DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies. U. S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is the most senior member of the Conservative supermajority that now dominates the court, giving him ...
05.31.2023 Kunm.org and 12 sitesIf you wanna get ahead… Sultan Stevenson is at Pizza Express Soho HATS have a small but significant place in the history of jazz. Think of the plaintive Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, written by Charles Mingus...
06.01.2023 Camdennewjournal.com and 3 sitesOn Saturday, June 3rd from 7 to 10pm the Waldo Theatre in Waldoboro will host three Midcoast Maine bands, celebrating the power of original composition and improvisation in music. Simplexity is led by...
05.31.2023 Wiscassetnewspaper.comHampton Hawes - one of the bright, shining lights of the West Coast Cool School. Hampton Hawes Trio – live at Red Hill Inn, Pennsauken, New Jersey May 4, 1957 – Bandstand U. S. A. – Mutual – Gordon Sk...
06.04.2023 Pastdaily.com“To a man with a hammer, ” goes the old saying, “everything is a nail. ” Such is the case with Australian avant garde drummer Oren Ambarchi, who in a moment of serendipity laid eyes on an electric guitar and, well let him tell it: “There happened to be one laying around in our rehearsal room. I picked it up and starting hitting it with drumsticks and using it in whatever way I wanted to use it in, and one thing led to another. I’m glad I wasn’t trained… I never wanted to learn to play it properl...
06.05.2023 Thevinyldistrict.comWashington Report on Middle East Affairs, June/July 2023, pp. 40-41 Special Report By Emilie Pons “A CULTURE WITHOUT ART is not a culture, ” says New York- based qanun performer Firas Zreik. “Creating...
06.01.2023 Wrmea.orgNo matter who she worked with, Joni Mitchell left an impression on just about everyone who entered her orbit. Sometimes that would be pioneering jazz giants like Charles Mingus or titanic peers like B...
06.06.2023 Faroutmagazine.co.uk and 1 sitesLook out for a massive retrospective from England's greatest Coltranian as Mark Wastell's remarkable avant-garde Confront label is issuing a vast record of achievement by Alan Skidmore entitled A Supr...
06.02.2023 Marlbank.netTomas Majcherski playing in front of a painting by his mother, Priscilla Heine, titled "Monkey in the Middle. " Gordian Raacke Much has been written about the connection between music and philosophy. ...
06.01.2023 Easthamptonstar.com and 1 sitesIn the best of all possible worlds, Duncan Heining’s biography will be the cornerstone of the edifice that time will erect to the memory of George Russell and his gift to music. Whether that will happen or not remains to be seen. In some ways, becaus...
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