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Jazz Station Needs Public to Donate Funds
SAN MATEO — In the on-air studio in the basement of the College of San Mateo library, KCSM Jazz 91.1 FM director of program operations Alicia Clancy sings along to the tune she is playing on her show, A Morning Cup of Jazz." Her co-host, Michael Burman, taps his pen furiously on the desk in beat ...
Jazz Museum to Have Fundraising "House Parties"
The American Jazz Museum begins this week a series of “house parties” intended to help raise funds for operations and educational programs. Greg Carroll, executive director, said a large gala had been scrapped in place of the smaller gatherings. The 10th anniversary celebration last September lost at least $30,000 rather than raising the expected $150,000, The ...
Bheki Mseleku: Sa Jazz Pianist Found Fame in Europe
The death this week of an accomplished jazz musician has highlighted how South Africans tend to overlook local talent. Friends and family say Bheki Mseleku received greater recognition in Europe and the US than at home. He won awards overseas, but could not get a decent gig at home. He had to return to Europe to ...
Karl Jenkins: Musical Tourist Comes Home
He’s spent a lifetime mixing musical styles but, as he prepares for his latest Welsh premiere, composer – and self-proclaimed “musical tourist” – Karl Jenkins tells Gavin Allen that he’s finally arrived at his musical destination THE journey to become the UK’s best-selling modern classical composer has taken Karl Jenkins on some jazzy detours, but classical ...
CD Celebrates 50 Years of Dave Brubeck at the Monterey Jazz Festival
Pianist/composer Dave Brubeck is one of the reasons jazz music enjoys the popularity it does today. You might say, What do you mean? Jazz? Popular?" Granted, jazz recordings cannot boast the level of sales that a Mariah Carey or a Justin Timberlake recording might receive today, but jazz does have a healthy live concert audience, evidenced ...
Live Music Nation Aims to Wake up World
Creating a stage for live music seven days a week, Live Music Nation is aiming to make Jamaica the world's capital for live-music entertainment. In recent years, live music in Jamaica has often taken a back seat to recorded dancehall and reggae, blasted over sound systems. Cries of a lack of venues, funding and attention to ...
Jack Broad Releases New CD "Current"
Debut 2008 release by NYC guitar player Jack Broad. Current is an eclectic blend of influences where harmony, melody, rhythm, and textures fuse to create an original and distinctive vision of contemporary, guitar-based, jazz/fusion music. Jack wrote, programmed, performed, recorded, mixed and produced all of the material on Current. Jack was raised in a musical family ...
Sten Hostfalt/Blaise Siwula @ Stain NYC
LIVE in CONCERT at STAIN BAR NYC SEPTEMBER 18 2008 @ 9 pm/no cover Sten Hostfalt - guitar, mandolin Blaise Siwula - tenor & alto saxophone, clarinet Blaise Siwula is a mainstay of the NY free improv scene. We're impressed with Sten Hostfalt's fast ...
Dana Gioia Announces His Future Plans
National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Dana Gioia announced today that he will leave his position at the head of the Arts Endowment in January 2009. He will return to writing, his primary occupation prior to leading the Arts Endowment. He will also join the Aspen Institute on a half-time basis as the first Director of ...
Guitarist John Stein's New CD "Encounterpoint"
For two inspired days in the fall of 2007, guitarist John Stein brought together a virtuosic quartet from the far corners of the globe to tackle a repertoire he'd been saving for just the right players. The result is the aptly titled Encounterpoint, Stein's seventh recording and a dazzling exchange of musical thoughts and melodic ideas. ...


