Results for "Michael Ricci"

Rockyoumentally Interviews: Poogie Bell, Victor Bailey & Rez Abbasi.

March 19, 2010

Breathtaking 'Hubble 3D' IMAX Film Opens Friday

March 19, 2010

Take a number of the Hubble Space Telescope's most stunning images, give them a 3D look, and display them on an IMAX screen--what's not to love? Yet Hubble 3D, an IMAX and Warner Brothers film made in cooperation with NASA, manages to go far beyond that. Much of the film focuses on last May's mission of ...

Out of the Rifftides Past: David Newman

March 19, 2010

Now and then the Rifftides staff rummages through the archives, wondering what was on the blog early in its history. Yesterday we found a review from four years ago, to the day. It discusses an album by a musician whose death in January, 2009 gives the last line poignancy we could not have anticipated when the ...

April 25 @ The Cornelia Street Cafe Trombonist/Composer Mike Fahie - CD Release Party/Performance for Anima

March 19, 2010

April 25 @ The Cornelia Street Cafe Trombonist/Composer Mike Fahie - CD Release Party/Performance for Anima, his Debut CD on BJURecords Mike Fahie (trombone), Bill McHenry (tenor sax), Ben Monder (guitar), TBA (bass & drums)ANIMA, Featuring Fahie with Bill McHenry, Ben Monder, Ben Street and Billy Hart - available March 30 on BJURecords.com On April 25, ...

Rejuvenated Jakob Dylan

March 19, 2010

Jakob Dylan called in some impressive collaborators to help with his new “Women and Country" album that's coming out next month. At the top of the list being producer extraordinaire T Bone Burnett and singer-songwriter Neko Case, the latter of whom serves as his vocal foil on several of the songs. But it's entirely possible the ...

The Skipp Pearson Jazz Foundation Hosts National Jazz Appreciation Month in South Carolina

March 19, 2010

Columbia, SC -- The Skipp Pearson Jazz Foundation in keeping with it stated mission is pleased to host Jazz Appreciation Month in South Carolina beginning Thursday, April 1 through Friday, April 30, 2010. Throughout the entire month activities and special event will be offered devoted to music education, centered on the theme: The Art of Bebop. ...

Jazz Musician of the Day: Eliane Elias

March 19, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating Eliane Elias' birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Eliane EliasPianist / singer / songwriter, Eliane Elias is known for her distinctive and immediately recognizable musical style which blends her Brazilian roots, her sensuous, alluring voice with her impressive instrumental jazz... more ...

Stanford Lively Arts Presents "A Tribute to Herbie Hancock" Starring Christian McBride on March 31

March 18, 2010

Concert curated by National Jazz Museum in Harlem will feature Hancock veterans Bennie Maupin, Eddie Henderson, Billy Hart, and others Bass phenom and National Jazz Museum in Harlem (NJMH) co-director Christian McBride performs a tribute to the music of living-legend jazz composer/keyboardist Herbie Hancock in a concert presented by Stanford Lively Arts on Wednesday, March 31 ...

Sun Ra Arkestra Member/Father of Massachusetts Governor's Collection Dedicated to Berklee S Africana Studies Archive

March 18, 2010

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, and his family, is honoring his late father s musical and cultural legacy by donating the vast collection of jazz musician, composer and arranger Laurdine Kenneth Pat" Patrick to Berklee College of Music s Africana Studies Archive. The historical Pat Patrick Collection comprises hundreds of scores, photographs, personal materials, and recordings. A ...

Bourbon Street: "Short Notes on Four Bourbons"

March 18, 2010

Blanton's: I was the beneficiary of an act of trickle down economics a few months ago Work was a tremendous pressure cooker that month, and I think my boss was very aware of my elevated stress level. Knowing that I'm very fond of bourbon, he asked me to lunch one day, and on the way back, ...