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Hot Club Of Detroit Adds Avant-Garde, Pop And Groove Based Elements To The Django Reinhardt Resurgence On New Mack Avenue Records Release, Junction, Available August 14
Following up It's About That Time, Night Town and the eponymous 2006 debut Hot Club of Detroit - Hot Club of Detroit expands its sonic and compositional horizons with Junction. Retaining its original lineup of reeds, two guitars, accordion, upright bass and no drums, this is the band's fourth release for Mack Avenue Records. There are ...
Help Us Strike A Blow For Artistic Expression And Recreate Michigan's Economy
The Michigan film industry is a real and viable alternative to the demise of Michigan's industrial base. It is a positive path to recreate Michigan's economy and help redefine who we are as a state. Help us create a film/music festival here in south-central Michigan and help support Michigan's film and music industries. Back Story In ...
Craig & Lori Brenner to Perform in Concert at the Ann Arbor District Library
Pianist/composer Craig Brenner and his wife Lori Brenner will perform in concert on March 29, 2012, at the downtown Ann Arbor District Library, 343 South Fifth Avenue, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104, tel. (734) 327-4200. The concert will begin at 7PM. Called “a fine and funky pianist" by Living Blues magazine, Craig Brenner has also been voted ...
Beatty's "Jazz: The Tiki Room" in Free Online Magazine
Xeric winner Gary Scott Beatty's Jazz: The Tiki Room fiction is featured in the free online magazine MuskegonOnline.NET this month only. The story, in a modernist retro style, follows jazz pianist Dean Fontessa as he pulls together—then splits apart—a five piece combo for a club recently decorated in that happening, new style called tiki. Spin a ...
Grosse Pointe resident Bess Bonnier, 83, died Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011.
Bess Bonnier began playing piano at an early age, taking her first professional job with a big band at 13. She joined the Detroit Federation of Musicians in 1946. Her career spanned more than six decades and included regular appearances with Jack Brokensha at his club in Detroit's New Center area, and at countless other clubs ...
Two Losses to Detroit Jazz: Bess Bonnier and Brad Felt
One of the great and unusual combinations of jazz voices hereabouts was the big-horn/little- horn thing that Steve Wood|| and {{Brad Felt had going at least since the '80s, with Steve on sax (especially the relatively small soprano) and Brad on tuba or euphonium, romping through tunes like “Second Balcony Jump," a Jerry Valentine composition from ...
Off-Broadway Star Miche Braden Kicks Off Palmer Woods Music in Homes (Detroit) on December 17
Detroit's Historic Palmer Woods Music in Homes 5th Season Holiday Concert & Soirée Stars Miche Braden Palmer Woods Music in Homes, a series of eight jazz, classical and world music concerts presented in its historic mansions and unique homes, launches its 5th season on Saturday, December 17 with a special holiday concert and soirée ...
A New Message From The Tribe ...Jazz Great Wendell Harrison Is Back With A New Release, "It’s About Damn Time," His First As A Leader In Seven Years
Co-founder of the legendary Tribe record label and collective in the 1970's, Jazz saxophonist Wendell Harrison has long been known for creating exciting projects, having played with important jazz artists such as Eddie Harris, Grant Green, Eddie Jefferson and Sun Ra, as well as Motown artists Marvin Gaye and Aretha Franklin. Hot on the heels of ...
Icons Among Us Visits Detroit, Wednesday June 15 at Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
Episode One: A Quiet Revolution to screen at Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History Wednesday June 15 @ 6:30 pm Spread the word to your friends in Detroit. This FREE screening of the modern jazz documentary's first episode throws the spotlight on the emergence of new waves of artists and their relationships with their ...
Big Barn Jazz: Michigan
We love jazz and want to hear more of it, not just from a CD or an earbud, from living people! If all goes well, this will be a monthly show year 'round. Pull up a sofa and enjoy great jazz inside the Vineyard Café, Okemos, MI corner Jolly and Hagadorn (the big red barn, can't ...
