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Jazz and Theatre: A Review of “Miles & Coltrane: Blue”
by K. Shackelford
When trying to understand the rise and phenomenon of jazz music in the 1950's and 1960's, understanding the life of the jazz musician is equally important. Many of their stories illuminated heroic musical genius birthed out of pain, hope, and a charged political ethos. The play Miles & Coltrane: Blue delivered a snapshot of this experience ...
Art of Cool Jazz Festival: Gretchen Parlato and Alan Hampton
by K. Shackelford
Art of Cool Jazz Festival Gretchen Parlato and Alan Hampton PSI Theater Durham, NC April 25, 2015 It was a cool, whistful, and breezy Saturday evening. Sounds of improvisation and ingenuity seeped out of the edifices of multiple, cozy and packed venues---and into the air of the night. It ...
Fresh Cut Orchestra: From the Vine
by Vincenzo Roggero
La Fresh Cut Orchestra è un ensemble di dieci giovani musicisti di stanza a Filadelfia guidato dal trombettista Josh Lawrence (Erykah Badu, Orrin Evans), dal bassista Jason Fraticelli (Mark Guiliana) e dal batterista Anwar Marshall (Kurt Rosenwinkel, Dave Douglas). L'anomalia dei tre leader si riflette in una musica dalle molte sfaccettature come ben evidenziato da “The ...
Donny McCaslin: Fast Future
by Luca Muchetti
Il “futuro veloce" che Donny McCaslin ci racconta nel suo ultimo album è un universo estremamente composito e, per chi ha ascoltato le precedenti avventure musicali del sassofonista statunitense, non privo di sorprese. Sorprese e voglia di osare. Sì perché nelle pieghe, larghissime, di questa decina di pezzi, è decisamente ampio il ventaglio ...
John Mclaughlin To Release "Black Light" This Fall
“I have explored ways in music and recorded them with happiness. 'Black Light' has opened a portal that is neither Jazz nor Rock, nor Indian nor Blues, and yet all of these: it's an open door." As a musician, composer, and bandleader, John McLaughlin's vast contributions to contemporary improvisational music are only just beginning to be ...
Tony Danza Makes Café Carlyle Debut, June 16-27
ACTOR/SINGER TONY DANZA MAKES CAFÉ CARLYLE DEBUT, JUNE 16-27, 2015 Beloved star of stage and screen, Tony Danza makes his Café Carlyle debut to close the spring season, June 16-27. The two-week engagement, entitled Tony Danza: Standards and Stories, will feature a selection of highlights from the Great American Songbook and more. Perhaps best known for ...
Composer And Jazz Supporter Andrea Clearfield Actively Involved In Campaigns For Nepal Earthquake Relief
Celebrated composer Andrea Clearfield has written important musical compositions based on the long and vital tradition of music in Nepal, where she has traveled, transcribed and documented indigenous folk music and made many friends. (In the photograph on the right, on a recent trip there, she is recording Nepalese composer, Tashi Tsering.) A long-time resident of ...
Kris Davis Infrasound: Save Your Breath
by Vincenzo Roggero
Insolito l'Infrasound Octet allestito dalla pianista/compositrice/bandleader Kris Davis per la realizzazione di Save Your Breath: quattro grandi interpreti della famiglia dei clarinetti (Ben Goldberg, Oscar Noriega, Joachim Badenhorst e Andrew Bishop), le alchimie dell'organo di Gary Versace, la chitarra mutante di Nate Radley, la batteria proteiforme di Jim Black ed il pianoforte della stessa Davis. Insolita ...
New England Conservatory Faculty And Grads Win 2015 JJA Jazz Awards For Musical Achievement
New England Conservatory Jazz Faculty Members Jason Moran, Miguel Zenón and Dave Holland Plus NEC Graduate & Board of Visitors Member Regina Carter And Former NEC Prep Student Mary Halvorson Winners of 2015 JJA Jazz Awards for Musical Achievement New England Conservatory Jazz Studies Department faculty members Jason Moran, Miguel Zenón and Dave Holland have won ...
Film Scores
by Nathan Holaway
Ah, the cinema. We know so many cliches, certain scenes, and can even quote entire passages of movies. Music in film works the same way. As people who are conditioned through a dominantly visual culture, we tend to remember certain themes alongside certain movie scenes. This subject deserves much more attention! Film composers are often underrated ...
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