Three Wishes Book Review - Newsblaze.com
Pub. Date - Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:45:00 GMT
... evidence a sensitive vulnerability, like John Coltrane, who asked for "immunity from sickness" and for "inexhaustible freshness in my music ... Online, the African-American Film Critics Association, and the NAACP Image Awards Nominating ... Art Matters: This city is ripe for Jazz Project - Beverly Citizen
Pub. Date - Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:54:00 GMT
Thinking that jazz would no longer be able to attract much of a crowd to Beverly, or anywhere else for that matter, on a Sunday afternoon at one o’clock no less, I decided to head over to the Chianti Tuscan Restaurant at around two just to see what ... Too many Miles? - Vancouver Sun
Pub. Date - Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:25:00 GMT
It's been 18 years since he passed away, but Miles Davis is still the biggest jazz artist on the planet. If anything, the mercurial trumpeter casts a greater shadow now than he did when he was alive. Tributes to his legacy are everywhere, from a 24 ... Australian Composer Meale Dies - The Gaea Times
Pub. Date - Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:13:00 GMT
Australia’s leading classical composer RICHARD MEALE has passed away at his home in Sydney, aged 77. Meale, who helped shape the country’s classical music community through his operas and broadcast work, passed away on Monday (23Nov09). The cause ... Interview with Seth Rogovoy, author of "Bob Dylan: Prophet, Mystic ... - Examiner
Pub. Date - Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:47:00 GMT
It’s funny, I’m pretty sure when I first got into rock music, when I was about 12 or so, and I first heard Bob Dylan -- my mother had a copy of Bringing It All Back Home , I don’t think I liked him! I think the sound was a little too harsh and ... Bill T. Jones Ignites Stage With Afrobeat ‘Fela!”: John Simon - Bloomberg
Pub. Date - Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:27:00 GMT
The show is partly storytelling (book by Jones and Jim Lewis) which can, despite some liberties taken, pass for history-telling. Fela was also the father of Afrobeat, which melded influences from Nigerian Yoruba to Coltrane, Afro-Cuban mambo to ... Rakim: The MC Reveals His 'Seventh Seal' - WBUR
Pub. Date - Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:00:00 GMT
If the bards of 20th century hip-hop are ever immortalized in an anthology, there's a good chance that Rakim will sit atop that list. He was a teenager when he started working with DJ Eric B in the 1980s. As Eric B & Rakim, he was a part of arguably ... Teen jazz group to perform at library - Inside Bay Area
Pub. Date - Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:33:00 GMT
This event is really for all those who like music," said Ruth Belikove, an organizer of the event, which benefits the Alameda Free Library Foundation and Friends of Alameda Free Library. "If you like Miles Davis and John Coltrane, you will like this ... Rock gods: Photographer exhibits iconic images - News-Herald
Pub. Date - Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:57:00 GMT
Sinclair’s work encompasses some of the biggest names in rock, jazz, blues and punk music from a time when the Detroit music scene was exploding. The unmistakable strains of Jimi Hendrix’s guitar emanated from an unlikely place on a dark ... For Village Gate’s Art D’Lugoff, at heaven’s gate - Gay City News
Pub. Date - Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:58:00 GMT
Within three years of D’Lugoff’s invasion of the fledgling Village Voice, the newspaper was holding its annual Obie Awards ceremonies in the Village Gate that Art (and silent partner Burt) had launched in a huge basement — once a laundry room ... | 
