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Bad Times Are Good Times To Start Something
I've been spending a lot of time lately with my nose stuck in a night in 1934. With all apologies to Samuel Clemens and Ron Francis, it might have been Hartford's finest hour. The New Haven line added extra parlor cars to its trains to accommodate the A-...Tags: Gene Autry, Wallace Stevens, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Opera, Folk Music
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HSO Plays Patriotic Concert Thursday And Friday In Simsbury
S The Hartford Symphony Orchestra performs its traditional Independence Day "Celebrate America!" outdoor concerts tonight, July 2, and Friday, July 3, at the Performing Arts Center at Simsbury Meadows. HSO Musical Director Edward Cumming, will conduct...Tags: Music, Soccer, Classical Music
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Michael Jackson broke barriers long before 'Thriller'
The Washington PostIn 1972, when the movie "Ben" premiered and sent that falsetto voice of little Michael Jackson soaring across movie screens, the joy inside black America was palpable. It wasn't just that the song raced to No. 1 on the charts, it was that it flowed from...Tags: Scott Joplin, United States, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Martin Luther King Jr., Lena Horne
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Hot weather, hot jazz in Chicago
The week in jazz: Dave Brubeck,8 p.m. Friday at Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan Ave.; $20-$110; 312-294-3000. Many performers start phoning it in long before they've reached Brubeck's vintage: 88 years. But whenever Brubeck sits down at the keyboard,...Tags: Otis Redding, Music Industry, Hank Williams, Irving Berlin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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For Dave Brubeck, 88, It's Still Jazz Time
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Dave Brubeck's seminal "Time Out," and the great jazz pianist is still out there preaching the album's virtues, a gospel of challenging time signatures and delicate instrumental balancing acts. Surrounded by his...Tags: Music, Dave Brubeck, Symptoms, Colin McEnroe, Joni Mitchell
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Sonny Rollins, Maria Schneider win at jazz awards
The Associated PressJazz legend Sonny Rollins and big-band leader Maria Schneider each were triple winners at the Jazz Awards, but it was 90-year-old pianist Hank Jones who struck the most sentimental chord. Rollins, 78, collected awards for musician of the year and top...Tags: Hank Jones, Music Industry, Ella Fitzgerald, Keith Jarrett, Miles Davis
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Juneteenth music festival coming to Lake Eola Saturday
Sentinel Staff WriterThe 2009 Wells’Built Florida Juneteenth Jazz and Music Festival will be held Saturday at the Lake Eola Park to celebrate the traditional African-American holiday marking the end of slavery. Free to the public, the music festival — featuring gospel, jazz,...Tags: Ray Charles, John Lee Hooker, Mahalia Jackson, Florida A&M University, Culture
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Drummer Hall hitting it hard
You'd think drummer Dana Hall would be busy enough teaching at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, completing work on his doctorate and serving as music director of the Chicago Jazz Ensemble. But no. Hall, though based Downstate, also leads...Tags: Radio Industry, Music, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Satellite Technology, Theater
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Music students enjoy jazz with First Lady in White House
Associated PressWASHINGTON -- The White House sounded more like the music wing of a high school than a seat of government Monday -- and that's just the way First Lady Michelle Obama likes it. The first lady launched a White House music festival that brought 150 students...Tags: Michelle Obama, Music, The White House, Wynton Marsalis, Popular Music
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L.A. jazz students to participate in White House program
Continuing to spotlight the importance of the arts, First Lady Michelle Obama will host the first in a series of White House musical workshops today for 150 middle and high school jazz students, including 14 Los Angeles-area teenagers from the...Tags: Music Industry, Bryan Johnson, Government, The White House, Los Angeles
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Josh Berman, jazz cornet player, offers 'Old Idea'
Above all, Chicago jazz produces original thinkers -- iconoclasts who blithely ignore musical fashions dictated by either coast or even by the city itself. Consider Josh Berman, a prolific and protean Chicago cornetist who has waited until now, at age...Tags: Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Jazz Music, Music, Abraham Lincoln, Plymouth
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A triumphant 'Black, Brown and Beige'
Tribune criticHow shocking Duke Ellington's "Black, Brown and Beige" must have sounded in 1943, during its world premiere in Carnegie Hall. Even now, 66 years later, the work defies conventional notions of the role of jazz in American music. Conceived as nothing...Tags: Charles Mingus, Music, Carnegie Hall, Wynton Marsalis, Frank Foster
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