Results for "Indianapolis"

Charles McPherson's Post-Bird Bop: A 70th-Birthday Tribute

July 24, 2009

Charles McPherson is an alto saxophonist who spent much of his early career under the spell of jazz great Charlie Parker–but who fired the Parker sound with his own intense energy and expressive skills. Championed by jazz writer Ira Gitler, McPherson made a number of records for Prestige throughout the mid-to-late 1960s, garnering generally good reviews ...

Blank Slate Festival Set For August 8th in Indianapolis

July 21, 2009

Blank Slate: art in the moment, is a festival new to Indianapolis which celebrates the art of improvisation. A full slate of musicians and bands are on the bill, as are visual artists who will be engaged in a fluid improvised dialogue with the musicians on stage. Blank Slate will be held on Saturday, August 8th ...

Remembering Billie Holiday

July 17, 2009

Gangster Rapper Ice-T Joins Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra for World Premiere of Langston Hugues Jazz Project June 18

May 2, 2008

GANGSTER RAP ARTIST ICE-T TO PERFORM WITH INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AS PART OF LANGSTON HUGHES PROJECT WORLD PREMIERE Noted Rap Artist, Actor, Lecturer & Author To Narrate Langston Hughes Poetry Set to Music INDIANAPOLIS - The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra has announced that Grammy Award-wining gangster rap artist and lecturer Ice-T will join the Orchestra to provide ...

New! Official Website of David N. Baker, Plus New CD!

March 8, 2007

The Musical World Of J.J. Johnson

by Victor L. Schermer
March 4, 2004

The Musical World Of J.J. Johnson Joshua Berrett and Louis G. Bourgois III Scarecrow Press, Inc. ISBN 0810836483 1999 J.J. Johnson is known to the listening public as a jazz trombonist who has repeatedly won the Downbeat and many other polls, who has played the instrument ...