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Charlie Harrington Endorses DrumDial Precision Tuner
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Charlie Harrington
Award-Winning Acclaimed Artist, Charlie Harrington, is now a DrumDial Endorser. He is an in demand session player with a well-established reputation as a first call drummer. Charlie joins, among others, jazz drumming great Peter Erskine in endorsing the DrumDial Precision Drum Tuner. Since it was first introduced over a decade ago, thousands of drummers have been using the DrumDial precision drum tuner to achieve fast and accurate tuning. Now, with the development of the upgraded digital model, DrumDial has become ...
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Scalloped Fretboard Guitar Pioneer Matthew Montfort Added To Digitaldreamdoor.com List Of 100 Greatest Acoustic Guitarists
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Matthew Montfort
DigitalDreamDoor.com's 100 Greatest Acoustic Guitarists DigitalDreamDoor.com is a website featuring Greatest 100 Music, Movie, and Book lists. On August 12, 2012, scalloped fretboard guitar pioneer Matthew Montfort was added to their 100 Greatest Acoustic Guitarists list. Inclusion on the list is based on originality, innovation, technique, and influence on other acoustic guitarists. The list is intended for musicians whose primary instrument is the acoustic guitar, but not including the pioneers of jazz, classical, or flamenco, as DigitalDreamDoor.com maintains separate lists ...
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Buckwheat Zydeco to Perform in Camden, NJ
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Chris M. Slawecki
"Stanley 'Buckwheat' Dural leads one of the best bands in America. A down-home and high-powered celebration, meaty and muscular with a fine-tuned sense of dynamics...propulsive rhythms, incendiary performances." — The New York Times Grammy Award-winning American musical legend Stanley Buckwheat" Dural Jr. - along with his band, Buckwheat Zydeco - is the preeminent ambassador of Louisiana zydeco music. Buckwheat Zydeco will perform as part of the Sunset Jazz Music Series at Wiggins Waterfront Park in Camden on Tuesday, July 17, ...
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Rudresh Mahanthappa Leads His Quintet For The New York Premiere of Samdhi Suite In Zankel Hall On Saturday, April 21
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Michael Ricci
On Saturday, April 21 at 10:00 p.m. in Zankel Hall, jazz saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa leads his quintet in its first performance at Carnegie Hall as they perform the New York premiere of the Samdhi Suite in its complete form. Samdhi Suite is an electro-acoustic work that combines the complex melodic and rhythmic elements of Carnatic (or South Indian) music with jazz in ways previously unheard. For this performance, the alto saxophonistrecently named both a Guggenheim fellow and the 2011 Downbeat ...
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Brazilian Educators Teach Samba and Bossa Nova Grooves on January 21 in Rockville (MD)
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The Phillips Agency
Americans have had a love affair with Brazilian music since the 1962 release of the mega hit album, Jazz Samba featuring Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd. With their fabulous melodies, harmonies and rhythms, the captivating sounds of Brazil continue to roll in on our shores. On Saturday, January 21, an inDepth jazz Clinic and Concert in Rockville, Maryland will give music lovers a chance to dig into this compelling sound. Both musicians and jazz fans will have opportunities to hear ...
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Cuneifest 2011 in Baltimore, MD - Venue Change
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Michael Ricci
Important news for all attendees. Cuneifest 2011 in Baltimore, MDvenue change. Due to electrical issues, we have had to move the festival for JAZZ DAY only. The new location for Sunday, November 20 is: METRO GALLERY 1700 North Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21201 Everything else (start times, line-up, etc) remains the same. This venue is also larger and can handle more people, so there are tickets once again available at the door. ROCK DAY remains at ...
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Rudresh Mahanthappa - Samdhi (Act, 2011)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa has become an important force on the modern jazz scene, leading his own groups and touring with legends like drummer Jack DeJohnette. This is Mathanthappa's most experimental recording to date, combining music from the Indian sub-continent, jazz and fusion to create a potent and heady brew. Accompanying him are David Gilmore on guitar, Rich Brown on bass, Damion Reid on drums and Anand" Anantha Krishnan on percussion. There are also electronics and loops that add to ...
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Rudresh Mahanthappa - Samdhi (Act, 2011)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa has become an important force on the modern jazz scene, leading his own groups and touring with legends like drummer Jack DeJohnette. This is Mathanthappa's most experimental recording to date, combining music from the Indian sub-continent, jazz and fusion to create a potent and heady brew. Accompanying him are David Gilmore on guitar, Rich Brown on bass, Damion Reid on drums and Anand" Anantha Krishnan on percussion. There are also electronics and loops that add to ...
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Rudresh Mahanthappa - Samdhi (2011)
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Something Else!
Despite his heritage, American alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa didn't start out as a practitioner of a unique blend of American jazz and traditional Indian music, he started with the jazz style of the America he grew up in and worked his way back to the music of his forbears' native India. Doing this informed with the jazz of his life's training resulted, among other things, in one of jazz's most innovative records in recent years, Kinsmen (2008), a crafty, unusual ...
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