Music collective spreads the gospel of jazz
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- Music collective spreads the gospel of jazz
- New Year’s Eve Event Guide
- Singing the blues about gap in Honors
- Resolution: Break Into the Local Music Scene
- Latin music: The best of 2008
- John Harmon n Piano Jazz
- WE GT THE FUNK: Denson & Walter’s Belly Up Reunion
Music collective spreads the gospel of jazz
77 Square WI
Some are ticketed othersare free. Its “Art of the Duo” series last summer included six musicalcombinations including Laurie Lang (bass) and Marilyn Fisher(vocals) Ben Karetnick (drums) and Cliff White (saxophone) andJane Reynolds (piano) and Hans Sturm (bass). This year one program by founder Wildman will include jazzmusic combined with animation. It’s a way of pushing the envelopePeterson said something the collective enjoys doing. “You might say yes I love this exact performer this exactkind of music. But listen to how exciting this new stuff is”Peterson said. “You really get to hear more things — that’s theopportunity with the collective.
New Year’s Eve Event Guide
San Jose Mercury News USA
Jazz Society of Santa Cruz County New Year’s Eve party: With live dance music by the Advertisement yld_mgr. place_ad_here(“adPosBox”); Rachel Nelson-Smith Jazz Group and the Little Big Band. Formal dress requested. Bring a dish to pass and BYB. A lasagna main dish and dessert will be supplied plus champagne at midnight.
Singing the blues about gap in Honors
Los Angeles Times CA
Getting paid and getting a new Cadillac — those were the promised rewards for signing with Chess Records. If there’s any lesson learned from “Cadillac Records” it’s that the blues is messy. It doesn’t have the controlled aloofness of jazz. In the film the music is sung by grown-ups who have known pain. They are not smooth. There’s something about the blues that seems almost too untamed and oozy for an institution like the Kennedy Center. Without the blues there would have been no Chuck Berry — a Kennedy Center honoree in 2000 and played by Mos Def in “Cadillac Records” — and without him there would have been no rock ‘n’ roll.
Resolution: Break Into the Local Music Scene
Washington Post United States
"You find people whose music you like you introduce yourself and try to jam with them. "That seems like a leap but note that Scherr doesn’t say it all has to be done in one night. The first step is to start hanging out in clubs that play the kind of music you dig: Spots such as Twins Jazz Bohemian Caverns or HR-57 are great for jazz lovers. Jammin’ Java DC9 and Iota meanwhile showcase a wide variety of genres. Scherr suggests making a recording (even if it’s a simple homemade track) so that up-and-coming musicians can share something of their style with veterans they meet on the scene. And a Web site with snippets of songs has become the modern-day musician’s calling card he adds. Scherr says that once musicians with regular gigs know what a new kid on the block can do they’ll often be invited to sit in on a set.
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Latin music: The best of 2008
Newsday NY
Ximena Sariñana ‘Mediocre’ (Warner Music Mexico). Despite her Mexican celebrity background and dutiful tutelage at Berklee College of Music Sariñana is one of the brightest and most original talents to emerge in years. Sarcastic yet sweet her music makes an unexpectedly fruitful marriage of alternative pop and jazz work. Aterciopelados ‘Rio’ (Nacional). Andrea Echeverri and Héctor Buitrago make the case that all local politics is global whether it’s the polluted Río Bogota or out-of- control paramilitary forces. Tuneful lyrical and always thoughtful the duo delight as much with good vibes as they do with musicianship. David Sánchez ‘Cultural Survial’ (Concord) and Miguel Zenón “Awake” (Marsalis Records).
John Harmon n Piano Jazz
NPR
He served as the director of that program for the next three years. In 1974 Harmon co-founded a nine-piece band called Matrix. The group’s original music most of it composed and arranged by Harmon was at the forefront of the jazz-fusion movement and included elements of funk rock and blues in addition to jazz. The group went on to record five albums over the next seven years. Following the success of Matrix Harmon continued to concentrate on performing teaching occasionally and composing full time. While Harmon considers himself a jazz pianist the style and orchestration of his numerous compositions are varied and diverse. A widely commissioned composer Harmon has written music for the Milwaukee Symphony rchestra “The rchestra” of Los Angeles the Fox Valley Symphony and the Santa Fe Chamber rchestra.
WE GT THE FUNK: Denson & Walter’s Belly Up Reunion
San Diego Union Tribune CA
“That’s been acommon denominator in both Karl’s career and mine and in a lot of other musicians’. “But that’s not out of line with jazz at all. When it was popular music during the big-band era jazz was dance music. Since then it’s become more of a fine-art pursuit rather than a populist music. And that’s made the music highly irrelevant to the culture and made jazz a museum piece. So it’s important to make the music work on both levels — it’s African and European intricate and direct — and that’s what makes it so great that combination of things.