Post-Katrina musicians seek mentors
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- Post-Katrina musicians seek mentors
- Lyrical trombone of a jazz giant
- Nigel Kennedy live reviews | Music | Arts & Entertainment – Times…
- Released from the revolution
- Dane101 | The Collaborative Blog for Madison Wisconsin
- Trinity owners prepare for the first supper
Post-Katrina musicians seek mentors
USA Today – Apr 25, 2007
)Young people are lucky if they can track down a musician to help these days he said. Many musicians are still living elsewhere traveling farther for work or working second jobs to make ends meet. Since Katrina formal music programs have become one of the best ways to unite musicians with youngsters wanting to learn said the 21-year-old Andrews himself a former student and teacher through a program offered by the Tipitina’s Foundation a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing the city’s public schools with instruments and helping artists recover from the hurricane. While that program is geared for older students another started by black social clubs allows children as young as 3 years old to perform with bands on Saturday mornings at the New rleans Jazz National Historical Park in the French Quarter. “It’s not just about teaching music but teaching etiquette and where the music comes from” said Bruce Barnes a park ranger vocalist and musician who plays the accordion harmonica and African drums. For the past three months Barnes had lined up the Treme Brass Band to work with the children. Last weekend they performed with the Storyville Stompers Brass Band… Mostly he directed. “Make me feel it” he told them stomping his feet clapping his hands. Harrison who performs the second weekend of Jazz Fest on May 5 said he believed in mentoring young musicians long before Katrina struck. “New rleans music it’s an oral and audible tradition. You have to hear it. That’s the way music has always been told” he said. “I pass on a musician’s perspective rather than just a classroom perspective.
Lyrical trombone of a jazz giant
Telegraph.co.uk – Apr 25, 2007
I thought I just have to do this. And 66 years later Brookmeyer is still playing jazz composing it and performing it with his own big band. This year he will be artist in residence at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival appearing with the pianist Eliane Elias and the young composer pianist Hans Koller among others. Much of his composing effort in the past 15 years has been devoted to his young mainly European band the New Art rchestra based in Germany. He still has the feeling he said a few years ago that he is just starting out. It is hard to think of another figure whose career includes so much of jazz past and present as Brookmeyer. He began working in Kansas City – a great centre of the swing style – as a teenager in the 1940s… It was he recalled “the first major body thrill I had – a completely orgasmic feeling. I thought I just have to do this. And 66 years later Brookmeyer is still playing jazz composing it and performing it with his own big band. This year he will be artist in residence at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival appearing with the pianist Eliane Elias and the young composer pianist Hans Koller among others. Much of his composing effort in the past 15 years has been devoted to his young mainly European band the New Art rchestra based in Germany. He still has the feeling he said a few years ago that he is just starting out. It is hard to think of another figure whose career includes so much of jazz past and present as Brookmeyer.
Nigel Kennedy live reviews | Music | Arts & Entertainment – Times…
Times nline – Apr 25, 2007
The first thing you have to say about Nigel Kennedy is that unlike so manymusicians on the major circuit he has a personality. I don’t particularlycare for the swearing and the cor blimeys but his eagerness to seize themoment is infectious. And his journey into the jazz repertoire is comingalong nicely. If the set was a little long — the violinist was on stage forclose to two hours — it was a lot more enjoyable than the overbearingsub-Milesian fusion that he served up at the same venue a year or two ago… The first thing you have to say about Nigel Kennedy is that unlike so manymusicians on the major circuit he has a personality. I don’t particularlycare for the swearing and the cor blimeys but his eagerness to seize themoment is infectious. And his journey into the jazz repertoire is comingalong nicely. If the set was a little long — the violinist was on stage forclose to two hours — it was a lot more enjoyable than the overbearingsub-Milesian fusion that he served up at the same venue a year or two ago. His recent debut on the Blue Note label — the jazz world’s equivalent toDeutsche Grammophon if you will — was a sign of how seriously he takes hisimprovising mission. Supported by sidemen as renowned as Jack DeJohnette andJoe Lovano Kennedy seemed overly decorous at times as if overawed by thecompany he was keeping but his choice of material from Horace Silver’shard bop anthem Song for my Father to Duke Pearson’s Afterthe Rain threw up bold surprises.
Released from the revolution
guardian.co.uk – Apr 25, 2007
uk”; Released from the revolution: the new wave of Cuban music |Music |The Guardian. Robin Denselow reports… Where Egrem is being marketed as “the mother of Cuban music” Gonzalez wants to show “the diversity of Cuba”. His new album Step Forward (the first he has recorded under his own name) is a wildly eclectic affair involving over 50 musicians and tracks ranging from Cuban jazz to dance songs. For the future his aim is to promote “Cuban jazz along with pop and hip-hop that will sound more Cuban. We can’t just compete with Miami. “Both labels face strong competition however from Nick Gold’s World Circuit which is still releasing impressive solo sets from the various off-shoots of the Buena Vista Social Club. Gold has also been exploring the more experimental side of new Cuban music with releases by the great bass player Cachaito Lopez and the collaboration between guitarist Manuel Galban and Ry Cooder. The man who helped transform Gonzalez’s Buena Vista into a global phenomenon has been watching the new developments with interest.
Dane101 | The Collaborative Blog for Madison Wisconsin
Dane101 – Apr 25, 2007
Would their desserts compare?As I walked into Papa Phil’s I felt like I was entering an upscale city restaurant. Plush maroon carpet cushioned my feet. Jazz music played softly overhead. The bar area was empty as it was lunchtime but the bartender was a kindly older gentleman who greeted me after I found a seat at a table. Most of the clientèle were middle aged and nicely dressed and I didn’t see any kids. I noticed four women at a nearby table who seemed to be having a weekly lunch date. A carafe of wine sat between them.
Trinity owners prepare for the first supper
Woodbridge Sentinel – Apr 25, 2007
“Give it a more gothic feel. ” Although the restaurant won’t be open until sometime next month numerous reservations and parties have already been booked. At some point Merla hopes to offer live jazz music in the area the altar formerly occupied. “I think it’s really unique” Merla said. We’re just thrilled to be here. ” Trinity is located at 84 Broad St.