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Christian McBride's 'The Movement Revisited'

Source: Michael Ricci
May 19, 2008

Christian McBride's 'The Movement Revisited' at Disney Hall

A four-section suite ruminating on the civil rights movement weds the music to the message.

There was a remarkable atmosphere of synchronicity during the performance of Christian McBride's “The Movement Revisited" at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Friday night. And maybe a trace of irony as well. The four-section suite for big jazz band, small jazz group, gospel choir and narrators focused its segments on the words, the memory and the legacy ...

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Brian Wilson/ Here Comes the "Sun" Album

Source: Michael Ricci
May 19, 2008

Brian Wilson's 'That Lucky Old Sun' album due in September The former Beach Boys mainstay's themed work, snapshots of Southern California life, will be released Sept. 2 and represents his return to Capitol.

Brian Wilson extends his personal and creative renaissance of the last decade with an ambitious new themed album, “That Lucky Old Sun," a work to be released in September exploring the Southern California culture that he helped define musically in the 1960s as the guiding creative force ...

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Bassist Joe Fonda Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
May 19, 2008

Bassist Joe Fonda has nourished so many groups and projects with his unerring time, deep and constant imagination and rich tone that one struggles to imagine a New York jazz scene that doesn't include him. He's played as a sideman with dozens of great, prominent players (including Anthony Braxton, with whom he played in various musical combinations for 15 years) and has led, and still leads, a number of his own groups--none of them less than worth hearing, and most ...

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Dave Allen Quartet at 55 Bar May 22nd

Source: All About Jazz
May 19, 2008

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Aria! Action! Making Opera a Director's Art

Source: Michael Ricci
May 19, 2008

Walter Felsenstein Edition HERE is a treasure.

Opera DVDs tumble out by the dozens nowadays, too often featuring routine performances of recent productions that hardly seem worth preserving. In contrast Arthaus's scholarly and imposing “Walter Felsenstein Edition" offers a fascinating glimpse of an important moment in operatic history now vanished.

It all comes in a weighty 12-by-12-inch box: 12 discs containing seven opera productions directed by Felsenstein, filmed between 1956 and 1976; generous video extras showing him in ...

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Maurice Jarre Tribute to David Lean

Source: All About Jazz
May 19, 2008

In honor of David Lean's upcoming 100th birthday, in 2008, Milan Entertainment has released a special edition DVD/CD of a tribute concert which was recorded live at the Barbican Center in London in 1992, a month after David Lean's death.

Maurice Jarre, French composer, composed the scores to 4 of David Lean's films: Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia, Ryan's Daughter, and Passage to India, and he conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in the David Lean tribute. Jarre was a very ...

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Tough Times Call for Tougher Music

Source: Michael Ricci
May 19, 2008

MUSICAL FORCE OF NATURE: German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen's experiments with the structure of sound and his innovations with electronics made him a pioneer of the musical avant-garde.

MODERNISM HAD a good run, the historian Peter Gay concludes in his new study of the subject. His estimate is about 120 years, beginning with the simultaneous publication in 1857 of Flaubert's novel “Madame Bovary" and Baudelaire's collection of poems “Les Fleurs du Mal." In music, that span extends through the wild avant-garde ...

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Jerry Stucker's New CD "It's All a Groove"

Source: All About Jazz
May 19, 2008

JERRY STUCKER: It's All A Groove 2007 Urbanzone Records Tracks 1 Watermelon Man 2 Winelight 3 Up in it 4 The World is A Ghetto 5 I Feel Like Makin Love 6 And I Love Her 7 Passport (feat. Tony Adamo vocals, spoken word) 8 Berber Street 9 No Strings 10 Asibah 11 Hey Lou ( feat Tony ...

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