Music lessons that the kids will love
The News Review:
- Music lessons that the kids will love
- Whitfield Goes “Inside The Leader’s Studio”
- Peggy Gilbert 102 Dies; Led Female Jazz Ensembles
- AMG: Full of Surprises
- Jazz Fest fans take time to help New rleans
- Perfect Pitch
Music lessons that the kids will love
San Francisco Chronicle – Feb 25, 2007
Roth (Harcourt; 32 pages; $16; ages 3-7). Mixed-media collage places jazz greats like Louis Armstrong Duke Ellington Charlie Parker Art Blakey Charles Mingus and Dizzy Gillespie in each verse bringing their special sound to a number in the counting song. ” The musicians are unnamed on their individual pages and when they come together on one jubilant final spread but brief bios follow the finale. It’s a fun way to introduce them to young readers. ne of the best picture book biographies of recent years is Dizzy by Jonah Winter and illustrated by Sean Quails (Arthur A. Levine; 48 pages; $16.
Whitfield Goes “Inside The Leader’s Studio”
NBA.com – Feb 25, 2007
He attributed his law degree from Campbell University in Buies Creek as a powerful bargaining chip with he negotiated contracts for some of the world’s elite athlete as a sports agent for SFX. He went into detail about his relationship both professionally and personally with Michael Jordan Bobcats minority owner and managing member of basketball operations. Whitfield also touched on about the daily challenges in overseeing a NBA organization how the stock market affects attendance figures and his infatuation with NASCAR and jazz music. “There were challenging questions but they were real life questions” Whitfield said. “I was just glad to share a little bit of my knowledge and some of my experiences. Hopefully I can help at least one of the kids in the room to achieve one of their goals.
Peggy Gilbert 102 Dies; Led Female Jazz Ensembles
New York Times – Feb 25, 2007
No one could pronounce Knechtges anyway. (It was pronounced kuh-NET-chiz. )In Los Angeles she started a band that over the years performed under various names including Peggy Gilbert and Her Metro Goldwyn rchestra Peggy Gilbert and Her Symphonics and Peggy Gilbert and Her Coeds. The band toured the vaudeville circuit with stars like… “In the ’30s she was doing four five and six jobs a day. The women would make fun of the guys because they couldn’t read music. And they’d say: ‘Don’t ever hire that guy again. He’s not really a musician.
AMG: Full of Surprises
Stereophile Magazine – Feb 25, 2007
Most music lovers probably know AMG as the publisher of the book series All Music Guide which is now over 15 years old with editions dedicated to popular classical jazz hip-hop blues and every other genre with traction. The AMG books were compiled from capsule reviews written by professional critics and were accurate and as comprehensive as physical publishing could make them—which means they were always at least a year out of date. Early on AMG realized that it needed to move its database into the Internet age and in 1995 it established a World Wide Web presence through its website www… “It’s the unique stuff that people are really looking for” added Stess. “We like to establish the credibility of our contributors” said Schrott. “With our recognition technology we can see that a database contributor’s collection is skewed toward jazz so we might trust that person’s opinion of jazz music more than their opinion of rap music if they just had one rap track on their hard drive. “We’re all about content. We use technology to get the job done but what we’re selling is making it easier to enjoy the music. All of that should be fairly transparent to the end-user. Since I always have to be a wise guy I quipped “You know what would be really transparent? A program that would sense what I’m in the mood for without my having to think about it!”"We’re working on that” Greg Smith laughed.
Jazz Fest fans take time to help New rleans
Boston Globe – Feb 25, 2007
“It’s probably my favorite city in the country to visit. “In the months after the hurricane the couple had hosted newly homeless friends from the devastated city but they wanted to do more. So when they heard that the 2006 New rleans Jazz and Heritage Festival was going to host its usual two long weekends of music and culture they realized this was their chance. “We decided this would be the year to do it for two weekends and spend the week between volunteering” says DiModica who has been attending Jazz Fest as it is generally known since 1998. And so in between dancing to zydeco at the Fais Do-Do stage and listening to blues jazz and gospel greats the couple spent two days sorting donated food for the Second Harvest Food Bank and two days building houses for Habitat for Humanity. At the Habitat project the Musicians’ Village in the flooded Ninth Ward DiModica who had worked as a roofer while in college found himself leading a roofing team. Apigian an architect mixed concrete and helped build a house foundation.
Perfect Pitch
Boston Globe – Feb 25, 2007
By James Parker Globe Columnist | February 25 2007LIKE MANY A confirmed rock fan I have a brief adulterous fling with jazz in my past. As a 25-year-old I lurked in used record stores I read Charles Mingus’s “Beneath the Underdog” I made untutored sallies into the work of Eric Dolphy and Bud Powell. I could barely tell a saxophone from an oboe but I kept going and a fumbling superficial familiarity with jazz was achieved; I am grateful for it now because it is precisely this narrow layer of non-ignorance this dilettante’s veneer that is irradiated when I read the prose of Whitney Balliett. Balliett who died on Feb.