Cassandra Wilson – Time after Time
Cassandra Wilson is an American jazz musician, vocalist, songwriter, and producer from Jackson, Mississippi. Described by critic Gary Giddins as “a singer blessed with an unmistakable timbre and attack [who has] expanded the playing field” by incorporating country, blues and folk music into her work, Wilson has won two Grammy Awards. “Time After Time” is a song by American singer Cyndi Lauper, released as the second single from her album “She’s So Unusua”l. It reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart on June 9, 1984, and remained there for two weeks. Worldwide, the song is her most commercially successful single after “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”, and reached number 3 on the UK Singles Chart and number 6 on the ARIA Singles Chart. “Time After Time” was nominated for Song of the Year at the 1985 Grammy Awards. The ballad is considered a classic of the 1980s and is still played frequently on adult contemporary radio. The song is known for its numerous covers by a wide range of artists, including an instrumental version by Miles Davis. The song spent 2 weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
Jazz Musicians – Black is Beautiful
Go to www.blackisbeautifulamsterdam.nl for more information. Also visit the research lab! The entertainers in this drawing by John Raedecker are probably musicians. The drawing was made after a visit to Bal Nègre, a Caribbean club in Paris where people danced to jazz music. This work by Jan Wiegers was also inspired by the Bal Nègre. The Bal quickly became a meeting place for coloured Parisians such as people from the Caribbeans, Africans and Afro-Americans. The Bal also became a favourite haunt and a source of inspiration for many famous European artists and writers. Piet Mondriaan and Charley Toorop discovered the bar too. The former in particular is said to have gone there almost every day because he loved Negro music and Negro dancing so much. Avant-garde artists like Pablo Picasso, André Masson, Alexander Calder and Man Ray went there too. Black music was not only hot in Paris. In the Netherlands too, jazz clubs, like the Negro Kit Kat club, Negro Palace, Negro Melody Club, the Shim Sham Negro Club and Mephisto shot up like mushrooms in the 1930s. The clubs advertised with World famous Negro solo players. A cosmopolitan attraction. or New Yorks Negro area of Harlem comes to Rotterdam. or Harlem in Amsterdam, Coloured Hot trio at Neutraal. Star drummer says, gimme Holland! Artists were inspired by black jazz musicians here as well. In the 1930s Nola Hatterman made this painting entitled The band of Negro players. Amsterdam mayor Van der Vlugt soon shut down many of …
Russian-American Jazz Summit Featuring Cyril Moshkow and Larry Appelbaum
The Open World Leadership Center and the Library of Congress Music Division cosponsored the Russian-American Jazz Summit. Conversations on the American influence in Russian Jazz were led by two world-renowned jazz experts, Russian Cyril Moshkow and American Larry Appelbaum. Both of these experts have been involved with Open World Jazz delegations. Speaker Biography: In 1998 Cyril Moshkow became managing editor of Jazz.Ru, Russia’s leading web conglomerate dedicated to jazz music. Besides writing for Jazz.Ru, Moshkow also writes for daily newspapers, general interest and entertainment magazines and monthly music magazines. Since 2000 he has served as Russian contributor to Down Beat, the world’s most respected jazz magazine. In 2006 Jazz.Ru Magazine was launched making Moshkow its publisher and editor. He has taught music journalism at Moscow State University, his alma-mater, since 1991. Moshkow is also a science fiction writer having published three novels in Russia’s largest publishing house, EKSMO Press. He has written the book “The Jazz Industry in America” (2008), which discusses the industry of jazz music in the United States and “The Jazz Greats” (2009), a book about jazz musicians. Moshkow travels extensively as a jazz journalist covering jazz festivals and other forms of jazz activity. Speaker Biography: Larry Appelbaum is a senior music reference librarian and jazz specialist in the Music Division at the Library of Congress. As a former sound engineer, he …
Outstanding American Jazz Musicians Gave Two Concerts in Vladivostok
Dave Weckl (drums), George Whitty (keyboards) and Ric Fierabracci (bass) visited Vladivostok and gave 2 concerts in Vladivostok. On August 29, they played at the FABRIKA club and on August 30 at the regional Philarmonic Hall. This tour is a joint project of the US Consulate, Vladivostok, Primorskiy kray regional Philharmonic and “Fabrika”club. Composition used in this clip is called “The Renaissance Man.” For details please visit tinyurl.com Три выдающихся джазовых музыканта: Дэйв Векл (ударные), Джордж Уитти (клавишные) и Рик Фиерабраччи (бас-гитара) – выступили во Владивостоке с двумя концертами в августе 2010 года. Этот проект стал возможен благодаря сотрудничеству Генерального консульства США с Приморской краевой филармонией и ресторанным комплексом «Фабрика». В клипе использована композиция The Renaissance Man. Подробности здесь: tinyurl.com