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Buffalo Free Gigs: Galactic, Gordo...

Source: All About Jazz
May 20, 2008

Buffalo Place Announces Free Summer Concert Series

Mike Gordon Buffalo Place has announced its FREE summer concert schedule. Set to take place every Thursday starting on May 29 with Galactic and the New Deal and concluding September 4 Big Head Todd and the Monsters, the shows will be performed at Lafayette Square in Downtown Buffalo from 6 - 10 p.m.

Other artists set to appear include The Disco Biscuits on June 5, Yonder Mountain String Band June 12, Mickey Hart ...

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Wilco | 05.14.08 | Lawrence, KS

Source: All About Jazz
May 20, 2008

Words & Images by: Nathan Rodriguez

Wilco :: 05.14.08 :: Downtown :: Lawrence, KS

05.14.08 (before Wilco began) :: Lawrence, KS The last time beer flowed on the streets of downtown Lawrence, Jayhawk fans were celebrating Mario's Miracle as Kansas went on to win the national championship. A little more than five weeks later, there was still cause for celebration: Wilco playing an outdoor show in the middle of downtown at 10th ...

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The Return of Silent Film

Source: All About Jazz
May 20, 2008

Glows in the Dark is playing tomorrow night, Tuesday, May 20, at Rumors Boutique as an installment of the Silent Music Revival. The group will be improvising music for a Buster Keaton silent film that they have never seen before, similar to Bill Frisell's notable trio that accompanied Keaton films with prepared compositions.Keaton is best known for his acting in silent films of the 1920s, which take vaudeville influences and employ slapstick comedy along with twisted and tragically ...

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Terry Riley:the Cusp of Magic

Source: All About Jazz
May 19, 2008

By: Josh Potter

The story of American music has largely been that of vernacular traditions - their unlikely origins, evolution, and (ultimate) transcendence. When minimalist composers like Terry Riley started synthesizing Eastern idioms into classical arrangements, art music joined the conversation. Fellow minimalists Phillip Glass and John Adams have made the natural transition to scoring films, but Riley (as well as Steve Reich) has continued to toil in the avant-garde. The Cusp of Magic (Nonesuch) is only the latest of ...

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Bobby Zankel Trio - Many in Body, One in Mind (Cimp, 2008) ***a1/2

Source: All About Jazz
May 19, 2008

This new CD by the Bobby Zankel Trio, with the leader on alto, Dylan Taylor on bass and Edgar Bateman on drums, brings free jazz as I like it : straight ahead music, full of direct emotions and lots of space to move in, offering ample opportunity for the musicians to be creative, to work with the material and the ideas offered by the other players. Zankel himself is pretty intense, and at his best in the long improvisations. The ...

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The Nocturne Records Story

Source: All About Jazz
May 19, 2008

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Bob Florence

Source: All About Jazz
May 19, 2008

Bob Florence was best known for his big band arranging, as his Grammy award, thirteen Grammy nominations and two Emmys attest. He died last Thursday at home in Thousand Oaks, California, five days short of his 76th birthday. Florence was also a superb pianist and favorite accompanist of singers. In recent years, in a pan-generational surprise, he hit it off with the adventurous young trumpeter Ingrid Jensen. Florence and Jensen discovered an affinity in a jazz festival after-hours session and, after ...

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For Musicians Broadway is the Pits

Source: Michael Ricci
May 18, 2008

Whatever Happened to the Overture?

WHO could forget the great overture to A Chorus Line? First there's that infectious hop-step vamp from the song “One." Then come some of the show's most familiar melodies: “I Hope I Get It," “Nothing," “What I Did for Love." Finally the orchestra swings back for a rousing half-chorus of “One" that would make even gouty musical- theater-phobes want to leap to their feet with excitement. Oh, wait -- “A Chorus Line" doesn't have an ...

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