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String Cheese To Play Electric Forest Festival With Soul Rebels
SCI to play The Electric Forest Festival this Summer with Bassnectar, Girl Talk, Thievery Corporation, and of course the Soul Rebels! Some price levels for this festival have already sold out just days after going on sale. Last year Electric Forest drew over 34,000 to the wilds of western Michigan.
The Survival Of Fred Hersch
Hardly a straight-ahead bopper or a swing revivalist, a player too romantic for the avant-garde and far too serious for the lounges, Hersch is an artist indifferent to genre and unbeholden to musical fashion. Feature by David Hajdu for THE NEW YORK TIMES
Sunny Jain And Red Baraat Make Bangers From Bhangra
"Wynton [Marsalis] said, 'Man, this sounds like New Orleans!'...that cross-relation of those rhythms, that feel, that buoyancy, that swing that Punjabi music has, that the dhol has." By Siddhartha Miller for THE BOSTON GLOBE
McCaslin Makes Globe's Top 2011 Jazz Albums
No saxophonist is more deserving of wider recognition than McCaslin, and this acoustic-electric effort may be his best yet. List by Steve Greenlee BOSTON GLOBE
Talkin' Music With Tinsley Ellis
Blues-Rocker Tinsley Ellis talks with Mike Tobin of TIMESSQUARE.COM about how he got into blues, those boys from Liverpool, Wayne Shorter, BB King and BB King's and what music means to him.
Preservation Hall At Carnegie Hall Celebrating 50 Years
For Pres Hall, the Blind Boys of Alabama, the Del McCoury Band, My Morning Jacket and Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def), among others, were on hand. As were the New Orleans-born musicians Trombone Shorty and Allen Toussaint. Review by Jon Pareles for THE NEW YORK TIMES
Tyrann Mathieu Plays Jazz (ESPN)
Soul Rebels, Shannon Powell, Cottonmouth Kings and Kermit Ruffins on Tyrann Mathieu's style of play. VIDEO by ESPN
Saxophone Colossus Sonny Rollins Receives Kennedy Center Honor
34th Kennedy Center Awards honor Sonny Rollins. Chairman David M. Rubinstein told the audience, “Saxophonist Sonny Rollins’ masterful improvisation and powerful presence have infused the truly American art form of jazz with passion and energy.” Story by Stacey Doyle for EXAMINER.COM
"I'll Fly Away" Named 5th best song in 2011
“I’ll Fly Away” is a tune with a long history in American music; it’s a standard for New Orleans brass bands playing at jazz funerals, it’s heavily favored by gospel musicians, and has been a standard part of the bluegrass repertoire for decades. Review by Sarah Zupko for POP MATTERS
Callaways Sparkle Up Yuletide
Ann Hampton Callaway and sister Liz Callaway, two marvelously gifted and appealing divas whose sincerity and warmth shone through as hosts and performers. Review by Tom Alvarez for THE EXAMINER
