Jamshied Sharifi: The World’s Music as ‘One’
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- Jamshied Sharifi: The World’s Music as ‘One’
- Tuesday ‘” May 27
- Bob Florence – award-winning bandleader arranger
- Smokin’ Joe – Music – Entertainment – theage.com.au
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Jamshied Sharifi: The World’s Music as ‘One’
NPR – May 27, 2008
“The title track exemplifies this effortless fusion: One includes Tibetan African and Japanese vocals Egyptian oud and talking drums in a rich orchestral palette. Consider Sharifi’s upbringing. Born and raised in Topeka Kan. he was exposed to Middle Eastern music and jazz by his Iranian father. His American mother taught him European classical and church music. He went on to study jazz piano composition and film scoring at Berklee College of Music in Boston. “It is a record in which you can hear.
Tuesday ‘” May 27
NEWS.com.au – May 27, 2008
5 Jive At Five (Classic Jazz). 7 Film Music 2nd and 4th Tuesday Interlude other Tuesdays. Midnight Midnight Music Overnight.
Bob Florence – award-winning bandleader arranger
San Francisco Chronicle – May 27, 2008
tmpl –> Bob Florence a Grammy Award-winning bandleader and music arranger whose elegant harmonic stylings brought him a devoted following in jazz circles died May 15 of pneumonia at Barlow Respiratory Hospital in Los Angeles. He was 75 and lived in Thousand Oaks (Ventura County).
Smokin’ Joe – Music – Entertainment – theage.com.au
The Age – May 27, 2008
“I get asked about it a lot — inAustralia more than anywhere else — because you don’t haveanyone here speaking out on it. People ask me ‘So are you goingto smoke on stage?’ No I find it difficult to smoke and sing atthe same time… I don’t even smoke that much but it’s not thepoint. Jackson — tall slim dressed entirely in black withslicked back grey hair and piercing blue-green eyes — trainedat the Royal Academy of Music and played with the National YouthJazz Orchestra. He always seemed a bit too qualified for the popmarket yet that’s where he surfaced in England in the late 1970swhen the DIY ethic of punk was at its height. “I was scared that people would find out I went to the RoyalAcademy of Music and I would be banned” Jackson says. “I got asolid grounding in musical theory and technique before I realisedhow cool it was. “Rock’n'roll has always been made up of bothtrained and untrained musicians and in the end it doesn’tmatter” he says… Having first stepped out as a cross between a Mod and a NewWaver in a skinny tie suit and pork-pie hat on his 1979 debutLook Sharp! which featured his first hit Is She ReallyGoing out with Him? Jackson has dabbled since in reggaeswing classical jazz and Latin genres as well as scoringfilms. He’s been nominated for many Grammys and finally won one for2000′s Symphony No. 1 which featured jazz and rock playersperforming within classical song structures. And while hiseasygoing pop sound has little in common with heavy metal hirsutethrash band Anthrax covered his song Got the Time. In perhaps the strangest collaboration of all he performed onan album by Star Trek’s William Shatner (Captain Kirk) whichincluded a cover of Pulp’s Common People. Given the diverse terrain he’s covered it seems fair enough tosuggest that he’s a well-rounded musician. But this innocuousoffering touches a nerve in Jackson.
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PopMatters – May 27, 2008
The New York sound was full of liveliness – be-bop was played fast and hardly ever let you have a breath except maybe during the medley. It breathed the culture it lived in and when hip-hop came to its prominence in the ‘90s with groups like the Wu-Tang Clan Nas Brand Nubian and many others it thrived on the same things. As for the West Coast the ‘50s were a time of relaxation in the jazz scene. “Cool Jazz” was laid-back and completely built off a melody.