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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
With their newest release The Scene, The Stryker/Slagle Band serve up a dedication to men and women playing their kind of music: warm, soulful jazz. Each and every track acts as an affectionate ode to personal friends and musical heroes alike, all while demonstrating the skillful guitar playing of Dave Stryker and warm saxophone riffs of Steve Slagle. Respectful yet upbeat, the recording shows what...
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Stryker Brigade News (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
According to Stars & Stripes the advance party for the 2nd SCR has arrived back in Germany. Excerpt: VILSECK, Germany — Fifteen months after they deployed to Iraq, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment troops are returning to Germany. Fifty soldiers from...
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Stryker Brigade News (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
By Cpl. Dustin Weidman, 2/25 SBCT BAGHDAD – Twenty Iraqi police officers graduated the “Steel Trainer” program in Nasser Wa Salam, west of Baghdad, Sept. 25, 2008. The Soldiers of Mortar Platoon “Steel,” 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker...
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Stryker Brigade News (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
By Spc. Opal Vaughn, 14th Public Affairs Detachment Despite already having served 15 years of service to country, Staff Sgt. Brian Pritchett, with 2nd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, re-enlisted indefinitely two months ago. Now, following in his father’s footsteps,...
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Stryker Brigade News (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
(This is the first article I've seen re: the 1/25 SBCT - hopefully there will be more soon.) By Pfc. Alicia Torbush, Desert Voice Staff Writer CAMP BUEHRING, Kuwait - Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 8th Field Artillery, 1st Stryker...
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Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Detroit's Sphinx Organization has won national acclaim for its pioneering work to boost the number of minority musicians in classical music. While best-known for the annual Sphinx Competition for black and Latino string players each winter, the organization also oversees a growing empire of education programs, camps, residencies, the Harlem String Quartet (composed of former Sphinx laureates) and an...
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ClickPress (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
From the opening Skee to the concluding Strikology, all musicians are on the same wonderful page, exemplifying the kind of simple beauty that only contemporary jazz can accomplish.
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Stryker Brigade News (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
By Ken Griffin, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team CAMP TAJI — Warrior Brigade continued its tradition of eliminating cultural divides by hosting an recent Iftar dinner here. Col. Todd McCaffrey, commander, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Multi-National...
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Stryker Brigade News (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO BAGHDAD – Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers seized 20 weapons caches during an operation known as “Gimlet Tidal Wave” west of Baghdad Oct. 4. Soldiers from Company C, 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker...
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Stryker Brigade News (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
By Ken Griffin, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team CAMP TAJI — It’s business as usual for the volunteer security force known as the Sons of Iraq (Abna al Iraq) in Tarmiyah, northwest of Baghdad, as they patrol their city streets...
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War News Updates (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Angela McLane documents U.S. Army soldiers as they provide overwatch security during the opening of a hospital in Khalis, Iraq, Sept. 28, 2008. McLane is a combat cameraman and the soldiers are assigned to the 4th Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment. DoD photo by U.S. Army Spc. Ronald Wright AP Goes Neo-Con -- Jules Crittenden OK, al-P and reasonable people might...
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Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Given the extraordinarily communicative power of Olivier Messiaen's 20th-Century masterpiece "Quartet for the End of Time," it's a shame that the piece has been played so infrequently in metro Detroit. A quick check of logical sources brings evidence of only two local performances in the past 15 years, though the most recent was just a few months ago at the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival.
