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Big Ears Festival 2016
by Mark Sullivan
Big Ears Festival Knoxville, TN March 31-April 2, 2016 Since its beginning in 2009, the Big Ears Festival has always been willfully, unapologetically eclectic. Their own self-description is “a dynamic, interactive experience that explores connections between musicians and artists, crossing all musical genres while interfacing with film, performance and the visual arts." ...
The Brothers Brown: The Brothers Brown: Dusty Road
by C. Michael Bailey
There is really only so much that can be done with the traditional 12-bar blues form. It was that limitation that helped give rise to rhythm & blues and soul music and cross-pollinated jazz and country & western. While fun to consider, it is a fool's endeavor to try and draw a straight line through these ...
Mark Hetzler: Blues, Ballads, and Beyond: Influences Outside the Concert Hall
by C. Michael Bailey
The trombone has proven not so an elusive lead instrument in jazz. But what of moving beyond jazz. There is classical literature addressing the instrument. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's bastardly father, Leopold, composed the first classical trombone piece, Concerto for Alto Trombone in 1756. Josef Haydn's brother, Michael, composed Concerto shortly after in 1764. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Jan ...
Nashville Electric: Orson's Folly
by Glenn Astarita
This is not an ambient-electronic, celestial voyage or new age type gala. In fact, it's a scoring of actor, director Orson Welles' “Four Men on a Raft" sequence from his 1942 documentary It's All True. This was a film that the US Government expected to be sugarcoated as part of a cultural exchange program with Brazil. ...
JAZZ AT IJAMS: Swing Jazz Festival In Knoxville on October 18
JAZZ AT IJAMS is a monthly concert series during the Spring, Summer, and Fall which features gypsy jazz and swing bands in an ampitheatre-park setting at Ijams Nature Center, a 300 acre urban greenspace in Knoxville, Tennessee. Organized as a pic-nic showcasing the food of countries near and far, the event includes art exhibits, swing dancing, ...
Music Biz Conference To Examine The Future Of Music Data
The Music Business Association is bringing together some of the music industry’s top data decision-makers and analysts to discuss the future of sales measurement at a variety of sessions to be held throughout the annual Music Biz 2015 conference on May 12-14 in Nashville. “Music sales measurement has made significant strides this year, including the addition ...
Guitar Legend Adrian Belew Presents Newest Music In An App Flux By Belew
Nashville, TN - Guitar legend Adrian Belew has just released his newest music – and it’s like nothing you’ve experienced before. FLUX by belew™ is music that is never the same twice...think about that for a moment. This new revolution in music provides listeners with a mobile “listening experience” that blends music and art all in ...
Prog Icon Neal Morse To Release Eagerly Anticipated New Solo Album
Cross Plains, TN – Much to the excitement of Prog fans worldwide, Neal Morse will be releasing his eagerly anticipated new solo album Songs From November on August 19, 2014! Even a style as broad and accepting as Progressive Rock has its boundaries. Prog icon Neal Morse decided to break that mold and create a challenging ...
Patterson Blues Festival On Sat July 26 Showcases Regional And Local Talent
The annual Patterson Blues Festival features some of the best in southern blues, soul, and r&b acts locally from Tennessee as well as regional southeast acts. The 2014 festival features headliner touring act Sol Roots, Tennessee's r&b act Al Rich, harmonica master James Eddie, and more. The Patterson Blues Festival showcases fantastic music, soul food, and ...
Beale Street Music Festival 2014
by C. Michael Bailey
Beale Street Music FestivalMemphis in May International Festival Tom Lee Park Memphis, Tennessee May 2-4, 2014 For most of us, even those born and raised here and rooted to the soil like one of Faulkner's oaks, the South no longer exists. In fact, nearer to the truth, it has ...
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