Jazz saxophonist Rentie looks up to get down
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- Jazz saxophonist Rentie looks up to get down
- Wife of music critic Ralph J. Gleason dies
- Drapeau: Public affairs efforts can borrow from nimble jazz music
- ARTS CALENDAR: May 17-May 23
Jazz saxophonist Rentie looks up to get down
Long Beach Press-Telegram
“There are a lot of people in the audience who have followed my career and friends from high school in Compton and neighboring schools” Rentie said. “We came through the traditional funk like the Blue Note and CTI records stuff that we were listening to on the radio back in the 1970s and 1980s. That was our kind of popular jazz music. ” Some of the audience also order drinks that are unusual for a jazz club such as coffee and sodas. “A lot of my audience has that church background” said Rentie “but at the same time they like to go out and have a good time and listen to good music. ” Amen! Al Rudis 562-499-1255;. rudis@presstelegram.
Wife of music critic Ralph J. Gleason dies
San Francisco Chronicle
She was instrumental in everything having to do with my father. Plus she raised a family. Born in 1918 in Pittsburgh but raised in upstate New York Jean Rayburn was already a jazz fan when she was introduced to Columbia University dropout Gleason. They courted at the jazz nightspots of New York’s 52nd Street and married in 1940. She worked alongside her husband publishing Jazz Information one of the first magazines devoted to jazz. She also helped him produce concerts featuring New rleans jazz musician Bunk Johnson at Stuyvesant Casino in New York in 1945. They moved to San Francisco the following year to present appearances by the rediscovered New rleans tailgate trombonist Kid ry.
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Drapeau: Public affairs efforts can borrow from nimble jazz music
FCW.com
9 Email This Article –>. I recently participated in the Army?s Worldwide Public Affairs Symposium in which the Army?s chief of staff Gen. George Casey spoke to the hundreds of assembled public affairs staff about his take on their mission. Casey described diplomacy and ultimately communications as being somewhat like jazz ? an improvisation on a theme. My understanding is that he borrowed the notion from Ambassador Richard Holbrooke when they worked together in Bosnia in the mid-1990s.
ARTS CALENDAR: May 17-May 23
Daily News Tribune
Framingham launches a new series titled "Friday Night Music in the Garden" from 5-7 p. Bring a picnic enjoy a garden stroll and listen to "Jazz with John and Friends" featuring recorded jazz music by performers with the name of John and others. The event is free with garden admission of $8-$4. Visit newenglandwild. WESTBRUGH PLAYERS stages "Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street" at Gibbons Middle School in Westborough May 22 23 29 and 30 at 7:30 p.