For Latin jazz pianist Michelin off the beaten path lies ‘Duende&…
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- For Latin jazz pianist Michelin off the beaten path lies ‘Duende&…
- JUST PUBLISHED: 3 VLUMES F WRLD WH’S IN JAZZ CABARET MUSIC…
- K-State Jazz Professor Students to Tour South America
- The Jim Cullum Jazz Band in Live Radio Broadcast
- … Swing Reborn ‘” The Jim Cullum Jazz Band in Riverwalk Jazz…
For Latin jazz pianist Michelin off the beaten path lies ‘Duende&…
Boston Globe – Feb 24, 2007
A tight accomplished album “Duende” finds Michelin letting go of a didactic tendency that made earlier albums into concept pieces — “Art” for instance with its songs devoted to different modern visual artists or “Chants: A Candomblé Experience” a program of jazz extrapolations of Afro-Brazilian mystical chants that will leave perplexed anyone looking on the basis of the title for the “authentic” experience. Then again Michelin does not present himself as a cultural messenger — quite the contrary. He has made his career exploring the relationship between Latin music and jazz improvisation and forging a wholly personal voice that draws on both. This quest he says on the phone dates back to his first band in Uruguay and it was to pursue it that he uprooted himself to come to Berklee. “I was on the same road then that I am now” he says “doing improvisational music trying to put South American rhythms in but to get away from the predictable. Develop the rhythms to get away from the patterns. I began to understand how bebop players got away from playing the basic notes and harmonies how drummers got away from four to the floor.
JUST PUBLISHED: 3 VLUMES F WRLD WH’S IN JAZZ CABARET MUSIC…
eJazzNews – Feb 24, 2007
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K-State Jazz Professor Students to Tour South America
Kansas City infoZine – Feb 24, 2007
They’re my go-to guys. The five students will be taking two courses in early summer in preparation for the trip. Goins will teach an overview on the music of Latin America. Bradley Shaw associate professor of modern languages at K-State will teach language politics and other various cultural aspects of the societies in South America. Shaw who is also the director of the international and area studies program at K-State will be going with the group to serve as the tour guide and translator. Goins said working with him on the trip were M. Duane Nellis K-State provost; Ken Holland associate provost for international programs; and Jennifer Smith travel coordinator office of international programs.
The Jim Cullum Jazz Band in Live Radio Broadcast
minsk.by – Feb 24, 2007
The Jim Cullum Jazz Band swells to a 12-piece jazz orchestra to honor the music of bandleader Don Albert and Southwest “territory bands” based in San Antonio in the ’30s and ’40s. Revisit San Antonio’s famed Eastside clubs with The Jim Cullum Jazz Band and special guest Vernel Bagneris as they recall the glory days and bring the music alive for two Riverwalk Jazz national radio broadcasts. Jazz critic Nat Hentoff states “What makes this radio series so distinctive is not only the quality of the music but also of the documentary programs that become valuable additions to jazz history.
… Swing Reborn ‘” The Jim Cullum Jazz Band in Riverwalk Jazz…
businesswire.com – Feb 24, 2007
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