November 8, 2009
Wolfgang’s Vault (WV) is the world’s largest collection of live concert recordings spanning the ‘60’s – present day and rock memorabilia. Last week, the website released cracked their vault open by making available hundreds of previously unreleased live concerts. Concerts from music legends Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, Deep Purple, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Cheap Trick, to [...]
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June 1, 2009
Previously, I began discussing the Chicago Symphony Orchestra concert featuring jazz-inspired works. You can review Part I of this article to read about Three Black Kings by Duke Ellington, the first work on the program.
Considering these kinds of works are rarely performed by symphony orchestras, I thought it warranted breaking this story into two parts. [...]
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