Yesterday, April 30th, was National Jazz day, so my friends and I went to Shepard Recital Hall here on campus after an invite form my jazz guitar teacher. He invited us to come see him and a few other faculty members play some jazz tunes. Upon arrival we found that the band was going to play at a much later time and we had a presentation on Jazz to sit through before then. My friends dropped like flies throughout the 45 minute presentation on the history of jazz, but I stayed, and u really enjoyed what I heard. This guy Marc Myers gave the presentation, complete with clips of jazz and bebop tunes as examples of the music’s evolution with time. Little did I know, Marc is a seriously credentialed dude. Turns out Marc Myers is an American journalist, author, and historian, and a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal, where he writes on music and the arts.
I realize that so far, I am just writing a diary entry, so here is the media aspect of this. I am relatively new to blogs, and I didn’t know that there were blogs solely dedicated to music, but Marc has one, and that is what I want my post to be about.
As said on the blog:
JazzWax
Marc Myers writes daily on jazz legends and legendary jazz recordings
At just a quick glance of Marc’s blog, one can learn of several Jazz Greats from the 1930’s and now, as well as a brief history of them, and probably an in depth interview with them.
Marc writes in an easy to read, fairly interesting way, which attracts even non-jazz enthusiasts.
Each day he changes his focus. I find it interesting how he finds the time to interview all of these people as he does, and also keep up with his activity in his wall street journal contributions!
(Anthony Lorino)
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