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Roy Nathanson Interview
This interview is part of the book project “under your skin" which includes Interviews with: Anthony Braxton, Ornette Coleman, Chuck D - Public Enemy, Taj Mahal, Yusef Lateef, Melvin Gibbs, Bob James, Skip Mcdonald, Erika Stucky, Living Colour, Rhonda Smith, Dj Rob Swift, Marilyn Crispell, ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Gerry Mulligan
All About Jazz is celebrating Gerry Mulligan's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Gerry MulliganGerry Mulligan grew up in Philadelphia and first learned piano, which he played occasionally. While in his teens, he wrote arrangements for Johnny Warrington\'s radio band (1944) and played reed instruments professionally... more
Bud Shank: California Dreamin'
The great jazz musician Bud Shank has died at the age of 82. He had one of the most unlikely backgrounds for any jazz musician, growing up not in the urban welter of cultural ferment or in the musically rich backwaters of the South -- but on a farm in Ohio. He may not have been ...
Ex-Centrum Jazz Port Townsend Artistic Director Bud Shank Dies at 82
PORT TOWNSEND -- Bud Shank, former artistic director of Centrum's Jazz Port Townsend program and a renowned alto jazz saxophonist whose career spanned 60 years, has died at his home in Tucson, Ariz. He was 82. Cause of death was listed as pulmonary failure. While Shank had “some ongoing health issues," according to JazzTimes.com, the Web ...
Roy Eldridge Little Jazz Goes a Long Way
The sign outside the Metro-pole in New York City reads Dixieland. But if signs mean less to you than sounds, and you step inside, what you will hear is jazz. And if its Sunday afternoon or Monday or Tuesday night, it will be some of the best jazz, these or any days. That is when a ...
UCLA Celebrate the Lengendary Music of Duke Ellington with Performances by UCLA's Jazz Orchestra and Latin Jazz Ensemble.
Two days of music events at UCLA are lined up to celebrate the jazz great's 110th birthday. When it comes to describing Duke Ellington, it's easy to run out of superlatives. One of the defining figures of American music? Sure, with a 50-year career that includes standards such as “It Don't Mean a Thing (If It ...
Wynton Marsalis Remembering the Duke
In Duke Ellington's world, people are smiling, they are dancing and they are making love. They're having a good time because his music's most basic concern is uplift of the human spirit. It's a music that celebrates freedom of expression, freedom of choice. That's why we love it. It wants us to love being ourselves and ...
ACM Awards in Las Vegas (Complete)
ACM Awards: Scorecard Nominees and winners at the 2009 Academy of Country Music Awards, held April 5 in Las Vegas. Winners are in bold italics. Entertainer of the Year Carrie Underwood Kenny Chesney Brad Paisley George Strait Keith Urban Top Male Vocalist Brad Paisley ...
What is the BBC Head of Sport, Mihir Bose, Doing in a Music Performance at the Design Museum?
Composer/Pianist Lola Perrin was asked to create a music performance from the work of designer/artist and Puma Creative Director, Hussein Chalayan, who is currently on exhibition at the Design Museum. She devised a concept to integrate the issues of cultural migration & displacement that inform Chalayan’s work into her compositional process and ran a questionnaire about ...
Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr Reunite at Radio City
Former Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr performed at the Change Begins Within concert on Saturday in New York. Half a Beatles reunion, or some approximation of it, took place Saturday night at Change Begins Within, a benefit concert at Radio City Music Hall for the David Lynch Foundation. Paul McCartney was headlining; Ringo Starr was ...
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