After more than 75,000 albums sold in France of ‘Another Day’ and ‘Molly Johnson, Molly comes back with’ If You Know Love ‘, a third and jazzy pop album, recorded in Toronto with his favorite director, Steven McKinnon.
Always provided its grain rocky vote no, it explores including three songs recorded in front of the American Heritage: ‘Let’ s Do It ‘,’ The Streets of Philadelphia ‘and’ But Not for Me ‘. Three songs signed Cole Porter, Bruce Springsteen and George Gershwin. Three authors capitals, rooted in popular culture. Three ways to portray the United States. His latest album, ‘Lucky’, was released last November. For the present, she will be performing in concert at the Alhambra in Paris in February 2009.

No doubt, Molly Johnson concert years behind. She arrived on scene, casual, relaxed, and uses his voice and rock as if nothing had happened. The singer leans against the piano, with bassist jokes and tells how she “stole” his drummer to Jamie Cullum. It almost feel attend rehearsals as the atmosphere is relaxed; rehearsals where everything is already perfectly in place. Not a false note, and a virtuosity remarkable three musicians like the singer who plays with his voice on the most difficult tracks. We note in particular stunning interpretation of ‘Sister’. Molly Johnson enchaine times compositions, ‘Lucky’ to ‘I Love you Porgy’ through ‘Ode to Billie Joe’. In line with its latest album, the artist remains in a jazz repertoire which we had used to break blithely on these precedents opus. A mixture of freedom and rigor, coupled with a technical point of madness surrounding the concert. Molly Johnson leaves a large place – well deserved, the trio of musicians who accompany (Robi Botos on piano, Sebastiaan De Krom on drums and Mike Dones on bass). The benefit is simple and very successful.

Breakdance, breaking, b-boying or b-girling is a street dance style that evolved as part of the hip hop movement among African American and Puerto Rican youths in Manhattan and the South Bronx of New York City during the early 1970s. It is normally danced to pop, funk or hip hop music, often remixed to prolong the breaks, and is a well-known hip hop dance style. Breakdancing involves Toprock (movement while standing up), Downrock (movement on the ground), Freezes (acrobatic pauses in movement) and Power Moves (large, often strenuous movements often involving rotation). A breakdancer, breaker, b-boy or b-girl refers to a person who practices breakdancing.

Breakdancing may have begun as a building, productive, and a constructive youth culture alternative to the violence of urban street gangs.[1] Today, breakdancing culture is a remarkable discipline somewhere between those of dancers and athletes. Since acceptance and involvement centers on dance skills, breakdancing culture is often free of the common race and gender boundaries of a subculture and has been accepted worldwide.

TERMS OF THE DANCE

DANCE During the ramp from white hyacinth on a background of heavy folds of fabric monochrome, suddenly arising from the shadows, holding his in them, a harmonious poludevichi, poluotrocheskie figures in transparent hitonah, vaguely identify the outlines of their bodies, silently, in a deep silence, of advancing from music, dance commit happy mysteries … All those who visited during this winter evening, at which EI Rabenek (Knipper) shows the results of their students, know deep sense of joy and inner purification, after remaining in the soul of this vision. Read the rest of this entry »

Folk dances

FolkFolk dances or folk dances are dances, the traditional folk festivals or in traditional societies and danced. They come in virtually all cultures and together with the folk music (not the folk music!) An indivisible unit. In contrast to standard dances, the movement is not as strictly defined, which does not mean that they completely formless dancing. The dancing costumes worn by various jewelry, materials used, headgear and ornaments often from everyday clothes. Read the rest of this entry »

Sonny Rollins’ Road Shows, Vol. 1, a collection of assorted live performances by the saxophone legend, has been voted the best jazz album of the year by jazz critics in the annual Village Voice Jazz Poll. Anthony Braxton’s The Complete Arista Recordings took top honors for Reissue of the Year. Best Vocal album is Cassandra Wilson’s Loverly. Noah Preminger’s Dry Bridge Road was voted Best Debut. And the Best Latin jazz recording is Bebo Valdés and Javier Colina’s Live at the Village Vanguard. Nearly 80 critics representing many different publications voted in the poll. Results can be found at Village Voice Jazz Poll Winners.

 The 1975 album from the pioneering jazz fusion group Weather Report, will be reissued by the indie Iconoclassic label on Feb. 17. The album, which features keyboardist Joe Zawinul, saxophonist Wayne Shorter, bassist Alphonso Johnson, drummer Leon “Ndugu” Chancler and percussionist Alyrio Lima, was the group’s first entry into the Billboard Top 40 chart. The reissue includes all of the original LP package elements (including Robert Hurwitz’s liner notes), and adds a newly written 1,300 word essay by Zawinul biographer Curt Bianchi based on current interviews with Wayne Shorter, Alphonso Johnson, and Ndugu. For more info go to Iconoclassic Records.

Jan. 4: Joe Marsala (1907-1978), Slim Gaillard (1916-1991), Frank Wess (1922), John McLaughlin (1942), Robert Dick (1950)

Jan. 5: Wild Bill Davison (1906-1989), Oscar Klein (1930), Dizzy Reece (1931), Cees See (1934), Kenny Davern (1935), Louis Stewart (1944), Myra Melford (1957)

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Free concerts and master classes with several of the most famous performers of the international blues and jazz, jam session nights at the pub’s Cabin or a street gang that moves the animation to the walks and terraces. One more year, the Festival International de Jazz e Blues de Pontevedra convene at a popular city Lerez instrumentalists and vocalists, music students and hundreds of fans from different parts of Spain. Read the rest of this entry »

If the mysterious Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter is at all remembered today, it is for her proximity to the deaths of two legendary jazz musicians. In 1955 Charlie Parker died on a sofa in her Fifth Avenue home; 27 years later Thelonious Monk died after secluding himself for years in her New Jersey house.

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Montego Bay comes alive on January 22 – 24, 2009 with the JAMAIACA Jazz and Blues Festival, which is gearing up to be even more electrifying than in previous years.

The Festival, which has hosted acts such as George Benson, Erika Badu, Kenny G, Dionne Warwick, Michael Bolton, Kenny Rogers, Shaggy, Third World and a host of other top-class local and international performers, is expected to live up to its reputation of being the premier event on the Caribbean’s entertainment calendar. London’s effervescent and multi-talented new artiste, Estelle; Grammy Award-winning star Lionel Richie; and hit-makers Atlantic Starr are just some of the acts which will grace the stage at the 2009 Festival.

One of the headliners at this year JAMAICA Jazz and Blues Festival is no other that Lionel Richie. After leaving the Commodores, Lionel Richie became one of the most successful male solo artists of the ’80s, arguably eclipsed during his 1981-1987 heyday only by Michael Jackson and Prince. Richie dominated the pop charts during that period with an incredible run of 13 consecutive Top Ten hits, five of them number ones.

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“Then the depression came, and white people suffered the  pinch along with their darker brothers. With us, of course, being broke and low-down is an old story. With us there has never been anything else but depression. We have known for years how to laugh under trying circumstances, how to go on living with nothing but song to sustain us. But it took a woeful depression to teach this trick to white America.

“Now there seems to be a much greater appreciation for  the little things of life, including music. Indeed, according to one university man, only steel and oil were larger industries than music during the worst of the depression. Proof again, if more were needed, that in times of suffering and uncertainty America must sing.” [Photo of Handy in 1941 by Hansel Mieth for Life]