http://www.jazzloftproject.org/blog Chaos Manor Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:38:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A selection of new and recent things from the summer, in case you missed them, if you are interested: Sam Stephenson radio interview by Jim Sintetos in advance of the Monterey Jazz Festival.  KRML radio in Carmel, CA.  September 6, 2010. JLP segment by Richard Steele on WBEZ Chicago Public Radio's Eight Forty-Eight ... http://www.jazzloftproject.org/blog/general/jlp-media-and-press-highlights-over-the-summer Yesterday we learned that the Archivist Roundtable of Metropolitan New York, Inc. has awarded the Jazz Loft Project with its annual award for Innovative Use of Archives.  There will be a reception and ceremony at Columbia University on October 20.  We're told that previous winners of the award include the ... http://www.jazzloftproject.org/blog/general/jlp-wins-award-for-innovative-use-of-archives Tuesday afternoon I had a meeting at the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship at the Harvard's Beth Israel complex and I spent that night at a hotel nearby.  Fenway Park was three blocks away.  The Tampa Bay Rays are my team because their AAA club is the Durham Bulls, who might be ... http://www.jazzloftproject.org/blog/uncategorized/celebrities-dont-dig-jazz JLP Project Director Sam Stephenson will be at the Chicago Cultural Center to give a gallery talk about the JLP on Thursday August 26 at 12:15pm. More information can be found HERE. http://www.jazzloftproject.org/blog/events/jlp-gallery-talk-tomorrow-august-26-chicago It was late in the year of 1961 when W. Eugene Smith and Carole Thomas traveled to Japan. Smith was hired via the fledgling  Japanese public relations firm Cosmo PR to produce photographs for a publication on behalf of the firm's first client, Hitachi. This assignment, like Smith's Pittsburgh project/expedition/ordeal, ... http://www.jazzloftproject.org/blog/general/japan-a-chapter-of-image-and-sound In coming up with the format for the JLP book,  Don DeLillo's Underworld was an inspiration for the non-chronological sequencing.  To some degree I paid homage to DeLillo by getting baseball into the book.  The prologue to Underworld is a stunning work based around the 1951 Bobby Thomson "Shot Heard ... http://www.jazzloftproject.org/blog/general/delillo-digging-through-life [caption id="attachment_878" align="aligncenter" width="502" caption="Herminie No. 2, Ms. Allebrand's First Grade class, 1937-38"][/caption] Above is the 1937-38 first grade class of Washington Elementary School in Herminie No. 2, Pennsylvania.  In the front row, center, is the future piano wunderkind Conrad Yeatis “Sonny” Clark.  Not long after this photo was made young ... http://www.jazzloftproject.org/blog/general/conrad-yeatis-clark-first-grade By Jane Getz This is part three of a three part series featuring excerpts from pianist Jane Getz’s in-progress memoir. For an introduction and to read RUNNING WITH THE BIG DOGS, PART 1, click here. To read RUNNING WITH THE BIG DOGS, PART 2 click here. Pony Poindexter was in New Orleans ... http://www.jazzloftproject.org/blog/guest-bloggers/running-with-the-big-dogs-part-3 Last week a theme emerged in two blog entries featuring loft veterans: In an excerpt from her memoir, pianist Jane Getz reflected on the mid-1960s and Charles Mingus, whose wife was a nurse:  "In those days there were quite a few musicians married to nurses.  I wondered what significance this had; ... http://www.jazzloftproject.org/blog/general/creativity-and-caregiving By Jane Getz This is part two of a three part series featuring excerpts from pianist Jane Getz's in-progress memoir. For an introduction and to read RUNNING WITH THE BIG DOGS, (PART 1, click here, PART 3, here) When I got to Mingus's crib, his door was partially open. He was barking orders ... http://www.jazzloftproject.org/blog/guest-bloggers/running-with-the-big-dogs-part-2