Results for "Michael Ricci"

Contemporary Interpretation of Japanese Ghostly Ritual by the Kitsune Ensemble

May 15, 2009

In Edo-era Japan, a popular recreation known as The Gathering of 100 Ghostly Tales involved gathering around candlelight to tell ghost stories. At the conclusion of each story, a candle would be extinguished, until the final story was told in pitch black, and legend held that a ghost would appear in this moment. These Japanese seances ...

Bellevue Jazz Festival Returns May 22 - 24

May 15, 2009

Dianne Reeves headlines the 2009 Bellevue Jazz Festival The new, old Bellevue Jazz Festival reconvenes for the second year in a row in its current incarnation, a full-blown, three-tiered, weekend-long, diverse offering of artists, both well-known and novices, all within walking distance (a vigorous one perhaps, but a walk nonetheless) in a maturing, downtown Bellevue. Originally ...

Al Haig: March 13, 1954

May 15, 2009

Like Bud Powell, Al Haig had two sides to his piano-playing personality. He could play as fast and as meticulously as any bebop pianist on New York's 52nd Street in the 1940s, making him a first pick of both Charlie Parker and Stan Getz. But Haig also had a lush, romantic side that favored melody, dense ...

Keeping It Flexible, Careful Not to Raise a Ruckus

May 15, 2009

The trumpeter John McNeil’s imagination is right on the line between jazz at its most secure and coded and jazz as an open window, letting anything in and out of its house. For the last five years or so he’s been running bands that tend to have a slightly arch repertory concept: the pointed and airy ...

Changing the Economics of Music

May 15, 2009

Tim Ferriss' 4 Hour Work Week blog has a chapter from Fast Company Magazine founder Alan Webber's new book Rules of Thumb: 52 Truths for Winning at Business Without Losing Your Self. Using The Grateful Dead as a transformative business model, the excerpt contains several important lessons that apply to any artist, label or tech company ...

Benefit Concert for NOLA Artists

May 15, 2009

MUSICIANS BRINGING MUSICIANS HOME V: A BENEFIT CONCERT FOR NEW ORLEANS ARTISTS Jolie Holland WHO: Musicians Wayne Kramer (MC5), Jolie Holland, John Langford (Waco Brothers, Mekons), Saul Williams, Scott McCaughey (Young Fresh Fellows, Minus 5, R.E.M.), Laura Veirs, Vijay Iyer, Erin McKeown, Bonerama, Al “Carnival Time" Johnson, Martn Perna (Antibalas, Ocote Soul Sounds) and ...

Bill Frisell Trio | 05.05.09 | Australia

May 15, 2009

By: Alex Anastas Bill Frisell Trio :: 05.05.09 :: The Studio at the Sydney Opera House :: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Bill Frisell Just hours before, Circular Quay's foreshore was most likely a scene of the tourism marketplace thriving, throngs of camera-toting wanderers ...

Instruments a Comin' | 04.27 | New Orleans

May 15, 2009

Words & Images by: Dino Perrucci Instruments A Comin' :: 04.27.09 :: Tipitina's :: New Orleans, LA Theresa Andersson & Big Sam :: 04.27 Tip's Immediately following the first weekend of Jazz Fest, New Orleans welcomed the 8th Annual “Instruments A Comin'" benefit. If you're not familiar with the event it is always held the ...

Sonic Waves of Jazz This Sunday on Freedom Jazz Dance

May 15, 2009

Sunday from 5 PM 7 PM EST 90.1 FM WDCE Richmond Listen online via live webcast at dce.org Archived shows uploaded at freedomjazzdance.net two days after each live broadcast. Tune in to Freedom Jazz Dance this Sunday for the unstoppable sound of freedom in the groove with the latest, greatest performers and ...

Armen Nalbandian & Little Dragon Perform May 24th

May 15, 2009