The Creative Life of Law: Improvisation, Between Tradition and Suspicion

Originally applying solely to chefs, waiters, dishwashers and the like, New York City (NYC) regulations governing cabaret employees were altered in 1943 to include musicians and entertainers, who until the late 1960’s would be required to hold a NYC Cabaret Employee’s Identification Card. The introduction of these notorious “police cards” occurred roughly contemporaneously to the emergence in after-hours night clubs in Harlem of a new and supposedly “wild”, improvisatory brand of jazz: bebop. This article adds to the many rather practical theories on why these cards were introduced a more abstract discussion coined in terms of the relationship between suspicion and tradition and focusing on differing essences of law and improvisatory jazz. While law breathes tradition and is suspicious of improvisation and unpredictability, the converse is true of jazz. Allusion to tradition in jazz improvisation is often viewed as a betrayal of its creative and spontaneous nature. And yet it is only through its departure from the stable transmission of past meaning that improvisation gains meaning. Law, in contrast, while appearing to be entirely composed of tradition, to transmit some sort of determinate and fixed meaning, is constantly betraying itself. As no two legal actions can be exactly the same, judges must improvise on tradition and past precedent every time they are asked to decide a case. Law can thus neither dispense with nor be completely determined by tradition. The legal decision instead lies on the border between what it “is” and what it otherwise could be and every judicial act is, in some sense, a species of improvisation. This article uses the cabaret cards to explore this uncertain terrain between law and improvisation, between tradition and suspicion.

Articles on Irish music and musicians

Various items on Irish traditional music commissioned by the editor, totalling 7,000 words, including profiles of a number of individuals and institutions and more significant essays on the subjects Composers and Composition, Standards, Arrangement, and Migration.

Temporal guidance of musicians��� performance movement is an acquired skill

The ancillary (non-sounding) body movements made by expert musicians during performance have been shown to indicate expressive, emotional, and structural features of the music to observers, even if the sound of the performance is absent. If such ancillary body movements are a component of skilled musical performance, then it should follow that acquiring the temporal control of such movements is a feature of musical skill acquisition. This proposition is tested using measures derived from a theory of temporal guidance of movement, “General Tau Theory” (Lee in Ecol Psychol 10:221–250, 1998; Lee et al. in Exp Brain Res 139:151–159, 2001), to compare movements made during performances of intermediate-level clarinetists before and after learning a new piece of music. Results indicate that the temporal control of ancillary body movements made by participants was stronger in performances after the music had been learned and was closer to the measures of temporal control found for an expert musician’s movements. These findings provide evidence that the temporal control of musicians��� ancillary body movements develops with musical learning. These results have implications for other skillful behaviors and nonverbal communication.

Hall Of Mirrors:piano quartet for young musicians

for piano, violin, violin or viola, cello

A White Room:piano quartet for young musicians

for piano, violin, violin or viola, cello

Tidy Your Room:piano quartet for young musicians

for piano, violin, viola and cello

Hide In The Attic:piano quartet for young musicians

for piano, violin, violin or viola, cello

Avaliação dos impactos de um projecto turístico - cultural: o festival internacional de jazz de Loulé

O presente trabalho tem por objetivo principal avaliar as perceções e as atitudes dos residentes e comerciantes da cidade de Loulé face ao Festival Internacional de Jazz. A materialização deste objetivo implicou a realização de uma reflexão teórica, a partir de uma pesquisa bibliográfica, sobre o turismo cultural, categorização e classificação dos eventos e por fim uma pesquisa específica sobre as perceções dos impactos dos eventos e os modelos que têm sido utilizados para avaliar as atitudes dos residentes e dos comerciantes face ao seu desenvolvimento. Com base nesta reflexão teórica foi construído um modelo de investigação, o que implicou a utilização de um questionário a residentes e a comerciantes tendo-se usado o processo de amostragem por conveniência; e a realização de seis entrevistas aos organizadores e a entidades que apoiam o Festival Internacional de Jazz de Loulé. Dos questionários e das entrevistas realizadas verificou-se que embora o Festival de Jazz de Loulé seja reconhecido como um dos agentes no processo de desenvolvimento da comunidade, ele não reúne todas as condições por si só para criar uma imagem diferenciadora do concelho e do destino maduro do Algarve.

A satisfação do consumidor de jazz: o caso da associação grémio das músicas

Dissertação de mestrado, Marketing, Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Algarve, 2015

Second Annual Spring Collegiate Jazz Festival, May 23, 1976

Concert program for Second Annual Spring Collegiate Jazz Festival, May 23, 1976

Jazz Concert, February 22, 1977

Concert program for Jazz Concert, February 22, 1977

The Studio Jazz Ensemble, The Western Washington State University Workshop Band, The University of Washington Contemporary Group Jazz Ensemble November 23, 1977

Concert program for Studio Jazz Ensemble, Western Washington State University Workshop Band, The University of Washington Contemporary Group Jazz EnsembleNovember 23, 1977

Studio Jazz Ensemble, May 18, 1978

Concert program for Studio Jazz Ensemble, May 18, 1978