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Grammy Week: Magical Music Moments All over Town
Uncontrollable Urge While crack-is-wack-ster Whitney was staging another “comeback” at the Davis affair, we favored Saturday night’s more real-feeling rock- flavored happenings over the R&B/pop-machine-driven mashes. The Rhino/Los Angeles mag event with The New York Dolls saw a spindly and spectacled David Johansen and youthful looking Sylvain Sylvain kiss and hiss onstage for fellow ...
Esperanza Spalding Makes First Headline Appearance at Stanford, February 27
In her first headline engagement at Stanford Lively Arts (following last season’s shared bill with Dianne Reeves), jazz vocalist and double bassist Esperanza Spalding makes her highly anticipated return with a trio of jazz veterans Otis Brown (drums), Leo Genovese (piano), and Ricardo Vogt (guitar) on Friday, February 27 at 8:00 p.m. at Dinkelspiel Auditorium. A ...
'American Idol' Putting Away the Chair
Two hours' worth of teasing, and all we got was one legitimate surprise. I'm talking about Jamar Rogers getting booted off, not Tatiana Del Toro, who's already water-cooler conversation gold, being granted a stay. As anyone who's seen “Dead Man Walking" well knows, executions make for higher drama when they're drawn out. Tonight's American Idol was ...
Jon Hassell & Maarifa Street with Dhafer Youssef at Royce Hall (LA) on February 13th
Jon Hassell Brings his Unclassifiable Music to Royce Hall on Feb. 13 as Part of his First U.S. tour in Twenty Years. On the heels of his newest album release, Last night the moon came dropping its clothes in the street, Jon Hassell brings his unclassifiable musical colors and a unique electro-acoustic ensemble, with special guest ...
Trumpet Great Claudio Roditi's Love Letter to Brazil
In a unique two-day venture, trumpet/flugelhorn player Claudio Roditi has created Brazilliance x 4, a stunning tribute album to the land he loves, celebrating with colleagues that he’s known and worked with for many years, all of them fellow Brazilians. “How this came about,” Roditi states, “was we had a performance at [Resonance Records owner] George ...
Monterey Jazz Festival Records and Terence Blanchard Win Grammy
Monterey Jazz Festival Records Wins Grammy Terence Blanchards Win For Best Jazz Instrumental Solo From Live At The 2007 Monterey Jazz Festival Is Historic First For Label February 10, 2009 - The Monterey Jazz Festival is proud to announce that Terence Blanchard, the Festivals 2007 Artist-In-Residence, has won his fourth Grammy, winning Best Jazz Instrumental Solo ...
Saxophonist John Zorn Headed West
As heard from one of the kindly clerks at Amoeba Records this weekend -- and confirmed on John Zorn's MySpace page (remember those?) on top of various blogs and message boards -- the ever-unpredictable saxophonist and downtown NYC fixture will venture out of the 212 and into the Pacific Time Zone for a run of shows ...
Grammy Winner 2009: Jazz
= winner Category 45 Best Contemporary Jazz Album (For albums containing 51% or more playing time of INSTRUMENTAL tracks.) Randy In Brasil Randy Brecker [MAMA Records] Floating Point John McLaughlin [Abstract Logix] Cannon Re-Loaded: All-Star Celebration Of Cannonball ...
Grammy Jazz Picks Stick to a Middle Octave
Chick Corea and Randy Brecker delivered skillfully, but they weren't the forward-looking choices. In the can't-please-everybody proposition that is the Grammy Awards, it's difficult to find much fault in the Recording Academy's choice to again honor piano great Chick Corea with a best jazz instrumental album award. Still, as close as Corea and vibraphonist Gary Burton ...
The Grammys Turn up the Volume
Yes, trophies are given out. But they are secondary to the celebration of music that was displayed. If the apocalypse is here, we might as well enjoy it. Stomp down the doors of your comfort zone. Hook up with unlikely new friends. Get noisy. Have a party before the flames consume us all. That seemed to ...
