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- Pauline Forrest-Watson strikes all the right notes
- Longfellow’s epic poem Hiawatha to be released on 6-CD set
- Jazzing up the highlands
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- US jazz great Randy Weston deplores ignorance about Africa
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New York Times – May 28, 2007
His quip sent ripples of appreciative laughter through the crowd which was generously stocked with musicians and generally skewed toward extreme jazz erudition. Skip to next paragraph.
Pauline Forrest-Watson strikes all the right notes
Jamaica bserver – May 28, 2007
In 2005-2006 she received a special award from the JCDC as the most outstanding vocal tutor and in December of 2006 Forrest-Watson gave a recital at the St Cyprian Apostolic Church in New York where she earned a standing ovation. Now a senior lecturer at the Edna Manley College where she is head of the Voice Department and co-ordinator of the Lunch Hour Concerts Forrest-Watson whose students have included Damian Marley the Strachan sisters and Cherine Anderson and who has written a book on singing due for release next month is planning a ‘classical renaissance’ this July 8 to help students get scholarships to the Edna Manley College. The concert will feature the best of classical romantic and jazz music – striving for the best of the [musical] period of “enlightenment” when emphasis was on the well-being of the individual. And this is the first in a series she’s planning as a revival of her concertising. “I was meant to be a performer and a leader” she tells all woman. “I hope this concert will make people feel a sense of who they are and [renew] self-respect. Talk Back No comments have been posted.
Longfellow’s epic poem Hiawatha to be released on 6-CD set
Seattle Times – May 28, 2007
“There is a silent majority out there of people who are hungering after entertainment of a different form. Maglaras 57 is a former opera singer who founded Two17 Records in Stamford Conn. He has produced recordings of alternative rock and jazz music as well as poetry. He began working on the Hiawatha project last year after reading the poem in its entirety and coming away impressed. The work 22 chapters in all is based on stories and legends of various North American Indian tribes. When Longfellow published Hiawatha in 1855 it was an immediate success. Some 50000 copies were sold and it was translated into French Italian German and other languages.
Jazzing up the highlands
Malaysia Star – May 28, 2007
To listen to them is to hear a basic son heartbeat with a mixture of New rleans jazz and all the wonderful dances of Cuba the mambo rumba cha-cha pilon danzon pa’ca merengue and montuno. The days of the Buena Vista Social Club are long gone but with Cubanismo you have a lively Latin big band with dance rhythms and soul to knock your socks off. Gangbe Brass Band (Benin) The Gangbe Brass Band was formed in 1994 when eight musicians all from Cotonou-Benin came together. Gangbe Brass Band opted to promote the originality of the music of Benin taking traditional rhythms and improvising them with jazz harmonies. The fusion reveals the musical tradition while giving a Western tone that links past and future.
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eJazzNews – May 28, 2007
Stephen Bocioaca: In an interview with Boston Herald (Monday September 11 2006) Branford Marsalis commented: "The times are different now. The talent level is severely diminished and that stuff that has replaced it has really put jazz in a bind because the music seems to lack any kind of substance in regards to human-ness or humanity. It’s very professorial like think-tank music. "Jazz is in trouble. But the reason it’s in trouble is not because the music’s dying but because the people who are playing don’t have a lot of talent. We have great players in terms of playing their instruments but in terms of some kind of understanding of jazz we don’t have a lot of talent right now. " Do You think that Marsalis is right?Roberto Magris: I don’t agree with Marsalis I’m sorry.
US jazz great Randy Weston deplores ignorance about Africa
Turkish Press – May 28, 2007
“What’s my sadness. is how little is known about Africa and her people” he said at the end of a four-day international jazz festival in Senegal’s colonial capital of Saint Louis north of Dakar… is how little is known about Africa and her people” he said at the end of a four-day international jazz festival in Senegal’s colonial capital of Saint Louis north of Dakar. “It’s very important to understand that the traditional music of Africa is our foundation” he told AFP. Weston an imposing tall figure with long delicate fingers has several albums dedicated to the continent including “Blues to Africa” “African Nite” and “The Spirit of our Ancestors. ” “We’ll never get away from that foundation. I am an African born in America” he said proudly referring to the ancestral links his father always reminded him of since his childhood in Brooklyn in New York. “My first composition for Africa was in 1954.
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Free with registration – Sacramento Bee – AccessMyLibrary.com – May 28, 2007
–>CPYRIGHT 2007 The Sacramento Bee Byline: Lakiesha McGhee May 28–Peggy Carroll said she came all the way from New rleans to get her first taste of the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee. She was impressed by all the different flavors. “The weather is cool the people are great and the music is good” Carroll said Sunday while listening to blues. CPYRIGHT 2007 The Sacramento Bee.