Celebrations Traditional and Otherwise
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- Celebrations Traditional and Otherwise
- Taj Mahal celebrates 40 years of music with new CD ‘Maestro”
- Music Review: Ramez mixes blues and reggae for rhythmic spiritual …
- Movie Review: Music takes the wheel in ‘Cadillac Records’
- >> TAB BENOIT MOVES BEYOND JUKE JOINTS BUT REMEMBERS ROOTS …
- The Blasters and Los Lobos share a bond that spans decades
- Every School Every Week
Celebrations Traditional and Otherwise
New York Times United States
Christmas Eve service with traditional songs gospel and blues music and original works; Middle Church Jerriese Johnson Gospel Choir. (212) 477-0666; middlechurch.
Taj Mahal celebrates 40 years of music with new CD ‘Maestro”
Inside Bay Area CA
“My father had a great record player” Taj Mahal remembers. “If you had a great record player well your house became the party house. ” Global educationTaj Mahal soaked up all the styles played at his house — jazz Northern blues popular dance music and even the Caribbean flavors that his father a West Indian favored. Then a family friend introduced him to deep Southern acoustic-guitar-based blues. He was only 11 or 12 at the time but the music had such an immediate impact on him that he decided to pick up the guitar and start playing. “He came up from Advertisement yld_mgr. place_ad_here(”adPosBox”); North Carolina and he could play that kind of stuff” Taj Mahal recalls of his family friend using the guitar to amplify the memory.
Music Review: Ramez mixes blues and reggae for rhythmic spiritual …
Daily Eastern News IL
The first track “Someday” has strong electric guitar solos but feels a bit shallow with the way the lyrics are presented. It’s almost as if it’s two different songs – the melody and solos are bluesy while the vocals are straight-up reggae. This theme of mixing blues and reggae is obvious throughout the record. It occasionally works but sometimes feels somewhat forced. The lyrics are undoubtedly reggae-driven especially in the presentation. ” It is easy to feel the back-and-forth sway of the rhythmic arrangement of the words even without listening to the song itself.
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Movie Review: Music takes the wheel in ‘Cadillac Records’
Explore Howard County MD
A musical case in point is "Cadillac Records" which showcases the blues and R&B performers who recorded at Chicago’s Chess Records in the 1950s. Even when you know exactly where this movie is headed dramatically it’s a song-saturated pleasure to make the trip. It’s moving to see how black musicians were subjected to second-class treatment in a country where Jim Crow laws were still on the books; and it logically follows that their songs reflect the segregated conditions. The problem in writer-director Darnell Martin’s storytelling is that it locks so automatically into a formulaic structure. Scenes of racial abuse are immediately followed by recording sessions in which the performers’ simmering feelings are poured into a song.
>> TAB BENOIT MOVES BEYOND JUKE JOINTS BUT REMEMBERS ROOTS …
The Free Lance-Star VA
You couldn’t play nothing but the blues and you had to plug into whatever [equipment] they had. ” On Saturday Benoit will perform at a much nicer venue The State Theatre in Falls Church. The show is a must for blues aficionados. In May Benoit was honored at the Blues Foundation’s annual Blues Music Awards as 2008’s Contemporary Blues Male Artist of the Year. (He received the same honor at the 2007 awards along with being named the B. King Entertainer of the Year.
The Blasters and Los Lobos share a bond that spans decades
San Diego Union Tribune CA
It will be a reunion of sorts for musicians who have known each other for most of their lives. Blasting off In 1967 Phil Alvin was 14 years old and attending a party in Downey with his friend John Bazz. ?John said to me ‘I don’t really like this music’ ? Alvin says. ?I agreed and John said ‘I like that thing they call the blues. Let’s start a band. ‘ ? That was the beginning of the Blasters whose curious mixtures of musical genres is maybe best described as American music. ?Most bands pick a style of music and then go out and find musicians who can play that style? Alvin says.
Every School Every Week
Brookfield Elm Grove Now WI
The shop makes it possible for students to experience the joy of choosing their own special gifts for family and friends. John VianneySeventh-graders are learning about blues music and its origin influence and importance to American society. Students have written a blues song with a 12-bar blues form melody. Then taking into account the rhyme scheme they wrote lyrics to fit it. Eighth-grade student Logan Knapp will be principal for a day Friday Dec.
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