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Professor Louie and The Crowmatix: Wings On Fire
by Glenn Astarita
Professor Louie (Aaron Louis Hurwitz) and the Crowmatix hail from the artist colony, Woodstock, NY and have backed guitarist Rick Danko (The Band) amid other projects, along with their notoriety as supreme audience pleasers during live performances. Yet part of the magic lies within the group's harmonically attractive song-forms, replete with memorable themes and the Professor's resonating vibrato-inflected vocal delivery. The ensemble plays several of The Band's comps during live shows and from an organic, honky-tonk standpoint, there ...
Continue ReadingProfessor "Louie" and The Crowmatrix: Flyin' High
by Dan McClenaghan
Professor “Louie", aka Aaron Hurwitz, played a major role--as co-producer, thrice--in the revival of The Band's recording career. The Band: the Hawks behind Rockabilly Ronnie Hawkins in the late fifties ("Who Do You Love); Dylan's sizzling, frenetic mid-sixties touring unit; “The Weight", “Up on Cripple Creek", “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", “Stage Fright". That Band.That quintessentially American group (four-fifths Canadian)disolved after “The Last Waltz" (memorialized in the Marty Scorcese film), but got back together again--without former ...
Continue ReadingMwalim Daphunkee Professor: A Legacy Of Black Arts, Innovation, And Community-building
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Mwalim DaPhunkee Professor
The Rebirth of Oversoul Theatre Collective and New Opportunities on Cape Cod and New Bedford Mwalim DaPhunkee Professor (born, Morgan James Peters), a multi-talented musician, playwright, educator, and cultural advocate, has dedicated his career to elevating the arts within historically underrepresented communities. As a founding member and Artistic Director of the Oversoul Theatre Collective, Inc. (OTC), Mwalim’s work over the last 30 years has been pivotal in creating spaces for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) artists to thrive, ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Louie Bellson
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Louie Bellson's birthday today!
One of the world’s greatest drummers, Louie Bellson has been an exciting crowd pleaser for over 60 years. A well-respected educator and one of the nicest people in the music business, the still-active Louie Bellson is a class act. Born Luigi Paolino Balassoni, Bellson won a nationwide Gene Krupa drum contest in 1940 and was heard by Tommy Dorsey, who was quite impressed. The drummer started at the top in 1941, ...
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Eastman School of Music Appoints Christine Jensen as Assistant Professor of Jazz and Contemporary Media
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Michael Ricci
The Eastman School of Music has recently announced Christine Jensen as Assistant Professor of Jazz and Contemporary Media. Saxophonist and composer Christine Jensen has been described as “an original voice on the international jazz scene… [and] one of Canada’s most compelling composers,” by Mark Miller of the Globe and Mail. Christine will make the move from Montreal to Rochester, joining nine other new full-time faculty at Eastman. “I am excited to be working, teaching, and learning with colleagues and students ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Louie Bellson
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Louie Bellson's birthday today!
One of the world’s greatest drummers, Louie Bellson has been an exciting crowd pleaser for over 60 years. A well-respected educator and one of the nicest people in the music business, the still-active Louie Bellson is a class act. Born Luigi Paolino Balassoni, Bellson won a nationwide Gene Krupa drum contest in 1940 and was heard by Tommy Dorsey, who was quite impressed. The drummer started at the top in 1941, ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Louie Bellson
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Louie Bellson's birthday today!
One of the world’s greatest drummers, Louie Bellson has been an exciting crowd pleaser for over 60 years. A well-respected educator and one of the nicest people in the music business, the still-active Louie Bellson is a class act. Born Luigi Paolino Balassoni, Bellson won a nationwide Gene Krupa drum contest in 1940 and was heard by Tommy Dorsey, who was quite impressed. The drummer started at the top in 1941, ...
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Assistant Professor Position Opening In The Music Department At UC Irvine
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Kojiro Umezaki
POSITION IN MUSIC: COMPOSER-IMPROVISER Position: Assistant Professor (tenure track) Start Date: July 1, 2021 We seek an established composer-improviser who will diversify the creative practices explored in the department's PhD program in Integrated Composition, Improvisation, and Technology (ICIT), and who will deepen the department's engagement with African American musics and whose presence (research, creative activity) will foster greater awareness of social justice and/or gender equity issues. This person will teach graduate courses for the ICIT program and supervise ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Louie Bellson
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Louie Bellson's birthday today!
One of the world’s greatest drummers, Louie Bellson has been an exciting crowd pleaser for over 60 years. A well-respected educator and one of the nicest people in the music business, the still-active Louie Bellson is a class act. Born Luigi Paolino Balassoni, Bellson won a nationwide Gene Krupa drum contest in 1940 and was heard by Tommy Dorsey, who was quite impressed. The drummer started at the top in 1941, ...
read more
Jazz Musician of the Day: Louie Bellson
Source:
Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Louie Bellson's birthday today!
One of the world’s greatest drummers, Louie Bellson has been an exciting crowd pleaser for over 60 years. A well-respected educator and one of the nicest people in the music business, the still-active Louie Bellson is a class act. Born Luigi Paolino Balassoni, Bellson won a nationwide Gene Krupa drum contest in 1940 and was heard by Tommy Dorsey, who was quite impressed. The drummer started at the top in 1941... ...
read more
Jazz Musician of the Day: Louie Bellson
Source:
Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Louie Bellson's birthday today!
One of the world’s greatest drummers, Louie Bellson has been an exciting crowd pleaser for over 60 years. A well-respected educator and one of the nicest people in the music business, the still-active Louie Bellson is a class act. Born Luigi Paolino Balassoni, Bellson won a nationwide Gene Krupa drum contest in 1940 and was heard by Tommy Dorsey, who was quite impressed. The drummer started at the top in 1941... ...
read more
Jazz Musician of the Day: Louie Bellson
Source:
Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Louie Bellson's birthday today!
One of the world’s greatest drummers, Louie Bellson has been an exciting crowd pleaser for over 60 years. A well-respected educator and one of the nicest people in the music business, the still-active Louie Bellson is a class act. Born Luigi Paolino Balassoni, Bellson won a nationwide Gene Krupa drum contest in 1940 and was heard by Tommy Dorsey, who was quite impressed. The drummer started at the top in 1941... ...
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