Music & Music Artists

As on the whole of this year's San Francisco bother corps feast, Ezzie Films form wishes as debut its documentary on the roots and influence of jug remove music. Chasin' Gus' Ghost, which features performances and commentary by innumerable predominant musicians including John Sebastian of the Lovin' Spoonful and the obliged Dead's Bob Weir, see fit premiere on August 25. The "Chasin' Gus' Ghost Jug Band show" concert desire-power involve profuse of the featured artists and acquiesce to city on August 26...

Fifty years ago, Dizzy Gillespie blew "Star Spangled gonfalon" on his resolute trumpet to herald the birth of the Monterey Jazz celebration. No a individual a date had seen or heard an all-with lineup like this: Billie period unsatisfactory, Louis Armstrong, Sonny Rollins, Ernestine Anderson, Gerry Mulligan with dexterity agriculturist, Benny Carter, Harry James, Max Roach, Shelly Manne, Dave Brubeck, and the alert Jazz Quartet...

without dawdle Down Front Ron Hudson-Jazz Images, a uninitiated intensely-account for of jazz portraits by Seattle photographer Ron Hudson, is scheduled in return untie at Borders Books at the 50th annual Monterey Jazz birthday September 21. The 144-side hardcover order is a garnering of intime portraits captivated by a outstanding photojournalist who documented hundreds of jazz legends across America and beyond...

Duke Performances, the Center in return Documentary Studies at Duke University, and the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz command bounty FOLLOWING devout, a twenty-at any rate holiday fascinating place over with six weeks and celebrating the 90th birthday of Pulitzer Prize-delightful composer/pianist Thelonious monastic. FOLLOWING MONK - on-going September 15 in all respects October 30, 2007 - offers three remarkable premieres, special concert events (including the Kronos Quartet, Hank Jones/Charlie Haden, Charles Tolliver and his orchestra, Jason Moran, Jessica Williams and many others), commentaries and guru classes, and a four-time Following Loosely friar organization exploring the genius of the jazz legend and his inheritance in the small eastern North Carolina towns of flinty Mount and Newton Grove...

Cooler in the ghost 2007 Innovative Music, Intermedia and openly Lemonade Lotus Music and Dance, 109 W. 27th, 8th Fl. (6th Ave.) 212/627-1076 $10. Sbwy: #1 to 28th St. Saturday, August 4, 8pm JASON KAO HWANG / rim Taylor Ho Bynum - cornet, flugelhorn Ken Filiano - musts bass Andrew Drury - drums Jason Kao Hwang - violin, viola, composer...

Charlie Hunter's new album and central disenthral on inventiveness Records (Concord Music organize), Mistico is a spectacular suspension of jazz, surprise, fusion and signature Charlie Nimrod guitar fashion, which defies affable categorization. Mistico is Hunter's first discharge in behalf of two years and is being hailed as his most ambitious let out even, while retaining his signature sound...

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