerry Dodgion on alto flute, Peter Phillips on bass trombone, and Thad Jones on flugelhorn. Critic Nat Hentoff described the album as an “impressive further stage in the evolution of Herbie…

[garudabluffs]

This oral history of the 'Village Voice' captures its creativity and rebelliousness

Romano intersperses such journalistic triumphs with harsher estimations of, for instance, the "boys club" culture that dominated the Voice for decades. Because of the expletives she uses, I can't fully quote feminist writer Laurie Stone's condemnation of the sexism of colleagues like Mailer and Nat Hentoff, but she winds up calling them: "The kind of people who should never have existed, but since they have existed, we can only celebrate their disappearance."

8-Minute Listen READ MORE https://www.npr.org/2024/03/04/1235199478/village-voice-tricia-romano-freaks-came-out-to-write-review