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Pure Bossa Nova | Carlos Lyra | Album

March 2, 2008

Carlos Lyra is part of the first generation of Bossa Nova songwriters. After writing hits for the first albums of Joo Gilberto, he soon released his first solo album as a singer on Philips (1959). His greatest hits were written in the '60s and many of them are considered to be immortal ...

Monk: A One-Man Band

March 2, 2008

Monk's latest work Stories & Grooves DVD is now available. Monk tells stories about music and musicians and urban life, as he accompanies himself playing drums, keys, bass pedal-board, melodica and vocals. You have to see it to believe it. The stories are accompanied by some comic drawings that illustrate the stories. The Stories & Grooves ...

David "Fathead" Newman and Louis Hayes lead All Star Legends Band Performance for the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) in Baltimore

March 2, 2008

Sunday March 2nd at St. Johns Church also known as “2640". On the corner of 27th. and St. Paul Street. 5pm. until 9pm. An All Star Jazz Legends Band will play a concert for the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) the First American Labor Union to allow membership to Women, Immigrants, and African-Americans. It was ...

Dom Minasi Has a New Website

March 2, 2008

Karmyn Tyler: A Computer Catalyst for a Song

March 2, 2008

With a 3-month writer's strike came a lot of free time for Karmyn Tyler. An actress and singer, Karmyn utilized that time and took her computer with garage band, added her home studio and wrote, arranged, and produced Luv Me So. Podcasters immediately started playing it and it debuted the first week on the PMN (podsafe ...

Michael Marcus Quartet Performs at the Blue Note NYC, March 3rd, 2008

March 2, 2008

Pure Bossa Nova | Os Cariocas | Album

March 2, 2008

Os Cariocas started his career in the '40s, when Bossa Nova was not even dreamt of. Strongly influenced by the vocal groups of the “golden era" of American music, they recorded every rhythm that was fashionable in Brazil and weer acclaimed, in the '50s, as one of the best vocal groups in ...

Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut at the Whitney Museum of Art, NYC, Biennial 2008

March 2, 2008

JEFFREY HAYDEN SHURDUT presents “Pianos are instruments not furniture" Live public performance and interview on Neighborhood Public Radio as part of The Whitney Museum of Art, NYC, Biennial 2008 March 8, 2008 3pm 91.9 FM Shurdut descends from his perch on East 74th Street in search of a local piano to pounce and claw ...

Lords of the West Indies: The Cultural Intersections of Jazz and the English-Speaking Caribbean

March 1, 2008

On March 7 and 8, Jamaican-born pianist Monty Alexander brings a uniquely themed concert to Jazz at Lincoln Center, celebrating both his roots as a Jamaican and the cultural intersections of jazz and the West Indies. Alexander is a celebrated musician whose recording and performance history with Milt Jackson and Ray Brown alone places him squarely ...

The Matt Geraghty Project at Bowery Poetry Club in NYC - Sunday 7:30PM

March 1, 2008

The Matt Geraghty Project, led by bassist and composer Matt Geraghty, is an ambitious modern musical effort revealing exciting and cutting-edge cross-cultural concepts. The global texture of the group is cultivated by Indian vocalist Satya Gummuluri who sings in Urdu, Hindi, and Punjab and Geraghty's compositions that blend jazz, rock, funk and music from Brazil, Spain, ...