JazzBoston’s Jazz Week ’09 Set for Apr. 25-May 3 Will Feature …
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- JazzBoston’s Jazz Week ’09 Set for Apr. 25-May 3 Will Feature …
- Ragtime Jazz Festival kicks off today on MSU campus
- Gypsy Jazz Workshop with Stephane Wrembel
- New rleans: Food folks and all that jazz
- Music festival teeters on the edge
JazzBoston’s Jazz Week ’09 Set for Apr. 25-May 3 Will Feature …
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Ragtime Jazz Festival kicks off today on MSU campus
Starkville Daily News
And this morning world renown music historian David A. Jensen is leading a special tour to highlight the role many of the machines and their companies played in the history of Ragtime and Jazz music. The tour kicks off this year’s Charles Templeton Ragtime Jazz Festival. David Jasen is a leading authority on and a well-known collector of books recordings piano rolls periodicals catalogues and sheet music dealing in all areas of American popular music. His extraordinary private collection has been prized alongside those of the Library of Congress the New York Public Library and the City University of New York. Jasen is serving as the Festival emcee for the third consecutive year.
Gypsy Jazz Workshop with Stephane Wrembel
Philadelphia Inquirer
He played with violinist Stephane Grapelli and the Duke Ellington rchestra and influenced nearly every guitarist playing today on both sides of the Atlantic. ne of the most unique aspects of Django’s playing is that it was entirely by ear using visualisation of the fretboard. He never learned music theory and it never interfered with his position as patriarch of all modern guitarists. Like Django many of the greatest recent masters including Wes Montgomery George Benson Joe Pass and Jimi Hendrix were self taught too and blissfully ignorant of the rules of theory!This is a different way of approaching the guitar where theory is not necessary but instead training your ears and your eyes to feel the music. This is the knowledge of the gypsies who passed it on from father to son since the time of Django. Stephane is the only gypsy guitarist in North America to have spent extensive amounts of time with the Gypsies in Europe including the masters themselves where he acquired the soul of this knowledge. Most of what he knows was shown by Django to the Ferret family who showed it to Serge Krief who showed it to Stephane.
New rleans: Food folks and all that jazz
Atlanta Journal Constitution
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Music festival teeters on the edge
Times-Standard
” Humboldt County 4th District Supervisor Bonnie Neely who along with former Assemblywoman Patty Berg was one of the first organizers of the event has watched it grow from “absolutely nothing but an idea” into an event that brings millions of dollars into the local economy and supports senior and youth programs. Neely said it’s understandable that the festival is struggling but said it has been able to overcome tough times in the past. ”The community loves the jazz festival the community loves music and usually it jumps right back” she said. But Maxon is not so sure. He said festival organizers have already cut back operational costs for this year but the operation is still running in the red. If a boost in ticket sales doesn’t help pick up the slack this weekend Maxon said he and his board of directors will be forced to look at some less-than-favorable options. Those Maxon said could range from canceling Blues by the Bay entirely and putting on a series of smaller fundraising concerts in preparation for next year’s jazz festival to putting on a scaled back version of Blues by the Bay this year and hoping the concert draws a big turnout.