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Baaba Maal from Senegal to Royce Hall
Musical inspiration can strike Baaba Maal in any place, at any time. It might happen on the Paris Metro, where he sometimes hears echoes of African drum beats in the rumbling of the train cars. Or he could be in his native environs, on the banks of the Senegal River, listening for hidden melodies in the ...
Studios Step up Futures Fight
The major movie studios may have lost their first battle over box-office futures trading, but they unveiled a powerful new weapon in response. Financial reform legislation unveiled Friday by Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., contains a provision that would ban futures trading based on box-office receipts. Lincoln is chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, which has jurisdiction ...
Cameron Carpenter's Organic Cool
Cameron Carpenter brings his organist showmanship to L.A.'s First Congregational Church on Sunday The player with a flair for dramatic performances and glitzy outfits gives a prelude to his Disney Hall debut next season. The pipe organ's massive physical dimensions and its potential for earthshaking sonorities make it an instrument like no other. But those who ...
2010 Jazzy Jam-Pasadena
Every year the Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD) students lose a bit more as arts programs are sacrificed and teachers are pink-slipped due to state funding cuts. Such solutions are supposed to be temporary, but in reality once the arts and enrichment programs are cut, few will ever be restored, and its the students who will ...
Grateful Dead: "Crimson, White and Indigo" to Screen in Theaters
On April 20th, Grateful Dead and Rhino Records will release the new CD & DVD package Crimson, White & Indigo. Crimson, White & Indigo CD/DVD captures their July 7th, 1989 performance at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia to an audience of 95,000. The entire full-length theatrical concert experience is fully mastered and coming to theaters nationwide this ...
Jazz Vocalist Jose James Talks Inspiration, Flying Lotus, and Tonight's Zanzibar Gig
With the genre perennially accused of atrophy, it's little surprise that precocious vocalist and “Jazz Times" darling Jose James has been hailed as a so-called “savior of jazz." But the hype surrounding the Minneapolis-bred and Brooklyn-based crooner is well deserved, with his smoky, golden-throated grooves among the most dynamic to emerge from the tradition in recent ...
Concord Aquires Rounder Records
Terms of the purchase were not revealed Beverly Hills-based Concord Music Group has acquired Boston-based roots music label Rounder Records. Terms of the purchase were not revealed. Rounder, which is currently celebrating its 40th anniversary, issued one of the biggest roots releases of recent years, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss' “Raising Sand," winner of the album ...
Bill Frisell Trio at Largo at the Coronet
Not many words were said from the Largo at the Coronet stage Tuesday night. Armed with a new trio featuring frequent collaborator Kenny Wollesen on drums and celebrated New York pianist Jason Moran, guitarist Bill Frisell was mostly mum apart from some humorously incredulous comments regarding Hank Williams being awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize (taking issue ...
The 5th Annual Miles Davis Festival - Saturday, August 14
Just a quick reminder from headquarters for your summer planning. The Fifth Annual Miles Davis Festival is Saturday, August 14, 2010 at the Commons, Lewis & Clark Community College, 5800 Godfrey Road, Godfrey, Illinois at 12:00 pm HEADLINERS: Michael Anthony Fitzgerald & Brian White The Howard Neal Band will honor LUTHER INGRAM and his music. The ...
Nnenna Freelon to Release New Record
Next week, Concord Jazz will release Homefree, the highly anticipated new album from esteemed jazz vocalist and multi-Grammy nominee, Nnenna Freelon. Homefree is a collection of contemporary interpretations of classic American Songbook tunes as well as a new poignant original, “Cell Phone Blues" composed by Nnenna, and spirited arrangements of two anthems ...
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