Home » Jazz Musicians » The Clash
The Clash
The Clash: Hits Back
by Phil Barnes
Nearly eleven years have passed since Joe Strummer's untimely death on 22 December 2002, and yet the music he, Mick Jones, Paul Simenon and Topper Headon made is still held in great affection by fans across the globe. Part of the reason for this longevity is the sheer quality and breadth of inspiration of the music that the Clash packed into a frenetic four year period from the release of their UK debut in April 1977 to the ...
Continue ReadingThe Clash: Hits Back
by Doug Collette
Companion piece in miniature to the exhaustive Sound System (Epic, 2013), The Clash's Hits Back would be merely another collection were it not for the novel twist applied to its anthologizing. The thirty-two remastered tracks on two cd's (or three vinyl lp's) are sequenced in the running order of a 1982 Clash concert, a replication of which, in the late Joe Strummer's handwriting, is reproduced inside the booklet within the triple- fold digi-pak. As much as that concept ...
Continue ReadingJambalaya Brass Band To Perform At the "Brooklyn Brass Clash" At Brooklyn Bowl
Source:
Carol Green, Redwood Entertainment
New York, NY: Jambalaya Brass Band will be performing in support of their hit CD release It’s a Jungle Out There in the second round, “Midway to Mardi Gras,”of Brooklyn Bowl’s “Brooklyn Brass Clash” on Wednesday, August 15, 2012 at 9:30 PM. At Brooklyn Bowl, along with tunes from their successful CD It’s a Jungle Out There, Jambalaya Brass Band will be performing other original and traditional favorites. The band’s foundation will be provided by Dorian Parreot on Tuba, Washington ...
read more
Nu Civilisation Orchestra - Firebird: A Stravinsky-Parker Sound Clash
Source:
Adam Sieff
Saturday 3 March: Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London Saturday 28 April: Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton Firebird is an engaging programme of new work exploring musical paths that converge at the crossroads of jazz and classical music. It's an exciting place where two musical revolutionaries—Igor Stravinsky and Charlie Parker—meet and cross swords utilising their distinctive armouries of rhythmic ingenuity and harmonic invention. Firebird features a remodelled version of Stravinsky's Ebony Concerto (originally commissioned by jazz clarinetist, Woody Herman in 1946); ...
read more
Clash of Jazz Impresarios in New York and Newport
Source:
Michael Ricci
Will New York have a major jazz festival this summer?
It depends on whom you ask. Festival Network, which has presented the JVC Jazz Festival for the past two years, says it will. But concert promoters, booking agents and others in the jazz world say that because of the economy and a rift between Festival Network and the impresario George Wein, it is possible that New York will lack a big festival for the first time in 37 years.
In ...
read more
Deadly Clash in Hollywood Between Swedish Rapper and Jazz Performer
Source:
Michael Ricci
After midnight Sunday, John Osnes, a pianist who performed jazz standards and Beatles songs at piano bars in Hollywood, put an empty glass down on the counter of one of his favorite haunts, The Spotlight, and waved goodbye to an employee. “He said, 'Benji, I will see you tomorrow for sure,' “ bartender Benjamin Avery recalled. An hour later, Osnes, 55, lay dying in a crosswalk a few blocks away, the victim, police say, of a violent road rage attack ...
read more
Clash of the College Bands Tournament - The Finals!
Source:
Groove Notes
It's finally here, the championship round of our Clash of the College Bands Tournament. We started out with 12 big bands from colleges and universities that you nominated, and now it is down to the final remaining two.
In week 10, DePaul beat Whitworth convincingly in the second of two semifinal rounds, and now heads to the finals to match up against the mighty University of North Texas One O Clock Lab Band. The winner will be declared the first ...
read more
Clash of the College Bands Tourney - Week 10
Source:
Groove Notes
Congratulations to the week 9 winner, the University of North Texas One O Clock Lab Band, who beat the University of University of Northern Iowa Jazz Band I with 60% of the vote.
UNT now moves on to the finals, and we head into the second matchup of the semifinals. Our second semifinal match up starts now with the DePaul University Jazz Ensemble I facing the Whitworth University Jazz Ensemble I.
To see the bracket, click here.
Each week, two ...
read more
Music
Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson
