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Gary Meyers Releases His Original Flamenco Album 'Desperado’s Shade'
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Cyber PR
Gary Meyers, the rising flamenco guitarist and performer just released his album Desperado’s Shade, an original collection of flamenco based songs with world music and Spanish rumba stylings weaved into the music. As a self taught guitarist, Gary started playing classic rock riffs at the age of 14. When he heard a rhumba in 2002, he chose to put his electric guitar down and pick up the sounds of flamenco. He studied under the Maestro Rene Heredia—the man credited with ...
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Kimberly Thompson to Drum with House Band for NBC's Late Night with Seth Meyers
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Former St. Louisan Kimberly Thompson has been chosen to fill the drum chair in the house band for NBC's Late Night With Seth Meyers. Known as The 8G Band (after the studio where the show will be taped), the group will perform on the program Monday through Friday starting on Monday, February 24, when Meyers, former head writer and cast member of Saturday Night Live, takes over NBC's late-night slot from Jimmy Fallon. Thompson is perhaps best known as the ...
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Composer/Pianist/Singer Amina Claudine Meyers Inteviewed at AAJ
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All About Jazz
Composer, pianist and singer Amina Claudine Myers is a part of the first generation of the famed Chicago collective the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Coming north from her native Blackwell, Arkansas, she was an unusual presence in the organization--not just as one of the few female members, but as a singer and songwriter willing to, at times, employ traditional song structures. Outside of the AACM, Myers has played in bands led by Gene Ammons, Dexter Gordon, ...
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Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers Nightclub Sounds Including Schubert
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Michael Ricci
Ever in search of new audiences to convert, classical music has lately beaten a path to the nightclub with increasing frequency, to varying results.
For many young, eclectic composers and performers whose work deals in amplification, electronics and pop-music borrowings, a chatty crowd and the clink of beer bottles is familiar territory. But those same ambient noises can play havoc with a more conventional performance, especially in music reliant on a delicate balance of acoustic instruments.
The violinist Anne Akiko ...
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The Julian Meyers Koncept at Mobay Uptown
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All About Jazz
LeTang Biz Presents... The Julian Meyers Koncept!
First Thursday 2006 at Mobay Uptown Thursday, January 5, 2006 at 8:30 PM- No Cover Charge www.mobayrestaurant.com
Julian Meyers- Sax, Bandleader and Composer, a fiery style, playing REAL JAZZ! The sound of Meyers' saxophone can shift gears from the spiritual to the sensual to the experimental"
Julian Meyers Koncept: JULIAN MEYERS- SAX Charles Carrington- Piano Thomas Gooding- Bass Kevin Williams- Drums ...
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