All that jazz as music maestro Hamilton is awarded an MBE
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All that jazz as music maestro Hamilton is awarded an MBE
highbeam.com – Dec 29, 2007
find Birmingham Mail articles. LEGENDARY jazz saxophonist Andy Hamilton recognised as one ofthe hardest working musicians in the business today led.
Saturday ‘” December 29
NEWS.com.au – Dec 29, 2007
7 Sentimental Journey. 9 European Concert Hall. Midnight Midnight Music Overnight. RADIO ADELAIDE: 101. 6 Country Brekky with Wally Sparrow.
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eJazzNews – Dec 29, 2007
DRM is a red herring. As is sale by track. Most people with hand-held music players are listening to vast quantities of music sans copy protection. The fact that it’s taken this long for the major labels to come to grips with this reality is evidence of their sideshow nature. They just don’t get it and seemingly never will. Now that the DRM war is finally over the labels have got to fight the value war. Yes people today think music has no value they need to be sued into submission they need to be taught that CDs are worth every dollar of their inflated price that digital tracks should cost the aliquot share price of a CD… They just don’t get it and seemingly never will. Now that the DRM war is finally over the labels have got to fight the value war. Yes people today think music has no value they need to be sued into submission they need to be taught that CDs are worth every dollar of their inflated price that digital tracks should cost the aliquot share price of a CD. This is utterly hysterical because it too goes against reality. People own a lot of tracks. It’s not relevant whether they actually listen to them they want to own them. And they’re easily acquired.
Jazz Great Oscar Peterson Dies / wibw kansas news leader kansas…
WIBW – Dec 29, 2007
” “He was a regular on the French stage where the public adored his luminous style” Sarkozy said. “It is a great loss for us. ” Jazz pianist Marian McPartland called Peterson “the finest technician that I have seen. ” McPartland said she first met Peterson when she and her husband jazz cornetist Jimmy McPartland opened for him at the Colonial Tavern in Toronto in the 1940s. “From that point on we became such goods friends and he was always wonderful to me and I have always felt very close to him” she said. “I played at his tribute concert at Carnegie Hall earlier this year and performed `Tenderly’ which was always my favorite piece of his. ” The American jazz pianist Billy Taylor called Peterson one of the finest jazz pianists of his time… He would play things with one hand that most piano players couldn’t do with both of their hands. ” Born on Aug. 15 1925 in a poor neighborhood southwest of Montreal Peterson obtained a passion for music from his father. Daniel Peterson a railway porter and self-taught musician bestowed his love of music to his five children offering them a means to escape from poverty. Oscar Peterson learned to play trumpet and piano at a young age but after a bout with tuberculosis had to concentrate on the latter. He became a teen sensation in his native Canada playing in dance bands and recording in the late 1930s and early 1940s. But he got his real break as a surprise guest at Carnegie Hall in 1949 after which he began touring the United States and Europe.
Seemingly Un-Jazzlike
cbc.ca – Dec 29, 2007
Bach’s “Goldberg Variations” (BWV 988) arranged for jazz trio by Jacques Loussier. Anait KeuchguerianMontreal Quebec Posted by: Anait Keuchguerian | December 29 2007 11:15 PM I think I didn’t express myself very clearly Anait. Because what I meant was the idea in jazz of taking music from another repertoire like nursery rhymes and turning it into jazz — I do realize that many genres of music have some forms of improvisation. It was more about turning to an unexpected piece or style of music upon which to base the improvisations. oh dear I don’t know as I’m being any clearer now either.
Carnival Center for the Performing Arts – Music – New York Times
New York Times – Dec 29, 2007
He spoke of making “a big impact opening arms widely and bringing a lot more people in” and said he hoped to achieve that by drawing more performers with household names. “When you’re talking about a town that’s impatient and says there’s nothing going on at the center because it doesn’t recognize the names of the artists you need to bring in big names” he said. He also said he hoped to create a citywide performing arts festival around the center which “speaks to the region” much like the Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans. “We need to be a presenter of world-class performing arts” he continued citing a familiar refrain. He quickly added: “This will take a number of years. This won’t happen overnight.