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Treme Pays Tribute to Local Musicians of New Orleans By Featuring Them

April 10, 2010

HBO will debut a new show, Treme, on Sunday, April 11th. Set in New Orleans, Treme tells the story of the city rebuilding itself three months after Hurricane Katrina struck by focusing on the musicians. Producers David Simon and Eric Overmyer, who worked together on The Wire, have taken special care to reveal the reality [...]

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Wolfgang’s Vault Releases World’s Largest Collection Of Live Concert Recordings

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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CSO goes Jazzical and Gets Scorched: Part II

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 [...]

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CSO Goes Jazzical And Gets Scorched: Part I

May 27, 2009

Jazz is only a word and has no meaning . . . I don’t know how such great extremes as now exist can be contained under the one heading ~ Duke Ellington Ok, well the Chicago Symphony Orchestra didn’t get scorched in the literal sense, but it was an evening filled with Jazz inspired classical [...]

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