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Five can't-miss albums show musician's evolution
Tom Waits' albums span folk, country, rock, avant-garde jazz and the spoken word.
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THIS WEEK IN THE ARTS
CLASSICAL MUSIC • The "Music in Our Garden" series will premiere at 2:30 p.m. today in the sculpture garden of the Columbus Museum of Art, 480 E. Broad St. Jim Akins , principal tuba of the Columbus Symphony, will play a program of music on the American Indian flute. A tour of the garden will begin a half-hour before the concert. Admission is $10, or free for those younger than
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Esperanza Spalding's CD blends jazz, Brazil, hip-hop
Esperanza Spalding, a 23-year-old bassist, vocalist and composer from Portland, Ore., is so wildly talented that when her publicity material announces that she "might well be the hope for the future of jazz and instrumental music," it seems like a reasonable proposition. But Spalding, whose new album, "Esperanza" (Heads Up International), is a sprawling collage of jazz fusion, Brazilian and even ...
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Chronicling city's jazz history
Vocalist, and now author, Tamm E Hunt is compiling Baltimore's rich music legacy Jazz vocalist Tamm E Hunt is an encyclopedia of jazz knowledge: She rattles off names of Baltimore jazz musicians, past and present, as if she were reading from the phone book.
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MUSIC ON TV
Who Billy Idol
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Combating illiteracy
St. Landry and Evangeline Parishes will be the first area in Louisiana to implement a reading program founded by country music legend Dolly Parton.
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A Bard day's night
Utah Shakespearean Festival wants to make you feel all right with 'Cyrano de Bergerac,' World War II-themed 'Taming of the Shrew' Cody Clark Most people who crack open "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare" or grab a ticket to see one of his plays performed probably aren't intending to work out -- even Richard Simmons isn't sweatin' to the oldies from 1603 or 1594. Don't, however, tell that ...
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Travel briefs
The folks who run CruiseCompete.com have launched a new Web site for travelers interested in all-inclusive vacations: ResortCompete.com.
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MARK STRYKER: Celebrated composers embraced scores of influences
The 1938 vintage was good for Bordeaux but stupendous for American composers. Close to 20 classical notables were born that year, including four getting the royal treatment at this year's Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival -- William Bolcom, John Harbison, Joan Tower and John Corigliano.
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PLAYLIST: Fresh thoughts on new music
There may be no band better equipped to tackle the '80s with feel-good nostalgia than Mötley Crüe. With "Saints of Los Angeles" (*** out of four stars, Motley Records), the glam-metal elders happily careen back through time, to an age when rock stars were rock stars, tattoos were actually menacing, and you could write songs about groupies without everyone looking for the ironic joke.
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MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE
Water filter aims to save; headphones can call home; Wii will rock you; a colorful monitor that's a 'Dream'; and music mixers. Cardo S-2 Bluetooth stereo headphones$54, Cardowireless.com As we inch even closer to gadget convergence, more and more...
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Beach could land big festival
Fort Lauderdale is teaming up with concert-booking giant Live Nation to bring a three-day music festival to the beach next spring -- at no cost to the city.
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Rain fails to dampen music celebration
MUNCIE -- Mid-afternoon, it poured on the Black Music Month Celebration at McCulloch Park. Vendors and volunteers struggled to keep tents and awnings from blowing away, and children sang 'Rain, rain go away' as they peeked out from under cover.
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CD REVIEWS / Sigur RÓs / Rock
RATING: (ALERT VIEWER) If you have spent the past decade lying awake wondering what Sigur Rós front man Jon Por Birgisson is singing about in his famously made-up language, here's some good news: The Icelandic quartet's fifth album includes its first song...
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Arts groups get more creative with money
MUNCIE — Performing arts organizations know all about being creative. It’s their job. But in order to stay alive, many are looking for ways to bring that creativity to another part of the business. Fundraising.
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CD review: 'A Catered Affair'
RATING: (SNOOZING VIEWER) Harvey Fierstein piles too much baggage onto Gore Vidal's skimpy screenplay (based on Paddy Chayefsky's teleplay) in this new Broadway musical, a rare misstep by director John Doyle. Adding an obstreperous gay uncle (himself) to the...
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BAILEY, 41, AND MILEY, 33
May 18 - The music was pumping at Puck Fair three years ago, but when the evening's entertainment, bluegrass musician and singer Thomas Bailey, locked eyes with Mozell Miley, the silence was deafening. "Our eyes really did meet across a crowded room...
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FRESH
THEATER Oh My Godmother! , Zeum Theater (Thurs.-July 26). MUSIC Los Lobos, Ani DiFranco, Taj Mahal, David Lindley , more, Kate Wolf Memorial Music Festival, Black Oak Ranch, Laytonville (Mendocino County) (Fri.-next Sun.). MOVIES Opening Friday: Brick Lane (...
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City preps for a bigger Stars & Stripes Festival Mt. clemens
More food. More art. More music. More fun. That's how organizers are describing the second annual Stars & Stripes Festival, which kicks off next weekend in downtown Mt. Clemens.
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GIRL MEETS 'GUYVILLE' AGAIN
Fifteen years ago, Liz Phair's provocative debut, "Exile in Guyville," hit the music scene like a maelstrom. Throughout her native city of Chicago, her sexually explicit, lo-fi album was passed around by cool college girls and their little sisters...
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HERBIE HANCOCK
Piano man speaks of Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell and how winning that Grammy really was all that jazz.Your impression of Herbie Hancock probably stems from when you grew up. If you're a child of the baby boomer generation, then you know him as the...
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TWO'S COMPANY
It's safe to say that Three 6 Mafia has traveled the most improbable road to hip-hop stardom.Together for 17 years, the music veterans never tossed boatloads of money at A-list producers, over-saturated their albums with guest spots or even started...
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Tom Waits show a magical moment to remember
A cop on stage. A key to the city from a councilwoman in a black dress. A startled singer in a bowler hat at a piano. Photo gallery: Tom waits performs at the Plaza Theatre
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Racer benefits from rival's mishap at Motorplex
Andy Johnson raced for second place in most of Saturday night's Late Model race at Music City Motorplex.
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Rotary Picnic' concert series starts Saturday
PILESGROVE TWP. The sixth annual "Picnic in the Park" Summer Concert Series presented by the Woodstown Rotary Foundation and the Rotary Club of Woodstown kicks off on Friday, June 27.
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