Dave Brubeck
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I’ve been reading about origins of music, it seems to involve sexual selection in examples such as bird songs, frog songs. I’ve always loved music; I played cello when I was a kid, switched to string bass so I could sit in with jazz groups. Dave Brubeck was my favorite, who got a lot from Bach. That led me to classical music.
Margo, I’ve got it all planned. You’ll gain your polish at Hackensack U, lose your virginity in a parking lot after a Dave Brubeck concert and become a doting wife to a man who wears underwear on his head!More quotes »
Around the web
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Mondavi festival shifts focus from jazz to pop-rock
The marquee at the Robert Mondavi Summer Festival once boasted summertime concerts by artists named Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Dave Brubeck, Stan Getz, Pat Metheny, Boz Scaggs and, more recently Dave Koz and Chris Botti. Crooners Tony Bennett and Johnn from Napa Valley Register Read more »
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Conte Candoli
While the real photographer was setting up for the atmospheric shots used in Bud Shank’s 2001 sextet album On The Trail, I snagged this one of Conte Candoli as he entertained the band and bystanders with the theme from The Godfather. In addition to Shank from ArtsJournal Read more »
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SWIMMING THE TIBER: To Quote Flannery O’Connor, “Here Comes Everybody!”
WHAT DO THESE PEOPLE HAVE IN COMMON?[1]Actors John Wayne, Gary Cooper, Jim Nabors, Faye Dunaway, Vincent Price, Susan Hayward and Patricia Neal Academics and intellectuals Hadley Arkes (Amherst), Mortimer Adler (Great Books), Robert Bork (Yale), G.K. Che from Patheos Blogs Read more »
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Pakistani Jazz Touches New Chords
LAHORE, Apr 10, 2012 (IPS) - The silencing of music in the name of Islam led Pappu to give up the cello and set up a tea stall. But Pappu and other musicians survived the Islamist regime for former dictator Zia ul-Haq and the recent ways of the Taliban t from Inter Press Service News Agency Read more »
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Mike McGinnis plays Bill Smith's "Concerto for Clarinet and Combo" and his own "Roadtrip"
Clarinetist Mike McGinnis brings a large ensemble into the WNYC Studio to perform two pieces that blossom from the common ground where jazz and classical styles intersect. The first is the mid-century modern masterpiece "Concerto for Clarinet and Combo," from WNYC | New York Public Radio Read more »
