These guys are great! They appeared last night (July 16) at the DanielDayGallery/Dream Mecca Studio in Lakeview. Directions are here for a magical place to hear music. The Legendary Pineapple Skinners play Hot New Orleans Jazz, including many grand old chestnuts that sound young and new: Bourbon Street Parade, Basin Street Blues, Hi Dee Hi, [...]
This is Part III of “the END of a minor Epoch, An eXperiment of eXperience,” scheduled for Sunday, July 17, from 5:00 – 9:30 p.m. at Rojo, 2921 Highland Avenue South at Rushton Park. Hunter Bell has this to say: “AS some kinks are worked out, others arise. . .Sometimes it seems I cannot win. [...]
Thank you, Playing for Change, for this story and music!
Maestro Justin Brown conducts the Alabama Symphony Orchestra playing Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 – tonight at 8 p.m. at the Alys Stephens Center. I have already read rave reviews of the performance, from Michael Huebner , for one. It is no ordinary Mahler performance! There were said to be close to 100 performers on stage [...]
Be sure to come and hear LaDonna and Tena this Sunday at the Museum! Playing the Jazz Brunch at the Birmingham Museum of Art this Sunday, March 20 from 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. is GRAND TIMES: LaDonna Smith and Tena Wilson play and sing some wonderful classic jazz, together with Rich Sarris, awesome drummer, [...]
Click here to buy tickets for the Greencards at Workplay today – January 9, 2011. Here’s a youtube video: Here’s a link to a couple of other versions of the great old folk song.
Dan Vergano in a a USA Today article from November 12 suggests that the pyramids were built to project sound! Imagine an ancient Egyptian rock concert, with sound booming all over the desert. The article quotes an expert, David Lubman, as suggesting that the pyramids may have been built as sacred echo chambers. Just this [...]
This is a reborn recording issued by Magnatunes: Edvard Grieg piano music transcribed by Daniel Estrem for classical guitar. The Magnatunes commentary follows:The Estrem and Holmquist guitar duo (active from 1971-1988) performs a program of Estrem’s transcriptions of 11 Lyric Pieces and the Holberg Suite by Edvard Grieg. The music was originally for piano, and [...]
Read the following from Magnatunes and Ishwish: Meditations is the third CD by Ishwish. With Meditations, Christopher Currell (composer, musician and producer) has gone much deeper with his concept of using sound vibrations to raise human consciousness. Meditations are five musical/sound collages that are designed to resonate specifically with the human spirit and the universe. [...]
Magnatunes releases a CD featuring a very intense and unusual version of Vivaldi played by the Bezdin ensemble and entitled Vivaldi Fata Tiganca. Total time: 63:32 Release date: 6/26/2010 Location of artist: Zurich, Switzerland Bezdin Ensemble: chamber orchestra, choir and vocalists http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/bezdin-vivaldifata This album performs secular works of Antonio Vivaldi with a gypsy intonation of [...]
Every fourth Sunday at 4 p.m., the Carver Theatre features a new jazz artist. All musicians are invited to jam with the band during the second half of the show. Tickets $10 Details: 254-2731 X 21 E-mail: www.jazzhall.com Location: 1631 Fourth Avenue North June 27: Roszetta Johnson
David Modica The Water is Wide Total time: 56:50 Release date: 6/19/2010 Magnatunes: Inspired by the old traditional Irish song “The Water Is Wide” comes a hauntingly beautiful soundscape of melodic compositions sounding at once both composed and spontaneous. This album has touches of jazz, classical, folk and new age nuances. With David’s masterful touch [...]