Thursday, December 28, 2006

A lush life, lavishly illustrated (Movie soundtracks)

Django lives! Django Reinhardt, the great gypsy jazz guitarist who died in 1953, seems to be everywhere these days: on disc, on movie soundtracks and in dozens of repertoire ensembles bent on reproducing the effortless swing of Django's Quintet of the Hot Club of France. Local avatars of the genre include Connie Evingson, the Parisota Hot Club, the Twin Cities Hot Club and Grand Rapids' ...
loved his country." The entertainer with the rough-edged voice and flashy footwork had diabetes and prostate cancer that was in remission, Bobbit said. Brown initially seemed fine at the hospital, Copsidas said.
A local stop for the 'High School Musical' concert tour got us wondering: Which teen rock musical rules the school, 'Grease' or 'HSM'?
Disney superstars and their accessible tales of growl power keep the record biz afloat (By Lindsey Thomas)
What we don't get is a leap in innovation, like we've experienced with the right stick control in EA's NHL 07. We can't have it all.
One of the premier electric bassists of contemporary jazz, Mark Egan has distinguished himself as an in-demand session player, valued sideman and respected leader in his own right.
A to Z can't cop to being a huge fan of classic rock. No, not even a year and a half of living in St. Louis has changed that. But we do admit to having a weakness for the keytar, that bastion of dinosaur rock/new-wave cheesiness. Ah yes, the keytar. The half-keyboard, half-guitar that's the epitome ...
The title of Danny Elfman's first classical work, "Serenada Schizophrana," could hardly have been more appropriate.
In the back pages of the Los Angeles Times, they ran an obituary for a guy named Tommy Johnson, who died in October at 71 of complications from cancer and kidney failure.