ARCHIVES: The Greg Herriges Interview
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Some of My Best Music Teachers Are Prison Inmates
In Conversation with Steve Bell by Wanda Waterman The Voice, Volume 22 Issue 45 2014-11-14 Steve Bell is a singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer from Winnipeg, Manitoba. After years of working with other artists, in 1989 he experienced a spiritual awakening, after which he created his own label—Signpost Music—for which he recorded fifteen solo albums. He’s now marking the 25th anniversary of Signpost with a multi-disk recording project, a tour of Canada. A feature-length documentary is now being made about his life and career. He’s won many awards, including two Junos. Recently he took the time to answer Wanda Waterman’s … Continue reading Some of My Best Music Teachers Are Prison Inmates
The Fruitful Marriage of American Jazz and the Avante Garde, Part I
by Wanda Waterman The Voice Magazine, Volume 22 Issue 35 2014-09-05 “Late one evening, outside the Open Door in Greenwich Village, [Charlie] Parker, shuffling along in a pair of old carpet slippers, bumped into Jackie McLean. . . ’I want you to kick me in the ass, Jackie McLean, for letting me get myself in this position,’ Bird commanded, bending over … A few days later Parker borrowed McLean’s sax to make an out-of-town gig, a sax McLean had himself borrowed from a friend; Parker pawned it.” – from Birth of the Cool: Beat, Bebop, and the American Avant Garde, … Continue reading The Fruitful Marriage of American Jazz and the Avante Garde, Part I
Palestinian Music and Song: Expression and Resistance since 1900
The Mindful Bard Wanda Waterman Volume 22 Issue 12 2014-03-21 Book: Palestinian Music and Song: Expression and Resistance since 1900 Editors: Moslih Kanaaneh, Stig-Magnus Thorsén, Heather Bursheh, and David A. McDonald Publisher: Indiana University Press Reflecting and Shaping a National Identity Palestine’s struggle is, to some extent, the story of every nation. So rare is it to find a country or ethnic group with no memory of ever having been colonized . . . (Read the review here.) Continue reading Palestinian Music and Song: Expression and Resistance since 1900
Every Day We’ll See the Dust (Too much, the Sahara Bus)
Film:The Piano in the Sands(Le Piano Des Sables) Director: Arnaud Petitet Genre: Documentary “I can assure you that there is a real beauty of the human being—there is sheer refinement. Man is really immeasurably big and beautiful, and he doesn’t always know it.” – Marc Vella Hey, let’s put a baby grand on the back of a bus and tour the Maghreb. What could possibly go wrong? Marc Vella, a piano virtuoso, has been doing this for more than two decades, visiting more than forty countries in the process. All in a mission to “celebrate humanity” as a participant in … Continue reading Every Day We’ll See the Dust (Too much, the Sahara Bus)
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