Image: Steven Morris Just prior to Nintendo Life VGM Fest kicking off in mid-August, we were contacted by Steven Morris — a musician and prolific producer of VGM covers — about a recent project he had undertaken to fuse music from the Legend of Zelda series with the relaxing tones […]
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Tom Manuel Keeps the Music Playing at SBU and The Jazz Loft |
Tom Manuel performing at The Jazz Loft in February 2020. Photo by John Griffin Tom Manuel got his first jazz infusion at a family event when he was growing up. “I clearly remember lying on the grass and hearing a deejay play Glenn Miller’s ‘In the Mood,’” recalled the Lake […]
Jazz pioneer Mulatu Astatke: ‘All I do is play my music’
In the swinging Addis Ababa of 1973, Mulatu Astatke played a joint concert at the fashionable Hilton hotel with American jazz legend Duke Ellington before an audience including Emperor Haile Selassie. Ethiopia was modernising and Ellington’s visit, sponsored by the US embassy, symbolised the proud African country’s openness to western […]
‘It didn’t adhere to any of the rules’: the fascinating history of free jazz | Documentary films
When Miles Davis first heard the music of Eric Dolphy, a key figure in the free jazz movement, he described it as “ridiculous”, “sad” and just plain “bad”. Upon encountering the early sounds of free jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman, Thelonious Monk said “there’s nothing beautiful in what he’s playing. He’s […]
Everything about the World’s oldest instrument: The Drums
Over the past seven thousand years and above, the entire mankind civilization has witnessed drastic changes. From pre-historic times to the modern-age civilization, humans have embraced the changes with open arms that have enabled them to become what they are today. These particular changes aren’t just restricted to the development […]
Fuzz Was The Future: How a happy accident sparked the rock revolution of the 60s | Guitar.com
Last month, I explained how a ride in my dad’s truck with Marty Robbins’ 1959 Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs as the soundtrack, stoked my passion for music, and how to my surprise, later in life, Marty was directly involved in guitar’s evolution toward the guitar sounds we find common today. […]
Virtuoso Keyboardist Jamie Saft to Play Jazz in the Woods Benefit
Jamie Saft sits at a Yamaha organ in his studio in Alna on Saturday, Aug. 21. Saft, a piano virtuoso, has performed with legends of jazz, rock, and creative music including Iggy Pop, Wadada Leo Smith, Roswell Rudd, Bad Brains, John Zorn,The B-52s, Bobby Previte, Steve Swallow, and the Beastie […]
Jonny Greenwood on writing the soundtrack for new Princess Diana biopic ‘Spencer’
Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood has announced that he’s releasing a soundtrack album of his music for new Princess Diana biopic, Spencer. Spencer will be the latest from director Pablo Larraín, starring Kristen Stewart in the lead role as the late Princess Diana. The film also marks Greenwood’s ninth soundtrack, following […]
Larry Harlow was Jewish, not Latino. But ‘El Judio Maravilloso’ changed the world of Latin music.
(JTA) — Fania Records, often called the “Motown of Latin Music,” announced the passing of Larry Harlow on social media last week. Once the record label broke the news on Aug. 20, a who’s who of Latin music offered tributes. “Larry’s contributions to what today is known as salsa are […]
2021 ACF | create and Minnesota Music Creator Awards Announced
American Composers Forum (ACF) is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s ACF | create and Minnesota Music Creator Awards, made possible with funding from the Jerome Foundation. The awardees of ACF | create are Sonya Belaya, Pablo Santiago Chin, Renée Copeland, Vicente Hansen Atria, and Alicia Waller. Minnesota […]