n the Beat: David Menconi on music
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- Zimbabwe: Francis Dyoko Launches Music Career At 54
- Sans label Radiohead revels in newfound freedom
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- PLAYERS: Mary Elizabeth Boutte vocals; John King guitar; Dan…
n the Beat: David Menconi on music
News & bserver – May 23, 2008
“There are three or four different guitar parts on that song so we’d have to have multiple players to pull it off. He’s that good he just gets that sound with no gadgets or feedback… While X’s bohemian roots-punk sounds downright mainstream today the band never made it above-ground during its early-’80s prime. They broke up in 1989. But now that “alternative music” is a demographic as well as a style bands like X are in demand again. Bonebrake and singer Exene Cervenka with former Lone Justice guitarist Tony Gilkyson filling in for holdout Billy Zoom.
n the Beat: David Menconi on music
News & bserver – May 23, 2008
“There are three or four different guitar parts on that song so we’d have to have multiple players to pull it off. He’s that good he just gets that sound with no gadgets or feedback.
Zimbabwe: Francis Dyoko Launches Music Career At 54
AllAfrica.com – May 23, 2008
He feels he has launched his career at a time when he has achieved a lot materially to sustain him. "f course when one ventures into music in the 50s like what I have done many people will be having a lot of questions marks about you. "But for me I am just doing music for the love of it" he says. The acoustic guitar wizard who is largely self-taught sings with his wife Nancy while a few other session musicians assist him. "I also work with fellow artistes and one such person is George Chakwata (Eden Boys mentor) and we have been holding a series of shows together. "George is also one of the guys running my studio at Gazaland Shopping Centre where a number of artistes hold their rehearsals" he says. Back to Francis’ latest release Ndakuyambira is a competitive effort that has lots of potential to catapult him to the Promised Land.
Sans label Radiohead revels in newfound freedom
San Francisco Chronicle – May 23, 2008
It starts off pretty anxious but the end of `All I Need’ by that point everything is like `Ahhh’ — getting it out of your system. When the band completed 2003’s “Hail to the Thief” they essentially got what ‘Brien calls the “machinery” of the music industry out of their system. Their six-album deal with EMI Music Group expired and they declined all suitors for a new deal. The band was at a crossroads and low on energy. They were disappointed by “Hail to the Thief” which they felt was unfinished. “What was great about `Kid A’ was that it heralded a new period and it meant we went off in some cool new places” said ‘Brien 40. “But the downside was that in the whole period up until the end of `Hail to the Thief’ we picked up some nasty habits… “The reality when we got in there was it still wasn’t good enough. We really had to raise our standards quite a lot. Typically songs begin with Yorke writing something on piano or guitar with vocals and fleshing it out with the multi-instrumentalist Jonny Greenwood. Then the band works together to find the right arrangement a process that can be tortuous. “Videotape” underwent Yorke jokes hundreds of versions before finding the right minimalist sound. “We still sometimes get overawed by the songs” said Greenwood. “We’ll get very attached to a song as an idea in its very basic form but we also know we can’t really leave it like that.
Jazz Listings
New York Times – May 23, 2008
Jazz Standard 116 East 27th Street Manhattan (212) 576-2232 jazzstandard. (Chinen)RALPH BWEN QUINTET (Thursday) Ralph Bowen a proficient and generally underrated tenor saxophonist working in the modern jazz mainstream leads a top-shelf group with John Swana on trumpet Vic Juris on guitar Sam Yahel on organ and Dana Hall on drums. At 8 10 and 11:30 p. Smoke 2751 Broadway at 106th Street (212) 864-6662… org; $30 to $120 for Rose Theater; $60 for Allen Room. (Chinen)BRKLYN JAZZ UNDERGRUND (Friday and Saturday) This young artist collective recently established its own label Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records; this engagement is an album-release party for two of its members. n Friday the bassist Alexis Cuadrado revisits his original music on “Puzzles” and on Saturday the bassist Anne Mette Iversen leads her quartet with and without an accompanying cohort of strings. Jazz Gallery 290 Hudson Street at Spring Street South Village (212) 242-1063.
PLAYERS: Mary Elizabeth Boutte vocals; John King guitar; Dan…
Modesto Bee – May 23, 2008
Her sound is similar to Diana Krall and Sarah Vaughn. BACKSTRY: The group came together by chance when Jazzoni guitarist King met Boutte at one of its shows. Boutte was in the crowd and he asked her if the music was too loud. From there the trio was formed. Together the three bring decades of music experience to the group. ver the past 30 years Boutte has performed with the JB Blues Band More Money Than Sense and as a church soloist. King has played for 40 years and still plays with the Kyle Barker Band… Boutte was in the crowd and he asked her if the music was too loud. From there the trio was formed. Together the three bring decades of music experience to the group. ver the past 30 years Boutte has performed with the JB Blues Band More Money Than Sense and as a church soloist. King has played for 40 years and still plays with the Kyle Barker Band. Bassist Rogers played for more than 30 years in both the Los Angeles area and Central Valley. Since forming the group has played restaurants private parties and opening day for the Modesto Nuts.
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