By JACK BOWERS, Jack Bowers Senior Contributor since 1997 A former newspaper writer / editor who has been writing about big-band Jazz for more than fifteen years. Recent articles (1,754 total) Touching Duke at the Roadhouse: Live in Santa Fe Swing Shift Dedications, Vol. II Swingin' on a Riff . . . Hangin' by a Thread? The blues, as it turns out, has many shades; an enduring art form that has been an integral part of the language of jazz since its beginning (if not before). Some aspects of the blues are readily perceived, others not so much. "The common thread," Michael Treni writes in his astute liner notes to Pop-Culture Blues, the fifth album as leader of his own big band, "is that the...
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