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Les réalisateurs de chez Cauboyz ont réalisé une vidéo à l’occasion du Montreux Jazz Festival 2014 pour présenter l’installation de lumières qui a été faite : comme des néons, les noms des chanteurs apparaissent en lumières, le tout commandé par les touches d’un piano connecté à 64 boites de lumières.

Ajukaja & Andrevski: Rare Birds The Estonians have infiltrated the realm of deep house—duo Raul “Ajukaja” Saaremets (“Aju” meaning brain and “Kaja” meaning echo) and longtime friend Andrevski composed analog jams on hand-built equipment in their studio located in the country’s capital, Tallinn….

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American musician Brian Lewis Smith has made his latest track I Could See You As A Mayan available exclusively to Dezeen Music Project. Right now, this is the only place you’ll be able to hear it.

I Could See You As A Mayan is a gentle, lo-fi instrumental with delicate keyboard melodies and bass-lines that emerge from the warm crackle of tape fuzz. “It was the first time that I used a cassette tape recorder extensively,” Smith told Dezeen Music Project. “The idea was to amplify all of the little crunch and hiss sounds that come from using older gear in order to create a bed of texture that the tune can lay upon.”

This production technique provides the perfect platform for Smith, whose background is in jazz music, to demonstrate his musicianship. Melodic phrases weave intricately in and out of earshot throughout the track, with subtle variations and flourishes that only reveal themselves after repeat listens.

You can listen to another track by Brian Lewis Smith that we featured on Dezeen Music Project last year here.

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Se come me apprezzate la musica Jazz ma sopratutto apprezzate le grafiche delle copertine degli album di musica Jazz, non potete perdervi il libro Jazz LP Covers edito da Taschen.

An overhauled primer on the history of jazz in an expansive six-disc compilation

Seven years in the making, Smithsonian Folkways‘ new edition, Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology represents the new standard, a long-overdue update to Martin Williams’ out-of-print compilation The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz. While some of the 111 selections on the six-disc set remain the same as the original, Jazz broadens its scope to include Latin jazz and fusion, as well as South African and Vietnamese musicians.

With seasoned producer and musician Richard James Burgess at the helm, the changes not only include new insight into the history of jazz (the original set didn’t include anything recorded after 1966), but it also plays to short attention spans and today’s penchant for rare tracks. For example, Jazz keeps Scott Joplin’s “Maple Leaf Rag” as it’s opener, but switches out the 1916 recording of Joplin performing for a Dick Hyman’s 1975 rendition. Burgess and his team also chose to leave out excerpts from longer pieces unless they were released as singles initially. One such case, a 2:49 version of Miles Davis’ 14-minute-long “Miles Runs the Voodoo Down” is featured just before a Cool Hunting favorite, Mahavishnu Orchestra’s “Celestial Terrestrial Commuters.”

Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology sells online from Amazon and Smithsonian Folkways and comes with a 200-page book of liner notes.

via Time Magazine