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Trailblazers Selling a Romantic Kind of Love
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Michael Ricci
Has any pop song evoked a generation's romantic self-infatuation more hauntingly than Joni Mitchell's “Woodstock"?
Sheila Weller, in her book Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon -- and the Journey of a Generation (Atria Books), which weaves the biographies of these singer-songwriters into a post-feminist history, writes: “It was the first line of the chorus -- 'We are stardust, we are golden' “ -- that “conveyed the impression of hundreds of thousands of people speaking as one." ...
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A Street Musician's Symphonic Movement
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All About Jazz
Down and out at Disney Hall and coming soon to a theater near you
THE SOLOIST: A LOST DREAM, AN UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIP, AND THE REDEMPTIVE POWER OF MUSIC
Back in September 1964, Jascha Heifetz, the formidable fiddler, was attempting an ill-advised comeback recital at Carnegie Hall. The crowd out front was enormous, and it naturally included many people with long faces hoping for a turned-back ticket to this sold-out event. I was covering it as a music critic for the ...
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Photonality Jazz Series Publishes New Book, Wayne Krantz Trio "In=finity+1", with Wayne Krantz, Guitar, Ari Hoenig, Drums and Paul Socolow, Bass from the February 8, 2008 Performance at Chris Jazz Cafe , Philadelphia
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All About Jazz
"In=finity + 1" with the Wayne Krantz Trio is a visual music composition using the medium of Photonality. Infinity is a contradiction that is an infinite process, unrolling endlessly in time and in space. The music of Wayne Krantz takes one on an endless journey within sound. The trio creates musical sound-scapes that go beyond space and time ...
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Book: Bob Blumenthal
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All About Jazz
Bob Blumenthal, Jazz: An Introduction To The History And Legends Behind America's Music (Collins). The critic and historian's attractive little book is a fine primer that also works as a refresher course for the experienced listener. Ushering the reader through the history and styles of the music, Blumenthal employs photographs, sidebar facts, anecdotes and enough informed opinion to provide perspective. The book includes a short glossary and a list of recommended recordings. It is a helpful guide and a good ...
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Photonality Jazz Series Publishes New Book "Faces" with Sunny Kim from Prana Trio 2008 Performance at Chris' Jazz Cafe, Philadelphia Pa.
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All About Jazz
“Faces" is a visual music composition using the medium of Photonality. This work is from the January 31, 2008 performance of Prana Trio with Sunny Kim, Brian Adler and Carmen Staaf, at Chris' Jazz Cafe, Philadelphia Pa. Photonality is a fusion of the vocal music of Sunny Kim integrated with the properties of photography. Sunny's vocals range from an almost silent hum to a guttural echo from the depths within. The journey through the winding, electronically manipulated vocal music range ...
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Photonality Jazz Series Publishes "Woven Threads " with Prana Trio
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All About Jazz
Photonality Jazz Series Publishes the "Wayne Krantz Ex-Periment"
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All About Jazz
T.E. Priemon The Wayne Krantz Ex-Periment Printed: 110 pages 8.5" x 8.5", perfect binding full-color interior ink
Description The dictionary list experiment as an act or operation for the purpose of discovering something unknown. This is what I have found in Wayne Krantz music. It is that un- known discovery which makes his music not fit into a neat box for labeling. The Wayne Krantz Ex-Periment uses the medium of ...
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