Groove Yard: Rockridge shop sustains LP life even after MP3 success
The News Review:
- Groove Yard: Rockridge shop sustains LP life even after MP3 success
- Rob Mullins :: Storyteller
- Kids get chance to hop the `A’ train
- Actors’ Playhouse 20th Anniversary Celebration
- Turtle Islanders jazz it up in Laguna
Groove Yard: Rockridge shop sustains LP life even after MP3 success
San Francisco Chronicle – Jan 19, 2008
None of this is making Ballard rich but he’s a happy man living his little corner of the jazz life. “It’s a sound that really feels good to my ears” he says. “I love other styles of music. but nothing does it for me like jazz does.
Rob Mullins :: Storyteller
Jazz-Quad – Jan 19, 2008
Onstage he used the classic format of the jazz trio (piano bass and drums) but the performed music atmosphere and quality were so impressive that many people returned again on the second and even the third nights after first concert to hear this musical master of the keyboard. This was not musician Rob Mullins first appearance in Moscow. He had played shows with Hubert Laws (flute) taught students at a jazz college in 2006 had a private party and now presented three nights of great music which brought deep emotion new knowledge and contagious interest. Rob’s name is not well-known to the Russian audience but this week of gigs was a major step towards expanding his fame and fan base in the Russian musical community. Many special guests joined the trio onstage during the shows and by themselves presented a completed band with astonishing sound and the fun of improvisations sweet heartfelt ballads and some groovy almost funky old standards.
Kids get chance to hop the `A’ train
Los Angeles Daily News – Jan 19, 2008
Jazz Society board member Flip Manne smiled as she watched the mainly Hispanic and African-American kids gather around her jazz musicians trying to give hip-hop a run for its money. The irony didn’t escape the widow of popular jazz drummer Shelly Manne. “Black kids used to be the repository of jazz but now most of them don’t even hear it anymore” said the former Radio City Music Hall Rockette. “It’s all hip-hop now. That’s why we’re here. We don’t want to lose jazz. ” Give enough kids a chance to take a ride with Duke on the “A” Train and we won’t.
Actors’ Playhouse 20th Anniversary Celebration
Broadway World – Jan 19, 2008
David Arisco will reprise his memorable portrayal of Tevya from Fiddler on the Roof Lissette Gonzalez CBS 4 Weather Anchor will sing from 4 Guys Named Jose Reggie Whitehead from The Full Monty Irene Adjan from JosephDreamcoat and Stacy Schwartz from I Love You You’re Perfect Now Change. Highlighted among the performances will be a presentation by the cast of Actors’ Playhouse’s newest sensation Altar Boyz the hot new boy band musical currently playing at the Miracle Theatre through February 10th. In addition to all these musical theatre performances Kim Bankston of The New Platters will provide jazz music for the evening. ”This anniversary is such a landmark in our history” Stein said. “We’ve been entertaining Miami audiences for 20 seasons and our guests will truly enjoy taking a journey back with Actors’ Playhouse favorites both new and old. “ Seating is limited at this celebration event and reservations are a $5 donation for each of Actors’ Playhouse’s 20 seasons totaling $100 per person. In addition to the Jan.
Turtle Islanders jazz it up in Laguna
OCRegister – Jan 19, 2008
BY PETER LEFEVRE Special to the Register Comments | Recommend “Crossover” is such an ugly word. It suggests a world in which blues scales and syncopation sit on one side of the fence and sonata form and starched collars sit on the other. A world in which jazz artists are constantly looking for validation and classical artists are constantly looking for street cred. To my skeptical and jaundiced eye it’s a marketing term better understood as “An artist you normally like playing music you normally don’t… BY PETER LEFEVRE Special to the Register Comments | Recommend “Crossover” is such an ugly word. It suggests a world in which blues scales and syncopation sit on one side of the fence and sonata form and starched collars sit on the other. A world in which jazz artists are constantly looking for validation and classical artists are constantly looking for street cred. To my skeptical and jaundiced eye it’s a marketing term better understood as “An artist you normally like playing music you normally don’t. ” The Turtle Island String Quartet has been tagged with the word as much as anyone. The limitations that come with the label were blindingly obvious Friday night at Artists’ Theater where the TISQ opened the 6th annual Laguna Beach Music Festival joined by the Enso String Quartet and presented by the Philharmonic Society of Orange County and Laguna Beach Live. The TISQ (David Balakrishnan violin; Mads Tolling violin; Jeremy Kittle viola; Mark Summer cello) made a cursory glance toward the European classical tradition but only as it related to the swinging business at hand.