Coachella Day ne: Jack Johnson The Raconteurs The Verve
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- Coachella Day ne: Jack Johnson The Raconteurs The Verve
- Hank Williams and all those songs live on
- JAZZ lovers in East London have one more chance this Sunday to catch…
- Concert Wrap ‘” Dickson Street Music Festival Day 1: A musical journey
- Jimmy Giuffre Imaginative Jazz Artist Dies at 86
Coachella Day ne: Jack Johnson The Raconteurs The Verve
Rolling Stone – Apr 26, 2008
The band didn?t disappoint breaking out epic Britpop anthems that set shimmers of sound across the desert night. Singer Richard Ashcroft looked the part of the perfect frontman tapping his chest or pointing skyward crooning with his eyes closed in bare feet and sounding every bit as sharp as he did ten years ago when the band broke in the States. When Ashcroft strapped on an acoustic guitar and strummed the opening chords of the aching ?The Drugs Don?t Work? a canopy of lights covered the field and his plaintive ?I?m never coming down? echoed across the night like a broody threat. ?I?m off to Vegas after this? he announced dedicating ?Bittersweet Symphony? to Hunter S. After playing a mix of older songs and a new track (?Sit and Wonder?) the familiar strains of the orchestrated track had fans sprinting from other parts of the field to watch the band achieve a sort of sonic ecstasy Ashcroft grabbing as his unbuttoned shirt as bassist Simon Jones screamed along without a microphone… He fell to one knee during ?Empty Walls? on a stage engulfed by fog wailing ?Don?t you see the bodies burning? Desolate and full of yearning?? Tankian still best known as the singer for System of a Down then picked up an acoustic guitar to pluck the delicate intro to ?Saving Us? which he described as ?romantic music for the end of civilization. ?As the crowd at the main stage readjusted to accommodate for the influx of Jack Johnson fans the Black Lips played a raucous garage set to a half-full Mojave tent featuring the bopping ?Katrina? (guitarist Cole Alexander also showed off his talent for spitting into the air and catching it in his mouth). ?There were love songs and love lost songs too carried by the warmth of Johnson?s voice and the quiet force of his personality as couple swayed on the grass even when he dropped in a few lines from Led Zeppelin?s ?Whole Lotta Love.
Hank Williams and all those songs live on
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription… – Apr 26, 2008
27 2008 The phone was busy with well-wishers calling on his 81st birthday but Don Helms took time to retrieve his steel guitar from the back bedroom and play some of country music’s most famous songs. The house was filled with the sweet sound of Helms’ still nimble fingers picking out each note. His wife of 63 years Hazel came in from the living room to enjoy the impromptu performance. A sad story accompanied most of the sad songs like the one about the last recording of “Your Cheatin’ Heart” in September 1952. “Hank said ‘Don give me an intro’ and I did” Helms recalled… Williams was country’s first superstar although his reign was brief. But 55 years after his death 2008 is shaping up to be another big revival for the legend which comes complete with tales of dominating women drinking binges and pill popping to ease chronic back pain. Among this year’s Hank Williams highlights: ? The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville has opened “Family Tradition: The Williams Family Legacy. ” The exhibit which runs through December next year depicts the relationships that inspired Williams and his progeny “to create songs that stand among the greatest most influential country music ever recorded” the museum said. ? The state of Alabama is promoting the Hank Williams Trail with brochures and maps that take you from Williams’ birthplace at Mount live and his boyhood home at nearby Georgiana north on his “Memorial Lost Highway” to Montgomery where he lived performed and was buried. The Hank Williams Museum in Montgomery tells the whole story with displays that include the ill-fated Cadillac. ? Hank Williams Tours offers motor coach trips that visit the Hank Williams Boyhood Home & Museum the grave and the Hank Williams Museum in Montgomery Ala.
JAZZ lovers in East London have one more chance this Sunday to catch…
Dispatch nline – Apr 26, 2008
Brothers Harold and Anton Wynkwardt are back home in East London to celebrate the first anniversary of Club Glide in Parkside – and last Sunday night they blew away the jazz lovers who braved the stormy weather to listen to their music. Harold on keyboards and Anton on lead guitar teamed up with lifelong friend and bassist Jerome Bezuidenhout and a local drummer to create an absolutely amazing three hours of impromptu jazz. Anton flew in from Thailand where he earns a living with his Fender Stratocaster and Harold – accompanied by session musician Bezuidenhout – left a busy schedule as a music producer in Johannesburg. Like all nightclubs around the world Club Glide survives by catering for the younger generation on every night except for Sundays. The day of rest is reserved solely for the jazz lover. But little did club owner Les de Free know what he and his customers were in for last Sunday night… The day of rest is reserved solely for the jazz lover. But little did club owner Les de Free know what he and his customers were in for last Sunday night. Harold Anton and Jerome produced a brand of music that jazz fundis in cities like New York and New rleans take for granted. Imagine the joy when you hear a keyboard solo from Harold that reminds you of the great George Duke playing the blues at the famous Casino Lights live concert. If you closed your eyes and forgot you were sitting in Club Glide it could have been George Benson’s fingers floating across his guitar and not Anton Wynkwardt’s or the Jazz Crusaders’ Joe Sample on keyboards and not Anton’s brother Harold caressing your ear drums. This is really no exaggeration. The way they improvised they made the songs they played their own.
Concert Wrap ‘” Dickson Street Music Festival Day 1: A musical journey
nwanews.com – Apr 26, 2008
Hearing them on classic rock radio as often as one does it took seeing them live to know how influenced by R&B and disco ? yes I said it ? the band is. The swirling keyboard work and the multiple-guitar attack contributed to that vibe. They too concentrated on the hits in a set that lasted just longer than an hour. The band played ?Caught Up in You? ?Wild Eyed Southern Boys? ?Rockin? Into the Night? and ?Hold n Loosely. ? Although the group was a little more true to its recordings than was the Charlie Daniels Band. 38 Special still took time to rock out on occasion… 38 Special?s performance it was. He may be labeled as outlaw country.
Jimmy Giuffre Imaginative Jazz Artist Dies at 86
New York Times – Apr 26, 2008
Among the half-dozen instruments he played from bass flute to soprano saxophone it was the clarinet that gave him a signature sound; it was a dark velvety tone centering in the lower register pure but rarely forceful. But among the iconoclastic heroes of the late 1950s in jazz he was a serene oddity changing his ideas as fast as he could record them. His album “Tangents in Jazz” (1955) did away with chordal instruments like piano or guitar two years before… He began playing clarinet at 9. He attended what was then North Texas State Teachers College where he earned a degree in music in 1942; upon graduation he joined the Army for four years playing with a quintet in mess halls at mealtimes and then moved to Los Angeles. After trying graduate work in music he gave it up to study composition privately. In the late 1940s he became a freelance arranger and in some cases saxophonist for a number of big bands. In the early 1950s West Coast cool jazz began and Mr. Usually playing tenor saxophone he was in small groups led by Shorty Rogers Shelly Manne and Howard Rumsey.
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