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- Favorite genres of music: Jazz Hip-Hop Indie Rock
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- Music Review: Harry Connick Jr.
Bloomberg.com: Arts and Culture
Bloomberg – Jan 30, 2007
30 (Bloomberg) — Jazz at Lincoln Center faces a majorchallenge as it turns 20 this year: how to lure deep-pocketeddonors who don't embrace an art rooted in the blues and folkmusic of African-American slaves. Major Wall Street firms aren't among the center's keyfunders. nly a handful of large companies including CadillacSamsung Electronics America and Bank of America Corp. havebecome sponsors in the two years since the onetime concertseries was transformed into the world's largest performancespace for jazz. Today Jazz at Lincoln Center is inviting high-ranking financial services executives to join its board andputting its famous artistic director… 30 (Bloomberg) — Jazz at Lincoln Center faces a majorchallenge as it turns 20 this year: how to lure deep-pocketeddonors who don't embrace an art rooted in the blues and folkmusic of African-American slaves. Major Wall Street firms aren't among the center's keyfunders. nly a handful of large companies including CadillacSamsung Electronics America and Bank of America Corp. havebecome sponsors in the two years since the onetime concertseries was transformed into the world's largest performancespace for jazz. Today Jazz at Lincoln Center is inviting high-ranking financial services executives to join its board andputting its famous artistic director.
Music Review | ‘Mozart at 251′
New York Times – Jan 30, 2007
The uninitiated might have heard two kinds of music classical and jazz. But in Ellington’s terms there was only one: excellent. Skip to next paragraph Readers’ pinions.
Favorite genres of music: Jazz Hip-Hop Indie Rock
gamepro.com – Jan 30, 2007
My favorite features for an MP3 player is to load up new and old music and shuffle everything so I get exposed to some new stuff. That said I’m definitely a snob for music quality — nothing makes me angrier than a great song that has been super-degraded during digitization. Judge the MP3 player on its looks.
The Air This Week
Boston Globe – Jan 30, 2007
NTE Regularly scheduled classical music and jazz programming on WHRB (95. org) is resumed beginning Wednesday.
Music Review: Harry Connick Jr.
San Francisco Chronicle – Jan 30, 2007
Connick puts these heartbreaking memories of dead bodies and neglected people to verse in his original song “All These People” a duet with gospel singer Kim Burrell that provides a deeply personal centerpiece to his new vocal album “h My NLA” (Columbia). “NLA” recorded last June is one of two CDs that Connick is releasing simultaneously just weeks before Mardi Gras. The other “Chanson du Vieux Carre” (Marsalis Music) is a largely instrumental jazz big band album recorded in 2003 that mixes Connick originals with his updated arrangements of such New rleans classics as Louis Armstrong’s “Someday You’ll Be Sorry” Sidney Bechet’s “Petite Fleur” and Professor Longhair’s “Mardi Gras In New rleans. “Chanson” shines a spotlight on Connick’s often overlooked jazz big band that boasts some scintillating ensemble playing a powerful rhythm section Connick’s economical piano solos and such distinctive soloists as trumpeter Leroy Jones and trombonist Lucien Barbarin. As an arranger Connick demonstrates a deft touch whether on his own darker “Ash Wednesday” which uses lush orchestral colors a la Duke Ellington or Paul Barbarin’s infectiously joyful “Bourbon Street Parade” which climaxes in swaggering brassy ensemble play. n “NLA” Connick the singer stirs up an appealing gumbo of jazz gospel r&b country and funk on songs associated with hometown musical idols such as Armstrong (“Hello Dolly”) and Raymond Myles (“Elijah Rock”) as well as family favorites (“Won’t You Come Home Bill Bailey?”). Connick adds some new twists to old favorites: Hank Williams’”Jambalaya (n the Bayou)” starts with a catchy New rleans groove only to abruptly switch to medium tempo big band swing.