The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
All Music Guide's classical editors and writers have picked some of their favorite albums of the first half of 2009. It's a terrific selection -- enjoy!
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Here's a dose of CDs of interest, as I head out for a week of travels to Freihofer's Jazz Festival in Saratoga NY and the Montreal International Jazz Festival. Yes, the sun is out today and my summer festival season is getting under way. Hope to see you here and/or there.Burgstaller Martignon 4, Mozart's Blue Dreams and Other Crossover Fantasies (Summit Records)Joe Burgstaller, a member of the Canadian...
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Nearly a decade after their last visit, eminent guitarist Al Di Meola is back with his World Sinfonia to perform at the TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival tonight. The acoustic fusion ensemble combines Latin, African and tango rhythms with Middle Eastern scales and jazz harmonies.
PowerPop (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
This won't come as a shock to anybody, but one of the nicest perks, if that's the word, of writing here over the last two years is that people have been moved to turn me on to some very cool music I would have never have otherwise heard. But of all the songs I've been hepped to since NYMary gave me the spare set of keys to the car, as it were, I think this is the one I treasure most (and special thanks...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 06/23/2009
The Artemis Quartet on their new album of music by Argentina's Astor Piazzolla
Intelligent Travel (Free subscription) | 06/22/2009
Every trip should have a soundtrack, so we've asked CJ Fahey with Nat Geo Music to select artists from their catalog whose songs will inspire you to get going.It's no surprise that one of the sexiest videos we've got at...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 06/19/2009
The Artemis Quartet cellist Eckart Runge has been fascinated by the tango music of Carlos Gardel and Astor Piazzolla since the mid-1980s, discerning in it a blend of joy and melancholy.
Gay South Florida (Free subscription) | 06/14/2009
BY BOB WEINBERG The big deal about being openly gay in the jazz world in 2009 may just be that it's no big deal. Multiple Grammy Award winner Gary Burton, who lives in Poinsettia Park in Fort Lauderdale and will...
Staring at the Apocalypse (Free subscription) | 06/12/2009
Yo-Yo Ma - Soul of the Tango: The Music of Astor Piazzolla (Sony, 1997) Web Wikipedia Similar Artists: Tan Dun, Itzhak Perlman Download (320kbps ripped from original / 126mb) Recommended: | Astor Piazzolla - Tanguedia de Amor | Itzhak Perlman - Paganini - 24 Caprices |
西儒 ─ The Western Confucian (Free subscription) | 05/28/2009
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HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 05/21/2009
Victoria: A three day extravaganza of tango activities, music concerts, lectures and dance performances by international, Canadian and local artists.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 05/18/2009
Miami International Piano Festival's Discovery series closed with an unusually populist concert by Pablo Ziegler and his ensemble. The Lincoln Theater fairly resounded with the tango-saturated music of Ziegler and Astor Piazzolla.
Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 05/05/2009
Barlow Bradford's Utah Chamber Artists are frequent guests at the Cathedral of the Madeleine, filling the sonic and visual space to terrific effect with their trademark "collage" concerts.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
Robert Cole began his career as a conductor, a person whose job is to coordinate, cajole, bully and inspire hundreds of other people in order to make great art happen. Not too different, perhaps, from running an operation like Cal Performances, which he's...
Geezer Music Club (Free subscription) | 04/29/2009
Over a long and illustrious career that has included everything from bebop to the classics (not that there aren’t some bebop classics, but you know what I mean), respected pianist Roger Davidson has again and again returned to Latin music. That passion is reflected in the title of his newest album on the Soundbrush label, [...]
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