Leroy Ellington News

 
Wadada Leo Smith – Ten Freedom Summers (2012)
Something Else! Reviews
Mozart, Ellington, Miles, The Beatles are a few who can fit into that category but they are of long past eras. Very few if any will ever be mentioning avant jazz trumpeter, composer and bandleader Wadada Leo Smith in the same breath as these icons of ...


 
Chuck Brown: An Elegy for Chocolate City
Grantland
to a genius medley of "Go-Go Swing" (a rewrite of DC native Duke Ellington's classic), Lionel Hampton's "Midnight Sun," Eddie Jefferson's "Moody's Mood for Love," and the Woody Woodpecker theme. Between songs, the percussion section went off, ...

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Solos featured in Festival Singers' finale
Topeka Capital Journal
LeRoy Dagg: "Misalliance," a novelty song by the British comedy duo of Michael Flanders and Donald Swann. ■ Katie Huffman: "A Summer in Ohio" from Jason Robert Brown's musical "The Last 5 Years." ■ Rick Huffman: "Salut, demeure chaste et pure," an ...


 
Tulane University awards nearly 2700 degrees in Superdome in New Orleans
NOLA.com
... Sonia Paola Cornejo, Daniela Alejandra Cortazzo de Rodríguez, Alyssa Davidian, Michael Andre DeMeo, Dario Alejandro Dibos, Natalie Catherine Domino, Cristóbal Doren Villaseca, Amy Louise Dye, Douglas Paul Ellington, Michael A. Epstein, Yanan Fang, ...

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Cantante peruana Susana Baca nació un 24 de mayo
Andina
Un 24 de mayo nacieron los actores Lilli Palmer, Andrés García, Kristin Scott Thomas y Priscilla Presley, así como los cantantes Bob Dylan y Susana Baca; murieron el compositor Duke Ellington y los actores Alfredo Wally Barrón y Enrique Álvarez Félix.


 
El blues en el jazz: una constante
Clarín.com
Lo hace sin la beligerancia que imbuirá la música de Archie Shepp, cuyos blues parecen fiscalizados por la mente de LeRoy Jones/Amini Baraka. No hace falta volar tan alto, ni apelar a la revolución a partir de las señas de identidad.

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