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The artist known as Jill Scott
This is not something I decided to do overnight. I ve studied improvisation, I ve studied the Method, and I ve studied Shakespeare. I ve performed in plays and musicals both on and off Broadway (most notably in the musical Rent). I turned down the chance to be in Chicago cause it clashed with [...]
iPod dance party lends something new to Capitol
I didn’t see any political signs. The main agenda of the event was smileage. You know, smileage: how many laughs you can get per gallon of daylight. “So, you know, we pay for the space with our tax dollars, so why not use it for something that’s fun?” explained Angel Schatz, 29, the self-proclaimed [...]
Tuning up for the Santa Fund
NASHUA – Playing piano with one hand, music director Sophia Santerre snapped her fingers with the other, trying to keep up the pace as students did a run-through of Wassail, Wassail on Thursday afternoon. As soon as the students finished the song, Santerre asked them what they had discussed the other day that they didn [...]
The spy, the piano man and a fateful cup
There, he said, he began writing songs, and some of them seemed to strike a chord with others. His “A Sad and Lonely Man,” which recounts a man “walking the streets at night, . . . no better place to be,” was a runner-up in the jazz and blues category in this year’s UK Songwriting [...]
Chicago Jazz Composers Collective at the Green Mill
Matt Holman Trumpeter and composer Matt Holma n has established himself as a creative composer and improviser throughout the United States and internationally. Matt has been the recipient of numerous awards, notably first prize in the 2004 International Trumpet Guild Jazz Competition in Denver, Colorado and second prize in the prestigious 2007 Carmine Caruso [...]
Modi faces music, gets an earful of Patel rap
New Delhi/Ahmedabad: The discomfort shows. Narendra Modi and Keshubhai Patel have fallen apart and much there is no way of breaking the wall of silence between them. The Patel patriarch was the first to raise his voice against Modi within the Gujarat BJP more than five years ago. Now the BJP leadership finds it [...]
Iran Plans to Crackdown on Rap Music
Iran said it plans to launch a crackdown on rap music, complaining that the words used by rap artists were obscene , the state IRNA news agency reported Thursday. There is nothing wrong with this type of music in itself, the official for evaluation of music at the Culture and Islamic Guidance Ministry, Mohammad [...]
Led Zeppelin Will “Rock” Their Fans for One More Time
Millions of fans will be able to meet their gods coming Monday, at London’s O2 Arena, when Led Zeppelin will reunite for the first time since 1980 for the Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert. The three remaining members of the band, singer Robert Plant, 59, guitarist Jimmy Page, 63 and Bassist John Paul Jones together [...]
Giving music the Bedingfield effect
His second time in the country, he is familiar with all things Indian. “I have a lot of Indian friends in New Zealand and also in London. In fact my flatmate is from Kerala; I love the language Malayalam! Of course the other things include parathas and the roadside ‘chaat’ — I absolutely love [...]