Stories for May 20, 2019
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Watch Silkroad's Haruka Fujii and Kaoru Watanabev with dueling taiko drums
Posted At : May 19, 2019 12:00 AMWatch Pavarotti EPK soundbites from SocialNews.XYZ
Posted At : May 19, 2019 12:00 AMWith 9 dates in 9 Australian cities this month, ZOFO speaks with MusicaVivaAustralia
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Watch Alex DePue open for Jefferson Starship in Solana Beach CA
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Olafur Arnalds becomes Apple Music curator for 'Peaceful Music' playlist / udiscovermusic.
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Sarah McKenzie speaks with CapRadio's Gary Vercelli
Posted At : May 17, 2019 12:00 AM
Lara Downes & Hila Plitmann at Comunity makes LA Weekly's '12 best music shows this week in L.A.'
Top 10 for May
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Angelique Kidjo :
Celia
On April 19, Angélique Kidjo will release Celia (Verve/Universal Music France), an album that honors Celia Cruz, widely known as "the Queen of Salsa" and the most popular Latin artist of the 20thcentury. -
Luciano Pavarotti :
PAVAROTTI OMP
From the filmmaking team behind the highly-acclaimed documentary The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years, PAVAROTTI is a riveting film that lifts the curtain on the icon who brought opera to the people. -
Seth MacFarlane :
Once In A While
Seth MacFarlane will release his fifth album Once In A While (Verve and Republic) digitally, and the physical CD will be available on April 26th. -
Radical Face :
Therapy
"Hello, Hope, it's been a while," go the opening lines of "Dead Ends", the centerpiece of Ben Cooper's latest EP as Radical Face. -
Philip Bailey :
Billy Jack from 'Love Will Find A Way'
For over 50 years, Earth Wind and Fire provided the soundtrack to the lives of many. -
The Stan Getz Quartet :
Getz at The Gate
On November 26, 1961, saxophonist Stan Getz and his relatively new quartet of Steve Kuhn, John Neves, and Roy Haynes performed at New York's Village Gate. -
Sarah McKenzie :
Secrets of My Heart
After the great success of Sarah McKenzie's 2017 disc, Paris in the Rain(Impulse! Records), the 31-year-old pianist, singer, and composer returns with the poignant, Secrets of My Heart, reuniting with noted Australian composer, arranger, and events music director, Chong Lim, who produced her first two discs – Don't Tempt Me and Close Your Eyes. -
Vikingur Olafsson :
Bach - Reworks
Following his critically-acclaimed Johann Sebastian Bach album, pianist Vikingur Ólafsson releases a double LP of Bach Reworks, featuring new arrangements of his Bach transcriptions from electronic artists such as Valgeir Sigurðsson and Ben Frost (Prelude BWV 855a), Peter Gregson (Above and Below, B Minor), and Ryuichi Sakamoto (BWV 974 – II Adagio – Rework). -
Ilan Eshkeri :
The White Crow OMPS w/Lisa Batiashvili
Half-hearted concessions to freedom of expression were not enough to hold Rudolf Nureyev in the Soviet Union. -
Ludovico Einaudi :
Seven Days Walking - Day 1
Ludovico Einaudi has played piano on an Arctic glacier, performed at huge pop music festivals, and become the most-streamed classical artist in the world, but the composer and pianist's new album may be his most ambitious project yet.
John Scofield plays 'Quiet' and 'Loud' on NPR - Jazz Night In America
NPR: Jazz Night In America Almost exactly 30 years ago, guitarist John Scofield recorded an album he evocatively titled Loud Jazz. Not quite a decade later, he made one called Quiet. Both albums were statements of intent, widely embraced and justly acclaimed. And despite the obvious differences between the two, both were genuine expressions of Scofield's musical personality, which has always been more flexible than those extreme dynamic markings would seem to suggest. Scofield, of course, is one of the most prolific and admired jazz musicians of his generation, an ace with boppish phraseology as well as bluesy inflection. He's 65 now, and by some measures you could even say he's at the height of his career.
He won two Grammy awards this year for his most recent solo album, Country For Old Men. He also won one in 2016, for his previous release, Past Present. He's currently on the road with Hudson, an all-star collective whose other members - drummer Jack DeJohnette, keyboardist John Medeski and bassist Larry Grenadier - share his willingness to split the difference between lyrical grace and circuitous groove. (The group just released a self-titled debut, so don't be shocked if there's yet another nomination in the works.)
Jazz Night In America caught up with Scofield this past spring, just before he played a concert called "Quiet And Loud Jazz" in Jazz at Lincoln Center's Appel Room. One portion of the night featured a reunion of the Loud Jazz crew, with partners like bassist Gary Grainger and drummer Dennis Chambers. Another portion recreated the chamber arrangements from Quiet, with Scofield's longtime foil Joe Lovano standing in for Wayne Shorter on saxophones. The idea was to both acknowledge and bridge the distance between the two disparate albums, which might have been more difficult were it not for Scofield's sly consistency. "It's not like other famous jazz musicians, where their style changes, you know, decade to decade," says Jim Beard, the veteran keyboardist on hand for the Loud Jazz half of the concert. "He sounds very similar to what he sounded like, you know, 30 years ago. I don't think he sounds that different. And it's just such a strong personal style that that's amazing."
LISTEN TO THE NPR: Jazz Night In America SEGMENT
Crossover Media Projects with John Scofield
