Edmonds Jazz Connection performer expresses life through music.
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- Music Review | Steely Dan
- Tough act to follow say musicians
- Summer of Jazz nods to the Big Easy
Edmonds Jazz Connection performer expresses life through music.
Free with registration – Seattle Times – AccessMyLibrary.com – May 23, 2007
–>CPYRIGHT 2007 The Seattle Times Byline: Diane Wright May 23–Jazz music favors life experience. “The more you live the better it gets” says Karrin Allyson by phone from her home in New York where she’s lived since 2000. “You’re expressing your life experience through this music” said the jazz singer and pianist. “In our case I feel it’s a lot of joy. ” Allyson’s the marquee name at the seventh annual Edmonds Jazz Connection. This day-to-night jazz festival begins with free public performances by 200 young musicians at the Edmonds Center for the Arts and two other venues during the day.
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Dispatch nline – May 23, 2007
Galeta and eight other musicians were honoured over the weekend in Johannesburg being given the “People’s Choice” pioneering Spirits of Jazz award seen as the South African equivalent of the genre’s walk of fame. “I am very honoured that my name was put in the ‘walk of fame’ with other well-known musicians” Galeta said yesterday. He received additional honours by being given R30000 to use specifically towards the promotion of jazz music. “I plan to conduct workshops in the Eastern Cape Western Cape and other provinces.
Scholarship benefit fundraiser
Hot Springs Village Voice – May 23, 2007
For information call 767-0211 or 922-0140. Sponsored by the Hot Springs Jazz Society and hosted by the Hot Springs Documentary Film Institute this 22- piece jazz ensemble is an exceptional example of youth providing a bridge from the past to the future in preserving an American original art form jazz music. Click ads belowfor larger version.
Music Review | Steely Dan
New York Times – May 23, 2007
Perhaps it was inevitable that a good portion of the show would feel a bit like a revue. n a purely musical level this wasn’t a problem. The sleek airtight jazz-funk of Steely Dan’s prime has been modified only slightly and it still goes down smooth. Becker kept his solos flinty and brief occasionally yielding the guitar spotlight to the musical director of the tour Jon Herington. Fagen on Fender Rhodes piano played the same tricky chords that cropped up among the horns… Fagen sang in his plangent and oddly captivating voice. “Not a one of them left to hear you scream. ” As in so many Steely Dan songs the darkness of the imagery was cloaked in the details of the music. It sounded as good as anything else in the show but the crowd seemed eager to move on and back. Steely Dan performs tomorrow and Friday in Upper Darby Pa. and on Saturday in Atlantic City. It returns to the Beacon on June 10 11 and 13.
Tough act to follow say musicians
BBC News – May 23, 2007
Jonathan Moberly of The Foundry bar in Shoreditch east London said the act “criminalises music” and “makes no distinction between a piano player and an orchestra or a sound system”. Mr Moberly used to host experimental live performances under the two-in-a-bar-provision but withheld his application for a new licence saying: “I would have had to satisfy nine different regulatory bodies just to host an informal gig – it wasn’t worth it. Ministers claimed in 2003 the act would be simpler and cost nothing extra. But it was criticised in a report last year by the Better Regulation Commission.
Summer of Jazz nods to the Big Easy
Aspen Times – May 23, 2007
These guys are living it every day. “The Noones hope to transfer that spirited Jazz Fest intensity to the Summer of Jazz stage June 6 through July 25. Funk-blues guitarist Mem Shannon a former Bourbon Street cabbie opens the series at 7 p. Wednesday June 6 at Two Rivers Park. “That’s going to be fun” Bob said of the opening show. “We’ve got a great horn section we’re putting together.