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- Willie Nelson | Music Artist | Videos News Photos & Ringtones |…
- The Humble Roots f ld-School Bachata
- Music Review | Winter Jazzfest
Willie Nelson | Music Artist | Videos News Photos & Ringtones |…
MTV.com – Jan 14, 2008
Also in 2008 Nelson paired with jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis for the live album Two Men with the Blues. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine All Music Guide.
The Humble Roots f ld-School Bachata
NPR – Jan 14, 2008
“That’s one of the things that distinguishes it from other music. And it’s a particular style of playing the guitar — it’s sort of arpeggiated picking rather than strumming. “Bachata Hernandez says is also a lyrical music. Usually the subject has to do with love lost or love desired — similar to its U. equivalent the blues. “It’s been compared to the blues in the past” Hernandez says.
Music Review | Winter Jazzfest
New York Times – Jan 14, 2008
With nine hours of music and 24 bands from all over the place gathered into one building it’s pure cosmopolitan overload. It’s open to the public yet half the concertgoers seem to be there on the job. Its reason for being is the annual conference of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters the people who book concert halls around the country and give jazz musicians a living. Performing-arts presenters like to stay up late and hear music endlessly. They probably did this for fun before they did it for work… Elsewhere in the evening the young Iraqi-American trumpeter Amir ElSaffar who has studied both jazz and traditional Arabic maqam patterns and combines them in modal pieces for improvisers demonstrated with his sextet (including an oud and a santoor the Persian hammered dulcimer) how hungry jazz still is for sources older than itself. Meanwhile old American folk forms — gospel New rleans country — stole into set after set. Doug Wamble played rhythm and blues on a metal guitar with Southern bounce in his rhythm section. A new trio of the clarinetist Don Byron the classical pianist Lisa Moore and the Czech violinist and singer Iva Bittova played multilingual drawing-room music that could sound like old hymns and airs. And the trumpeter Dave Douglas’s new trio Magic Circle with the violinist Mark Feldman and the bassist Scott Colley played a poignant version of “Show Me the Way to Go Home” an English drinking song from the 20s. That song and a few others from the set as well were all part of the songbook of Jimmy Giuffre’s late-1950s trios — drummerless groups with which Mr. Douglas’s new band has a lot in common.