Extractions: Subscription Fund Subscribe ... Writer's Guidelines ND Alumni Home ... Reflections Mozart, Father Ted and Me by Joseph Lewis Heil '59l On Palm Sunday, 1959, I finished reading The Education of Henry Adams, a required Great Book my last seminar in the General Program at Notre Dame, now called the Program of Liberal Studies. Adams described his German education as a total failure except for his "only clear gain his single step to a higher life." That single step happened at a music hall "drinking beer, smoking German tobacco, and looking at fat German women knitting, while an orchestra played dull music." One day he was surprised to notice that his mind discovered beauty in that dull music: it was a movement of a Beethoven Symphony. Adams declared, "Among the marvels of education, this was the most marvelous." My own music education had no such epiphany. I was raised on good music. My father was a gifted, amateur pianist who did justice to the Steinway 'L' that my mother's father had bought for her back in 1927. That fine ebony grand graced my parent's living room for 61 years until my mother's death in 2002. When I was a youngster, my father played it often. One night I was awakened by my father playing for company. I found the music to be beautiful and choose to listen rather than fall back to sleep. I was only 6. Years later I learned that the piece my father performed that night and many times thereafter was the celebrated
GRAMMY.com pianist, arranger and conductor Joe Harnell died Thursday of heart failure. The partnership is a reflection of the longstanding interest labels have http://www.grammy.com/news/newswatch/2005/0719.aspx
Extractions: NW: Weekly Album Sales Up AW: BMI's Music Recognition Buy-In ... 6th Latin GRAMMY Nominees Announced NewsWatch - July 19, 2005 In our continuing effort to keep our audience informed on the vast amount of arts and industry news, GRAMMY.com's NewsWatch column will complement our regular News, ArtsWatch and EducationWatch coverage by rounding up additional stories as they happen. NewsWatch Pianist Joe Harnell Dies At 80 Pianist, arranger and conductor Joe Harnell died Thursday of heart failure. He was 80. Harnell started his career as a jazz pianist at 14. Throughout his career he worked with Pearl Bailey, Lena Horne, Peggy Lee, and Frank Sinatra, and in the early 1960s he arranged "Fly Me To The Moon Bossa Nova," which garnered him a Best Performance By An Orchestra â For Dancing GRAMMY in 1962. Harnell also scored television shows and films and received three Emmy nominations for best dramatic score. Two California University Systems Sign Cdigix Deal The University of California and California State University systems announced a deal with Cdigix Inc. to offer legal music and movie download services to 600,000 students. Both UC and Cal State are negotiating with other providers to give campuses a broader choice of services. Individual campuses in each system will decide whether they want to finance the services through student fees. According to the Recording Industry Association of America, more than 50 colleges and universities in the United States have already signed deals to offer legal music services to students.
Profile: Joe Cain joseph Caiani was born on January 31st, 1929 in South Philadelphia; The firstLatin leader to hire Caiani was pianist/arranger Rey Dávila (one of his http://www.descarga.com/cgi-bin/db/archives/Profile39?Zwfd9mST;;4211
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KFSR 90.7 FM - Jazz Interviews Archive Recently, KFSR s Joe Moore had a chance to talk with Hank about his long careerin jazz, Composer, pianist and Valley Native Rick Helzer on KFSR http://www.csufresno.edu/kfsr/Jazzinterviews.html
Extractions: KFSR FM 90.7 - Fresno Live Audio Program Schedule Membership ... About KFSR KFSR Jazz Interviews Archive Inside KFSR About KFSR Live Audio Stream Become a KFSR Member Why Support KFSR? ... Contact Us Music Programming Jazz Afternoon Eclectic Other Music Programs Playlists Public Affairs San Joaquin Spotlight EuroQuest Fresno State Weekly What's the Word? ... On the Air Cultural Programs All Things Armenian Hye Oozh The S.E.A. Show Other Info Mission Statement KFSR Staff Underwriting Public Service Announcements ... California State University, Fresno Jazz piano legend Hank Jones talks with KFSR Called the "Dean of Jazz Piano" by the New Yorker, 86 year-old jazz legend Hank Jones has been one on the top piano players in jazz for over 60 years. He's worked and recorded with virtually every major jazz star, including stints with Charlie Parker, Coleman Hawkins, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald and countless others. His own recordings are celebrated as masterpieces of jazz piano. Today, he's more active than ever, with his new cd "For My Father", three recent cds with the Great Jazz Trio, and two new albums as a special guest with saxophonist Joe Lovano. Recently, KFSR's Joe Moore had a chance to talk with Hank about his long career in jazz, his family (his late brothers Elvin and Thad Jones were also major jazz stars), and much more.
Piano Forte News * Amateur Artist Joe Townley Q. As a teen you had dreams of becoming a concert pianist. I wondered if Icould do the same after being away from the piano for so long. http://home.earthlink.net/~mahannon/Html/PF_JTownley_aa.html
Extractions: Q. As a teen you had dreams of becoming a concert pianist. What interrupted that dream? A. I started piano at age 10 and progressed rapidly, winning competitions when I was a teen. I had aspirations of becoming a concert pianist until a dramatic moment changed everything. I was practicing Polanc's Toccata and the final note is the lowest key on the piano. With great gusto and a miscalculation, I struck the block of wood on the piano rather than the low a . I heard a crunch and my finger went numb. The result was nerve damage but I went on to earn a Bachelors and Masters Degree in Music. After 12 years of coping with the recurring finger problem, I decided it was pointless to continue in music and I turned to a career in writing. I stopped playing the piano for 19 years. Q.
SwingT Lloyd Glenn pianist and arranger became the musical director for the label long time R B singer Joe Turner takes his turn on the Swing Time label late http://home.earthlink.net/~jaymar41/SwingT.html
Extractions: THE SWING TIME STORY Swing Time records was originally known as Down Beat, and was formed in Los Angeles in 1947 by Jack Lauderdale a Black record company entrepreneur originally from San Angelo,Texas. In October of 1949 the label changed its name to Swing Beat, and six months later became Swing Time Records.The label started out with a number of recordings by Lowell Fulson, blues singer and guitarist from Tulsa Oklahoma who also was known at various times as "Tulsa Red". Here is a listing of those early recordings from 1947. 110 - Crying Blues / You're Going To Miss Me 111 - Miss Katie Blues / Rambling Blues 112 - Fulson's Blues / San Francisco Blues 113 - The Fulson Boogie / Mean Woman Blues 114 - Trouble Blues / Wanna See My Baby 115 - Black Widow Spider / Don't Be So Evil 116 - Trying To Find My Baby / Highway 99 117 - Thinking Blues / Down Beat Shuffle 118 - Midnight Showers of Rain / So Long, So Long 119 - Wee Hours In The Morning / My Gal At Eight 120 - Bad Luck Blues / I'm Going Away 121 - The Blues Got Me Down 122 - I'm A Poor Boy / My babe 123 - Blues And Women / Sweet Johnny Lee 131 - CS Jam / Household Troubles by Clarence Samuels 133 - Television Blues / Don't You Hear Me Calling You - Lowell Fulson 134 - Demon Woman / Tears At Sunrise - Lowell Fulson 135 - Blues And Misery / Jam That Boogie - Tulsa Red 149 - Deep Sea Diver / A.C. Boogie Blues - Clarence Samuels
Joe Henry's Scar, With Ornette Coleman joehenryscar.jpg (19352 bytes), Coleman continues a long history of showing Others in Henry s eclectic supporting group include pianist Brad Mehldau and http://home.att.net/~dawild/scar.htm
Extractions: Joe Henry - 'Scar' An Ornette Coleman Guest Appearance Coleman continues a long history of showing up in unlikely places, joining rock singer Joe Henry for two tracks on Henry's recent CD Scar. Others in Henry's eclectic supporting group include pianist Brad Mehldau and drummer Brian Blade. Details below: Joe Henry. SCAR Mammoth PRO-CD-65507-2
-= Doodlin' Lounge =- Joe soon heard that pianist Kenny Barron was teaching at Rutgers His parentsquickly realized that this was going to be Joe s lifelong pursuit. http://doodlinlounge.com/artist.html
Extractions: Joe Bagg Among the new generation of Jazz Organists is Los Angeles-based Joe Bagg. His presence on the music scene so far has been nothing short of spectacular. He has revealed character in his music and musical choices; exemplified the importance of maintaining family while pursuing a career in music; and conducted himself wisely in an otherwise difficult industry. Today's Jazz Organ Experience will surely thrive through Joe and others with his attributes and sensibilities. Joe Bagg travels with the 'real thing' (Hammond B-3 & Leslie tone cabinet) although he knows what he needs in his van to get through the gig. "I just bought a Nord Electro-II", he admits, "the keyboard feels good, too. I keep it in the van. It actually rescued me once when my Rhodes broke-down." The New (digitized) Hammond B-3 also interests him. "I've played on it and it's pretty close, man! I'm impressed. The bottom of the key-bed feels authentic and you feel like you can dig into it. The sound is pretty fat. Probably the difference is (like) with one B-3 and another one, you know. There are some B-3s that sound a little thinner than others." In his home, Joe has set up his own recording studio where he can document his work in progress. "I just have a little hard disc recorder made by Korg. It records sixteen tracks and I have some workhorse mics and a couple really good microphones. I've made some home-built baffles that section off the Leslie and the drums from each other. We all just kinda play in the same room. It's kind of a mobile set-up. I can take it to where ever we need to record". This can mean transporting the equipment to a gig. "A lot of times what I do just to document, I'll just take a little MP3 recorder out with a stereo mic but I haven't really recorded many live gigs. Although, I do have one that I'm thinking about…I need to get the 'OK' from everybody involved".
Official Site Of Dr. Joe Utterback - Biography with longterm engagements in such jazz centers as St. Louis, The pianist,already recognized for his improvs, recorded Christmas Eve at the http://www.joeutterback.com/index.jsp?i=1
Joe Barrick's One-man Band Music is a social event for Joe Barrick As long as I can make music and have a pianist Pigmeat Jarrett recalled another performer active at the time http://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/barrick.htm
Extractions: Article MT098 - from Musical Traditions No 8, Early 1990 (slightly updated) Joe Barrick was born of Choctaw parents in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma in 1922. His first musical instrument, at age fifteen, was the mandolin. He recalls that he wanted something light that he could play as he walked down the road. From a musician friend he learned his first three chords, but it wasn't long before three chords were not enough and he soon was teaching himself a more complicated style of mandolin playing and moving on to fiddle and guitar. He walked and hitchhiked all over southeastern-Oklahoma to play for free at dances (or, rather, parties; dances were frowned upon). He learned tunes from other musicians and off the radio. Few books or records were available to him: You'd hear a tune on the radio, then go off and learn it right quick. Didn't have records. Seemed like you learned quite a bit that way. You remembered it! One of Joe Barrick's earliest influences was the music of Bob Wills. He greatly admired his fiddle playing and still plays a lot of tunes associated with him.
USATODAY.com - Motown's Funk Brothers Cast Long 'Shadows' Motown s Funk Brothers cast long Shadows . By Steve Jones, USA TODAY Drummer Uriel Jones, left, and pianist Joe Hunter, original members of Motown s http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2002-11-28-funk-brothers_x.htm
Extractions: OAS_listpos = "PageCount,NavBottom120x90,Top728x90,Zaplet1,FloatBottom,Bottom468x60,VerticalBanner,Poster3"; Classifieds: Cars Jobs Dating USA TODAY ... Weather Movies Movies home Box office report DVD releases Music Music home On the Verge Top albums Top singles ... Listen Up TV TV home Reality Check Nielsen ratings Critic's Corner Books Books home Top 150 books Open Book Excerpts ... Daily haiku contest Columnists Columnists home Robert Bianco Peter Johnson Whitney Matheson ... Craig Wilson More Life Hip Clicks People Crosswords Sudoku ... Talk Today Marketplace Music Tickets Shopping Newspaper ... Classifieds Posted 11/28/2002 7:14 PM Updated 12/5/2002 5:08 PM OAS_AD("VerticalBanner"); Motown's Funk Brothers cast long 'Shadows' By Steve Jones, USA TODAY As Motown's studio band, the Funk Brothers kept those unforgettable grooves bubbling up from the basement at Hitsville USA. Drummer Uriel Jones, left, and pianist Joe Hunter, original members of Motown's house band, still play in Detroit. By Carlos Osorio, AP
Keeper's Long-lost MIDI Files -- All Remember that when I arranged these longlost files, the only MIDI device I They are to be enjoyed by a pianist. Nevertheless, I arranged this one. http://www.armory.com/~keeper/midiall.html
Extractions: NOTE: This is an orchestral/choral file with portamento controls on the voices and so forth which probably will not play properly on anything but another Yamaha XG SoftSynthesizer, with which I composed it. Angelina is a cartoon series concept with a 36-episode storyline by an extremely talented Italian animator friend of mine, Federica Giulietti. Between jobs on various TV shows and at graphics arts studios, she has been working on this concept for close to 10 years, and finished the animated title sequence in 2003. I decided that it should have an original theme, so I wrote this music. It's my first attempt at writing for orchestra. You can view the animation matched with the theme by clicking
Listen To Bad Dog Blues Also like Basie he was an excellent boogie woogie stlye pianist. For a timeMcShann took a long hiatus from music but since the 70 s he s recorded http://www.baddogblues.com/archives/7.99/reviews.htm
Extractions: /p> CD Review Book Review Page 1 of of Reviews section Every month Bad Dog Blues takes a look at the best new blues releases and offers our opinions, criticism and general ramblings. We'll also take a look at noteworthy reissues and blues related books. In addition you'll find a real audio clip from each record we review located on the bottom left. Now on to this months reviews: "And we played it on the sofa, and we played it side the wall But boys, my needles have got rusty, and it will not play at all" (Robert Johnson, Phonograph Blues) Jon Cleary: Moonburn (Virgin) Joe Krown: Carl Sonny Leyland: I'm Wise (Hightone) The remaining tunes are all originals that stray between rockabilly and blues. They remind me of some of the early Sam Phillips fine one. Joe Krown may be the least known of the three, but by no means the least talented. Joe has been the keyboard player for Marva (Dave Moskal) Lazy Lester: All Over You (Antone's) It's been more than forty years since Lazy Lester first walked into the Excello studios and, well, not much has changed. That's a good thing not a bad thing. "All Over You" proves that Lester has weathered the times well with his lonesome high pitched harmonica and engaging drawl well intact. While no new ground is broken this a welcome release and a solid dose of classic swamp blues.
Smith, Huey -- Encyclopædia Britannica Smith, Huey American pianist, bandleader, songwriter, and vocalist, Brigham Youngsucceeded joseph Smith as president of the Mormon Church and led his http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9089508
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Jessica Williams, Jazz Pianist : CURRENTS : Writings Jessica Williams, jazz pianist, writes essays, poetry, liner notes, long liveElvin Jones; the greatest drummer in the world has left us, http://www.jessicawilliams.com/currents/elvin.html
Extractions: Currents Contents Poetry Latest Favorites ... Main Site We miss him. I miss him. I miss 'Trane and Miles and Monk. I miss people I knew well a little more, I guess, like Dexter and Philly Joe and Tony Williams. And I didn't really know Elvin personally. I played one tune with him at the Keystone Korner, and I got hugged by him (and I was drenched with his sweat, all down the front of me, but it was pure water, there wasn't any scent to it, it was just pure clean sweat, cycled through a healthy human body, the healthiest human body you've ever seen) but I didn't know Elvin as a close friend. Then again, I knew him intimately. From A Love Supreme to Transition to Crescent , from his work with Larry Young on Blue Note and his work with Joe Farrell ( Puttin it Together ) to his playing with Earl Fatha Hines(!), I knew every triplet, the placement of every little nuance. I even learned how to play a few things on the drums that sounded a little bit like him, all triplet things, all about shifting the triplets around in different ways. His drumming was organic. It told a story. It was a slipping and sliding backwards and forwards kind of feeling, and the space between the beats, at any tempo, was enormous. So much room to play over, and like a feather bed. Soft and warm and easy to feel. And so many said how loud he was, and I was there at the Keystone and it was two bands: Elvin's quartet, and the great Max Roach and his pianoless band (with Odean Pope and Cecil Bridgewater) and he was a whisper compared to Max. He was a butterfly.
Cleveland.com: Everything Cleveland Johannesen, who died in March, told joseph that pianist Gaby Casadesus, widow ofthe great French pianist Robert Casadesus, was interested in starting a http://www.cleveland.com/piano/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/ispia/112221544726830
King Oliver Oliver went on to record a pair of duets with pianist Jelly Roll Morton that Oliver had a life long sweet tooth. He was famous for his love of sugar http://www.redhotjazz.com/kingo.html
Extractions: Joe Oliver is one of the most important figures in early Jazz. When we use the phrase Hot Jazz, we are really referring to his style of collective improvisation (rather than solos). He was the mentor and teacher of Louis Armstrong Louis idolized him and called him Papa Joe. Oliver even gave Armstrong the first cornet that Louis was to own. Oliver was blinded in one eye as a child, and often played while sitting in a chair, or leaning against the wall, with a derby hat tilted so that it hid his bad eye. Joe was famous for his using mutes, derbies, bottles and cups to alter the sound of his cornet. He was able to get a wild array of sounds out of his horn with this arsenal of gizmos. Bubber Miley is said to have been inspired by his sound. Oliver started playing in New Orleans around 1908. At various times he was a member of several of the marching bands like The Olympia, The Onward Brass Band, The Original Superior and the Eagle Band . He often worked in Kid Ory's band and in 1917 he was being billed as "King" by the bandleader. In 1919 he moved to Chicago with Ory and played in Bill Johnson's The Original Creole Orchestra at the Dreamland Ballroom. He toured with the band, but when he returned to Chicago in
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Extractions: I film e dvd più visti Il Gladiatore Matrix pulp fiction Blow Braveheart Il Signore degli Anelli tre metri sopra il cielo arancia meccanica scarface Fight Club il corvo Il padrino L'attimo fuggente GHOST pearl harbor il miglio verde copertine copertina La vita è bella Blade Runner Dirty Dancing Titanic forrest gump Top Gun 3 metri sopra il cielo C'era una volta in America vanilla sky ARMAGEDDON Trainspotting I soliti sospetti L'avvocato del diavolo star wars troppi Il silenzio degli innocenti The Crow le ali della libertà L'ultimo bacio ritorno al futuro rocky fast and furious SEVEN gladiatore vi presento joe black American History X tutti FULL METAL JACKET The Matrix NESSUNO non ci resta che piangere The ring Paura e delirio a Las Vegas The butterfly effect Che ne sarà di noi save the last dance Spiderman leon La maledizione della prima luna L'ESORCISTA La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano DoNNiE DaRko Gli Intoccabili Il nome della Rosa American Beauty Cruel Intentions quei bravi ragazzi molti Pretty Woman i cento passi L'odio io non ho paura TROY a beautiful mind come te nessuno mai copertine copertina big fish NUOVO CINEMA PARADISO Point Break l'ultimo samurai City Of AngelS balla coi lupi Horror L'Allenatore nel Pallone 2001 odissea nello spazio black hawk down il camorrista il favoloso mondo di amelie fuori in 60 secondi platoon shining boh I guerrieri della notte moulin rouge le iene febbre da cavallo american pie Notting Hill qualcuno volò sul nido del cuculo
Blue Note Records The presence of John Coltranes pianist and drummer, McCoy Tyner and Elvin Jonesrespectively, give this quartet album weight and passion. http://www.bluenote.com/detail.asp?SelectionID=10328
