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Jul 21, 2008 | 6:59 AM PST
Tags: Red Sea , Eilat , Jazz
Eilat will once again host the Red Sea Jazz Festival, August 25th – 28th this year. Attracting over 40, 000 people to the four open air venues, over 30 concerts are held over 4 days. The stunning backdrop of mountains and sea creates a beautiful setting that no other jazz festival can provide.
The public experience the widest spectrum of jazz from New Orleans to contemporary, including Latin and World music. As well as an international line up of guest artists, the festival also headlines top Israeli groups. The festival is active in the field of jazz education and promotes original jazz compositions and youth jazz bands. Clinics and jam sessions are also held with guest artists every night.
Israel’s 60th anniversary has drawn in more top performers than ever and this year is not to be missed. Any UK jazz aficionado would immediately think of Incognito as the major representative brand of the sound of sophisticated, uplifting UK soul jazz. This year’s festival will be swept away on a sea of hot soul jazz melodies led by guitarist-songwriter, ‘Bluey’, and vocalist Joy Rose.
Also joining the line up will be; Randy Brecker / Bill Evans & Soulbop; Kurt Elling Trio; Carla Bley & The Lost Chords; Mike Stern featuring Richard Bona, Bob Malach & Lionel Cordew; Ben Riley& The Monk Legacy Septet; Oregon; Terry Lyne Carrington/Geri Allen/Esperanza Spalding/Tineke Postma Quartet; The John Fedchock NY Sexstet; Omar Sosa Afreecanos Band; Edmar Castaneda Trio featuring Joe Locke; The Zbigniew Namyslowski 6tet; The Avishai Cohen Trio amongst others.
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Source: Think Israel
Jun 19, 2008 | 12:37 AM PST
Tags: Little Feat , rock music , country music , new orleans , jazz , bluegrass , Mexico , Louisiana , New Orleans , Nashville , BBC , London
Mar 4, 2008 | 9:07 PM PST
Tags: february , events , old , sacramento , sac , downtown , jazz , music , concert
FRI., Feb. 8, 6pm–8:30pm JAM SESSION for TJYBF participants and clinicians at RoundTable Pizza in Rosement area (9138 Kiefer Blvd., Sac.). TJYBF Web site.
SAT., Feb. 9, TJYBF — the 3rd annual Traditional Jazz Youth Band Festival at Sac. State University. 8 am – 5 pm Concert and awards at 7 p.m. Featured clinician:
EDDIE ERICKSON. TJYBF website.
SUN., Feb. 10, Noon-5 pm, "Jazz Sunday," Dante Club.
EDDIE ERICKSON, banjo/guitar, from Monterey, CA
and BOB DRAGA, clarinet, from Largo, FL.
Eddie Erickson's website Bob Draga's website
TUES., Feb. 26, 7 pm, TJYBF Fundraiser Sac., CA
Christ Unity Church, 9249 Folsom Blvd. (at La Riviera Dr.)
EAST COAST ALL-STARS in concert, one night only,
featuring Wycliffe Gordon (tbn) and Houston Person (sax)
along with Ed Polcer (tpt), Joe Ascione (dr), John Cocuzzi (p/vb), and Richard Simon (b). Flier and musician profiles.
Click here to buy tickets online, or buy them at STJS Office.
6 pm reception with musicians for "Patron" ticket buyers.
Large dance floor at the back of the hall. Click on poster:
Feb 29, 2008 | 5:58 PM PST
Tags: David Gray , Dubai , Jazz , Festival
A snippet of the great music performed by David Gray at the Dubai Jazz Festival 2008.
Jan 28, 2008 | 10:55 AM PST
Tags: bob , drinking , partying , jazz , new york city , drama , crazy
I left the lake on Saturday. I figured I'd get back and get ready for the work week ahead. I'm going on third shift starting at 1:30am tomorrow morning. I don't really know how to sleep, ectetera.
So Saturday night I went out, telling myself that this will be the LAST time I can go out for a long time. I took the 9:30pm bus into NYC and headed up to a fave jazz club. I stayed until four am and met up with Lance and we hung out for a few hours having breakfast and then he came back to the flat to hang out with me.
I thought he might make a good roommate.
I was a little enebriated.
So it was Sunday morning and he was on the cell with his girlfriend and he says he'll cook dinner. And I decide to have a change of heart and have Denise and Bob over one last time. Bob left for Fla. this morning and I figured they could meet Lance and tell me if they thought he'd make a good roommate.
So they came down.
And Lance made some beef ribs and veggies and it was all good.
Then Bob says he's having trouble breathing. Denise and Bob and Lance all go to Bob's car to drive up to his house to get his inhaler or some such thing.
Then a few minutes later Lance says that they need to use MY car because Bob's won't start. So I go down and over and Bob is having kind of an episode..it might have been drama, who knows? So I get into his car and have no trouble turning the engine over. Bob couldn't drive and I don't think Lance remembered how to drive a stick shift.
And so Bob decides that he'll stay there with Lance whilst Denise and I motor up to Bob's house and get his inhaler and some medicine thingy. Then we motor back. Bob is still standing on the sidewalk with Lance holding him -exactly where we left them.
I tell Bob that I'll just take him home. I get him in the car with Denise and Bob. We drive up to Bob's house. But we're stuck up there. I don't have any cash, nor does Lance. Denise wants to leave and says she'll pay for the taxi to take us all back. She and I have just about had it with Bob and his episodes.
So she calls a taxi and we motor on down and drop her at her flat and then on to my flat.
Lance goes into the parlor and is watching some video. I go to bed.
At 4:30am I hear the buzzer for the door. I think it must be Lance, that he locked himself outside while going out for a smoke. I buzz the door. Bob comes up the stairs huffing and puffing.
He says that he has a cab running outside and that he doesn't have any cash.
I ask him what's this all about.
He says that he had 300. in his wallet and somebody cleaned him out.
I asked him who?
He said that he knew that it was Lance.
Okay, now I'm dumbfounded. Did Lance steal the cash from Robert?
So I send Bob into the living room and he wakes Lance up and confronts him about the money. He says that he needs that money to get to the airport at 5:30am and that he doesn't know what to do.
Lance emphatically denies taking Bob's money. He explains to Bob about how he was having serious health issues and how we had to take him back to his house and how were we going to get home? Why didn't he offer to pay for a taxi to take us back, him with all his millions.
Bob says he would've if we had asked. Fat chance.
So then Bob says he wants to see Lance's wallet. Lance puts up a bit of a fight saying he can't believe what is going on here. So he says he has to use the loo, and hands me his wallet as he goes in. I give it to Bob. There are a few dollars in there, but no 300. Lance is very insulted by all of this.
Bob leaves.
We all go back to bed for a few hours. I wake up around 10am and decide that Lance must go. So I wake him up and tell him I need some alone time and would he get it together. We decide he'll leave around 12pm. So I make coffee and we hang out and he has a bowl of Fruit Loops and I tell him that I don't think I want a roommate for awhile. And he sounds a bit upset. But I tell him that I think that with the new job I just need to be alone for awhile, given the hours and everything. Eventually it sinks in. And he seems okay with it, but says I have to stop changing my mind all the time, and he gives me a little of his victim spiel. And I tell him that we've all been down that road...nobody has it easy all of the time.
And so this morning I walk him to the bus to take him home. And we stay for awhile and talk about cars while waiting for the bus which is late. Then I tell him that I can go out on weekends but that during the week I really have to focus on the job.
He shakes my hand, gets on the bus, and at that, he's gone.
I go home and clean up the mess, dishes and the like from the party. I remove all evidence.
Big question? Who stole the cash? Was it Denise? Was it Lance? Or did Bob just misplace it given his mental capacity with seizures and all?
And do I need this drama in my life? I want quiet now.
So I'll try to get back into bed around 4pm and sleep for a good many hours before treking into the city for the job. I'm here now to get info on how to get to the office.
Bob and the ambulances and the like are what caused me to go out and blow off some steam. Saw Charles, he looked miserable.
And so ends this January.
Have a great day world, and thanks for reading!
-Richard
Jan 21, 2008 | 4:28 PM PST
Tags: lecture , jazz , blues , women
This video exemplifies the 60-minute presentation given by jazz singer, composer and author Joan Cartwright to over 6,000 students in Florida, China, Japan and Europe. To book Ms. Cartwright, visit her site: www.fyicomminc.com
Jan 19, 2008 | 7:58 AM PST
Tags: jazz , latin , cuban , music
Enjoy the music of dynamic Cuban pianist Osmany Paredes
Aug 10, 2007 | 10:10 AM PST
Tags: Bands , Music , Bands.tv , iBands , Rock , Jazz , Soul , Pop , Rap , Country , Music Videos
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Jun 20, 2007 | 4:50 PM PST
Tags: Ladell McLin , Talk It Out with Jodi Leib , guitar , rhythm & blues , jazz , New York City , Tribeca , Jimi Hendrix
Talk It Out with Jodi Leib
featuring Ladell McLin
August 30, 2005
Tribeca, NYC
Jodi: This is really exciting. I’m talking it out with rock star, mad guitarist, brilliant, genius, rhythm and blues/ electric guitarist Ladell McLin. This is Ladell McLin, talkin it out! How would you describe your guitar work?
Ladell: I would describe it as still not knowing what I’m doing, still learning. Just letting the music play itself.
Jodi: If you’re still learning, what does it mean to be an expert then?
Ladell: That’s what it means to be an expert – still learning. You never stop learning, and an expert then is – no set rules to the music. Letting the music breathe. It’s like making a baby. You come together and make love with the music. The music produces a child. The child is always going to have its own way of living life, the way it wants to and the way it was meant to come and live its life. That’s the same as the music that you create. It’s going to come out in its own way, it’s going to have its own identity.
Jodi: What do you think about the baby boom that’s going on in the world? It’s almost like there’s a revolution of baby boomers, what do you think?
Ladell: Well, a revolution - we need a revolution. We need a revolution to last about a hundred years to correct what’s gone on the last four years or five years. So it’s going to take a hundred years to clean that up. A revolution for the planet, this time, and humanity is really going to have to find a way to live one with the planet. And make everything equal. All humans are equal no matter what color – black, white, orange, even if a green person, a purple person come down from out of the sky, we’re going to have to treat them equally and not be afraid of them, because of who they are and what they are. You know? We all on the same thing. We’re all living on this planet as one. So, what’s gone on the past four years, there’s going to have to be a revolution. The revolution is not necessarily that we’re gonna win or lose, or anything like that. It’s just that we need a revolution.
Jodi: We need a change, is that what you’re saying?
Ladell: A revolution brings many changes. That’s why it takes so long, man. Revolution – I think we stopped our 60s revolution and everyone wanted to disco and start a party and shakin’ their booties, instead of shaking their fists. All the drugs and stuff started to get more high society class type drugs, and then the 80s came in. That was a small revolution that went on during the 80s, but, and then there was another revolution that went on with the 90s, but the 2000s came up and everybody really forgot about the revolution. Everybody got into the bling bling, and these big motor cars started coming – the same ones they use in the wars. Now they’re charging so much money in gas for us to use over here. People ought to look at that. Some innocent kid is dying over there for you to drive this and afford this to drive around, and that’s not right. Mother Earth is like saying, “hey, that’s not right!” And, she’s doing her thing, and she’s going to come up and slap us one day because we’ve been stupid. She’s gonna do that. She’s the mother of us. The universe is the father. Either one of them is going to come down and chastise us. But, I just think that we need to get out of the ways of living how we think we’re supposed to live. We just need really need love to live by, and love one another. Some people make too much money, they don’t know how to love no more.
Jodi: Why? What is it about money that confuses us?
Ladell: It’s the money. The money brings you like, “I have this and you don’t.” They don’t have anything, really. That money really doesn’t mean anything in the real world reality. You know? An animal is the only one that can’t spend money, right? On the planet, animals and insects? Look at them, they’re beautiful. They’re in harmony with the Earth. We have money and we fall out of harmony and with the universe.
Jodi: I believe that is so true, however money is a spiritual journey if we can get to that level of consciousness. So when we talk about all people are created equal, does that include terrorists?
Ladell: Terrorists. I think we all could be terrorists at times. The people with money are terrorists, right? The ones who buy these big cars that drive over here are just as terrorist as the ones over there. The people who are killing rainforests and polluting the planet. The ones who have these big houses and take up so much land; they’re the terrorists. They’re terrorizing our kids everyday by brainwashing them. So, they’re just as much a terrorist as the ones doing the bombing. It’s like, “Don’t talk about my back yard, look at your back yard, dude.” That’s what I get from it, you know?
Jodi: So, when we pollute the population with brainwashing and propaganda, is it the same as killing innocent civilians?
Ladell: Yeah, you’re killing the soul! Once you take away the soul, you don’t have anything. You just have people that are taking up space now. They’ve got to find their souls back and become a part of what’s going on.
Jodi: I hear you, man. Who’s your greatest influence in the world?
Ladell: Me.
Jodi: Alright. Which musician do you identify with the most?
Ladell: People probably want to say Hendrix. I identify with him, I know his music and I know what he was fighting for, but I identify a lot with the musicians of the day. The musicians that I get to meet, and the ones like a friend of mine Michael Paris. He’s a great musician. Another one – James Blood Ulmer, Vernon Reid. I kind of identify with them because I am in contact with them. I know them. I identify with politicians – the newly elected Illinois senator, Obama. He’s very identifiable. I identify with Hillary, and still the ex-president Clinton. They’ve got compassion for the human race. Even though all politicians fuck up, they never do anything right, but still these people have got compassion and they know what’s the real deal.
Jodi: How do you feel about saying that you are the next Jimi Hendrix, or Jimi Hendrix, Chapter 2? Or you are Jimi Hendrix. What does that mean to you?
Ladell: Oh, that’s hard to live up to. The guy did so much. Just so little time, you know? He had the hippie population. They was fightin’. They was fightin to die, for us to continue. If he wasn’t there, if King wasn’t there, Lennon and the Beatles, Marvin Gaye, if he wasn’t there, we wouldn’t have this. They died for us. They became Christ. If you want to identify me, I would love to be the Christ part of them. You know? They went to their Christ part, and that’s the highest that you can reach on the planet. It’s beautiful. I identify with stuff like, people breaking us out of these type of prison. Prince was a good example of that with his 80 recordings. He did a lot of great work for the population. That’s what musicians are for. We’re for the population. We’re not for the corporation. We’re for the population.
Jodi: I like that. That’s fabulous. That’s beautiful. We are for the population. I agree with that a hundred percent. What’s your goal? What do you see yourself doing in the next year? What is your vision?
Ladell: I want to rule the world, man.
Jodi: Madonna said that and look at her!
Ladell: Yeah, well. I really want to take it over. The world is given to me. I’m free to do whatever I want. Sometimes, I suffer myself with things. But, I decided to become a human when I came down here. I didn’t decide to become an animal or a tree or something like that or a rose. I decided to become a human, so I’m going to have to live out all of these emotions. I’m going to have to evolve as a human. My goal is really to just drop the hugest love bomb ever that the planet has ever seen ~! Yeah! Just to wipe out all that stuff, man. It’s like, the devil has walked away, man. It’s begun to get so stupid. He like, “I can’t do nuttin’ no more!” You know? It’s outta my hands. He’s like, “Man, dude, these dudes are so stupid. They do stupid stuff. It wasn’t me that made them do it now. They are on their own doing stupid stuff. They way beyond.” You know? So, I don’t know.
Jodi: Do you think you’ve seen God?
Ladell: I think I am God. I’m a part of God. I have the same elements as the universe and the Earth. I’m a part, so I get to see him in you too. I think you are too.
Jodi: Thank you.
Ladell: I get to see him in everybody. Anybody that has love is a part of God. And I get to see God in them. I’m not saying that as an ego thing – “I am God.” Like, no one is am God. We are God. God is a we.
Jodi: No hierarchy.
Ladell: Yeah. If you see nature, can feel the rain, everything. The only thing is man – we’re sitting in the middle of Tribeca right now, these buildings…you see man. You see God in just little specs now. Little small trees now. We walk down the street, we’re still small like insects and stuff. But we have all this concrete going on around us.
Jodi: Is there a spiritual revolution going on right? Is that what the revolution is today – a spiritual one?
Ladell: As quiet as it’s kept, it is a huge spiritual revolution going on. It needs someone to exercise its rights to come out, and I hope I get the opportunity to help with that.
Jodi: Most definitely. Anything else you want to share? Take me to the next level, Ladell.
Ladell: Well, we are at the next level. We are at the next level.
Jodi Leib's Talk It Out Interview with Ladell McLin was taped on August 30, 2005. Talk It Out (c) Jodi Leib, 2005. Reprint by Permission.
Please visit Ladell's My Space site at www.myspace.com/ladellmclin .
Special thanks to David Birch
