BlueportJazz

The jazz web journal premiers high-resolution original jazz and blues recordings in the BluePort Jazz Archive. The site is interactive, downloadable, and highlights advanced multimedia files that combine video, audio, graphics, and scrollable text. In fact, it is the first extensive jazz journal on the web. The focus of BluePort Jazz with Jim Merod is to explore interactions among recording, listening, creating, and interpreting the still fresh reality of jazz: a hundred year old art form that carries a great deal of the significance of twentieth-century experience.

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The jazz web journal premiers high-resolution original jazz and blues recordings in the BluePort Jazz Archive. The site is interactive, downloadable, and highlights advanced multimedia files that combine video, audio, graphics, and scrollable text. In fact, it is the first extensive jazz journal on the web. The focus of BluePort Jazz with Jim Merod is to explore interactions among recording, listening, creating, and interpreting the still fresh reality of jazz: a hundred year old art form that carries a great deal of the significance of twentieth-century experience.

That experience is both human and technological. The focus of this website is to explicate, in clear terms, how the humanity of the music is given voice, and enhanced, by the technological capacities of recording and by all of the documentary and digital media that define twentieth-century culture.

The site is the evolution of Jim Merod

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