As Latin-jazz legends go, saxophonist Ray Santos ranks high on the list. Few living Latin-jazz artists today can claim to have played in and arranged for the bands of Machito, Tito Puente and Tito Rodriguez. To give you an idea of what this trifecta means, it would be akin to a saxophonist playing in the Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Woody Herman bands. In addition, Ray is one of only a handful of...
By Muriel Ford For a long time we have used the video store as one of our main ways to access movies. High speed internet access has now made it possible to download movies right off a movie download site. Here are some examples of movies you can acquire through a movie download site. For Queen and Country: This is a striking modern day thriller of Life in England. Washington is well cast as a prior...
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Joe Newman: “Counting Five in Sweden” With Basie-ites Frank Wess, Al Grey, Nat Pierce, Eddie Jones and Sonny Payne. Label: Metronome 15018 12″ LP 1959 Design: Stig Söderqvost Photo: Bengt H. Malmqvist Joe Newman with his (then) new wife, Rigmor Newman. This cover was pulled from distribution so as not to offend with the [...]
In 1957, Cuban band leader, singer and composer Francisco Raul Gutierrez Grillo de Ayala, AKA "{{Machito = 8957}}," his Afro-Cuban big band, along with co-founder Mario Bauza, {{Cannonball Adderley = 3270}} and Basie trumpeter {{Joe Newman = 9846}}, released an album titled Kenya (Roulette), which, at the time, became instrumental in launching the Afro-Cuban or Latin jazz genre. Multiple...
If you were wondering where you can meet up with your fellow Wildcats fans to watch the Las Vegas Bowl tomorrow night, Fanster.com has you covered…The University of Arizona Alumni Association has set up two meetups in both Scottsdale and Flagstaff: Date: This Saturday (September 20, 2008) Time: 6 p.m. MST Scottsdale Location: Fox Sports Grill 16203 North Scottsdale Road Scottsdale 480-368-0369...
The e-commerce world is a tough market with a lot of shopping options. Add to the fact that specializing in a niche market, like poker, can be an arduous journey. But Bad Beat Clothing have done their homework and have hit the road running at full speed. We talk with John Doran, owner of [...]
Robert L. Park's book on Voodoo science has a great deal of wisdom to offer to the prospective franchisee or distributor and their investigations about...
Neil Davidson from Red Gate software was visiting the other day, and since he’d seen my interest in the Iliad, he brought his along: My brief experiments left me quite impressed. It’s beautifully manufactured and has the best e-ink-type screen I’ve seen yet. It has wifi, too, and I gather from friends that it’s [...]
Joe Newman at the Watchdog Blog reports: Right now, leaders in the House and Senate are preparing to make decisions behind the scenes that will have a tremendous impact on consumer protection in this country. If they can put aside partisan differences and ignore the lobbyists from the manufacturing industry, they have a chance to craft [...]
Rifftides reader Jay Thomas, a star of the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra, alerts us to a broadcast of the SRJO's concert of Benny Carter's Kansas City Suite. If you missed our Kansas City Suite concerts on March 15-16, the entire...
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