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- What’s old _ and new _ at Newport folk festival
- From one jazz master to another: Dan Block pays tribute to Benny …
- Music Review Cool Blast of the ’70s With LPs Spinning
- George Russell dies at 86; composer influenced the evolution of jazz
- The International Piano Institute Workshop
- Jazz Listings
Jazz music
Akron Beacon Journal
Music in the Meadow presents Sammy De Leon Latin Jazz rchestra — 6:30 p. Wednesday Howe Meadow 4040 Riverview Road Cuyahoga Falls.
What’s old _ and new _ at Newport folk festival
The Associated Press
“I think it showed that songs can be an important thing in democracy” says Seeger who will close out both nights of this year’s festival with a singalong. “If we call this a democratic country how do you make it a democratic country? And songs are among the ways it’s made. “The folk festival was started in Newport by music impresario George Wein as an offshoot to his jazz festival which began in 1954 and celebrates its 55th anniversary in August. “There was a utopian feeling there” says Wein 83 who continues to operate both festivals. “All the artists got $50 no matter how big or how small they were. And the money was used to just go out and find folk performers and bring them up the next year. “Baez had been making the coffeehouse and folk club circuit in the late 1950s when she caught the attention of folk singer Bob Gibson who invited her to appear alongside him at the first Newport festival.
From one jazz master to another: Dan Block pays tribute to Benny …
The Star-Ledger – NJ.com
com%2Fentertainment%2Fmusic%2Findex. ssf%2F2009%2F07%2Ffrom_one_jazz_master_to_anothe. There’s a thread that runs through all of it” says Juilliard-trained clarinetist and saxophonist Dan Block. If you want solid authentic jazz from early New rleans style to modern to free-form clarinetist and.
Music Review Cool Blast of the ’70s With LPs Spinning
New York Times
” (The album “Gaucho” was to follow on Wednesday but has been rescheduled to Aug. 12; “The Royal Scam” and a repeat of “Aja” are to come in the next two weeks as well as a few nights of fan-request shows. ) In 1977 “Aja” created a new standard for the relationship between jazz and rock one that was basically irreproducible by Steely Dan or anyone else. It was also a perfect counterbalance to punk: while Steely Dan spent five months on the mixing alone of “Aja” checking circuitry on its luxury liner of an album before its launch the.
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George Russell dies at 86; composer influenced the evolution of jazz
Los Angeles Times
Elements of the concept which outlines methods by which improvisers can free themselves from the “tyranny of chords” as Russell described it were a factor in the modal works present in Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue” the bestselling album in jazz history. Russell’s premise that jazz improvisation could reach beyond well-established harmonic foundations further validated the methods chosen by jazz artists such as John Coltrane Eric Dolphy rnette Coleman Herbie Hancock Don Ellis Wayne Shorter and others. His own compositions — beginning with the startlingly inventive music on his mid-1950s breakthrough recording “The Jazz Workshop” continuing with his small groups of the ’60s occasional large ensembles of the ’80s and the Living Time rchestra that he led on and off until his death — were constantly evolving displays of the expansive possibilities of his creative overview. “My work” he told The Times after the MacArthur grant was awarded in 1989 “tries to achieve a kind of world view or synthesis of many kinds of musics one that doesn’t ignore the sounds of our time. My hope is that it’s a complete music — physical emotional as well as thought-provoking. George Allen Russell was born June 23 1923 in Cincinnati the adopted son of Joseph a chef on the B& Railroad and Bessie a nurse. Drawn to music at an early age he sang a number with Fats Waller at age 7 and played drums in a Boy Scout drum and bugle corps.
The International Piano Institute Workshop
Ashland Daily Tidings
7 in the Music Recital Hall on the SU campus. This is the first year to include both organ and jazz music within the framework of the Institute. Tutunov the Institute’s director said in a press release that he hopes this expansion “will help to embrace the musical needs and curiosities of more local pianists and teachers whether their focus is jazz or classical pedagogy or just avid appreciation. ” Tutunov graduated magna cum laude from the Central Music School of the Moscow Conservatory and was awarded his doctoral diploma with honors in concert performance from the Belarusian State Conservatory. Tutunov is widely recognized as one of the virtuosos of the former Soviet Union.
Jazz Listings
New York Times
com; cover $10 with a one-drink minimum. (Chinen)20090730★ MSTLY THER PEPLE D THE KILLING (Sunday) Led by the bassist Moppa Elliott this prankishly named free-bop quartet has a fairly serious recent record called “This Is ur Moosic” (Hot Cup) featuring impressive contributions from the trumpeter Peter Evans and the alto saxophonist Jon Irabagon. The group appears here as part of the Freestyle Music Series; its 8:30 p. set arrives sandwiched between an equally boisterous free-jazz collective (at 7) and a band called Attention Screen (at 10). Local 269 269 East Houston Street at Suffolk Street Lower East Side (212) 228-9874.