JAZZ NOTES: Get a jump on summer music scene
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- JAZZ NOTES: Get a jump on summer music scene
- DO YOU KNOW: Donnie Anderson
- Music critic knew no bounds
- Botswana: Meet Elliot the Keyboard Wizard
- District Community Events May 22-29 2008
JAZZ NOTES: Get a jump on summer music scene
Rocky Mountain News – May 22, 2008
bucket_list –> More stories ». inline –>In years past the Telluride Jazz Celebration came in early August. This time the three-day celebration of the music kicks off June 6 on the Town Park Stage named this year for guest of honor McCoy Tyner. The outdoor lineup opening day is Son Como Son the Crescent Super Band with saxophonist Joe Lovano soul singer Bettye LaVette and saxophonist Maceo Parker. Day two begins with the Telluride Student All Stars and continues with the Maelstrom Trio featuring saxophonist Skerik Chuscales with Yiyi saxophonist Lovano with bassist Esperanza Spalding pianist Tyner and Grupo Fantasma. It wraps up June 8 with the CSU-Chico Jazz X-Press singer Simone (daughter of Nina Simone) saxophonist Dave Liebman Dr.
DO YOU KNOW: Donnie Anderson
Charleston Post Courier – May 22, 2008
DREAM VACATION: Africa my whole family and friends for two weeks. PET PEEVE: Dirty bathrooms. FAVORITE WAY TO RELAX OR DE-STRESS: Lying back with a good book and jazz music. SONG THAT SHOULD BE ON MY LIFE’S MUSICAL SOUNDTRACK: Luther Vandross’ “Give Me the Reason. FAVORITE CHILDHOOD MEMORY: Going fishing with my mom and dad. A DAY OF MY LIFE I’D LIKE TO RELIVE: My high school graduation. PERSON I ADMIRE THE MOST AND WHY: Barack Obama because of how he is handling his campaign.
Music critic knew no bounds
The Australian – May 22, 2008
FOR six decades Wilfrid Mellers exercised a stimulating influence on musical life in three roles: as a composer as a critic of rare range and intelligence and not least as an innovative teacher. Since his central ideas were concerned with making connections he saw these activities as complementary rather than conflicting. The influences on his compositions embraced the baroque music theatre jazz and the folk music of various cultures; he wrote perceptive studies of composers in the central stream of European tradition and on those as different as Francois Couperin Ralph Vaughan Williams Percy Grainger and the Beatles; and as professor of music at York University from 1964 to 1981 he developed a novel course in which technical study was led by the composing and making of music. If this diversity seemed bewildering it was unified by a steady intelligence that took all music as worthy of study (though not necessarily acceptance) and saw music’s function as "to reveal what we live for". This even-handed approach was not to be confused with a mindless egalitarianism: Mellers was sharp in his judgments insisting that "a limitless plurality of values is indistinguishable from no values at all". Wilfrid Howard Mellers was born in Leamington Spa England in 1914 and educated at Leamington College from where he went to Downing College Cambridge obtaining a first-class degree in English. He took a further degree in music and studied composition with Egon Wellesz and Edmund Rubbra in Oxford.
Botswana: Meet Elliot the Keyboard Wizard
AllAfrica.com – May 22, 2008
There were also other vibey places like Ritzmar which was run by Soares Katumbela. Tati Hotel was another place where the likes of the late "Mr Brown" of Malata band were regular features. In the townships like Kgaphamadi people preferred the Zimbabwean beat of Devera Ngwenya’s jazz band. All this music development must have had an influence in Morgan’s life. Morgan ventured into music in 1995 playing for sister band Black Pace. He started as a bass guitar player but later switched to the keyboard staging shows around the country. After he left the group he started backing other local artistes and South African groups.
District Community Events May 22-29 2008
Washington Post – May 22, 2008
ACOUSTIC STRING MUSIC RECITAL by students from Berkley College of Music. Kennedy Center Family Theater 2700 F St… 202-698-3377 202-698-3320. OLD POST OFFICE JAZZ CONCERT the Deep Creek Elementary Jazz Band and Show Choir. Old Post Office Pavilion 1100 Pennsylvania Ave.