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Kalmen Opperman, Master Clarinetist and Teacher Dies
Kalmen Opperman, a master clarinetist whose intensive teaching methods helped mold some of the top players of the last 50 years, died on Friday in Manhattan. He was 90. The cause was complications of congestive heart failure, said his daughter, Roie Opperman. Mr. Opperman began his professional career playing for ballet and Broadway, but it was ...
Free-Jazz Manifestoes Declared Nightly
Nate Wooley, sitting and aiming his trumpet toward a microphone about four feet in front of him, played free improvisation almost without affect. On Monday, at the Lower East Side bar Local 269, he was a third of the band Crackleknob, the guitarist Mary Halvorson, the bassist Reuben Radding. Mr. Wooley used a lot of extended ...
Kid Millions a Percussion Obsessive Adds Even More Drums
Kid Millions, the anchor of the band Oneida, is a mild-mannered 37-year-old by day. He has built a career on percussive longevity, bashing away at his instrument for hours on end with fury and expert precision. For 13 years he has been the anchor of the Brooklyn band Oneida, whose songs mix hypnotic Minimalism with skull-rattling ...
WWII Nurse in Iconic Times Square Kissing Photo Dies
A nurse famously photographed being kissed by an American sailor in New York's Times Square in 1945 to celebrate the end of World War Two has died at the age of 91, her family said on Tuesday. The V-J Day picture of the white-clad Edith Shain by photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt captured an epic moment in U.S. ...
Every Wednesday Through Saturday in July 2010 Live Jazz at the Kitano New York Hotel
NEW YORK, NY - The Kitano New York offers some of New York City's top jazz entertainers every Wednesday through Saturday in its Bar Lounge at 66 Park Avenue (at 38th Street) in Manhattan, featuring no cover charge for most performances. Throughout the month of July The Kitano New York Hotel will continue to showcase a ...
Jimmie Noone, Jazz Clarinet Pioneer
For those unfamiliar with the sound of clarinetist Jimmie Noone, here he is with his 1928 Apex Club Orchestra--Doc Poston, alto sax; Earl Hines, piano; Bud Scott, banjo; Johnny Wells, drums--playing EVERY EVENING (I MISS YOU) courtesy of “ptm51 on YouTube (see below). Noone (1894-1944) should be known to a wider audience today, and a new ...
Academic Series in Jazzy Surroundings
Maybe location really is everything. When Mannes College the New School for Music presents its annual summer festival concerts in its auditorium on the Upper West Side, they seem low key and academic, no matter how vividly played and well attended they are. But following in the footsteps of the Keys to the Future festival, which ...
New York "Play Me, I'm Yours" 60 Public Pianos
Two Week Public Art Project Kicks Off on June 21 at the Make Music New York One-day Festival Featuring 1,000 Free Musical Performances throughout New York City For Locations of Pianos and Performances and More Information, Call 311 or Visit NYC.gov Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, First Deputy Mayor Patricia E. Harris, Sing for Hope Co-Founding Director ...
Rocked by Waves of Drumrolls
A waterborne performance of Iannis Xenakiss Persephassa, with Robert Esler on drums, was part of the Make Music New York festival. The ducks that frequent Central Park Lake are used to keeping clear of people in rented rowboats lurching about the water. But on Monday afternoon they looked rattled by the strange sights and stranger sounds ...
Levi's Pioneer Sessions: Raphael Saadiq Covers the Spinners + MP3
Levis Pioneer Sessions keeps rolling out more recreations of classic hits, this time with Giant Step favorite Raphael Saadiq covering Its a Shame by The Spinners, the legendary Detroit ensemble. When Tony! Toni! Tone!'s Raphael Saadiq went solo, his goal was to modernize R&B without cutting ties with its past, creating complex tunes that honored Motown ...
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