Green calendar listings: Sunday June 1 through 8
The News Review:
- Green calendar listings: Sunday June 1 through 8
- Portishead | Music Artist | Videos News Photos & Ringtones | MTV
- A musical trip unlike any other
- Count Basie: The Man and His Music Pt. 3
- Wednesday ‘” May 28
- Bohemians like us
- No slacking on new music — – chicagotribune.com
Green calendar listings: Sunday June 1 through 8
Providence Journal – May 28, 2008
Meet plant experts Patrick Chasse William Cullina and Carol Stocker who will share custom plant advice and native plant selections. Silent and live auctions with chance to bid on rare plants and behind-the-scenes garden experiences. Connoisseur’s Table summer hors d’oeuvres and drink live garden jazz music. $50 patrons $100 packet of four $150. Gardeners Day Celebration.
Portishead | Music Artist | Videos News Photos & Ringtones | MTV
MTV.com – May 28, 2008
Barrow met Beth Gibbons who had been singing in pubs in 1991 on a job scheme. Over the next few years the pair began writing music often with jazz guitarist Adrian Utley who had previously played with both Big John Patton and the Jazz Messengers. Before releasing a recording Portishead completed the short film To Kill a Dead Man an homage to ’60s spy movies. Barrow and Gibbons acted in the noirish film and provided the soundtrack which earned the attention of Go! Records. By the fall Portishead had signed with Go! and their debut album Dummy was released shortly afterward. Dummy was recorded with engineer Dave MacDonald who played drums and drum machines and guitarist Utley who rounded out Portishead’s lineup.
A musical trip unlike any other
Tonight – May 28, 2008
When they all come together we get a sound that is very loud but pleasant. Babu’s sound is refreshingly incomparable to any SA band. They fuse Indian classical music and western jazz to construct a blend of raga’s (melodic) and tala’s (rhythmic) systems maintaining a contemporary sound. Their songs start off with slow simple ambient-sounding melodies that build into more complex and much louder compositions. Khota’s guitar-work is unfathomable. It often sounds as if he strums with about 10 fingers. Cooper bounces along with his bass looking ?-cool… Naidoo’s had an esteemed drumming career. People may recognise him from the band Tribe but he also plays for various jazz-inspired bands like the Restless Natives and Closet Snare. “I am passionate about jazz because it was the first kind of music out there where the drum-kit became a virtuosic instrument” explains Naidoo. The name Babu is an “imaginary” personality that the band created to represent their communal inspiration. Their influences range from John McLaughlin’s bands’ Shakti and the Mahavishnu orchestra to bands from the ’70s and ’80s such as Weather Report and jazz greats like Miles Davis. The quartet received much praise after their ovation at this year’s Cape Town Jazz Festival. “We’re planning a national tour but for the moment we await funds from the National Arts Council” Naidoo says about Babu’s future.
Count Basie: The Man and His Music Pt. 3
NPR – May 28, 2008
org June 4 2008 – From 1935 until his death in 1984 pianist and bandleader Count Basie led one of the most important jazz institutions of the 20th century in the process forging a distinctive sound that changed the jazz landscape. By merging the sounds of his musical upbringing in Harlem and Kansas City Basie developed a unique brand of swinging blues that made audiences across the world want to dance. This episode of Jazz Profiles the third in a three-part series surveys the challenges Basie faced during WWII and the “new testament” groups he launched in the 1950s and beyond. His hard-swinging band in tow Count Basie’s post-war renaissance helped secure his place in jazz history. Thanks to his tremendous supporting cast of musicians his band’s style was like no other… Furthermore popular tastes had begun to shift toward the smaller bebop R&B and pop acts which were better able to survive in the post-war market. By 1949 a struggling Basie broke his big band into a smaller unit. By maintaining an emphasis on jazz he was able to attract premier musicians into the mix including trumpeter Clark Terry clarinetist Buddy DeFranco and drummer Buddy Rich. But business proved difficult to maintain — as did keeping up with the sea change of bebop — and the Basie septet and associated combos were out of business within a few years. Undeterred Basie hired arrangers such as Neal Hefti and Ernie Wilkins to compose a fresh repertoire for a big band and assembled a new supporting cast of singers and instrumentalists. By abandoning the nonchalant head arrangements of the Swing Era ensemble a new refined Basie sound emerged. Though no longer able to reach audiences on radio his new oeuvre of dynamic clean and sophisticated charts translated well to a new medium: the long-playing record.
Wednesday ‘” May 28
NEWS.com.au – May 28, 2008
35 Leading the Way. 11 Mid-Week Jazz and Swing. 30pm National Radio News… 11 The Chamber Music Hour. Noon Jazz on the Terrace. 30 Launch Pad (new broadcasters).
Bohemians like us
Detroit Metro Times – May 28, 2008
Upstairs the audience gets to experience the grandeur of a spacious ballroom that carries a big sound. It’s a huge room complete with 26-feet-high ceilings a stage and a balcony. “I feel that if you look at any major genre of music — be it jazz soul electronic and even rock ‘n’ roll — Detroit has always been crucial to the development of those genres whether or not we get the same reputations that other cities do” says the 35-year-old Peterson lounging on a vintage sofa in his apartment which used to be the caretaker’s apartment at the Bohemian. He enthusiastically talks about making the festival one of the very best of its kind in the country. “I felt like there had to be a place in town that really booked all kinds of stuff and not be limited solely to local bands and musicians” he continues. “I guess that has been my main guiding purpose in all this. ” Peterson grew up in nearby Grosse Pointe where he began taking piano lessons as a child.
No slacking on new music — – chicagotribune.com
Chicago Tribune – May 28, 2008
But I wasable to easily use USB to import MP3 files from my office computer; thosecannot be transferred wirelessly. I have 24 stations on the Slacker Portable and have yet to hear the samesong twice. Those stations include world music UK indie hits classic rockjazz vocals funk folk and others I’ve created. The player does have some drawbacks. Primarily it is cheaply made. The headphones for example are awful. They don’t fit well I’ve rippedtwo of the four little foam covers used to protect the ear buds and the soundwas so bad I first thought I would have to write a disappointing review.