Music Box: Jazz master hits Blues Alley
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- Music Box: Jazz master hits Blues Alley
- A Sense of Peace Eludes Gospel Giant Kirk Franklin
- It’s all good for the Moody Blues
- Victrola Favourites: the day of the crackle
- Uganda: Ryan Cohan Quartet Rewrites Jazz Appreciation Rules
Music Box: Jazz master hits Blues Alley
highbeam.com – Mar 29, 2008
find Maryland Gazette articles. No stranger to the blues jazz master Larry Coryell performs atBlues Alley in Washington D. tonight and tomorrow (8.
A Sense of Peace Eludes Gospel Giant Kirk Franklin
Washington Post – Mar 29, 2008
what? Mid-career blahs?"Lately it’s all become more work" he’s saying leaning forward on a couch drumming his fingers on the coffee table. "That’s what makes it less fun. The changing climate of music. I make albums the old-school way: verse chorus bridge live musicians. Nowadays what everybody listens to it’s so microwaveable the Top 10 it’s all made on one keyboard. His new disc "The Fight of My Life" is a runaway hit by gospel standards but it’s doing what he expects a Kirk Franklin disc to do… This anger and defiance and fear and hope are the creative well he draws from. It’s what’s out there in the culture it’s what he’s tapped into. Famous gospel predecessors have had varied ideas of how to combine the religious and the secular: Thomas Dorsey was a blues musician who came to the gospel side and brought the blues with him;.
It’s all good for the Moody Blues
Naples Daily News – Naples Daily News – Mar 29, 2008
Pink Floyd King Crimson maybe even Yes have gone on to greater commercial heights. All Rights Reserved… The audience keeps it fresh cos (sic) most of them have not heard it before. DN: They are making an amusement park ride out of “Nights in White Satin. ” What are your thoughts on that? Are you guys involved in the process?JH: We re-recorded the music to fit the timing of the ride but we had nothing to do with visuals. We hope it’s fun for everyone who likes the music. DN: Is it difficult to put together a set list when you’ve made your bones making concept albums? People want to hear hits but the music works better as part of a whole right?JH: We do hits and album tracks. It works just fine for us. DN: What does it feel like to hear one of your songs over the PA at your local grocery store?JH: They never seem as loud as the other songs.
Victrola Favourites: the day of the crackle
Telegraph.co.uk – Mar 29, 2008
The tracks are presented in an apparently random sequence not sorted by country or date of origin. The keening of Chinese Buddhist nuns sits next to a twangy Hawaiian folk song. There are examples of Indian raga blues Cantonese opera fado hillbilly and traditional music from Japan Turkey and Persia. Surprisingly the two CDs provide a remarkably coherent listening experience perhaps thanks to the shared antiquity of their production values. The whole package has been lovingly assembled for release by Rob Millis and Jeffery Taylor two experimental musicians from Seattle who under the name of Climax Golden Twins are pillars of rock’s avant-garde movement. “ur interest began 10 or 12 years ago when we sampled some 78s in our own music” says Millis. “We often used other people’s records in sound collages and 78s seemed like a weirder scratchier kind of record to be using.
Uganda: Ryan Cohan Quartet Rewrites Jazz Appreciation Rules
AllAfrica.com – Mar 29, 2008
The musical foursome was in town for two concerts held at the US Ambassador’s residence and Club bliggato. All the four were impressive in their grasp of the music form. GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_Inset” );Front man Ryan Cohan was on the piano while Geof Bradfield gladly blew the air from his lungs into a shiny saxophone creating breezy tunes. Lorin Cohen carefully balanced an upright double bass plucking its thick strings to create deep sounds while Kobie Watkins was in his element striking cymbals and manipulating the snare as the ever-jolly drummer… "Improvisation" is another aspect of jazz appreciation and this is the spontaneous creation of music. When a musician improvises he or she invents music at the moment of performance building on the existing theme and structure of the song something the quartet demonstrated over and over again for the overly inquisitive Makerere University music students. "Blues" in jazz appreciation is a feeling whether happy or sad or somewhere in between whose intention is to make you feel better not worse; to cheer you up not bring you down. ne other thing to look out for while appreciating jazz is "swing" which is the basic rhythmic attitude of jazz. It is so important to the music that if a band cannot swing then it cannot simply play jazz well. Relevant LinksEast AfricaArts Culture and EntertainmentMusicUgandaSwing depends on strong coordination between the musicians and the style and energy with which they play. Lastly there is "syncopation" which is the rhythmic equivalent of surprise.
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