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- Hot jazz cool day: Thousands descend on ld Sacramento for annual…
- US jazz great Randy Weston deplores ignorance about Africa
- PrairieFest musical lineup set and ready to perform
- Talking point: music on the move
Hot jazz cool day: Thousands descend on ld Sacramento for annual…
Free with registration – Sacramento Bee – AccessMyLibrary.com – May 28, 2007
–>CPYRIGHT 2007 The Sacramento Bee Byline: Lakiesha McGhee May 28–Peggy Carroll said she came all the way from New rleans to get her first taste of the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee. She was impressed by all the different flavors. “The weather is cool the people are great and the music is good” Carroll said Sunday while listening to blues. CPYRIGHT 2007 The Sacramento Bee.
US jazz great Randy Weston deplores ignorance about Africa
South Asian Women's Forum – May 28, 2007
“My first composition for Africa was in 1954. It was called Zulu” said Weston who uses the pronoun “we” whenever talking about Africans. “We play music of the black people of Morocco blues music of Nigeria of Egypt of Congo. Weston who now spends most of his time performing in Paris and New York said: “We take people on a trip to hear how African civilisation has civilised the world and music”. Dressed in a flowing African robe known as the boubou and matching headgear he reaffirmed the importance of Africa in his life. When he started playing and composing music “this continent was little mentioned elsewhere in the world particularly in the United States.
PrairieFest musical lineup set and ready to perform
Arkansas City Traveler – May 28, 2007
Ark City native Jan Hatfield is founder of the group. His musical style is diverse and includes country blues jazz and rock from the 1950′s to today. Jan loves the blues seeing it as the root of the music we listen to today. The quartet includes rock drummer Kirk Russell who hails from Wichita. Rounding out the group are Ark Citians jazz bassist Lee Velasquez and bluegrass banjo player Derek Vaden. These entertainers take their music seriously but on stage it’s their wit and talent that the audience enjoys.
Talking point: music on the move
Independent – May 28, 2007
" But he points out that because he doesn’t listen to this type of music anywhere else and has few associations with it he can switch off completely while flying: "n a flight it’s almost like an opportunity not to do anything – to zone out – the music sets me in a very positive mood. " Meanwhile to escape the "mundanity of the airport" marketing director Simon Massey keeps his iPod on throughout check in and his frequent departures from London to New York and LA. "I have a very wide variety of music on my iPod from blues and jazz thru to Faithless Massive Attack and the Rolling Stones. It’s very broad so I choose the music for the mood I want to be in. " However when he gets to his hotel room Massey dispenses with his iPod and listens to CDs provided by the hotel. "It’s usually stuff I’ve never heard of which is one of the reasons why I put it on. It exposes me to the new.