Results for "Bobby McFerrin"

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Bobby McFerrin: Music's Renaissance Man Does It All

by Larry Taylor
January 15, 2008

Bobby McFerrin--master of all music, a man whose career embraces, jazz, pop and classical has one busy schedule coming up in 2008. This world famous vocal innovator and improviser, who added classical to his repertoire in the nineties, began the year in Southern California with concerts at the Orange County Performing Arts Center with the Pacific ...

Album

The Collection

By Bobby McFerrin

Label: Sony Music
Released: 2007

Video

'Round Midnight

Featuring the music of Bobby McFerrin
Duration: 3:49
August 1, 2007

Bobby McFerrin with Herbie Hancock (piano), Buster Williams (Bass) and Tony Williams (Drums) perform Thelonious Monk's classic, Round Midnight. Check Bobby out, a truly awesome performance mimicing Miles Davis' muted trumpet sound

Article: Live Review

Bobby McFerrin in London, May 20-21

by John Eyles
June 1, 2007

Bobby McFerrin with LSO St. Luke's Community Choir Barbican Centre Residency London, England May 20-21, 2007 April in London was the hottest and driest on record. But May was something else: cool, grey and rainy. It felt like the end of a summer that wasn't. So by the ...

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Try This At Home

By Bobby McFerrin

Label: Euroarts
Released: 2005
Track listing: Harmonizin'; Try This At Home; In The Morning; Staccato Groove; Opera-Style; The Shirt-Scratching Song; Ducks; The Name Song; Head In My Bed Blues; Calypso Song; More Singin'; Folk Rap; Walkin' On The Beat; Out We Go;

Article: Live Review

Bobby McFerrin: Live at the Royal Festival Hall

by Colin Buttimer
November 24, 2003

Royal Festival Hall London, UK 16 November 2003 One man alone with his voice (no band, no instruments) in a large classical venue is not an entirely promising prospect. Bobby McFerrin’s performance at the Royal Festival Hall, however, was one of those rare experiences whose memory is likely to be savoured long ...

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Beyond Words

By Bobby McFerrin

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: 1. Invocation 2. Kalimba Suite 3. A Silken Road 4. Fertile Field 5. Dervishes 6. Ziggurat 7. Sisters 8. Circlings 9. Chanson 10. Windows 11. Marlowe 12. Mass 13. Pat and Joe 14. Taylor Made 15. A Piece, A Chord 16. Monks/The Shepherd

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Bobby McFerrin: Beyond Words

by Jim Santella
April 12, 2002

As the universal language, music has always had one problem: how to translate the words so that everyone will understand their meaning. French, Portuguese, English, and several African dialects are quite familiar to jazz fans. Some listen to German, Russian, Chinese, Japanese or Spanish singers often. Are we fluent in these languages? It's not necessary. Pagliacci ...

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Bobby McFerrin: Beyond Words

by Javier AQ Ortiz
April 12, 2002

How does one write about the ineffable? It is, after all, Beyond Words ... We must, however, reflect on Bobby McFerrin’s Beyond Words There is a certain degree of serendipity in the fact that this recording is being capitalized upon, in the best economic system the world has ever known, through the marketing efforts of both ...

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Bobby McFerrin: Beyond Words

by Javier AQ Ortiz
March 1, 2002

How does one write about the ineffable? It is, after all, Beyond Words... We must, however, reflect on Bobby McFerrin's Beyond Words. There is a certain degree of serendipity in the fact that this recording is being capitalized upon, in the best economic system the world has ever known, through the marketing efforts of ...