[Harlem String Quartet performs at Carnegie Hall (Photo: Nan Melville)] The Sphinx Organization send this news of the Harlem Quartet to AfriClassical: “Fresh from its London debut and a critically acclaimed national tour, the all-black and Latino string quartet will perform works by Wynton Marsalis, Billy Strayhorn, as well as holiday favorites in the presence of invited White House guests. The...
Tuesday, January 12, 2009 7:30pm Rose Theater Join the National Endowment for the Arts and Jazz at Lincoln Center for a celebration of the 2010 NEA Jazz Masters: Muhal Richard Abrams, Kenny Barron, Bill Holman, Bobby Hutcherson, Yusef Lateef, Annie Ross, Cedar Walton, and George Avakian (A.B. Spellman NEA Jazz Masters Award for Jazz Advocacy). The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis...
Blind Pilot, Laura Veirs, Mimicking Birds (Neumos) Blind Pilot kind of sound like a lot of different bands; their eccentric guitarwork and emotive lyrics wouldn't be out of place wedged into the middle of a soundtrack of a Wes Anderson movie, for example, and I'm sure that rabid folk fans have tried to keelhaul Blind Pilot into their own, weirdly isolationist corner of the musical landscape. But that's...
Japandroids, Surfer Blood (Chop Suey) Vancouver power duo Brian King and David Prowse aren't reinventing anything; if you've heard No Age or Cymbals Eat Guitars, you'll have the idea well in advance. But Japandroids' speed-paradiddles and mock-heroic guitar, as well as lyrics along the lines of "I don't wanna worry about dying/I just wanna worry about sunshine girls/Auuuugh!" from "Young...
Berks Jazz Fest celebrates 20 years in 2010 The VF Outlet Berks Jazz Fest, presented by Berks Arts Council, will celebrate its 20th anniversary March 18 through March 28, with artists who appeared during the first festival in 1980, as well as audience favorites from the past two decades. Tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday for the event, which will feature trumpet legend Wynton Marsalis with...
In response to a report that the thrice-postponed premiere of the piece was due to Wynton Marsalis's creative block, the composer's primary copyist writes, "I have the full score of the Blues Symphony complete with all seven movements. The piece is not being played in it's [sic] entirety because of a lack of rehearsal time, not because the piece has not been finished."...
Jazz is not "America's classical music." Just think about it a moment. It's kind of like the "champaign of beers" logic. All the prestige in the comparison comes from classical music and flows toward jazz. The terms cannot be reversed: you can't call Mozart an Austrian jazz musician, can you? The phrase is based on a dehistoricized construction of classical music, a term that wasn't...
The exploration of sound is a natural part of Danish pianist Nikolaj Hess' music. Since graduating from the Rhythmic Conservatory in Copenhagen, he has worked in a wide range of contexts and played with artists as varied as trumpeter {{Wynton Marsalis = 1914}} and singer Sissel Vera Pettersen. With Pettersen he made an enchanting duo album, By This River (Music For Dreams, 2006)...
This month TaylorSpearsRecommends brings you an eclectic collection of holiday favorites (and some not so holiday-ish favorites too!). On the list is Kermit Ruffins, Count Basie, Harry Connick, Jr., Jeremy Davenport, Louis Armstrong, Wynton Marsalis, Sting, Sugarland, Carrie Underwood & Los Lonely Boys. I'll guide you the right gift for everyone on your list! There's some great deals out there
Welcome to my HOLIDAY Top 10 CD GIFT GUIDE! On the list is Kermit Ruffins, Count Basie, Harry Connick, Jr., Jeremy Davenport, Louis Armstrong, Wynton Marsalis, Sting, Sugarland, Carrie Underwood & Los Lonely Boys. From GREAT New Orleans Xmas music, to the ultimate Count Basie, to Country & Crooners and a variety of other genres. I'll guide you the right gift for everyone on your list! There's
[Wynton Marsalis] Boosey & Hawkes Press Release November 10, 2009 “ Complete Work to Be Performed at Annual King Celebration at Morehouse College on January 14, 2010 Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra will now premiere selected movements of Wynton Marsalis's new symphonic work, Blues Symphony , November 19-22 in Atlanta Symphony Hall. This programming change was made in order...
By NAT HENTOFF For more than 60 years, I've seen recurring obituaries of jazz. The threnodies are being prepared again—in the National Endowment for the Arts' latest survey on public participation in the arts and with such questions as "Can Jazz Be Saved?" in which widely respected music critic Terry Teachout wrote regretfully in this paper last summer, "I don't know how to get...
[The Harlem Quartet, A Sphinx Organization Ensemble] The Sphinx Organization send this news to AfriClassical: “Brunch with Mozart...In Harlem! Featuring the world renowned Harlem Quartet . Ilmar Gavilan – violin; Melissa White – violin; Juan-Miguel Hernandez – viola; Desmond Neysmith – cello. Saturday, November 14, 2009. First Seating Noon - 1:30 pm; Second Seating 2:00...
This month TaylorSpearsRecommends brings you an eclectic collection of holiday favorites (and some not so holiday-ish favorites too!). On the list is Kermit Ruffins, Count Basie, Harry Connick, Jr., Jeremy Davenport, Louis Armstrong, Wynton Marsalis, Sting, Sugarland, Carrie Underwood & Los Lonely Boys. I'll guide you the right gift for everyone on your list! There's some great deals out there in November,...
Welcome to my HOLIDAY Top 10 CD GIFT GUIDE! On the list is Kermit Ruffins, Count Basie, Harry Connick, Jr., Jeremy Davenport, Louis Armstrong, Wynton Marsalis, Sting, Sugarland, Carrie Underwood & Los Lonely Boys. From GREAT New Orleans Xmas music, to the ultimate Count Basie, to Country & Crooners and a variety of other genres. I'll guide you the right gift for everyone on your list! There's some...
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