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Paquito D'Rivera Condemn the Arrest of Punk Rocker Gorki Aguila
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All About Jazz
Grammy Award-winning composer, saxophone and clarinet player Paquito D'Rivera has joined Bloggers United for Cuban Liberty in condemning Monday's arrest of dissident punk rocker Gorki Aguila by Cuban authorities. Cuban-born D'Rivera and Bloggers United for Cuban Liberty call for Aguila's immediate release. “The rockers have historically been the most courageous and honest musicians in Cuba, standing up to the Castro regime, and Gorki Aguila is the latest in that proud line, “ D'Rivera says. A Wednesday article from Miami Herald ...
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Wilco East and West
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JamBase
Wilco :: 08.22.08 :: Les Schwab Amphitheater :: Bend, OR
Wilco :: 08.22 :: Bend, OR Wilco's late summer tour has seen them crisscrossing the nation, hitting cities as spread out as Fairbanks, Alaska and Eagle, Idaho. This Saturday night concert in Bend, Oregon began early, around 6:30 p.m., with a great but way too short set by Seattle's new, lo-fi kings, The Fleet Foxes. The Central Oregon crowd was treated to what David ...
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Oliver Lake Featured in St. Louis American
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Diversion: Marimba Queens Meet Insane Bassist
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Rifftides reader David Peterkofsky inquired about modern-day jazz marimba players. In the course searching, I ran across a 1940s soundie with marimbists galore. This has little to do with jazz, but it's an opportunity to see a bass player who makes Chubby Jackson seem catatonic.
As for Mr. Peterkofsky's question, Bobby Hutcherson, Stefon Harris, Dave Samuels, Cal Tjader, Mike Mainieri, Emil Richards and Gary Burton have all used marimba as well as vibes. If readers have leads to other current marimba soloists, ...
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The Next Generation of Jazz
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All About Jazz
You could say it all began with a blue Porsche. It is what jazz musician Chris Brubeck remembers distinctly about his junior high music teacher Ray Tiezzi, who gave him his first few trombone lessons more than 40 years ago in Connecticut. “It was a cool-looking car -- part of his persona," Brubeck, son of noted jazz pianist Dave Brubeck, said of Tiezzi's wheels. “He was a really cool cat." Tiezzi went on to become the longtime principal at Amesbury ...
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Most Sung-About Body Part? The Eyes Have It
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All About Jazz
Visual artists Fernanda Vigas and Martin Wattenberg analyzed over 10,000 songs to find out which parts of the human body were mentioned the most and broke down the resulting data by genre.
The result: An interactive graphic work called “Listen" that correlates musical genres with the body parts they mention the most, as part of their ongoing Fleshmap project. Clicking on each genre brings up a more detailed representation of its chief bodily concerns.
“Listen investigates the relationship between language ...
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How We Forgot the City of Jazz and Jambalaya
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All About Jazz
Three years after Hurricane Katrina, the world's media has lost sight of the ongoing misery in New Orleans. Richard Holledge picks up the story Anyone hungry for the big news story might be underwhelmed by a newspaper announcing that it was restoring the ratings for restaurant reviews. But that was “a big deal" for The Times-Picayune, the New Orleans daily paper, according to its editor Jim Amoss. “It signalled a degree of return to normality and recovery that everyone here ...
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