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Duke Performances Presents The Ambrose Akinmusire Quintet In Durham, North Carolina October 12- 13, 2012
By Larry Reni Thomas The Ambrose Akinmusire Quintet, featuring Ambrose on trumpet; Walter Smith III, tenor saxophone; Sam Harris, piano; Harish Raghavan, bass; and Justin Brown, drums, will be appearing at the Casbah in Durham, North Carolina, October 12 and 13, 2012. The much-anticipated and talk-about concerts, sponsored by Duke Performances, gives the area’s legion of ...
Premiere: Audio Documentary: Thelonious Monk: A Great North Carolina Jazz Intellectual On Sunday Night Jazz With Larry Reni Thomas On WCOM-FM, October 7th
Listen to WCOM-FM, Chapel Hill-Carrboro, North Carolina, October 7, 2012, from 9pm to 12 midnight, for The Thelonious Monk Birthday Special with host Larry Reni Thomas. The program will feature three hours of Thelonious Monk’s music and the premiere of an audio documentary called “Thelonious Monk: The Great North Carolina Jazz Intellectual.” It features commentary and ...
New CD Of Original Progressive Jazz From Michael Pelz-Sherman
Michael Pelz-Sherman has released a new new CD of original progressive jazz from North Carolina, featuring original compositions and extended free improvisations. From Michael Pelz-Sherman: Goes Without Saying presents two very different, yet complimentary sides of my creative musical work as a jazz composer and improvising keyboardist. The first six tracks are progressive jazz compositions, carefully ...
Preview: The Triangle North Carolina 2012-13 Jazz Season
By Larry Reni Thomas The busy, expanding, thoroughly-satisfying jazz scene in what is called the “Triangle” area of the Piedmont section of North Carolina just keeps getting better and better. Who needs the New York or the D.C. jazz scene when everybody seems to be coming this way? The area can boast of several venues that ...
Premiere: Audio Documentary: John Coltrane: A Great North Carolina Jazz Intellectual On Sunday Night Jazz With Larry Reni Thomas On WCOM-FM
Listen to WCOM-FM,Chapel Hill-Carrboro, North Carolina for the premiere, the first airing of the audio documentary “John Coltrane: A Great North Carolina Jazz Intellectual," September 23, 2012, during The John Coltrane Birthday Special, on Sunday Night Jazz with Larry Reni Thomas, from 9pm-12m. The recently completed profile includes music and commentary from The University of North ...
North Carolina Symphony Celebrates The Music Of Ray Charles, Sept. 28-29
RALEIGH, NC: The North Carolina Symphony honors an American original with its season-opening Pops Series concert, “The Music of Ray Charles,” at downtown Raleigh’s Meymandi Concert Hall, Friday and Saturday, Sept. 28-29, 8:00 p.m. Charles’s protégé, friend and fellow Georgia native Ellis Hall joins the orchestra and Symphony Resident Conductor William Henry Curry for an evening ...
Tribute To Django Reinhardt At North Carolina Symphony's "Night In Paris," July 7
The North Carolina Symphony whisks its audience away to the City of Love in a Summerfest finale to remember. Conductor Mischa Santora, vocalists Robb Asklof and Kersten Rodau, guitarist Robert Bell and accordionist Patrick Harison all join the orchestra for a colorful concert event, “A Night in Paris.” The final performance in the 2012 Rex Healthcare ...
Ben Folds On Stage with North Carolina Symphony, March 22-23
Next week, alt favorite Ben Folds rocks out in Raleigh in a two-night return to the North Carolina Symphony. The North Carolina native and pop music guru on the hit reality television show The Sing-Off joins the Symphony and Associate Conductor Sarah Hicks for two different concert programs on Thursday and Friday, March 22-23. Folds, along ...
Art Garfunkel On Stage with North Carolina Symphony, March 2-3; A Symphonic Celebration of 50 Years in Music
Pop music legend and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Art Garfunkel joins Maestro William Henry Curry and the North Carolina Symphony next month for a concert tribute to the very best from his 50-year career in music. The concerts take place at Meymandi Concert Hall, in the downtown Raleigh's Progress Energy Center for the ...
Natalie Merchant Performs with North Carolina Symphony in Raleigh, May 29
RALEIGH, N.C.—Internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant will join the North Carolina Symphony for a single performance on Tuesday, May 29 at 7:30 p.m., the orchestra announced today. The concert takes place at Meymandi Concert Hall in downtown Raleigh's Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets for this one-night-only performance will go on sale on Monday, ...
