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MTV.com – Oct 30, 2007
Born to a taxi-driving father and pharmacist mother Winehouse grew up in the Southgate area of northern London. Her upbringing was surrounded by jazz. Many of the uncles on her mother’s side were professional jazz musicians and even her paternal grandmother was romantically involved with British jazz legend Ronnie Scott at one time. While at home she listened to and absorbed her parents’ selection of greats: Dinah Washington Ella Fitzgerald and. However in her teens she was drawn to the rebellious spirit of… By the end of 2003 when she was 20 years old Island had released her debut album Frank. The album was nominated for the 2004 Mercury Music Prize as well as two Brit awards and its lead single “Stronger Than Me” won an Ivor Novello Award for Best Contemporary Song. Following Winehouse’s debut the accolades and inquiring interviews appeared concurrently in the press with her tempestuous public life. Several times she showed up to her club or TV performances too drunk to sing a whole set. In 2006 her management company finally suggested that she enter rehab for alcohol abuse but instead she dumped the company and transcribed the ordeal into the U.
Accordion jam’ spreads its type of music tonight at UC Jazz Lab.
Free with registration – Daily klahoman – AccessMyLibrary.com – Oct 30, 2007
30–Accordion players are surely multi-taskers. All at once they must push and pull to open and close the bellows. They punch buttons for sound; with the other hand they.
The new cool nerds
Jerusalem Post – Oct 30, 2007
The nerds are the new cool. While the band employs contemporary styles and implements – there are two turntables alongside the traditional instruments – Tal says their ethos is of a fundamentally grass roots nature. “Jazz was of course originally dance music. Everything we do is danceable. Yes but what about the purist approach to jazz? How many die-hard bebop fans are going to be thrilled with having two turntables alongside the drums bass and wind instruments? That doesn’t sound too traditional. “You’ve got to move with the times but we never lose sight of the music’s roots” Tal states. “Erez [Todres the other DJ] and I don’t just scratch.
Another Successful Year for Countryside Live
Stackyard – Oct 30, 2007
Country Cool the fashion show held at Countryside Live for the first time proved enormously popular with crowds flocking to enjoy each of the three daily catwalk shows which were compèred by celebrity florist Carl Wilde. Dog agility demonstrations by members – human and canine – of the Harrogate Agility Training Society were another new feature again drawing plenty of interest as the dogs raced around the specially-designed obstacle course. Elsewhere around the event children enjoyed trying their hand at bread-making thatching and colouring while shoppers browsing the stalls for early Christmas presents were accompanied by a background of jazz music.
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Arkansas Democrat Gazette – Oct 30, 2007
“As a parent myself I don’t think I would have had the same reaction. I would have just said ‘you’re nuts !’ I was a good student and it wasn’t like I didn’t have other options” he says. Carenbauer was a fan of the Beatles Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix at the time and also enjoyed folk music. The only jazz he had heard before leaving his home in Wheeling W. was the Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald albums his dad played at home in the evenings. No one in the family — save Carenbauer’s grandmother who played organ and piano during silent movies — played an instrument.