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Dave Brubeck's Enormous Gift To Monterey
Among his countless accomplishments in a nearly seven-decade career, Dave Brubeck, the legendary Connecticut pianist/composer/bandleader, can point with pride to the pivotal role he played in launching the now venerable Monterey Jazz Festival (MJF)....Tags: Classical Music, Washington Post Company, Wethersfield, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Dizzy Gillespie
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Sometimes it's an acquired taste
247-4732Nick Kepics is certainly a jazz man, but it would be a mistake to call him a jazz snob. The 59-year-old guitarist willingly plays pop or country at wedding receptions. Also, his roots are in rock. Back in the late 1960s, he cranked out Kinks, Rolling...Tags: Jimi Hendrix, Wedding Services, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), NASA, Miles Davis
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Jazz guitarist Bill Frisell keeps it fresh
Of The Morning CallIf guitarist Bill Frisell were like other musicians, he would be ruthlessly promoting his latest double CD, ''History, Mystery'' (Nonesuch) at his Zoellner Arts Center performance Friday. But, in many ways, Frisell isn't like other artists. ''I don't...Tags: Photography, New York, History, Movies, Arkansas
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Chicago Tribune criticJazz trios don't ordinarily last 25 years, but no one would call the band that celebrated its silver anniversary at Symphony Center over the weekend ordinary. Staffed by pianist Keith Jarrett, bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette, the all-...Tags: Classical Music, Popular Music, Maurice Joseph Ravel, Duke Ellington, Keith Jarrett
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Simone Dinnerstein lets loose on 'Goldberg Variations'
Special to the Chicago TribuneBach's massive, unforgiving "Goldberg Variations" wrench every morsel of intellectual and physical fortitude from keyboard players. Monday at Ravinia's Martin Theatre, pianist Simone Dinnerstein dug deep, unleashing a provocative perspective on these 30... -
A 'soul' street gets a makeover from city
Sun ReporterThe area has been vacant for years, just a large patch of grass and a few scattered trees enclosed by a fence at Fremont and Pennsylvania avenues. But city officials are planning to transform the blighted spot into a plaza, complete with a stage for...Tags: Culture, Count Basie, National or Ethnic Minorities, Ella Fitzgerald, Charlie Parker
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Made-in-Chicago 'tough tenor'
Chicago Tribune criticChicago has produced more than its share of colossal tenor saxophonists, from past icons such as Eddie Harris and Gene Ammons to current masters such as Von Freeman and Fred Anderson. Among them, Johnny Griffin stood out for the brilliance of his...Tags: New York, Art Institute of Chicago, John Coltrane, Fred Anderson, Gene Ammons
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New on CD: RZA, Alejandro Escovedo, Walter Becker
The Hartford CourantRZA Digi Snacks Koch These days, it seems every rapper has at least one alter ego, a character he can use to explore different sides of his personality. It's a songwriting device that has its limitations, as few artists go beyond the simple comic-book...Tags: Gene Taylor, Folk Music, Metal and Mineral, RZA, John Coltrane
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Strutting their stuff in front of legends
Special to The TimesDespite a star-studded show featuring dynamic performances from Herbie Hancock, Chali 2na from Jurassic 5 and beat-boxer/old-school rapper Doug E. Fresh, arguably the best moment of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz's BeBop to Hip-Hop's hourlong...Tags: Leimert Park, New York, Hip Hop, Westmont, Miles Davis
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Singing while under suspicion in Myanmar
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe military government's tightening grip doesn't give people here much to sing about, and when they do feel the urge to make music, even that can be risky. The generals who rule Myanmar have spies snooping around for subversives in the most unlikely...Tags: New York, Colleges and Universities, Hinduism, Washington (Litchfield, Connecticut), Espionage and Intelligence
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Southwest Harlem
Special to amNewYorkThe revival of Harlem is well known. But the area of Manhattan that was once the Dutch village of Nieuw Haarlem is a vast one, stretching from the Hudson River to the East Side. Of all the parts of Harlem, few are feeling the winds of change as much...Tags: Wachovia Corp., Music Theater, Charter Schools, Magic Johnson, National or Ethnic Minorities
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Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy
Times Staff WriterAIMING to match the jackpot it scored in 2005 with "Thelonious Monk Quartet With John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall," Blue Note falls a bit short. Though this two-CD set, recorded at Cornell University, captures the swordplay of a fierce Mingus crew, there...Tags: Charles Mingus, Popular Music, Carnegie Hall, John Coltrane, Cornell University
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