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When Bad Times Make Good Movies
Where are you, Fred and Ginger, now that we need you? Back in the darkest days of the Great Depression, the brightest lights of the silver screen sang, danced, quipped and smooched to keep America's mind off its woes, if only for a couple of hours at a time. These days our economic prospects may not ...
Fred's Fest Line Up
Following is the complete lineup for Fred Anderson's 80th Birthday Tribute Festival. Most events at the Velvet Lounge, 67 E. Cermak Rd. 7 p.m. Sunday: Fred Anderson and the Great Black Music Ensemble $15. 8:30 p.m. Wednesday: Richard Davis and Willie Pickens; Edwin Daugherty, ...
Fred Anderson to Receive Birthday Tribute from Jazz Icons
He doesn't look 80, and he sure doesn't sound it. Listen to Chicago jazz master Fred Anderson play his horn—his tone as big as all outdoors, his ideas tumbling one atop another—and it's clear that, musically at least, he maintains the vigor of youth (as well as the lung power). Yet Sunday night, when Anderson takes ...
Saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa and Pianist Vijay Iyer Launch Jazz in a New Direction
Years from now, listeners surely will marvel at one of the great partnerships in jazz: saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa and pianist Vijay Iyer. Each has gone a long way toward infusing the music with elements of South Indian culture. Together, they have pointed jazz in a new direction—or at least developed Eastern elements that long have been ...
Stanley Clarke to Release First Acoustic Trio Album
With the May 12 issue of Jazz In The Garden (Heads Up), Stanley Clarke will see the first release of an acoustic trio album that he has led. I had never done an acoustic bass record, ever. There’s a long list of people on whose records I’ve played acoustic bass--Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon, Stan Getz, Joe ...
Sony Legacy Plans New Davis, Brubeck and Mingus Sets
In celebration of the 50th anniversaries of their recording, Columbia/Legacy has plans to release special Legacy Editions of Dave Brubeck's Time Out, Miles Davis' Sketches Of Spain and Charles Mingus' Mingus Ah Um. All three are slated for a May 26 release. The Time Out Legacy Edition will feature two CDs and a DVD. The DVD ...
Philadelphia Orchestra Cancels 2009 European Festivals
The “Philly Sound" (Of Silence): Philadelphia Orchestra Cancels 2009 European Festivals Tour Due To Lack Of Sponsors & Weak Dollar. The ghost of Eugene Ormandy is very, very angry: Unable to find sponsorship, the Philadelphia Orchestra has canceled its 2009 European festivals tour. Such a cancellation is highly unusual, and this one is doubly painful. The ...
Baltimore Opera Pursuing Chapter 7, Dissolution
The Baltimore Opera Company's board of trustees has voted to seek Chapter 7 liquidation and sell off the 58-year-old company's assets. General Manager M. Kevin Wixted says the company didn't have enough money to do more than struggle month to month. He said the company would never get ahead and could never raise enough money to ...
DSO Moves to the Beat with Bolero
>B>The Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) will bookend its Bolro concerts later this month with mesmerizing Ravel masterpieces Suite No. 2 from Daphnis et Chlo and Bolro. Conducted by rising star Susanna Mlkki, the concerts will also feature pianist Peter Serkin playing Stravinsky's Movements for Piano and Orchestra and Messiaen's Couleurs de la Cit Celeste. Concerts are ...
Morse Theatre Operators, Owners Strike Deal to Remain Open
The music may keep playing at the Morse Theatre. An agreement in principle has been struck between the firm that has operated the refurbished Morse since October and the owners of the building. The two parties fell into a dispute last month over operation of the facility, which opened in October to critical acclaim, after a ...
