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Volume IV of Live Recordings from Bridge School Concerts Available Nov. 24
Every year, Neil and Pegi Young host the non-profit Bridge School Concert, benefiting the unique learning complex which assists children with severe physical impairments and challenging communication needs. The first was held in 1986, and the event is known as a totally unique musical event. Over the years the line-up of participants reads like a history ...
Ed Palermo: We're Only In It For The Music
by Ian Patterson
It's got to be love, hasn't it? Why else would someone bother to transcribe 200 of Frank Zappa's tunes? For what other reason would someone dedicate himself for over 15 years to presenting his arrangements of Zappa's music in the setting of a 17-piece jazz big band, and at a loss to boot? Yes, ...
Davy Knowles at The Crocodile
by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
Davy KnowlesThe CrocodileSeattle, WASeptember 8, 2009 I got my ass kicked tonight at the infamous Seattle “Crocodile" by an English kid and guitar slinger by the name of Davy Knowles. And man, I saw the light. The breadth and depth of knowledge this young man has of music is just plain scary. There ...
Neil Young Announces “Dreamin’ Man” Live LP Due in November
Three months after the quiet release of Archives Volume One Neil Young has announced his next archival release: Dreamin’ Man, a complete live performance of Harvest Moon drawn from various solo acoustic gigs in 1992. The disc is labeled Neil Young Archive Performance Series #12 and is due in stores November 2nd. Before the release of ...
Grammys: Neil Young to Receive Musicares Honor
The Recording Academy has named Neil Young its 2010 MusiCares Person of the Year. The musician will be honored at a charity gala on Jan. 29, two days before the organization hosts the Grammy Awards. Artists receiving the recognition, which benefits the charity arm of the Recording Academy, traditionally receive a tribute on the Grammy Awards, ...
2009 Montreux Jazz Festival : Chickenfoot, Dave Matthews Band, Steely Dan
by Phillip Woolever
Chickenfoot, Dave Matthews Band, Steely Dan Montreux Jazz Festival/Auditorium Stravinski Montreux, Switzerland July 4, 2009 The United States were impeccably represented as the land of the free form during a Fourth of July special that showcased three distinct improvisational imports. A packed, international crowd of well over 4,000 was ready ...
The Neil Young Archives Vol. 1 (1963-1972)
by Doug Collette
Neil Young's Archives project has been subject to so many delays, and rumors arising out of those delays, that its eventual release—as a 10-disc box set as well as in other formats—is almost an anticlimax. The project is, however, the work of a master singer, guitarist and songwriter who has studiously refused to look back or ...
Neil Young's Massive Blu-Ray Project
Neil Young has been working on his Archives project for so long that the big news in the tech world when it was first announced was Windows 3.0. Back in 1988, the curmudgeonly musician conceived the mother of all box sets, a multimedia data dump that presents the breadth of his workthe good, the bad, and ...
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival 2009
by Gary Firstenberg
If you want to experience music as wide and as deep as the mighty Mississippi River, it is best to go right to the source. In the lush surroundings of the oldest horse racing track in The Big Easy, the 40th Annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival celebrated a diverse assortment of music, and provided ...
Cassandra Wilson: Closer to You: The Pop Side
by Ian Patterson
Any vocalist who can take an old chestnut like “St. James Infirmary" and make it swing and crackle like never before, as Cassandra Wilson did on the wonderful Loverly(Blue Note, 2008), is surely something a bit special. Wilson's ability to make old material sound freshly minted is nothing new however, and Closer to You: The Pop ...
