Live music and more tonight through Thursday compiled by Shaun …
The News Review:
- Live music and more tonight through Thursday compiled by Shaun …
- Jazz singer Kat Edmonson has it covered
- Bud Shank 1926-2009
- Smokers in audience prompt Spears to interrupt Vancouver concert
- Le Bistro serves up Top Shelf jazz series
Live music and more tonight through Thursday compiled by Shaun …
Philadelphia Inquirer
The time-warped sounds touch on the eras of Bob Wills the Andrews Sisters and Hot Club of France but Hicks’ dry observant and whimsical "Tangled Tales" (his new album) are all his own. Cheery chap Dean Friedman opens. Sellersville Theater Main and Temple streets Sellersville 8:30 tonight $27.
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Jazz singer Kat Edmonson has it covered
Houston Chronicle
It wasn’t a question of whether or not I would. It was something that felt pretty innate. ”Though she never took formal voice lessons or studied music Edmonson says she was “like a sponge” picking up on everything from local oldies stations and country music to alternative and classic rock before graduating from Lamar High School. I just think good music is good music” Edmonson says. (Her iPod rotates current tunes from Feist Radiohead Bon Iver and Andrew Bird. ) “I wouldn’t imagine limiting myself to one kind of food or one kind of movie or one kind of book — so I can’t understand doing that with music. ”She spent one year at the College of Charleston in South Carolina before moving to Austin in 2001 with plans for more schooling.
Bud Shank 1926-2009
All About Jazz
Shank’s quartet then had Claude Williams on piano Don Prell on bass and Chuck Flores on drums. With the exception of those caught in the war between beboppers and moldy figs that was manufactured by know-nothing critics in the 1940s no musicians have been more unfairly typecast than the young jazz players of Los Angeles in the 1950s. “Neither Claude nor Chuck nor I was playing what was know as ‘west coast jazz’ music at that time” Shank said. ‘That happened a few years before then and we were all breaking away from that. ““Meaning what?” I asked. “What were you breaking away from?”“The very delicate way that we all played in earlier years.
Smokers in audience prompt Spears to interrupt Vancouver concert
Los Angeles Times
Seven of the artists receiving a grant this year are from the Southern California area. Thomas Lawson dean of the School of Art at the California Institute of the Arts said he will use his fellowship to complete a series of life-size oil paintings that he began last summer at his Echo Park studio. Billy Childs a composer who lives in South Pasadena said his fellowship will be dedicated to completing a series of seven to nine pieces that bring together classical music and jazz. The foundation didn’t disclose the dollar amount of each fellowship. — David Ng FinallyMore awards: Two jazz ensembles from Cal State Long Beach — the Concert Jazz rchestra and vocal group Pacific Standard Time — have won first- place awards at the fifth annual Next Generation Festival hosted by the Monterey Jazz Festival. #story_paging { margin: 6px 0px 30px 0px; }#story_paging ul { list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; } #story_paging li { float: left; margin: 0 5px; font: normal 12px Arial; }.
Le Bistro serves up Top Shelf jazz series
Stockton Record
Matt Davies is optimistic and willing to be patient. Both Bucio a veteran Central Valley band leader and Davies the co-owner of Stockton’s Le Bistro restaurant are hoping live jazz music strikes a respondent chord in north Stockton. “It’s a nice club” said Bucio whose Modesto-based swing band plays Saturday night during the third weekend of the Top Shelf at Le Bistro jazz series. “For me it’s a good idea. “I do a lot of playing all over the Valley.