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Composer/Percussionist Lukas Ligeti 50th Birthday Celebrations
Special Performances, Recordings, and Events to Celebrate the 50th Birthday of Innovative Composer/Percussionist Lukas Ligeti New York City, NY — Composer/percussionist Lukas Ligeti today announced a robust 2015 season in anticipation of his 50th birthday (6.13.15). A champion of intercultural music and arguably one of the world’s most ingenious composers, Lukas is celebrating with world premieres ...
Newport Jazz Festival Flex Tickets No Longer Available After March 1
Going, Going, Almost Gone... Newport Jazz Festival Flexible Discount Tickets To Be Discontinued on March 1 NEWPORT, RI – The countdown is on for purchasing flexible discount tickets for the Newport Jazz Festival presented by Natixis Global Asset Management. Priced at just $55, Flex Tickets can be used for adult general admission for concerts at Fort ...
Jazz Collective "Sasha’s Bloc" Sets "Heart On Fire" CD For March 2015
Jazz Collective Sasha's Bloc, Featuring Guest Vocalist Jane Monheit and Conceived by Bassist Alex Gershman, Sets Heart on Fire CD for March 2015. A Big Jazz Band Sound, Featuring Original Music That Hearkens Back to the 1920s, 30s and 40s; An Upbeat, Modern Embrace of an Era That Gave Us the Music and Stage Presence of ...
Cephas Bowles, 62, Public Radio Advocate And Innovator, Dies
Dover, NJ: Cephas Bowles, a staunch advocate for public radio and jazz for more than four decades and recently-retired CEO/President of WBGO Jazz 88.3 FM, died on Saturday, February 21, in Hackensack. His death, at Hackensack University Medical Center Hospital, followed complications from a stem cell transplant, said his wife, Linda. He was 62. A native ...
Blaise Siwula / Dom Minasi: The Sunshine Don't Mind My Singing
by Hrayr Attarian
Saxophonist and clarinetist Blaise Siwula and guitarist Dom Minasi share a unique musical vision and seamless camaraderie. Years of performing and recoding together have crystallized their adventurous outlook and their intellectual communion. The sublime set of spontaneous duets; The Sunshine Don't Mind My Singing is the perfect showcase of these attributes.Siwula and Minasi weave ...
I 10 CD nel CD player di... Hardedge
by Vincenzo Roggero
01. Wadada Leo Smith -The Great Lakes Suites (TUM -2014). Il vero artista non si rilassa mai. Wadada Leo Smith è sicuramente uno di quei pensatori creativi che radicalizzano la propria arte in ogni fase del suo sviluppo. Spettacolare l'idea di scegliere Jack DeJohnette, John Lindberg e Henry Threadgill per la realizzazione di questo progetto. DeJohnette ...
Vocalist Thana Alexa Immortalizes Personal and Musical Influences on Path to Self-Discovery with Debut Album, "Ode To Heroes"
Available March 10 via Jazz Village Album Features Collaborations with Antonio Sanchez, Donny McCaslin, and Scott Colley “Ode To Heroes is an impressive collection of ambitious music beautifully pulled together by the powerful vocals of Thana Alexa that gives it all continuity. Alexa's music is challenging, but her use of the musicians and her voice makes ...
Critically-Acclaimed Classical Pianist And Steinway & Sons Recording Artist Lara Downes Provides A Different Take On The Music Of Billie Holiday
When classical pianist Lara Downes was 8 years old, she wrote in her diary that her favorite song was Billie Holiday’s “I Cover the Waterfront." Ever since, says Downes, she has been enthralled with “the distinctive qualities of mood and phrasing, line and color” heard in Holiday’s singing. Now, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of ...
Alyssa Allgood: Lady Bird
by Chris Mosey
Today scat is, literally, a dirty word. In a more polite age it was what Louis Armstrong did when he forgot the words to “Heebie-Jeebies." Such was Pops' influence that, even though it was a mistake, soon everyone was doing it. After bebop kicked in, King Pleasure took things further when he first ...
Lukas Ligeti, Thollem McDonas: Imaginary Images
by Alberto Bazzurro
Entrambi prossimi alla cinquantina (Ligeti, figlio di György, la varcherà a giugno), i due performer qui riuniti si confrontano sul terreno della libera improvvisazione, pratica di cui d'altro canto il catalogo Leo pullula. Lo fanno attraverso pezzi tutto sommato brevi (dai tre ai nove minuti), il che--specificatamente in presenza di questa economia di mezzi--non può che ...
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