Results for "Michael Ricci"

From Jazz Royalty, Boston Drum Talent Zeke Martin Makes a Musical Mark for Himself

September 20, 2009

The Zeke Martin Project CD release celebration Friday September 25, 2009, 12PM-1AM PRECINCT 70 UNION SQUARE Somerville, MA 02143 617-623-9211 http://www.precinctbar.com/ Includes appearances by Persian Blue and Richard Saunders Show begins at 9pm You don’t have to go back too far to find the ...

Claude Marc Bourget on AAJ Italia

September 20, 2009

Cuba Gears up for Mega-Concert

September 20, 2009

International singing star Juanes expected to draw hundreds of thousands HAVANA, Cuba - An international rock star is bringing a mega-concert to Cuba — a spectacle that could be the biggest visit by an outsider since Pope John Paul II's 1998 tour — while shrugging off death threats over an event he has dedicated to peace. ...

FCC Expected to Announce Support of Net Neutrality Monday

September 20, 2009

Federal regulators next week are expected to seek to turn controversial “net neutrality” principles into formal rules intended to give the nation’s computer users the right to use whatever services and devices they like without interference from their ISPs. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is widely expected to announce during a speech on Monday at the Brookings ...

Chicago Jazz Scene

September 20, 2009

Chicago Jazz Clubs Dates September/ October The sad state of jazz venues in Chicago. The Jazz Showcase, the areas biggest jazz venue closed its doors at the end of 2007 after they were not able to renew their lease. Now the HotHouse, Chicago second largest venue that was beginging to pick up the slack ...

Rufus Wainwright Creates His Own Oz

September 20, 2009

The devoted fan dressed up as Judy Garland during a 2007 concert that has been turned into a CD and DVD, 'Milwaukee at Last!' Martin Scorsese once called Rufus Wainwright a “one-man Greek chorus." The hyperliterate singer-songwriter is the son of folk singers Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle, a devoted fan of Judy Garland and ...

Ken Burns: What About Mingus?!

September 20, 2009

Ken Burns: Was a backlash inevitable? His familiar style of documentary filmmaking has bred some contempt on the part of his critics, who can't wait for his new opus, 'The National Parks.' The documentary filmmaker Ken Burns has a story he clearly loves to tell. He was walking in New York City a few years ago ...

Jazz Musician of the Day: Steve Coleman

September 20, 2009

All About Jazz is celebrating Steve Coleman's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Steve ColemanSteve began playing music just days before his 14th birthday as a freshman at South Shore High School on the south side of Chicago. His first instrument was violin but later that year he ...

The Rebirth, and the Beat, Goes On

September 19, 2009

At times, central Harlem seems to be an urban scene straight out of central casting: Step off the No. 2 or 3 train at the 116th Street stop one evening, and the air is filled with the snap-snap of double Dutch jump ropes hitting the pavement and girls tensely debating just whose turn it is. Old ...

Jazz Singer Gretchen Parlato: Her Music is Pacific, Like the Ocean

September 19, 2009

The title of Gretchen Parlato's new album “In a Dream" (Obliqsound) aptly captures the sustained mood of ethereal introspection that she evokes from the first track to the last. Possessing an enticingly crystalline voice and a ravishing concept deeply informed by samba ballads and bossa nova, Parlato is among the very best of a rising generation ...