Are toddlers ready for a regular diet of jazz? One can always hope. In any event, there’s no harm in exposing them to it. I raised my three on steady doses of Stan Kenton, Count Basie, Woody Herman, Buddy Rich, Zoot Sims, Stan Getz and others. Did it work? Well, I can’t honestly say they’re […]
Email to a friend Printer friendly Font: * * * * Vancouver headliners for the winter series announced Friday include Mother Mother and Save the Whale (Feb. 22, Performance Works), singer-songwriter Kevin House and Inhabitants (Feb. 23, Performance Works) and pianist Lisa Miller and her octet (March 14, Western Front). Coastal also announced two […]
He said: It was a great afternoon and a great day at the Dublin. Classical music has never been played here before but it certainly has a place here now. They were brilliant, and the audience loved it.
When approaching a Wyclef album you know not to expect traditional Rap music. He has always colored outside the lines, blurring the boundaries of what it’s suppose to sound and feel like. The Carnival Vol. II Memoirs Of An Immigrant (Columbia) is no different. It plays more like a Reggae/Soca album than Hip-Hop, with […]
1. Kids (1995) “Kids was my first movie as music supervisor, and it was a big surprise. Larry Clark had made this crazy movie, we’d created all this music for it, and then we had a Top 40 hit with Natural One, by Folk Implosion. The script was written by Harmony Korine, who I […]
Media Credit: evanescence.com Pop Quiz: What do Chelsea Clinton, General Douglas MacArthur, and rock band Evanescence have in common? If you answered with something like “they all like to rock out with their presidential parents while commanding the pacific fleet,” you would be wrong. The fact is they all were spawned in the great […]
1. The Staple Singers: “The 25th Day of December” This is a classic album that just happens to be about Christmas. The dozen tracks, many traditional spirituals, are rendered seriously and sincerely. Even standards like “Go Tell It on the Mountain” and “Silent Night” are stripped down and laid bare. “The 25th Day of […]
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Concert details: “Out of This World” begins with an out-of-town performance Monday at 8 p.m., at McIntyre Hall, 2501 E. College Way, in Mount Vernon. Then next weekend in Seattle, SWC performs at 8 p.m. Dec. 14 and 15, and 2 p.m. Dec. 16, in Meany Theater on the University of Washington campus. Tickets: […]
New music is always plentiful in New York, if you look beyond the New York Philharmonic and the two big opera companies. But even that qualification may change soon.