Music site aims to hit high note
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- Music site aims to hit high note
- Struggle to reclaim threads of past: For 250 years `black Indians'…
- New Year’s Eve Parties – Music – New Years Listings – The…
- James Brown: 1933 — 2006.
- Mass Appeal: The Best of Gang Starr
- Jazz Pianist Keith Jarrett’s Carnegie Turn
- … Brown :: eJazzNews.com : The Number ne Jazz News Resource…
Music site aims to hit high note
BBC News – Dec 26, 2006
The not-for-profit scheme is hoping to exploit an apparent growing demand for jazz music across the country. The project which is entitled JazzDUP has been backed by Dundee’s Abertay University and Scottish Enterprise Tayside. The website the brainchild of music graduate Sean Kerwin will offer album tracks live recordings interviews and images to broadband customers. ‘Popular’ genreHe said the project would be a specialist site for “true jazz lovers”. “We mean to offer higher quality audio than other more mainstream services” said Mr Kerwin.
Struggle to reclaim threads of past: For 250 years `black Indians'…
Free with registration – Chicago Tribune – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 26, 2006
John and the Neville Brothers have performed and popularized their songs. Uncounted bands have covered their most famous melody “Iko Iko. ” “A large percentage of American popular music and jazz music has been influenced by this root culture” said Donald Harrison a prominent New rleans jazz saxophonist-bandleader and Big Chief of the Guardians of the Flame tribe. “It’s the link for all. CPYRIGHT 2006 Chicago Tribune.
New Year’s Eve Parties – Music – New Years Listings – The…
TheStranger.com – Dec 26, 2006
New Year’s Eve at the Triple DoorSwanky party with the Dudley Manlove Quartet. Triple Door 216 Union St 838-4333 7 pm (all ages) and 10:30 pm (21+) $90 dinner package for first show $60 dessert package for second show. Seattle Museum of the Mysteries New Year’s EveLive jazz music by Boma Cho and predictions for the new year. Also featured: snacks! Seattle Museum of the Mysteries 623 Broadway E 328-6499 7 pm $5 suggested donation. School House RawkDecibel Festival and Flight to Mars present a party with three DJ stages four bars and live visuals. Bring It nDJs Wendall & Simon Johnny Fever and Miguel Alvarado.
James Brown: 1933 — 2006.
Free with registration – Chicago Tribune – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 26, 2006
(26-DEC-06) Chicago Tribune (Chicago IL). 26–James Brown was more than just a soul-music giant. He was a visionary. The world dances today to the sound of his drum and in James Brown’s universe every instrument was.
Mass Appeal: The Best of Gang Starr
PopMatters – Dec 26, 2006
The tenderness is accentuated by the cyclical feeling of the music and its playfulness. It sounds almost like a sitcom theme calling out “here’s another episode and everything’s the same. ”Gang Starr will likely go down in music-history books as a jazz-rap fusion but that’s a misconception. Premier does heavily use jazz samples and that is important. Their outspoken endorsement of jazz (older black music) to the next generation through samples and the emblematic track “Jazz Thing” may be even more so. But their music (or even Guru’s R&B-centered Jazzmatazz collaborative albums) doesn’t mimic jazz in style try to fuse jazz and rap in any holistic way or aspire to the spontaneity of jazz. If anything it’s the “coolness” of jazz that they might be aspiring to… ”Gang Starr will likely go down in music-history books as a jazz-rap fusion but that’s a misconception. Premier does heavily use jazz samples and that is important. Their outspoken endorsement of jazz (older black music) to the next generation through samples and the emblematic track “Jazz Thing” may be even more so. But their music (or even Guru’s R&B-centered Jazzmatazz collaborative albums) doesn’t mimic jazz in style try to fuse jazz and rap in any holistic way or aspire to the spontaneity of jazz. If anything it’s the “coolness” of jazz that they might be aspiring to. Jazz horns and basslines are ever present in Gang Starr’s music but Premier’s always molding them into something that’s much more hip-hop than jazz and much more theirs than the original jazz musicians’. Clean beats and perfectly placed samples—including truly odd sounds like whistles and echoes—are blended together in a smooth natural way.
Jazz Pianist Keith Jarrett’s Carnegie Turn
NPR – Dec 26, 2006
It was a breakthrough for the 60-year-old pianist and composer who studied classical music in his youth and got his start playing jazz with Art Blakey Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. After the success of Koln Jarrett began doing regular solo concerts. But in the late 1990s a battle with chronic fatigue syndrome forced him to rest at his home in rural New Jersey. Last September the pianist performed at Carnegie Hall. The concert became a two-CD set.
… Brown :: eJazzNews.com : The Number ne Jazz News Resource…
eJazzNews – Dec 26, 2006
The guy had a remarkable music and business mind a one of a kind way of hearing. I first caught him live back in 1964 with cape – three drummers and two bass players. I was playing a prom at the coliseum in Louisville Kentucky in a side room and Brown was in the sports arena. The place burned with female shrieks and thundering rhythm… That summer we followed Brown into Club Cherry in Lebanon Kentucky with the Shadows. A cover band playing mostly rhythm and blues classics of the day. Club Cherry was this black music venue residing next to a long stretch of railroad tracks. The decor was all things dim and walls sticky with tobacco stains and evaporating body sweat. Upon entry one of the first sightings was two large glass canisters – one with three or four left behind pickled pigs feet submerged in what appeared to be pond water and the other showcasing a preserved pig snout next to the cashier. Posters of Arthur Prysock Count Basie Lowell Fulsom Cab Calloway graced the walls. Bands shared dressing quarters with the owner who on this occasion failed to sweep away a recently spent condom.