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“I said, ‘Really? You don’t practise any more?’ He said, ‘One day I just sort of realised I could play.’ I’m wondering if I’ll get to that level… we’re about to find out!” Pat Metheny just wants to understand music
- Multi-faceted pioneer hasn’t played guitar for six months - but he’ll be up and working by 5am every day
The Day, New London, Conn.Pat Metheny's new trio Side-Eye performs at Foxwoods Saturday
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Pat Metheny brings Side-Eye to Foxwoods Saturday
Nov. 3—In a just solar system, all I'd have to write would be: "Pat Metheny" ... ... and thousands wouldn't clamor for tickets because they'd already KNOW and all 113 shows of his entire tour would be sold out weeks in advance. Thinking positively, though, it's excellent that Metheny, one of the finest guitarists ever and a giant of modern jazz, performs Saturday in the Great Cedar Showroom at ...
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My Five Favorite Meals: Artist Mark Kostabi
Jean KallinaSurrealist artist Mark Kostabi, who is famous for being famous and his paintings of faceless figures, was born in California to Estonian parents who came here for the American Dream.Professionally, he floats in a constant swirl of controversy—which he is quick to fan if it ever looks in danger of dying down—that mostly surrounds his factory of talented artists and “idea generators” who actually paint the vast majority of his canvases from the detailed sketches he provides.Accurately,
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Jazz great Ellis Marsalis Jr. dies at 85 from coronavirus complications
Ellis Marsalis, jazz pianist, teacher and patriarch of a New Orleans musical family that includes famed musician sons Wynton and Branford, has died. He was 85.
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‘Widows’ Might Be Something Truly Rare: An Oscar-Winning Action Film
Steve McQueen told IndieWire that he turned to Ornette Colman — and star Viola Davis — for inspiration in crafting a thriller that's equal parts smart and fun.
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Neneh Cherry Announces New Four Tet-Produced Album, Shares Song: Listen
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The Deceptively Accessible Music of Cecil Taylor
Sometimes, when listening to an avant-garde giant of yore, it’s difficult to understand what made her so striking. A vanguard by definition lays the way for imitators, so eventually the things that once made her radical now seem conventional.
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Ornette Coleman’s Early Albums Are Getting a Massive Vinyl Box Set Reissue
Pioneering free jazz saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer Ornette Coleman passed away in 2015. This year, the music from his formative and most best-known music is getting the royal treatment in the new 10-LP boxset Ornette Coleman: the Atlantic Years. The collection features all six of the studio albums Coleman released between 1959 and 1951, his first and extremely influential…
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Ornette Coleman’s Albums Getting Vinyl Reissue
The 10xLP set features Coleman’s six studio albums from 1959 to 1961
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For Sale: John Lennon’s Holiday Card to Yoko Ono’s Ex
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Ugly Beauty: The Month In Jazz – September 2017
I don't really listen to podcasts. I've never been converted to the format for several reasons. The first of those is that I don't have time to listen to anything for an hour or an hour and a half -- if you've got a long commute in the morning and evening, they could be great,…
