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The Art of Jazz Celebration 2008: The Refined Brilliance of Heart and Mind

by Raul d'Gama Rose
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4Egberto Gismonti and Friends break the crystal silence of an unforgettable night. An invitation was extended by the Art of Jazz: Come to the 2008 Celebration and be captivated, inspired, excited and entertained. In covering jazz festivals for over 25 years in four ...
Art of Jazz Celebration 2008: A Tale of The Sorcerer and The Storyteller

by Raul d'Gama Rose
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 Hermeto Pascoal and Sheila Jordan, center-stage at the Art of Jazz Celebration It was billed as The Global Village": A place where jazz legends, lions and lovers come together to explore rhythmic intricacies and tonal colors from all over the map... where jazz ...
Art of Jazz Celebration 2008: A Legend Kick-Starts Summer Jazz in Toronto

by Raul d'Gama Rose
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 Celebrating Jazz Icon, John Norris Miles Davis once famously suggested that the term legend" ought never be applied to those people still alive--artist or otherwise. But there are times when a person--artist or otherwise-- achieves so much in his lifetime that one ...
Art of Jazz Celebration 2008: The Ripple from Africa That Became an Ocean of Sound

by Raul d'Gama Rose
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 Ancient Future with Randy Weston at the Art of Jazz Celebration Before he even sits down to play, Randy Weston fills a room... a venue if he has to. Then he pulls back the piano stool, stretches out his arms and the ...
Unpacking My Bird... A Discovery Most Joyful!

by Raul d'Gama Rose
It is about thirty short strides, from my office in the cellar of my home, to a storeroom, where I keep the boxes-full of CDs that have remained unpacked since I have moved into this town home. But today will be different. I have something more to look forward to. Something I have waited a long ...
Harley Card: Non-Fiction

by Raul d'Gama Rose
This record certainly does not feel like guitarist Harley Card's debut CD. It jumps at you much like the fifth or sixth record! This suggests a high degree of polish and maturity not just in technique, but also in the dynamics of Card's approach to the guitar, the individuality of his voice, the complex beauty and ...
Jane Bunnett: The Spirit's Dancing in the Flesh!

by Raul d'Gama Rose
"The ant's a centaur in his dragon's world.Pull down thy vanity, it is not manMade courage, or made order, or made grace, Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down.Learn of the green world what can be thy placeIn scaled invention or ...
The Skies Above Us... The Decay Down Below: From Cavafy and Mahler to Mingus, Ornette Coleman and Charlie Haden

by Raul d'Gama Rose
For days, looking at the darkening sky of the Canadian winter, I was preoccupied with the image of this deep-blue canopy as a mirror--a mirror not only to the individual, but also to the collective soul. For days I have wanted to say what I saw, but no words come to mind yet and the ideas ...
Crepuscule with Thelonious

by Raul d'Gama Rose
Four false starts! I feel like the odd one out in a band led by Monk. The only one perhaps who cannot figure out or has not yet learnt one of Thelonious' new songs and we are about to start playing.New music by Thelonious! Oh! Wish that were true! It is November ...
The Unfinished Score

by Raul d'Gama Rose
In the act and art of writing--whether word or music, prose or poetry, a writer is almost completely lost in the creative challenge; the adventure that unfolds as words or notes start to appear on the page or in between the lines and spaces of a score sheet--both of which start off blank--is both exciting and ...