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-15 posts tagged "jazz"
Erin Swope | Monday, February 4, 2019
“Let’s do what we do best: dancing to hot jazz and drinking bootleg gin,” vocalist and emcee Michael Cunio said at Saturday night’s Postmodern Jukebox (PMJ) concert, a statement that perfectly captured the mood of the evening. Featuring numerous costume changes, bottles of beer and glasses of liquor, PMJ pulled out all of the stops
Erin Swope | Thursday, September 27, 2018
Most would not wonder what “Seven Nation Army” by the White Stripes would sound like as a vintage New Orleans dirge or what “Mr. Brightside” by The Killers would sound like in 1940s Rat Pack style, but Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox, abbreviated as PMJ, is all about putting a jazz spin on modern songs like
Nora McGreevy, Charlie Kenney, Nicholas Ottone, Ryan Israel and Carlos De Loera | Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Twitter redemption stories, kitschy ‘80s television shows about women wrestlers, folk music in Rhode Island, jazz by the Smithsonian and Drake has a secret kid? Yes, to all of the above. Read on for a glimpse into the arts and culture that Scene’s writers loved this summer. “Brooklyn 99,” resurrected By Nora McGreevy,
Kara Miecznikowski | Friday, February 23, 2018
This weekend, collegiate bands from across the nation will travel to South Bend to perform in Notre Dame’s 60th annual Collegiate Jazz Festival (CJF). The festival — which is the oldest in the nation — also features a panel of world-renowned jazz musicians, who serve as performance adjudicators throughout the event and participate in a “Judges’
Molly Chen | Thursday, November 2, 2017
If you’re finding it difficult to nail down Yellow Days’ genre, you’re not alone. In fact, the 18-year-old himself has said there’s no such thing as genre anymore — the absence of any one classification may be exactly what makes this artist so distinct. The Southeast England-based teen first made himself known in November of
Alvaro del Campo | Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Kamasi Washington’s “Harmony of Difference” EP is an ambitious journey through a number of broad concepts related to human nature. Track titles like “Humility” and “Perspective” give the project a grandiose framework that its experimental jazz attempts to encapsulate. Washington’s method for conveying these different concepts largely involves variations in instrumentation and rhythmic composition. The rhythm section
Adrian Mark Lore | Tuesday, September 12, 2017
And there we have it: The record we’d needed Giant Claw to produce this whole time. In the wake of 2014’s mind-bending, body-bending “DARK WEB,” all bets were off as to what Orange Milk Records founder Keith Rankin would transmute for his follow-up record. The denouement was predictably unpredictable. “Deep Thoughts” was excellent, yes —
Adrian Mark Lore, Adam Ramos, Mike Donovan and Brian Boylen | Friday, September 8, 2017
Album art is the unsung hero of the music industry, because — let’s face it — everyone judges a book by its cover. So the saying goes, anyways — but most of the industry’s more thoughtful musicians do take great care to convey important messages about their music through record sleeves alone. Lest their efforts
Augie Collins | Friday, September 1, 2017
While some of us were busy forming a symbiotic relationship with our sofas over the summer, the busiest band in the world had their hands full releasing not one, but two full-length studio albums in a two-month span. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, an eyebrow-raising seven-piece crew led by front man Stu Mackenzie, hails
Adrian Mark Lore | Wednesday, August 23, 2017
To put it bluntly, Laurel Halo is the kind of musician who — while overflowing with talent — falls under everyones radar, never having produced a single record that fully captures the multidimensionality of her skills. Contrast her with Hyperdub labelmate Fatima Al Qadiri, who has turned heads with her sensational musical output, which is