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Dennis Rushton: Jamaica's Greatly Entertaining Pianist
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JamaicaMusic Offbeat
Dennis Rushton relationship with the piano began at age 9. He was classically trained, but in later years studied other music styles with an emphasis on jazz. The founder/director of DenRush Productions, consisting of a music school and recording studio, is the executive producer of the concert series 'Creative Praise." Rushton albums are Sail On (2002), The Star, a Christmas special, also in 2002, and Quiet Time released in September 2003. Active in the Jamaica Cultural Development Corporation (JCDC) national ...
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Rickie Lee Jones on Bix, Billie and the art of song
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Michael Ricci
Rickie Lee Jones, the acclaimed singer and songwriter, is on a short tour that includes a Saturday stop at the Temple Performing Arts Center, formerly the Baptist Temple.
Jones' smashing debut album of 1979, Rickie Lee Jones, brought a jazz-infused, bohemian-poet ethos to both pop music and fashion, and her idiosyncratic approach to composition and singing has influenced artists from Tori Amos to Norah Jones.
Her most recent album, last year's Balm in Gilead, reflected on family, friends, maturity, and ...
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Saxophonist/Writer/Historian Loren Schoenberg Interviewed at All About Jazz
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John Kelman
Saxophonist, band-leader and writer Loren Schoenberg, now Executive Director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, spent an interesting childhood and teenager-hood growing up in New Jersey in the 1970s, meeting and befriending both Teddy Wilson and Hank Jones, and ultimately becoming employed by Wilson's famous '30s boss, Benny Goodman. Schoenberg was first an assistant to Goodman and then Goodman's manager, and, as a tenor saxophonist, formed the big band that Goodman was eventually to lead himself for a year ...
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Pianist/Composer Nik Bartsch Interviewed at All About Jazz
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All About Jazz
Pianist and composer Nik Bärtsch would be the first to recognize that he is no revolutionary, as his aesthetic vision draws inspiration from multiple sources, ranging from 20th century classical music to funk, and from Japanese ritual music to minimalism. The distillation of all these sounds results in a music that invites meditation and at the same time urges you to move to the groove—something of a feat, it has to be said. Whether or not Bärtsch's group, Ronin, has ...
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The Mysterious Death of a Tenor Man - Wardell Gray and the Moulin Rouge
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Groove Notes
On May 25, 1955, the body of a 34 year-old black man was found in the desert outside of Las Vegas. The man's neck had been broken, and the body had apprently been dumped from a car. Even though this scenario may sound like it would warrant an autopsy, none was performed. The local coroner and law enforcement officials ruled that the man had died of a drug overdose and the case was closed. It has never been explained how ...
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Maurice Gordon: A Jamaican Guitarist of Great Versatility
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JamaicaMusic Offbeat
Guitarist Maurice Gordon describes his music as contemporary jazz delicately flavored with hints of reggae, R&B, funk, rock and fusion. He is an artist of great versatility one who is well admired in jazz circles for his fluid technique, dexterity and highly personal style which has earned him wide-ranging appeal from Canada to the Caribbean, from South Africa to South America. Quietly respected as a credible musician and composer, Maurice Gordon has recognized and draws upon the great wealth and ...
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Interview: Ingar Zach
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Ars Nova Workshop
French-Norwegian quartet Dans les arbres create robust, improvised labyrinths of acoustic sound that emphasize texture, space, and dream-like contemplation. With titles such as “La Somnolence,” “L’Indifférence,” and “Le Détachement,” the group’s ECM debut—released in Europe in 2009 and this month in the US – explores the liminal spaces between sleep and consciousness, alienation and engagement, subject and object, stillness and movement. ANW caught up with percussionist Ingar Zach—who along with multi-instrumentalist Ivar Grydeland runs the SOFA imprint—to ask a few ...
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4 Latin Jazz Artists That I'm Thankful for - 2010!
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The Latin Jazz Corner by Chip Boaz
It's become an annual tradition here at LJC to spend Thanksgiving Day looking back at several Latin Jazz artists that have had a profound effect on me during the past year. I generally spend the day with family and friends, cherishing the the close relationships that make my life full. My life wouldn't be complete without Latin Jazz though, the sights and sounds of the music have influenced me more than I could ever describe. More than anything, it's the ...
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