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Ro Sham Beaux: Ro Sham Beaux
by Dave Wayne
Most jazz tunes are arranged in a certain way: head, solos, head. It's a valid and useful way to present improvised musical ideas based on a theme or chord progression. The head can be a simple melody or a convoluted riot of contrasting harmonies and tempi. Rock or pop songs are constructed differently: verse, chorus, verse, ...
The Bad Plus: Never Stop
by Thomas Carroll
For the past decade, The Bad Plus has received both praise and criticism for its idiosyncratic approach to jazz-rock. Liberal jazz fans and those who are inclined towards the mainstream but want to dabble in jazz have enthusiastically received the band's modern piano trio reworking of rock standards such as Nirvana's “Smells Like Teen Spirit" and ...
Play Michigan's Historic Theaters, Meet Michigan's Movie Industry
Before the 1930s and the advent of what has come to be called the “talkies," opulently decorated vaudeville and movie theaters were built. Predating the earliest sound systems they were created to be acoustically perfect. Every small town had one. Michigan at one time had many from its south western most border to Detroit and points ...
Play Michigan's Historic Theaters, Meet Michigan's Movie Industry
Before the 1930s and the advent of what has come to be called the “talkies," opulently decorated vaudeville and movie theaters were built. Predating the earliest sound systems they were created to be acoustically perfect. Every small town had one. Michigan at one time had many from its south western most border to Detroit and points ...
Blues Musician/ Horror AuthorThomas Malafarina's Short Story Collection "Gallery Of Horror" Published By Sunbury Press
Sunbury Press has released Thomas M. Malafarina's latest book Gallery of Horror, a short story collection based on the dark art of Keyser, West Virginia's Nunzio Barbera. About the Book: From 1970 to 1973, the television network NBC aired a program called “Night Gallery" hosted by Rod Serling who was best know for the series “The ...
Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band / Gerald Wilson Orchestra / Knoxville Jazz Orchestra
by Jack Bowers
Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat BandThat's How We RollTelarc2010 After more than a decade of making beautiful music at home, on the road and in the studio, Gordon Goodwin's irrepressible Big Phat Band keeps rolling merrily along, burning rubber on its sixth free-wheeling recording (and first for Telarc Records). ...
Project Blues Is Bringing the Blues to Beat Cancer September 11
What: Columbus-based Project Blues is hosting its 1st Annual Blues Bash—a Blues music benefit concert to raise funds for LifeCare Alliance's Columbus Cancer Clinic—helping people impacted by cancer who do not have the financial wherewithal to deal with it. When: September 11, 2011, 1:20 p.m.-9 p.m. Where: The Bluestone, 583 E. Broad Street, Columbus, OH 43215 ...
Freihofer’s Saratoga Jazz Festival: June 25-26, 2011
by R.J. DeLuke
Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz FestivalSaratoga Performing Arts CenterSaratoga Springs, NYJune 25-26, 2011This year's Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival, the 34th edition of the upstate New York event, featured a great touch when famed jazz impresario George Wein was awarded a star on the Saratoga Performing Arts Center Walk of Fame. Wein created the ...
Take Five With The Brett Sandler Trio
by AAJ Staff
Meet The Brett Sandler Trio: Brett Sandler: I'm a classically trained pianist who began studying Jazz in college. I started composing my own jazz tunes after listening to Wayne Shorter for the first time. I love music, movies, and videogames and enjoy spending my time on those three pursuits. I grew up in Rocky ...
