Jazz Listings
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- Posted online: Friday February 23 2007 at 0000 hours IST
- Guitar Hero tournament to raise funds for scholarship
- Jazz talent tunes up to take on the world
- Alternatives to your typical Friday night
Jazz Listings
New York Times – Feb 23, 2007
(Nate Chinen)BRKLYN QAWWALI PARTY (Tomorrow) The Sufi devotional music of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan provides a repertory mandate for this ensemble. Faithful to its source mainly in terms of exuberance the group creates a storm of percussion horns harmonium and guitars… He has strong collaborators for the task including David Liebman and Benny Maupin on reeds and Scott Colley on bass. Blue Note 131 West Third Street West Village (212) 475-8592 bluenote.
Posted online: Friday February 23 2007 at 0000 hours IST
Screen Weekly – Feb 23, 2007
And after hearing it from the horse’s mouth the folks at Prithvi Theatre have decided to dedicate the month of February to the great bards. Poet Prabodh Parikh has devised a multilingual evening of recitation accompanied by clips from films like Il Postino an Arun Kolatkar documentary and Hindi films like Pyaasa and Umrao Jaan. All the while jazz music playing in the background will set the bluesy mood. For the younger lot playwright Ramu Ramanathan has worked with students from the Kamala Raheja Institute of Architecture to set Kabir’s dohas to the tunes of We will Rock you and Get up Stand up in Rocking n Rolling with Kabir. “Most of us cannot understand pure dohas so we’ve tried to give a feel of Kabir today” says Ramanathan. It’s the season of romance and no one knows that better than director Akarsh Khurana who’s styled Women in Waiting Men on the Linea series of renditions around manwoman relationships. His protagonists a modern-day couple deconstruct the anatomy of a relationship through poetry.
Guitar Hero tournament to raise funds for scholarship
Daily Toreador – The Daily Toreador (registration) – Feb 23, 2007
jpg” >Media Credit: Steve LewisStudents who love rocking out with the Guitar Hero video game can compete in today’s Guitar Hero tournament hosted by Texas Tech’s Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. Phi Mu a music fraternity at Tech is hosting the rhythm video game tournament to raise money for the Adam J. Coffman Memorial Jazz Scholarship. Coffman was a brother of the Zeta Sigma Chapter of the fraternity. Gabriel Hernandez the fraternity’s education officer said Coffman was an avid fan of jazz music. According to the application for the scholarship Coffman was a much-loved and highly talented man of music who made an impact at Tech with both his saxophone playing and personality.
Jazz talent tunes up to take on the world
Hampstead and Highgate Express – Hampstead and Highgate Express – Feb 23, 2007
Mr Paton Ms Coole and Mr Marle-Garcia met at the WAC club in a weekly jazz workshop that takes place at Hampstead Town Hall. “We’re really excited about our future and are mainly concentrating on trying to play as many live gigs as we can” added Ms Coole. Mr Marle-Garcia 20 said: “ur aims are to get to the very top of Jazz music we want to play with the best and the band is a fabulous opportunity for us to go as far as we can. ” The Mr Ears Project are booked to play at the Isle of Wight International Jazz festival in April. o To find out more about the band and their gig dates visit www.
Alternatives to your typical Friday night
Imprint – Feb 23, 2007
" During our gallery browsing we stopped to make our own artistic masterpieces. I never thought I would spend any part of a Friday night building structures out of Styrofoam toothpicks and Plasticine but it was surprisingly fun to sit around a table with a group of adults and play like we were in second grade. After experiencing the artwork we followed the sound of jazz music to the Art Bar. It’s small cozy romantically lit and very popular on a Friday night. The demographic ranged from early twenties to late thirties — being in our early twenties we felt pretty mature being surrounded by a number of ‘older’ people. We got our complimentary drinks and sat and enjoyed the music. It wasn’t the kind of bar where we had to yell to hear each other over bumping bass — we had a whole conversation without yelling — and it was a surprisingly nice not to shout ourselves hoarse.