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USC Thornton School of Music Receives Major Gifts on 125th Anniversary
As it celebrates its 125th anniversary this academic year, the USC Thornton School of Music said it has recently received some pretty significant birthday presents in the form of money and one very famous piano. Among the pecuniary donations is a $1.25-million gift from Ruth Ross, which the school said will be used to augment the ...
Pierre Cossette Father of the Grammy Awards Telecast Dies
Pierre Cossette, the avuncular old-school talent agent, manager, music mogul and Broadway producer often called the father of the Grammy Awards telecast for persuading nervous TV executives to put “longhairs with high heels and makeup" on a live national broadcast in 1971, died Friday. He was 85. Cossette, who had suffered in recent years with congestive ...
Dan Tepfer, Cole Porter Fellow 2009, Added to IndyJazzFest
The Indy Jazz Festival, presented by Marsh, in Indianapolis announces that current Cole Porter Fellow, Dan Tepfer, has been added to the lineup of this prestigious festival presented yearly. Dan will appear in the opening music spot all week. This year the festival, which runs 9/19 - 9/27, presents legendary musicians such as The Joshua Redman ...
Benny Golson "Diamonds Are Forever"
This interview is part of the book project under your skin which includes Interviews with: David Murray, Anthony Braxton, Ornette Coleman, Chuck D / Public Enemy, Taj Mahal, Yusef Lateef, Melvin Gibbs, Bob James, Malika Zarra, Zap Mama, Les Nubians, Lydia Lunch, Lee “Scratch Perry", Erika Stucky, Henry Rollins, Rhonda Smith, DJ KutMasta Kurt, Sepultura, Joe ...
Arend Nijenhuis & Michael Baird 'Twenty Years After'
The cd SWP 035 'Twenty Years After' by the Arend Nijenhuis/Michael Baird has been released and is available through secure online. Two duets, featuring the legendary recluse Arend Nijenhuis, playing synthesizer with Michael Baird on drumset in 1988 recordings, and playing piano with Michael Baird on a percussion set in 2009 recordings. Intense, uncompromising, intimate, humourous. ...
Joseph Bowie Interview "Defunkt Soul"
Joseph Bowie interview “Defunkt Soul 2" This interview is part of the book project under your skin which includes Interviews with: David Murray, Ornette Coleman, Chuck D - Public Enemy, Taj Mahal, ...
Mike Gordon Does Covers Coldplay and Leonard Cohen
Mike Gordon Covers Coldplay and Leonard Cohen Last Wednesday night (09.09.09) Mike Gordon and his band busted out two never before played covers at a sold out show at the Somerville Theatre in Somerville, MA. First came Leonard Cohen's “Who By Fire," and soon after, Coldplay's “God Put A Smile Upon Your Face" (check the video ...
Recent Listening: Jessica Williams
Jessica Williams, The Art Of The Piano (Origin). Williams' 2800-word liner essay declares renewed and deepened love for the piano and rededicated independence from the strictures and orthodoxies of the music establishment. She cites an internet video clip of Glenn Gould playing Bach as “...a life-altering event" that took her back to “...a music founded on ...
The Jazz Session #82: Marian McPartland
For 30 years, Marian McPartland has been the host of Piano Jazz, a weekly radio program featuring duets between McPartland and many of the great jazz players of the past several generations. In this interview, McPartland talks about the benefit of an unexpected visit from Bill Evans; why the Hickory House was a good jazz room ...
Born to Swing: Nat Adderley Jr. Returns to His Roots
Growing up in a major jazz family, the pianist, composer, and arranger Nat Adderley Jr. was destined to be a musician. His father was the powerhouse cornetist and composer Nat Adderley, who was famed for his work with his brother, the legendary alto saxophonist Julian “Cannonball" Adderley. The 54-year-old pianist was born in Quincy, Fla., but ...
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