Downpour slows but doesn’t stop music at New Orleans jazz festival
The News Review:
- Downpour slows but doesn’t stop music at New Orleans jazz festival
- Humphrey Lyttelton was a brilliant entertainer who saw himself first…
- Events on Long Island
- First weekend of New Orleans Jazz Fest wraps up
- New Music From Animal Collective Houston Person with Ron Carter…
- Under the Needle: Jazz teacher Knatt ending career on upbeat
Downpour slows but doesn’t stop music at New Orleans jazz festival
Hindu – Apr 27, 2008
Afternoon downpours made the impossible even harder on Saturday the festival’s second day. People still had fun but their numbers dwindled steadily especially in front of the five outdoor stages. The five big tents and the single indoor stage were mobbed. “This worked out great for us” said Debby Deneault of Santa Barbara California swaying with her husband Jay in the blues tent as Jay McNeely and Jesse Scint performed and rain pounded the canvas above them.
Humphrey Lyttelton was a brilliant entertainer who saw himself first…
Guardian – Apr 27, 2008
It had actually been very unusual for a young man from this background and education to lift up a trumpet and turn to the colourful careless world of jazz; to choose then as his hero not a soldier or a writer but the musician Louis Armstrong whose talent he continued to defend throughout his life. He must have been Armstrong’s most ardent admirer in this country. Lyttelton’s music may now be seen as traditional jazz but he grew up at a time when jazz itself was outré. His first move after school was to go to Camberwell School of Art. He took his music with him there and he became part of the rich tradition of musicians that emerges from our art schools. They are generally progressive places and they are often less stuffy than our universities. Humph was a musician first and foremost and I am very pleased that most of the early tributes I have seen have said that… He didn’t seem to mind though. He kept on with it. He had quickly become part of the mainstream of new jazz music in the country: one of a group of Bohemian young men – and they were all men – who were leading the scene but then just as quickly he found he had become part of what effectively was then established as a cult for a minority audience. He often seemed a modern satirical voice despite his age and this was because he spent so much time with musicians and because he had developed as a young man at a time of the jazz revolution in a world which was both class-blind and colour-blind. It was a freer looser society I think than at any time before and Humph gave us something of that. He was a very amiable good-mannered and well-bred man and that is why he got away with all of the stuff he said on Radio 4 as chairman of the panel game I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue. His lines must surely be among the rudest jokes that have ever been broadcast anywhere on the radio but I would be interested to know if he ever got a single complaint.
Events on Long Island
New York Times – Apr 27, 2008
MUSIC AND DANCEBROOKVILLE Tilles Center for the Performing Arts L. Performing Arts Gala Benefit Concert: “A Celebration of Great Music” featuring blues gospel Broadway jazz and soul music. Tilles Center for the Performing Arts 720 Northern Boulevard C… DIX HILLS Dix Hills Center for the Performing Arts “An Evening of Jazz” with Five Towns College Jazz Orchestra and Vocal Jazz Ensemble. Dix Hills Center for the Performing Arts 305 North Service Road.
First weekend of New Orleans Jazz Fest wraps up
International Herald Tribune – Apr 27, 2008
The first notes were floating across the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Sunday morning and Cheryl Betz was wrapping up her first purchase of the day — a glass sculpture of a man playing a piano that would look great in her French Quarter home. “I am absolutely not here to shop” said Betz a regular at the festival. “It's about the music the music the music. Then it's about the food the food the food. And after that it's about the shopping… The first notes were floating across the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Sunday morning and Cheryl Betz was wrapping up her first purchase of the day — a glass sculpture of a man playing a piano that would look great in her French Quarter home. “I am absolutely not here to shop” said Betz a regular at the festival. “It's about the music the music the music. Then it's about the food the food the food. And after that it's about the shopping. ” That's certainly the order in which most of those attending the festival which stretches over seven days and two weekends would rank the activities. But enough brisk business is done by the 260 artists craftsmen and vendors who display their wares at the Jazz Fest to bring them back year after year.
New Music From Animal Collective Houston Person with Ron Carter…
New York Times – Apr 27, 2008
“I want to be like water” sings Avey Tare on that opener the title track invoking potions streams and an “ocean of drool. ” Then on the beautifully warbled ballad “Street Flash” the band’s other singer Panda Bear sings soothingly against a sampled backdrop of disquieting cackles. There are many outside appropriations in this music — the chorus of “Cobweb” is harmonized in a South African vocal style — but the end results feel like a new thing altogether which is clearly the point. (“Water Curses” is due out on Domino on May 6; the title track can be heard now at. ) Houston Person with Ron CarterThe tenor saxophonist Houston Person and the bassist Ron Carter jazz sages in their 70s have recorded memorably as a duo before more than a decade ago… ) Houston Person with Ron CarterThe tenor saxophonist Houston Person and the bassist Ron Carter jazz sages in their 70s have recorded memorably as a duo before more than a decade ago. So it’s no wonder that “Just Between Friends” (HighNote) has the feel of a conversation though the casual air masks an imposing amount of knowledge. Both musicians savor the setting: Mr. Person articulates melodies with a soft and murmuring lisp while Mr. Carter fills the open space with his sound.
Under the Needle: Jazz teacher Knatt ending career on upbeat
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Apr 27, 2008
Under the Needle: Jazz teacher Knatt ending career on upbeatAward-winning educator leaving Seattle schools after 36 yearsBy. The more dominant one always grabbed the music written for first or lead trumpet… “The minute I listened to it I got it. I know why he composed it. “Not long afterward the jazz band played it in a festival. To the crowd’s cheers players traded riffs. The student who always accepted No. 2 was “sending punches back. He was going to grab that respect through the music.