Weekend in New York | Dominican Culture
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- Weekend in New York | Dominican Culture
- Vieux Farka Toure carries on father’s world-music tradition
- Joni Mitchell is back ‘” and she’s mad
- Neil Young – Chrome Dreams II – Music – New York Times
- Virtuoso infuses baroque works with a lively air
- … – Tyshawn Sorey – Jeremy Pelt – 13th Floor Elevators – Music…
- Photograph From the Experience Music Project Permanent Collection
Weekend in New York | Dominican Culture
New York Times – Oct 28, 2007
But the real excitement is at new spots that have caught on with a diverse upscale crowd. Mamajuana probably the most popular new place draws many from the Dominican-American second generation. Similar to some other newfangled uptown restaurants the menu (and live guitar music at brunch) is more Spanish than Dominican (paella Serrano ham Manchego cheese) but for dessert there’s cr? br? made with majarete a Dominican corn pudding. And at 809 Sangria Bar and Grill the swank spot named after the main area code of the Dominican Republic the menu includes mashed green plantains fried into little cups and filled with seafood. And of course there is music. ld-school merengue halls of yore (i.
Vieux Farka Toure carries on father’s world-music tradition
San Francisco Chronicle – Oct 28, 2007
The opposite is true: Ali tried to discourage his son from becoming a professional musician even sending him to the Malian army for military training. nly in his last few years did Ali accept and encourage his son’s guitar playing. “He always used to tell me how difficult a road it was – I’m convinced that was the reason he didn’t want me to become a musician” says Vieux Farka Toure who performs Nov. 4 in San Francisco as part of the San Francisco Jazz Festival. “He had so many problems himself. He always used to point out ‘See? Look how hard it is… In its 2002 list of “The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time” Rolling Stone magazine put Ali Farka Toure at No. 76 ahead of Neil Young Joan Jett the Doors’ Robby Krieger and Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour. In the West Ali Farka Toure stood out because his music reminded many people of American blues music. Filmmaker Martin Scorsese who profiled Toure for PBS’ 2003 series on the blues went so far as to say that Toure was “the DNA of the blues. ” n Vieux Farka Toure’s album which was released in February blues-like riffs and traditional Malian songs are prominent but Vieux 26 has done something his father never would have: He mixed in reggae on one track and rock ‘n’ roll on another. “The important thing is to always have one foot firmly in tradition and then you can work firmly without that” Vieux Farka Toure says by phone from South Africa where he performed before flying to the United States for a series of concerts. “The fact is I listen on my iPod to a little bit of everything so I carry that into my music.
Joni Mitchell is back ‘” and she’s mad
Providence Journal – Oct 28, 2007
She updated her 1970 hit “Big Yellow Taxi” — her prescient environmental protest song — giving it a lighthearted French-circus music arrangement with some humorous accordion sounds. Mitchell created the music in the studio by herself with just her engineer laying down synthesizer piano and guitar tracks. She later brought in some guests including bassist and ex-husband Larry Klein; Bob Sheppard who adds warm vibrato jazz saxophone solos; and James Taylor whose guitar can be heard on the psalm-like title track. Mitchell’s hiatus from music had allowed her to partially recover from the vocal nodules compressed larynx and muscular degeneration of post-polio syndrome that she felt had limited her vocal range on her last albums. “I think she’s singing better than ever myself” said Klein her longtime musical partner in a telephone interview. “f course her voice has changed dramatically from her early records.
Neil Young – Chrome Dreams II – Music – New York Times
New York Times – Oct 28, 2007
The band on the album which is also his touring band brings together musicians he has worked with in separate projects. Ralph Molina from Crazy Horse is on drums. Ben Keith who has been in Mr. Young’s country-flavored bands since “Harvest” is on guitar and pedal steel guitar. And Rick Rosas who has backed Mr. Young in projects from the Bluenotes to “Living With War” is on bass.
Virtuoso infuses baroque works with a lively air
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Oct 28, 2007
CAMPBELLP-I MUSIC CRITICSteven Stubbs who opened the Seattle Classic Guitar Society’s new season Saturday night at Nordstrom Recital Hall is one of the most distinguished musicians living in Seattle. MUSIC REVIEWSTEVEN STUBBS lute and guitarWHEN: Saturday night. Unlike others of his rank who have moved here Stubbs was born in the city left for university and proceeded to Europe — the Netherlands and England — for further study and work… He continues to perform widely as well as record. Stubbs also is known as an opera director with any number of international productions in his resume. Since 2003 he has been co-artistic director with Paul ‘Dette of the Boston Early Music Festival one of the most prestigious period music festivals in the United States. The program was neatly divided into baroque lute in the first half and baroque guitar in the second where he was joined by baroque harpist Maxine Eilander. Two large suites dominated the first half: one in D Minor by 18th-century composer Silvius Leopold Weiss and one in G Minor by Bach. The Weiss was not so compelling no fault of Stubbs and the Bach was among his less-inspired creations. Nevertheless to hear a lute played with such finesse and technical acumen despite the occasional smudge was a revelation.
… – Tyshawn Sorey – Jeremy Pelt – 13th Floor Elevators – Music…
New York Times – Oct 28, 2007
The setup here is tolling electric piano shredding electric guitar bass drums and Mr. Pelt’s trumpet run through a wah-wah pedal. ne track even features the folkish singer Becca Stevens. For sure a bit of it sounds like an exercise in style. But there’s art here too… ” This music “simply is” he writes. “It does not want or need. ” Much of the music here is written for a quartet with drums bass piano and trombone and some tracks (like “Sacred and Profane”) use all of them at once working in something like the post-’60s jazz-vanguard tradition of small gestures open space and European classical harmony. But there’s also “Permutation for Solo Piano” right out of.
Photograph From the Experience Music Project Permanent Collection
New York Times – Oct 28, 2007
)Archival photographs letters childhood drawings and a 70-minute CDare brought together in this interactive chronicle of Hendrix’s life. Abovefragments of Hendrix’s guitar after he smashed it in concert 1967… Drawing from original interviews with Iggy (n?ames Newell sterberg Jr. ) and his countless accomplices over the years Trynka a former editor at the obsessive British music magazines Mojo and Q has constructed a comprehensive portrait of the seemingly indestructible rock provocateur one that touches all the familiar bases in recounting Iggy’s riotous ascent from suburban Michigan schoolboy to frontman of the Stooges to solo artist with an intermittently transcendent career to composer of a drug-inspired hit song that became the jingle for a luxury cruise line. Events commonplace to a music industry narrative are described as if they’d never occurred before (Iggy’s split from the producer John Cale was the result of “a classic edipal sentiment”) and some excellent recordings are occasionally oversold to an already willing readership (the Stooges’ self-titled debut album “was underpinned with an intellectual thesis to a far greater extent than is normally realized”). When Trynka writes about Iggy’s childhood however he discovers a genuinely surprising side of his subject: an astute young statesman who was voted most likely to succeed by his junior high classmates and who signed a friend’s yearbook “from the 43rd president of the United States. PRACTICING A Musician’s Return to Music.
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