Music Review A Birthday Bash With a Harmonious Mix of Guests
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- Music Review A Birthday Bash With a Harmonious Mix of Guests
- Neal-Marshall brings Kwanzaa to IU campus
- Jazzing it up for the locals
- Jazz Listings
- Bottle Rocket Soundtrack Digital Release
- Jazz at de ‘Ville
Music Review A Birthday Bash With a Harmonious Mix of Guests
New York Times United States
” (Its world premiere was two years ago at the La Jolla Music Society’s Summerfest. ) A bit longer than 10 minutes it was concise and dynamic with small openings for the players’ individual expressions; it was polytonal and harmonically wide and in stretches nearly every note fanned out into a chord. This was top-to-bottom classical music and it was good to hear it first. It started the jazz listener off in a foreign place and the rest of the show gradually melted into something resembling more common expectations. But what followed after the stagehands removed the music stands and the wind players left was not common at all: an unbroken 30 minutes of Mr. Shorter’s quartet playing a totally credible merger of jazz and modern classical. The music was loose and highly improvised but the performance had backbone.
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Neal-Marshall brings Kwanzaa to IU campus
Indiana Daily Student
?The quotes represented what the principles truly mean? said Evelyn Hamilton graduate assistant at the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center. ?It brought aspects of our ancestors? thoughts and ideas as a part of the program. ?The spirit of the holiday was encompassed in the variety of musical performances selected: spiritual jazz and Brazilian jazz. The jazz music included Afro Blue by John Coltrane and songs by Stevie Wonder. The purpose of the music performances was to get audience members enthusiastic about the message of Kwanzaa. The songs were intended to connect to the seven principles. ?I hope the musical performances gave people the joy of being alive.
Jazzing it up for the locals
Jakarta Post Indonesia
Tickets for jazz performances sold for hundreds of thousands of rupiah effectively putting the genre out of reach for the little guy. But in the village of Tembi recently local residents enjoyed jazz music for free through the Ngayog-jazz 2008 event. "This Ngayog-jazz event was organized to bring jazz music to rural communities" said Djaduk Ferianto one of the founders of Ngayog-jazz an annual event that began in 2007. The event was held in the Tembi community housing complex in Bantul on Nov. In the past the show has been held at the nearby padepokan (community education and living complex).
Jazz Listings
New York Times United States
At the Stone Avenue C and Second Street East Village thestonenyc. com; cover $10 per set. (Chinen)INDO-PAK COALITION (Tuesday) The alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa the guitarist Rez Abbasi and the percussionist Dan Weiss bring authority and flexibility to this ensemble an attempt to combine Indian music with jazz improvisation. Le Poisson Rouge 158 Bleecker Street Greenwich Village (212) 796-0741 lepoissonrouge.
Bottle Rocket Soundtrack Digital Release
Altsounds.com UK
The jazz-oriented soundtrack features selections from Artie Shaw (“The Chant”) Sonny Rollins (“Old Devil Moon”) Chet Baker & Art Pepper (“The Route”) Duke Ellington & John Coltrane (“Stevie”) Art Blakey (Horace Silver Trio’s “Nothing but the Soul”) Zoot Sims Quartet (“Jane-O”) and two songs from one of Anderson’s favorites Peanuts TV composer and west coast smooth jazz artist Vince Guaraldi (“Skating” and “Happiness Is”). “I was listening to a lot of jazz at the time especially Coltrane’s albums on Blue Note and Sonny Rollins’ A Night at the Village Vanguard” explains Anderson. “I was inspired by the use of American jazz in French new wave movies like Breathless. I still love this music. ” “He seemed to take the outlaw nature of these jazz musicians and apply it to the would-be rebels in the film” adds Poster whose relationship with the filmmaker goes back to producing the original soundtrack to the Bottle Rocket feature. That album released in 1996 on London Records included contributions from Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh another frequent Anderson collaborator as well as a typically diverse song list that featured the Scottish new wave group the Proclaimers (“Over and Done With”) as well as Afro-Peruvian artist Abelardo Vasquez (“Prendeme La Vela”) and the traditional Christmas song “Good King Wenceslas. ” “Since then our careers have been linked” explains Poster who has also worked as a music supervisor with top directors including Martin Scorsese (The Aviator) David Fincher (Zodiac) Brian de Palma (Redacted) Sam Mendes (Jarhead Revolutionary Road) Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale) Todd Haynes (Velvet Goldmine I’m Not There) Danny Boyle (A Life Less Ordinary) and Richard Linklater (Before Sunset School of Rock).
Jazz at de ‘Ville
The Snapper PA
They did it justice. Just that combination of fast dance rhythm and calm melodies that really represent jazz and they nailed it? said Christen Reimbold. I have never really paid too much attention to jazz music. Yet after going to this and hearing this music I now have a new respect for this music genre. The Jazz Ensemble and Shefftet have done a spectacular job in showing off the qualities that represent jazz. To dance relax and to have an all around good time.