Live review: mar Sosa and the Afreecanos Quartet at Jazz Bakery
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- Live review: mar Sosa and the Afreecanos Quartet at Jazz Bakery
- Take Five With Ray George
- WDCB jazz advocacy find a home in suburbia
- Events in Westchester
- The Wild and Woolly Music of the Shtetl in All Its Infinite Variety
- Monterey Jazz Festival’s Next Generation Festival grooms the …
Live review: mar Sosa and the Afreecanos Quartet at Jazz Bakery
Los Angeles Times
But if music making is earnest business for the Cuban jazz musician it’s also an act of pure childlike pleasure which registers in his glistening eyes spontaneous dance shuffles and the joyful yelps he sometimes utters when the band finds its way through his pan-African sonic labyrinths. The Afreecanos Quartet (get it?) is the latest embodiment of Sosa’s enthusiastic quest for the musical mother tongue that links Caribbean beats and progressive jazz with North African percussion and New York hip-hop style spoken word with fulsome brass. Significantly at the first of his two Thursday night shows the opening of a four-night stand in Culver City Sosa hardly bothered to announce a single song title. Like the trans-global sources that inspire it Sosa’s music in live performance runs together in a more or less continuous flow that at times puts me in mind of a kind of Caribbean-Yoruban version of the second half of “Abbey Road” with Ruben González Baaba Maal restes Vilato and the Brazilian magus-madman Tom Zé standing in for John Paul George and Ringo.
Take Five With Ray George
All About Jazz
His interaction with the audience engaging them in musical trivia competition helps to keep the audience involved in his shows. Instrument(s): Vocalist. I knew I wanted to be a musician when. I heard my first Big Band record… I heard my first Big Band record. A 78 RPM on the jukebox in my parents’ cafe. Your sound and approach to music: Try for a club sound sometimes intimate sometimes brassy and bold. Create backing tracks for vocal practice; keep reworking them until they are just right! Make it swing swing swing!Your teaching approach: I do not teach music. Your dream band: To be able to sing and to work with a live Big Band!Road story: Your best or worst experience: Have never been on the road.
WDCB jazz advocacy find a home in suburbia
Chicago Tribune
Even so the shifts between jazz and so many other musical genres blur the station’s profile. “Yes there are separate audiences for the station” says WDCB program director Mary Pat LaRue. “But there are people who like folk music and know this station is one of the few places they can go to. “What I like to think is that people who love jazz may also love blues and their interests don’t necessarily end there. “Adds station manager Scott Wager “We want to be an alternative for listeners. ” That is an alternative to the commercial sounds that otherwise overwhelm the radio dial.
Events in Westchester
New York Times
Herb Alpert and Lani Hall jazz. Tarrytown Music Hall 13 Main Street.
The Wild and Woolly Music of the Shtetl in All Its Infinite Variety
New York Times
Krakauer is a breathtakingly flamboyant clarinetist racing through every octave of his instrument and turning trills into laughs or cries of anguish. He’s musically erudite hinting at Greek music in one tune paying tribute to the New rleans jazz of.
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Monterey Jazz Festival’s Next Generation Festival grooms the …
Monterey County Herald
ne must acknowledge that tourists come from all over the world to visit this area so blessed with natural beauty and an environment that offers inspiration for the personal expression found in art and culture of all kinds. The fact we have a world-class jazz festival the longest running event of its kind approaching 52 years in operation also makes this area unique. The Monterey Jazz Festival’s singular style and its dedication to the perpetuation of jazz music with its jazz-education emphasis offers residents and visitors alike an experience not found many other places in the world. “What I believe is the people in the community of Monterey stress the importance of culture not just tradition but culture in their lives more than what they see on television or MTV” said Sherman Irby jazz alto saxophonist and member of the Lincoln Center Jazz rchestra. Trumpeter Advertisement yld_mgr. place_ad_here(“adPosBox”); Sean Jones is the second and he and Irby will be performing and presenting a clinic Friday and Saturday respectively.