Phila. students on musical tour to White House
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- Phila. students on musical tour to White House
- An Intense Homage To Coltrane
- The classically trained musician visits Largo at the Coronet tonight.
Phila. students on musical tour to White House
Philadelphia Inquirer
"I’m looking forward to experiencing Washington and how the First Family is living and how they are starting to change America and starting to care about arts in schools" Mitchell said before boarding the bus with the other students at Benjamin Franklin High School on North Broad Street. Andrew Lawson 17 a senior at Girard Academy Music Program said he plans to use the trip to sharpen his skills. "I want to be a vocalist and I am somewhat into poetry and I also write jazz music" said Andrew who plays enor and soprano saxaphones flute bass clarinet and clarinet. "So what I what I want to gain from this experience is applying lyrics to the arrangements and standards that I create. When you associate words to music you get more expression out of it. "The students are among 120 from around the country participating in the White House music education and performance series. Dennis Creedon director of arts education for the Philadelphia schools said the program is a new initiative by the bama administration to use musicians who come to the White House in an educational setting.
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An Intense Homage To Coltrane
Hartford Courant
When it worked — as on “Mercy Mercy Mercy” the quartet’s sweaty encore — the pop marriage proved exciting. More often jazz seemed reduced to a footnote as on a sing-a-long version of “Minute by Minute” the old Doobie Brothers hit. It was hard to believe that one of jazz music’s most celebrated works “A Love Supreme” was ringing out from the same stage an hour earlier. Copyright © 2009.
The classically trained musician visits Largo at the Coronet tonight.
Los Angeles Times
She performs on Tuesday night at Largo at the Coronet. Recorded in Los Angeles and co-produced by Courtin her longtime boyfriend and bandmate Ryan Scott and jazz bassist Greg Cohen “Christina Courtin” features an almost preposterously accomplished supporting cast: eclectic multi-instrumentalist Jon Brion ubiquitous session drummer Jim Keltner and Tom Petty keyboardist Benmont Tench among others. The album is highly polished but still retains a sense of individuality largely because of Courtin’s unpredictable singing which can veer from country to jazz phrasing in the course of a single line and her penchant for changing styles with each track. “I’m impulsive” she said. “I’m not this brooding what color am I going to paint the kitchen freaking out for four days before I do it type. I’m just going to go to the store and get the paint and do it.