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USCG Band 2010 Performance Schedule Originally uploaded by uscgpress Guardians: Every year the U.S. Coast Guard Band thrills audiences with their musical talent and delightful songs ranging from swing to jazz. Hundreds of performances each year are given for official military functions, public concerts, and patriotic musical support at national conventions and meetings. Click here for the 2010 performance...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 02/09/2010
The Bronx Arts Ensemble presents legendary jazz pianist VALERIE CAPERS and her quartet on February 27 at 8 pm at the Riverdale Y, 5625 Arlington Avenue in the Bronx. The program will include classics by Duke Ellington, Cole Porter, George Gershwin and others. A wine and cheese party to meet the artists immediately follows the concert. Performers will also include Alan Givens on flute and sax, Mark...
ORPHY ROBINSON (Free subscription) | 02/08/2010
So I did rehearsals with the "Burn out Mama" band before heading out to Melbourne for the start of the Nigel Kennedy Australian Tour. The Burn out Mama Rehearsals where pretty intense as we hadn't played any of the music since recording the album in May last year. The main thing that had us working extra hard was to recreate some of the digital editing and fx laden sound that we have on the...
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 02/08/2010
Ozzy Osbourne’s memoirs I Am Ozzy debuted at Number Two on the New York Times bestseller list for hardcover nonfiction. Read about a unique Ozzy book signing and his reflections on Black Sabbath’s early days. Robert Fripp and Tool’s Adam Jones are considering reviving a side project they started and abandoned five years ago. Blabbermouth cites [...]
There Goes The Fear (Free subscription) | 02/08/2010
As promised, here’s the second half of the interview with David and Peter Brewis of Field Music after their gig in Brooklyn on 30 January 2010. In this half, we discuss topics as diverse as their musical influences, music history, music piracy, “staycations” and the future of the band – aren’t you glad you came [...]
breath of life (Free subscription) | 02/08/2010
In the post-fifties years no one else has written as many popular love songs as has Willaim 'Smokey' Robinson.
mel.opho.be (Free subscription) | 02/08/2010
If I were to give this show a one-word tweet-sized review, the word of the night would be WAI-YOOOOOO! Throughout the call-and-response filled evening, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad and John Brown’s Body brought the glory of Jah to Landsdowne Street. This was my first time seeing GPGDS, and they certainly had their beats and their pacing neatly packaged. They took the stage while I was still...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 02/07/2010
Legendary British jazz musician who was a composer, arranger, bandleader and educationist Late last November, Sir John Dankworth, who has died aged 82, elicited the most heartfelt standing ovation of his 60-year career in music for what was possibly his briefest and quietest performance. He had been taken to hospital during the run-up to the London Jazz Festival show for him and his singer wife, Cleo...
No Rock And Roll Fun (Free subscription) | 02/07/2010
John Dankworth, one of the leading figures of British jazz, has died . His wife, Cleo Laine, announced his death at The Stables, the live music site the pair established in Milton Keynes, at a party celebrating 40 years of the venue. Born in 1927, Dankworth took inspiration from both the UK and the US, with Benny Goodman and Charlie Parker shaping his sound. Dankworth was Britain's Musician Of The...
Buzz7.com (Free subscription) | 02/07/2010
London, Feb.7 (ANI): British jazz legend Sir John Dankworth died from age-related illness at the King Edward VII Hospital here on Saturday. He was 82. Sir John, a saxophonist and prolific composer, worked with world famous jazz exponents Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole and Ella Fitzgerald to name a few, over a career spanning more [...]
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 02/07/2010
What three administrations in the White House have refused to do, the people have done. They have recognized Willis Conover, the Voice of America broadcaster who may have been America's greatest cultural diplomat of the Cold War. He now has...
Tangled Blog (Free subscription) | 02/06/2010
Word is that there will be a football game this Sunday night. The New Orleans team will face the team that used to be the Baltimore Colts, before the drunken bum who owned the Baltimore Colts snuck the team out to Indianapolis in the middle of the night. I'm not a big fan of the NFL. I can't be a big fan of a sport where there are so many long breaks for commercials ( the game is really terrible live....
Dreamtime - Commentary Inspired By Bob Dylan's Theme... (Free subscription) | 02/05/2010
Being the 2nd Part of a Compleat Transcript with Commentary on Episode #53 of Theme Time Radio Hour, "Days of the Week" Part 1 can be found here . Original air date: October 3, 2007 *** In Episode 53 -- "Days of the Week" -- of Theme Time Radio Hour, we'll meet Monday's and Saturday's children, learn that Jack White knows his Sundays, look at the leaders in the TTRH playlist race,...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 02/05/2010
Trumpeter and bandleader Tommy Money has released the debut CD from his 17-piece big band, the Tommy Money Orchestra.Titled Unblued, the disc (pictured) features 15 tracks of mostly familiar material in the straightahead swing style identified with Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and bandleader and arr...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 02/05/2010
WASHINGTON, DC.- In a special ceremony tonight at The Kennedy Center, Judith Jamison, artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, donated her costume from the 1975 ballet, The Mooche, to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History . The dazzling red dress, designed by Randy Barcelo, was worn by Jamison during the ballet created as part of Alvin Ailey's legendary collaboration...
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soldoutticketmarket | 11/17/2009
The Moody Blues are an English band originally from Erdington in the city of Birmingham. Founding members Michael Pinder and Ray Thomas performed an initially rhythm and blues-based sound in Birmingham in 1964 along with Graeme Edge and others, and were later joined by John Lodge and Justin Hayward as they inspired and evolved the progressive rock style. Among their innovations was a fusion with classical
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