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Jason Moran takes on the myths of Fats Waller
If Fats Waller is remembered at all by the public at large these days, it's as a caricature, with bug-eyes wide open, cigarette dangling from lip and eyebrows perpetually bobbing underneath a derby hat as he hams it up at the keys. But connoisseurs...
Tags: University of Chicago, Miles Davis, Concerts, Music Industry, Entertainment Events
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Detroit Jazz Festival lines up a star billing — for free
If you love a gratis groove, you may want to hit Motown for Labor Day. Though the Detroit Jazz Festival has concerts year-round, the main event happens over Labor Day weekend, Aug. 31-Sept. 3. Now in its 33rd year, the Detroit Jazz Festival is the...
Tags: Festive Events, Lincoln Center, Music Industry, Jazz (genre), Labor Day
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Wesleyan University Press Celebrates a Music Maverick
Always In Trouble An Oral History of ESP-Disk', The Most Outrageous Record Label in America by Jason Weiss, Wesleyan Univ. Press, 292 pages, $24.95 (paper), $11.99 eBook While the music scene over the past half-century has been dominated by major...
Tags: Fine Artists, Jackson Pollock, Psychedelic (genre), Artists, New York City
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Serenata de arroz con frijoles
Todo empezó con un almuerzo de arroz con frijoles (o porotos, como los llaman en Paraguay). Berta Rojas, una destacada guitarrista clásica paraguaya, le envió tímidamente un e-mail a Paquito D'Rivera para indagar si éste escucharía su propuesta, y el...Tags: Charlie Christian, Paraguay
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'Star Trek' actor, 50th anniversary of iconic group, country stars coming to State Theatre
Lehigh Valley Music"Star Trek" star William Shatner, the 50th anniversary of Peter, Paul and Mary, country duo Montgomery Gentry, Bill Cosby and former presidential candidate Steve Forbes are among the highlights of the State Theatre's new 50-performance season. The 2012-'... -
Eubanks brings challenging set of jazz tunes to Musikfest Cafe
Lehigh Valley MusicIt would be easy for Kevin Eubanks to play it safe. As the former leader of Jay Leno’s 'Tonight Show" band, he could coast along playing smooth jazz and standards. But Eubanks, a Philly native who lived in Allentown for a few years, did an hour... -
Levitt Pavilion's second season to be like first, only better, officials say
Lehigh Valley MusicLast year’s inaugural season of the Levitt Pavilion at ArtsQuest’s SteelStacks campus in south Bethlehem was “an outstanding success,” says Jim Creedon, chairman of Friends of the Levitt Pavilion, the nonprofit group that... -
‘A Cat in Paris’ animated film draws on French roots
24 FramesThe hand-animated foreign feature is a noirish tale inspired by one of the filmmakers’ curiosity about the nighttime exploits of his feline friend.... -
Selma, Ala.: Crossing a bridge into civil rights history
I like to walk bridges. I've crossed the obvious: The Brooklyn Bridge, with its panorama of Manhattan, makes your heart soar. And I've strolled the obscure, including the Duke Ellington Bridge over Washington, D.C.'s Rock Creek. (In a world that generally...Tags: Brooklyn Bridge, Civil Rights, Manhattan (New York City), Riots, Washington, DC
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Disneyland princesses moving into new Fantasy Faire village in 2013
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterBreaking a wicked stepmother's curse, Disneyland's fairytale princesses will be whisked away from their crowded one-room temporary home in 2013 and magically transported to a spacious new storybook village more befitting of their royal lineage. Blame...Tags: Jimmy Dorsey, Disneyland Park, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Trips and Vacations, Pocahontas
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A family trait of making music
If conductor Jeffrey Kahane led the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra with even more vim and vigor than usual during last weekend's concert at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, he had good reason. The program of new and familiar music on Saturday, April 21...
Tags: Lincoln Center, Long Wharf Theatre, Broadway Theater, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Music
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Artlandia: A cultural getaway in Portland
PORTLAND, Ore. — With a new Mark Rothko retrospective (and some even more eye-catching surprises) at the Portland Art Museum, Portland has plenty of visual-arts stimulation to offer — as well as music, dance, theater, literary happenings and...Tags: David Mamet, Gus van Sant, Broadway Theater, Thelonious Monk, Disc Jockeys
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