Another jazz ‘Trane arriving on his own terms
The News Review:
- Another jazz ‘Trane arriving on his own terms
- Canadian Oscar Peterson remembered as jazz legend
- Musical Worlds Collide in ‘Great Debaters’
- Radio City Christmas Spectacular – Dance – New York Times
- Four 80 East brings smooth jazz to the Paragon
- Zimbabwe: Kanokanga Launches Debut Album
- Free Streaming Music For the Holidays
Another jazz ‘Trane arriving on his own terms
Houston Chronicle – Dec 24, 2007
; man everybody wants to make films” he says with a quick laugh. But he says he never “actively pursued the film thing. I was drawn more to jazz music and my father’s music in particular. I started listening to jazz much more seriously at that time in my life. By 1984 1985 the music was starting to have another type of meaning to me. The issue of influences his father’s in particular is a question he is familiar with. There’s a slight barely perceivable sigh as he answers the question he’s been asked hundreds of times: How does he deal with the issue of his father’s influence on his music?”It has to be as organic as possible” he says “Even if my last name was Smith.
Canadian Oscar Peterson remembered as jazz legend
CTV.ca – Dec 24, 2007
“I didn’t know what I was doing. I just knew I could do this” he once told a National Film Board documentary. Surrounded by jazzPeterson’s introduction to jazz music also came at an early age. Growing up in Montreal’s poor predominantly black Little Burgundy neighbourhood in the 1920s and ’30s he was surrounded by a then flourishing jazz culture that came to define his long career. His influences are said to be Teddy Wilson Nat King Cole and Art Tatum. Peterson’s first national exposure in Canada came when he was 14 when his older sister Daisy arranged for him to audition for a national amateur competition. He went on to win the contest.
Musical Worlds Collide in ‘Great Debaters’
NPR – Dec 24, 2007
Blending the disparate melodies of blues jazz gospel country and even opera the film’s soundtrack helps bring the complexities of the Deep South in the ’30s to life. Music supervisor G. Marq Roswell says he was inspired by the challenges the film presented. “It was the rich tapestry of all the African-American music in 1935 and these different worlds colliding” he says. The film opens with Austin Coleman’s “My Soul Is a Witness” swooping and gliding over southern swamps into a backwoods juke joint. Washington says that as soon as he heard it he knew the song was exactly what the film needed. He used the song to prove from the first moment of the opening scene that there is nothing dry about this debate tale.
Radio City Christmas Spectacular – Dance – New York Times
New York Times – Dec 24, 2007
The atom bomb gets our attention when a Sicilian love triangle won’t anymore. The Broadway musical is no longer on the all-American list having more or less abandoned music altogether: its one-size-fits-all balladeering has devolved into a drabness by which a song in one show can be substituted for one in another without anybody noticing. Jazz once America’s signature music shrinks more and more into a niche. Rock music has its roots in American black churches and Southern front porches but is wholly international now. Musical identity comes hard to immigrant nations. Israel has produced wonderful musicians but no composition of real interest that I know of. America has had more time to make its lists but still can’t decide.
Four 80 East brings smooth jazz to the Paragon
highbeam.com – Dec 24, 2007
Mention smooth jazz to most jazz aficionados and they’ll start talking disdainfully about Kenny G elevator music and Muzak. But in reality the people who balk at the genre are missing the point and perhaps are a touch jealous at the success some of these smooth jazz artists have had over the last 15 years or so. While Canadians have been slow to embrace the music smooth jazz has basically dominated the jazz charts and airwaves in the U. and has carved out a niche significantly larger than that of “serious” jazz. It is hard to argue with Kenny.
Zimbabwe: Kanokanga Launches Debut Album
AllAfrica.com – Dec 24, 2007
But for afro-jazz maestro in the making John Kanokanga life began at 49. The life Kanokanga refers to is not biological but instead musical. He oozes with confidence that he would certainly leave a musical legacy despite venturing into music on the wrong side of the 40s. Age to him does not matter as long as the voice allows him to preach his gospel. GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_Inset” );The gifted crooner recently launched his debut album Chirangano at Avondale Wimpy amid pomp and fanfare… He acknowledges Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi for being the source of inspiration. To affirm this the katekwe flare and the intricate acoustic guitar playing are all evident in this project. "I enjoy Tuku’s music and I have lots of respect for him because he is a source of inspiration to me. "People might say I copy Tuku but I don’t have any problems with that because I am following in the footsteps of a superstar" he says. Born and bred in Mutoko Kanokanga says his music is inspired by traditional and gospel influences. "I have always loved music and I would also like to say the society I lived in helped me grow. "I have a Christian background and I do fuse gospel with traditional influences.
Free Streaming Music For the Holidays
pcworld.com – Dec 24, 2007
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