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Luca Luciano: The New Voice of the Clarinet
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Chang Management
Clarinetist/composer Luca Luciano is a champion of contemporary music and his compositions, part of his academic research, have been premiered at the Bristol Cathedral and the prestigious St Martin in the Fields in London, England. They've also been presented at workshops and master classes in the U.K. and overseas. Luciano came to the U.K. completely alone and with no logistical support whatsoever, starting from the very bottom (first as a part-time barman to make a living)--despite a promising start in ...
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Interview with Freddy Cole Now Online at Jazz St. Louis Website
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Jazz St. Louis has put online a new audio interview with singer/pianist Freddy Cole, who's coming to St. Louis to perform Wednesday, February 17 through Saturday, February 20 at Jazz at the Bistro.You can listen to a stream of the interview here. However, I couldn't find a way to download the the interview as an MP3 file, as was possible with previous installments in the series. (Can it still be called a “podcast" when there's no way to ...
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Interview with Freddy Cole Now Online at Jazz St. Louis Website
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Jazz St. Louis has put online a new audio interview with singer/pianist Freddy Cole, who's coming to St. Louis to perform Wednesday, February 17 through Saturday, February 20 at Jazz at the Bistro.You can listen to an stream of the interview here. However, I couldn't find a way to download the the interview as an MP3 file, as was possible with previous installments in the series. (Can it still be called a “podcast" when there's no way to ...
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Bev Thorne: Brubeck Home Designer
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Beverley D. Thorne is among the last surviving architects from the Case Study Houses project. Between 1945 and 1966, Arts & Architecture magazine hired cutting-edge architects of the day to design inexpensive, efficient homes. These experimental residences were numbered, and steel and glass were used predominantly in the spare designs. The point was to show that amazing structures could be built for ordinary people using low-cost pre-fabricated materials. Bev designed Harrison House, Case Study No. 26, in San Francisco in ...
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Bassist Ron McClure Interviewed at AAJ
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All About Jazz
Bassist Ron McClure has a practical philosophy about what he does. “Making music begins with doing your job," he says. “It's nice if you can be a hot soloist, but do your job first and do it well." These are words that the bassist has lived by for over 40 years in the jazz music business. McClure has done everything from playing with saxophonists such as Charles Lloyd to being part of pop recordings by the Pointer Sisters and Blood, ...
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Improvising Duo Skinny Vinny Interviewed at AAJ
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All About Jazz
Andrew Eisenberg is the percussionist for the Boston, Mass. duo Skinny Vinny--and a conceptual mastermind. Equally adept with hammer, saw, trash can, pots and pans, or what have you, he can make you think, or muse, by knocking together a table, or banging a stick against a window. An early piece, a big white room with a steel door, was titled “The Answer to Everything." The answer was enclosed within the room. But the door was locked...
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