search tools

Benefit concert to honor UCLA jazz legend Kenny Burrell for his 85th birthday (UCLA - University of California - Los Angeles)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Sep 2016
(Source. UCLA - University of California - Los Angeles). The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music with Friends of Jazz at UCLA will stage a benefit concert to honor Kenny Burrell, distinguished professor and director of jazz studies at UCLA ... 3 at 7 p.m ... 'Kenny plays such an important role at UCLA, in helping to establish a new paradigm for music education and the future of jazz,' said Alpert, the legendary trumpet player and philanthropist....

Multicultural Festival Celebrates Perris's Diverse Community (City of Perris, CA)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Sep 2016
(Source. City of Perris, CA). The City of Perris's annual Multicultural Festival Sept. 25 offered something for everyone ... TODEC has assisted thousands of residents in Riverside, San Bernardino and Imperial counties for 32 years ... and Mexico since 1938 ... Rep ... Banda El Recodo is a hugely popular brass band that features clarinets, trumpets, a bass drum with a cymbal on top, a snare drum, a tuba, trombones, two alto horns and two singers ... (noodl....

Together, As One Dinosaur

Edit The Jazz Mann 28 Sep 2016
The twenty six year old trumpeter, keyboard player and composer Laura Jurd has attracted a compelling amount of critical praise since exploding into the British jazz consciousness in 2013 with the release of her astonishingly mature début album “Landing Ground” with its stunning mix of jazz and classical elements and influences ... Jurd doubles on synth and trumpet as a series of highly melodic themes intertwine....

Maynard Ferguson: Lost Tapes Volume Three (Sleepy Night Records)

Edit B&S; Online 28 Sep 2016
To some his piercing high notes on trumpet sounded like a burning pet shop, or a pod of dolphins being hit by a cruise ship! To others; his sound was unique and sent shivers down the spine ... My late step-father was a pro trumpeter and his heroes were Stan Kenton, Buddy Rich, Tony Bennett and as a horn player himself; especially Maynard Ferguson....

Cafe Jazz, Cardiff - programme for October 2016.

Edit The Jazz Mann 28 Sep 2016
Cafe Jazz,. 21 St Mary Street – Cardiff CF10 1PL – Tel. 029 20387026 ... From the Bristol Area Tom Doughty (trumpet), Peter Ward (trombone), John Davies (clarinet), Alan Hogg (banjo/guitar), Mike Pincombe (drums), and Keith Tolley (bs) ... Eurig Morgan (trumpet) - Derek Howells (double bass) - Cliff Prior (drums / percussion) ... The Quartet will feature Jon Crespo on Trumpet, Dave Jones on Piano, Ashley John Long on Bass and Greg Evans on Drums. ....

Trumpet takes center stage in WSO performance

Edit Pittsburgh Tribune Review 28 Sep 2016
Brandon Ridenour is fitting together the various pieces of life as a solo trumpet player. He seems to enjoy most of the work with his ... ....

How Miles Davis remade jazz over and over again

Edit Deutsche Welle 28 Sep 2016
He revolutionized jazz several times and dabbled in many other musical genres. In honor of the 25th anniversary of trumpet legend Miles Davis' death, here is a look back at the mark he's left on music ... ....

The Novelist Whose Twitter Feed Is a Work of Art

Edit New Yorker 28 Sep 2016
While writing “Invisible Man,” Ralph Ellison was said to have picked up his trumpet when he hit a snag so that he could sound out his thoughts in music and ......

David Bixler to present ‘The Hughes Project’ (BGSU - Bowling Green State University)

Edit Public Technologies 28 Sep 2016
(Source. BGSU - Bowling Green State University). David Bixler, director of jazz activities in the College of Musical Arts, will present 'The Hughes Project' as the first event in the Institute for the Study of Culture & Society's Faculty Fellows series this fall ... Oct ... Other contributors to the project are Russ Johnson, trumpet; Jon Cowherd, piano; Gregg August, bass; Fabio Rojas, percussion; and members of the Semiosis Quartet ... (noodl....

Melissa Etheridge tackles Stax, and nails the Memphis sound (CD review)

Edit Cleveland 28 Sep 2016
Concord Music Group  ... And that's with her own stuff! ... Jones and B.B. King ... Recorded in Memphis at a studio in a one-time Vaudeville theater run by Lawrence "Boo'' Mitchell, the son of legendary Memphis trumpeter and Royal Studios owner Willie Mitchell, the CD was recorded in just 10 days, and in most cases, with three takes or less, with a scratch vocal that became the recorded vocal ... Yeah. You've got a groove. Big time. Grade. A- ... ....

Van Morrison's Keep Me Singing: EW review

Edit Entertainment Weekly 28 Sep 2016
No Plan B, and extending to a rote 2014 collection of re-recorded duets, the title of which felt like a justification for its own existence. Duets ... Over ornate arrangements of piano, highly orchestrated string sections and delicate trumpets, Morrison reminisces about 70’s Bay Area bohemia, gently recalls the Northern Irish countryside of his adolescence, and expounds on the transcendence of hearing Sam Cooke on the radio ... KEY TRACKS ... ....

Skid Row homeless sign up to vote in presidential election

Edit LA Daily News 28 Sep 2016
A day after the presidential debate drew a record television audience, officials in the nation’s homeless capital reached out to the most downtrodden to get out the vote ... One-by-one, they filed into the mission on Skid Row to sign up to vote ... It also came as Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti trumpets a $1.2 billion tax measure to build housing units for the homeless known as Proposition HHH, which will appear on the Nov. 8 ballot....

A 'safe' Note7 exploded and destroyed this guy's MacBook Pro with it

Edit Mashable 28 Sep 2016
Stop me if you heard this one before. A Samsung Galaxy Note7 exploded. Hui Renjie, 25, who purchased a Note7 in China that was deemed "safe" with a non-defective battery, claims his phone blew up Monday and burned two of his fingers and damaged his MacBook Pro in the process, according to Bloomberg. SEE ALSO ... But Samsung trumpeted Monday that 90 percent of affected Note7 owners have opted to stick to the device by getting replacements ... ....
×
×
×
×