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Gerard Presencer & Danish Radio Big Band: Groove Travels
by Roger Farbey
Something of a child prodigy Gerard Presencer became a member of Britain's acclaimed National Youth Jazz Orchestra in 1983 at a mere eleven years of age and NYJO's youngest trumpeter. Along with other young talented UK musicians such as Courtney Pine and Tommy Smith, Presencer was part of a new wave of British jazz. He's played ...
NEA Jazz Master Chico Hamilton Dead At 92
Jazz Legend Chico Hamilton Dead at 92 “I'm happy to say that I'm able to find people wherever I go that are not black, not white- they're just human beings. I don't dig staying in one groove. At this stage of my life, I've dedicated myself to playing what I want to play, how I want ...
Charlie Watts talks jazz, Stones plans
Even though he's played in the same rock 'n' roll band for nearly 50 years, Charlie Watts still prefers playing jazz. The Rolling Stones drummer learned how to play it by imitating his favorite jazz players as a teenager. So during his breaks with the Stones, Watts has played jazz, not rock, and that legacy continues ...
Siobhan Lamb: The Nightingale And The Rose / Meditations
by Chris Mosey
Experiments blending jazz with choral music are few and far between. Perhaps with good reason. Classical composer and flautist Siobhan Lamb and her husband, Gerard Presencer, the English jazz trumpeter, nonetheless accepted the challenge. Lamb's suite, “Meditations," was premiered at the 2007 London Jazz Festival, where it received rave reviews. The Guardian called ...
"The Rolling Stones: Some Girls Live In Texas" to Show in Movie Theaters on October 18
Multi-platinum rock `n roll band, The Rolling Stones will transport their legion of fans back to the magical summer of 1978 in The Rolling Stones: Some Girls Live In Texas, a one-night in-theater concert event on Tuesday, October 18, at 7:30 p.m. (local time). Unveiled for the first time in more than 30 years, this rare, ...
Jazz no Parque: July 15-17, 2011
by John Kelman
Mário Laginha e Convidados Jazz no Parque Fundação Serralves July 16, 2011 An invite to Porto, Portugal in the middle of the summer, to catch a single performance--a world premiere, at that--and spend some time soaking up the landscape and culture? Hard enough to resist under any circumstances, but when the ...
Life
by Phillip Woolever
Life Keith Richards with James FoxHardback, 564 pages ISBN: 978 0 316 03438 8 Little, Brown2010 Life is a last laugh lullaby. In guitarist Keith Richards' well-received and heavily hyped reflection, the defiant rock icon, humble blues ambassador and momma's boy family anchor keeps ...
The Rolling Stones: Ladies & Gentlemen The Rolling Stones
by Doug Collette
The Rollling StonesLadies & Gentlemen The Rolling StonesEagle Vision2010 In surmounting the difficulties arising from recording the album Exile on Main Street (Rolling Stones, 1972) and the hasty prep work necessary for its release, the Rolling Stones must have known it had something ...
The Rolling Stones: Stones in Exile
by Doug Collette
The Rolling StonesStones in ExileEagle2010The enduring magic surrounding The Rolling Stones' greatest album, Exile on Main Street (Rolling Stones, 1972) is so seductive even the band itself can't resist trying to explain it. Why else generate multiple packages of audio, video and print two years before the 40th ...
They Got the Short End of the (Drum) Stick
Rock has a history of selling drummers short. Four others overlooked: Charlie Watts One of the greatest “feel" drummers in rock, grounded The Rolling Stones with a world-class backbeat and swung with a jazz-informed groove. Get Off of My Cloud, Honky Tonk Women and Satisfaction succeed, in large part, thanks to signature beats conjured by Watts. ...
