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Being There: Your Weekly Concert Review Wrap-up - Esperanza Spalding, We Are Scientists, Matt Costa, And More
Esperanza Spalding Nighttown, Wednesday, August 6 During an interview prior to this show, singer-bassist Esperanza Spalding warned me that her recent self-titled album is the "safe-listening version" of what her band does live. Her concert to a sold-out house at Nighttown proved she wasn't just tossing around empty threats. Opening with "Jazz (Ain't Nothin' but Soul)," a tune ...
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Local Dirt: The Piano Man - Harry Bacharach returns with Live from the Velvet Tango Room
By Anastasia Pantsios The best way to discover the Velvet Tango Room is by accident. With the ambience of a high-end mens' club of a half-century ago, meticulously mixed drinks and top-notch jazz musicians tickling the keys of the baby grand, it seems to have dropped from another world into the nondescript neighborhood of modest homes that bridges Tremont and Ohio City. In fact, its exterior ...
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Locals Only: Local Disc Reviews
Cleveland Jazz Project Experiment 1 (www.myspace.com/clevelandjazzproject) The four young musicians (ages 19-21) in the Cleveland Jazz Project met at Cleveland Heights High School and have been playing together for three years. Their debut album shows confident players who've already developed instinctive ensemble skills that allow them to take off on exploratory flights more ...
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Music: Around Hear: Black Label - Keys Frontman Forms Label For Jessica Lea Mayfield
By D.X. Ferris Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach has co-founded Polymer Sounds to release Kent musician Jessica Lea Mayfield's upcoming record, With Blasphemy, So Heartfelt. Auerbach's partner in the project is Jody White, Mayfield's Tennessee-based manager. "Jessica, Dan and I all had a specific vision of how we wanted to market the album, and we were anxious to release it," explains White. ...
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Music: Culture Jamming: Touchdown!
By Michael Gallucci TOP PICK NCAA Football 09 (EA Sports) What better way to celebrate the back-to-school season than with this features-stuffed videogame for pretty much every platform? NCAA has become just as indispensable as Madden’s annual offering, and it keeps getting better each year. The latest edition includes an online dynasty that spans a whopping 60 seasons and a mode where mascots ...
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Music: Devine Right - Kill Hannah founder on his new approach
By Michael Alan Goldberg “This isn’t like cheating on your wife; this is more like cheating on your abusive, negligent wife. It doesn’t feel bad. It actually feels good.” Over the phone from a tour stop in Florida, Mat Devine — founder and frontman of the Chicago quintet Kill Hannah — isn’t talking about partaking in some groupie action, though he and the rest of his gothy, glammy, ...
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Miyamoto 'Banned' From Talking About Hobbies
walshy007 writes "After Shigeru Miyamoto developed a love of puzzles, the "brain-training" software that has proved to be an international "killer application" on the Nintendo DS console was born. He became interested in taking more exercise, and Wii Fit was created. He took up music lessons, and Wii Music was the result. Now, according to sources at Nintendo, the games designer has been banned ...
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Music: Revolutionary Theory - Linkin Park remains ambitious
By Ed Condran When Linkin Park organized the initial Projekt Revolution tour in 2002, the rap-rockers were all about putting on a show that featured a groundbreaking, diverse musical caravan. "Back when we started this tour, our idea was to showcase groups that were doing something revolutionary," Linkin Park rapper/keyboardist/guitarist Mike Shinoda says in a conference call. "That's ...
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Music Calendar: Your Weekly Music Calendar
Trance in his Pants Paul Van Dyk at Cyrus Waterfront, Thursday August 14 DJ Paul Van Dyk bristles when asked what it's like to jet-set all over the world. "I have been all over the place," he admits via phone from his studio in Berlin, Germany. "I came back last weekend after going to Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore before that. But you know, the word jet-set implies that this is ...
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Concert Box: Your Concert Calendar
THIS WEEK THURSDAY, AUG. 14 Bullet for My Valentine/Bleeding Through/Cancer Bats: 6:30 p.m., $25. House of Blues, 308 Euclid Ave., 216-523-2583. Cleveland Jazz Project: $10. Nighttown, 12387 Cedar Rd., Cleveland Hts., 216-795-0550. Jah Works: 9:30 p.m., $5. The Brothers Lounge, 11609 Detroit Ave., Lakewood, 216-226-2767. Jimmy's Chicken Shack: 7 p.m., $10. Peabody's, 2083 E. 21st St., ...
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Discourse Feature: Tin Pan Man - Randy Newman's Harps and Angels is worth the wait
By Brian Baker From the very start, Randy Newman has been a rare commodity in the music industry. A contemporary songwriter with a Tin Pan Alley sensibility and an affinity for the Great American Songbook, Newman has also served as a laser-sighted social critic who offers glimpses into humanity's ills through straight reportage or wily narrative. In recent years, Newman has turned his talents ...
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Arts Calendar: Great Big Brass Ones
By Michael Gill EMPIRE BRASS The Empire Brass is a musically promiscuous ensemble that stretches the already-broad repertoire typically espoused by brass quintets. It's common for its ilk to mix baroque and classical composers like Bach, Handel and Mozart with jazz in a single program. But trumpeters Rolf Smedvig and Marc Brian Reese, French hornist Michelle Perry, trombonist Mark Hetzler and ...
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Namibia: Principal Faces the Music
A school headmaster in the Caprivi Region is the subject of a probe by the Anti Corruption Commission after he allegedly bullied his subordinates to allow his son to skip two grades and automatically be promoted to Grade 9, circumventing prescribed education procedures.
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Film Picks: Star Wars, Bottle Shock, And I Don't Hear The Guitar Anymore
The Lucas Empire Strikes Back Star Wars: The Clone Wars keeps the fading franchise alive In the Star Wars universe, the Clone Wars were a three-year skirmish involving the Republic and the burgeoning Empire that filled the gap between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. For George Lucas, the Clone Wars have been a lucrative extension of his own galaxy-stomping empire, yielding ...
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Freestyle Calendar: Your Weekly Events Calendar
Thursday 8.14 SALVATORE SCIBONA Northeast Ohio's Italian Americans are bracing for some heavy partying at tomorrow's Feast of the Assumption Festival in Little Italy. So it's fitting that Strongsville native Salvatore Scibona would take the wraps off his debut novel, The End, at today's book-signing at Joseph-Beth, since the novel is about a tightly knit enclave of Italian immigrants in a ...
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Nokia pushing AMOLED displays in new phones?
Alleged display industry insiders today claim Nokia will make a large shift to active matrix OLED (AMOLED) displays in the near future. The cellphone designer is said to be choosing suppliers it knows have plans to create and manufacture the advanced organic screens, which are brighter and more color-rich than LCDs as well as thinner and more powe...
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Maple Hill Golf Club celebrates turning 40 years old
Maple Hill Golf Club is turning 40 this year, and the privately owned club on Orr Road in Hemlock is ready to celebrate. A series of events kick off next weekend to honor the 40th year since legendary golfer Stan Murphy organized a group of 100 private investors.
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Puppets perform at "getai" to help cut rising costs
SINGAPORE : As the cost of living continues to rise, staging a "getai" performance at this year's Hungry Ghosts Festival could easily ring up S$6,000.
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School sports roundup
- Cross-country: 3 p.m. in the lunch room. - Football: 3 p.m. at the football field. - Seventh-grade volleyball: 5 p.m. in the gym. - Eighth-grade volleyball: 3 p.m. in the gym.
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Nonprofit news roundup for Aug. 13, 2008
The National Football League, a tax-exempt organization, has resisted new rules from the IRS requiring nonprofits to disclose the salaries of "key employees," The New York Times reported Aug. 11 (see NFL story ). The league, which is classified as a trade association, argued that it should not have to reveal the salaries of employees earning more than $150,000 per year, since it does not receive ...
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Biography
Shan Arsenault, jazz guitarist, composer and educator was born in Prince Edward Island and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Inspired by his mother's playing, he took up the guitar at age seven. Mostly self-taught, Shan has spent many years cultivating a unique sound.
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Herbie Hancock @ Wolf Trap
Herbie Hancock performing Monday night at Wolf Trap. Photo by Andrew Propp, courtesy of Wolf Trap Superlatives run free when describing Herbie Hancock 's nearly 50 years on the music scene. A consummate artist, he has been a pioneer throughout his career, breaking ground in genres ranging from straight-ahead jazz to electronic music. Despite his status as a jazz legend, it was still ...
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Goshen teacher dives into Mexican culture
As a music and English as a New Language teacher at Chamberlain Elementary School in Goshen, Kent Dutchersmith has experienced his share of miscommunications with students and parents.
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Eyes forward
INSPECTING THE BAND: lt.-Col. scott attridge, left, supervisor of music at Camp Gagetown, reviews members of the atlantic Training Center Mass Band at officers square. To the right with bagpipes is Ben Deutsch. They were accompanied by cadets in the drill team and members of the Fredericton ceremonial guard in a sunset ceremony.
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Allman Brothers sue record company
NEW YORK -- The Allman Brothers Band has sued a record company to demand a bigger cut of recordings sold through third parties such as Apple's iTunes music service. The Southern rock band filed its lawsuit against UMG Recordings Inc.
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