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Friday, June 7, 2019
Preview- The Cookers, Jazz Alley, Seattle, WA, June 11, 2019, For One Night Only
Photo courtesy of The Cookers
By E. Joyce Glasgow, www.artsandculturescene.com
For jazz lovers who revel in deep listening and the thrill and excitement of hearing gorgeous collaborations played by seasoned musicians who embody, through collective decades of experience, the great, historic influences of mid-20th and 21st century jazz, then you must not miss The Cookers live.
This musically wise septet of veteran jazz musicians, who have produced five critically acclaimed recordings together, play with presence, confidence, originality, assertion, cohesion, powerful energy and fluid, engaging improvisation. This ensemble elegantly surfs a wave of abstracted, straight ahead and post hard bop jazz. Their playing is crisp, clear and demonstrative.
The Cookers will be performing, in Seattle, for one night only, at The Jazz Alley, on Tuesday, June 11, 2019 at 7:30 PM. www.jazzalley.com
If you have children who love jazz and are learning to play or sing, bring them to hear these wonderful musicians for a rare opportunity to experience an impressive and fabulous advanced tutorial on the music that will be highly inspiring. Minors are allowed at the Jazz Alley for this early evening set.
Pianist and composer, George Cables, is well-known to Seattle and Western Washington audiences for his numerous performances in Seattle and years of teaching students and performing at the Port Townsend Jazz Festival. He has played with a range of historic jazz greats including Sonny Rollins, Sarah Vaughn, Dexter Gordon, Freddie Hubbard, Roy Haynes, Joe Henderson, Bobby Hutcherson, Dizzy Gillespie and Art Blakey. Cables leads his own trio, works with other ensembles and is a clinician in college jazz programs.
Tenor saxophonist and composer, Billy Harper, leads his own quintet, teaches and lectures at universities, is an alumnus of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers and has played with Gil Evans, Max Roach, Thad Jones, Mel Lewis, Lee Morgan and other jazz leaders.
Bassist, composer and Grammy winner, Cecil McBee, has traveled the world with numerous jazz luminaries including Betty Carter, Charles Lloyd, McCoy Tyner, Bennie Goodman, Bobby Hutcherson, Dinah Washington, Pharaoh Sanders, Wayne Shorter, Miles Davis, Nancy Wilson, Keith Jarrett, Alice Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Freddie Hubbard and Abdullah Ibrahim. He teaches privately and at colleges and universities.
Drummer and composer, Billy Hart, has played with Wes Montgomery, Wayne Shorter, McCoy Tyner, Herbie Hancock, Stan Getz, Eddie Harris, Pharaoh Sanders and others and leads his own quartet.
Trumpeter, composer and medical doctor, Eddie Henderson, received his first informal trumpet lesson at age nine, from Louis Armstrong. He has played with Herbie Hancock, Pharaoh Sanders, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Elvin Jones, Max Roach, Joe Henderson, Slide Hampton, Roy Haynes and others, as well as fronting his own bands.
Trumpeter, composer and arranger, David Weiss, has played with Freddie Hubbard, Charles Tolliver, Geri Allen, James Moody, Muhal Richard Abrams, Louis Hayes, Frank Foster, Jimmy Heath and others. He founded the New Jazz Composers Octet and leads several of his own ensembles. The Cookers was one of his special projects and he solidified the band's personnel in 2007 into the powerhouse working group that it is today. Weiss does the rearranging for the band's repertoire of original compositions by Cables, Harper and McBee.
New Orlean's alto saxophonist and composer, Donald Harrison, has played with Lena Horne, Miles Davis, Dr. John, McCoy Tyner, Eddie Palmieri, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Billy Cobham, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra and many others. He co-wrote the soundtrack for the feature film, "Rachel's Getting Married", in which he played himself, was featured in Spike Lee's HBO documentary about Hurricane Katrina "When the Levees Broke" and aspects of his life and music are chronicled in the HBO series "Treme", for which he was a character consultant and appeared as himself in eleven episodes. Harrison teaches at the college level and is the founder of the New Jazz School for students thirteen to eighteen and is co-founder and artistic director of Tipitina's Intern Program, which is a college preparatory and professional music training program for junior and senior high school students, both in New Orleans. Harrison has won numerous, international music awards, from France, Japan, Switzerland and in the U.S.
Here is a video of a live streamed performance by The Cookers, at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola, NYC, Jazz Live at Lincoln Center.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pohNagO_jQ&list=RD6pohNagO_jQ&start_radio=1&t=2320
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
NYC Vegetarian Food Festival, May 18-19, 2019, Metropolitan Pavilion, NYC
By E. Joyce Glasgow
www.artsandculturescene.com.
The ninth annual NYC Vegetarian Food Festival will take place on May 18 and 19, 2019, at the Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 W. 18th St., NYC
Although it is called a Vegetarian food festival, it has become primarily a Vegan festival, reflecting the changes in the times and people's diets, just in the nine short years since its beginnings, as many Vegetarians and others have moved towards completely removing all animal products from their diets, including dairy and eggs.
There will be over ninety exhibitors, including food vendors, food and drink sampling, Vegan skin care products, animal advocacy organizations, environmental organizations and other non-profits. Food available ranges from gourmet, Vegan nut cheeses and chocolates, to Vegan "comfort" food.
There will be a Keynote speakers' stage, a chef demonstration stage and a "Mind/Body Zone", where attendees can take Yoga, Pilates and Meditation classes.
Dr. Gabriel Cousens, (photo courtesy of the NYC Vegetarian Food Festival)
Don't miss Dr Gabriel Cousens, who will be speaking twice on Sunday, May 19, on "Holistic Veganism" and "Shakitpat Meditation". Dr. Cousens is a wise, thorough and engaging speaker with over forty five years of working in physical, mental and spiritual healing. He is the author of thirteen books on health, healing and spirit and is a Columbia University trained medical doctor, practicing holistically, including extensive training and practice in homeopathy, Aryuveda, acupunture, meditation and is a psychiatrist, family therapist and an ordained Rabbi. Dr. Cousens is a Renaissance Man in the field of healing. He has successfully helped many people cure themselves of type two Diabetes and other diseases at his retreat center "Tree of Life" in Patagonia, Arizona, in the past, and now, in his next phase, dedicated to working one and one with private clients from around the world.
There are numerous, experienced and eclectic Vegan speakers and chefs participating.
Go to https://www.nycvegfoodfest.com to see a complete list of speakers, panels, subject matter, chefs and exhibitors for this very popular, annual, two day festival.
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The ninth annual NYC Vegetarian Food Festival will take place on May 18 and 19, 2019, at the Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 W. 18th St., NYC
Although it is called a Vegetarian food festival, it has become primarily a Vegan festival, reflecting the changes in the times and people's diets, just in the nine short years since its beginnings, as many Vegetarians and others have moved towards completely removing all animal products from their diets, including dairy and eggs.
There will be over ninety exhibitors, including food vendors, food and drink sampling, Vegan skin care products, animal advocacy organizations, environmental organizations and other non-profits. Food available ranges from gourmet, Vegan nut cheeses and chocolates, to Vegan "comfort" food.
There will be a Keynote speakers' stage, a chef demonstration stage and a "Mind/Body Zone", where attendees can take Yoga, Pilates and Meditation classes.
Don't miss Dr Gabriel Cousens, who will be speaking twice on Sunday, May 19, on "Holistic Veganism" and "Shakitpat Meditation". Dr. Cousens is a wise, thorough and engaging speaker with over forty five years of working in physical, mental and spiritual healing. He is the author of thirteen books on health, healing and spirit and is a Columbia University trained medical doctor, practicing holistically, including extensive training and practice in homeopathy, Aryuveda, acupunture, meditation and is a psychiatrist, family therapist and an ordained Rabbi. Dr. Cousens is a Renaissance Man in the field of healing. He has successfully helped many people cure themselves of type two Diabetes and other diseases at his retreat center "Tree of Life" in Patagonia, Arizona, in the past, and now, in his next phase, dedicated to working one and one with private clients from around the world.
There are numerous, experienced and eclectic Vegan speakers and chefs participating.
Go to https://www.nycvegfoodfest.com to see a complete list of speakers, panels, subject matter, chefs and exhibitors for this very popular, annual, two day festival.
Sunday, April 21, 2019
Fridge Art Fair Returns to the Nu Hotel, "Fridge Does Frida", Brooklyn, New York, April 30th-May 5th, 2019
Photo credits: E. Joyce Glasgow, www.artsandculturescene.com
The Fridge Art Fair New York 2019 returns to the Nu Hotel, 85 Smith Street, Brooklyn New York, April 30th through May 5th, 2019. Visit www.fridgeartfair.com for details.This year's theme is "Fridge does Frida", in honor of the Frida Kahlo exhibit running concurrently at the Brooklyn Art Museum. The Fridge was founded by painter, Eric Ginsburg, who produces it each year in Miami and New York City. Over thirty five independent artists will display their work, in all mediums, in the Nu Hotel lobby and other areas of the building. This is a fun, funky and casual art fair where one can just sit down, have something to eat or drink in the lobby bar and just enjoy hanging out and being surrounded by colorful and lively art and conversation. The "Fridge", "TEFAF", "Other", "Moniker", "Superfine!" and "Frieze" Art Fairs all take place during this first week of May, 2019 in New York City. Photos from last year's Fridge Art Fair NYC, 2018 at the Nu Hotel, Brooklyn, follow below.
A portion of the Nu Hotel lobby, the front window, filled with art by Anais Laurent and others. Fridge Art Fair 2018 |
Artist and Fridge founder , Eric Ginsburg, is known for his dog and cat portraits, which capture the sweet spirits of their subjects. |
Ginsberg also captures the playful and whimsical nature of dogs and cats in his free and bold approach to painting. |
Artist, Amanda Acosta, Co-Curator of the Fridge Art Fair, NY 2018, relaxing and enjoying the show, in the Nu Hotel lobby bar. |
Colorful acrylic paintings on canvas, by E. Joyce Glasgow, capturing themes inspired by Nature, at Fridge Fair NYC 2018 |
View of the lobby and visitors and artists relaxing amongst the paintings, Fridge NYC 2018. |
Another view of the lobby and the many, varied, stylistically unique paintings around the room, Fridge NYC 2018 A piece by a Brazilian artist, who lives in Brooklyn NY at the Fridge NYC 2018 |
Wednesday, January 2, 2019
Preview: globalFEST NYC 2019, January 6th, 2019, Copacabana, New York City
Preview: GlobalFEST NYC 2019, Copacabana, January 6th, 2019. http://globalfest.org/fest
By E. Joyce Glasgow
www.artsandculturescene.com
Twelve world music groups will take to three stages at the Copacabana in New York City, on January 6th, 2019, for the annual globalFEST, showcasing and celebrating the variety, diversity, excitement and joy of musical performances from around the globe.
Many of the groups chosen this year sound exciting. I am especially interested in hearing the following acts.
Classically trained tenor vocalist, Jeremy Dutcher, reinvents traditional songs of his indigenous people, the Wolastoqiyik, of New Brunswick, Eastern Canada, with drama, passion and power.
Debashashish Battacharya plays the Hindustani slide guitar inspired by Hawaiian lap steel guitar, which was popularized in India in the 1940's by Hawaiian master lap steel guitarist, teacher and instrument maker, Tau Moe,
Ukrainian women's ensemble, Dakh Daughters are very theatrical, intense and performance art oriented in their songs, utilizing makeup. costumes and props in a cabaret style performance that feels chamber like, including string instruments; cello, violin and two double basses.
Magos Herrera and Brooklyn Rider. Herrera is a fiery, powerful, hypnotic and sensual Mexican vocalist and songwriter, accompanied by the passionate, adventurous string quartet, Brooklyn Rider and percussion.
This year's offerings include:
Amythyst Kiah (Tennessee/USA): "Southern gothic, alt-country blues"-globalFEST
By E. Joyce Glasgow
www.artsandculturescene.com
Twelve world music groups will take to three stages at the Copacabana in New York City, on January 6th, 2019, for the annual globalFEST, showcasing and celebrating the variety, diversity, excitement and joy of musical performances from around the globe.
Many of the groups chosen this year sound exciting. I am especially interested in hearing the following acts.
Classically trained tenor vocalist, Jeremy Dutcher, reinvents traditional songs of his indigenous people, the Wolastoqiyik, of New Brunswick, Eastern Canada, with drama, passion and power.
Debashashish Battacharya plays the Hindustani slide guitar inspired by Hawaiian lap steel guitar, which was popularized in India in the 1940's by Hawaiian master lap steel guitarist, teacher and instrument maker, Tau Moe,
Ukrainian women's ensemble, Dakh Daughters are very theatrical, intense and performance art oriented in their songs, utilizing makeup. costumes and props in a cabaret style performance that feels chamber like, including string instruments; cello, violin and two double basses.
Magos Herrera and Brooklyn Rider. Herrera is a fiery, powerful, hypnotic and sensual Mexican vocalist and songwriter, accompanied by the passionate, adventurous string quartet, Brooklyn Rider and percussion.
This year's offerings include:
Amythyst Kiah (Tennessee/USA): "Southern gothic, alt-country blues"-globalFEST
B.C.U.C. - Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness (South Africa): "Defiant and hypnotic Soweto sounds"- globalFEST
CHA WA (New Orleans/USA): "New Orleans brass driving Mardi Gras Indian funk "-globalFEST
Debashish Bhattacharya (India):"Calcutta’s innovative slide guitar master "-globalFEST
Jeremy Dutcher (Tobique/Canada): "Reinvented indigenous Wolastoqiyik songs"- globalFEST
Magos Herrera & Brooklyn Rider (Mexico/USA): "Innovative string quartet and lush vocals"- globalFEST
Orquesta Akokán (Cuba/USA): "Powerhouse Cuban son supergroup"-globalFEST
47SOUL (Palestine/United Kingdom): "Electro dabke from the Palestinian diaspora"-globalFEST
Combo Chimbita (Colombia/USA): "Psychedelic cumbia-inflected tropical futurism"-globalFEST
Dakh Daughters (Ukraine): "Kyiv’s underground punk cabaret"- globalFEST
Gato Preto (Mozambique/Ghana/Senegal/Germany): "Afrofuturist global bass"- globalFEST
Zouk Machine (Guadeloupe/France): "The grande dame of French-Antillean zouk"-globalFEST
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Acrylic Paintings by E. Joyce Glasgow, on Display at the Fridge Art Fair, May 2-6, 2018, Nu Hotel, Brooklyn, New York
The Fridge Art Show, May 2-6, 2018 is featuring an eclectic display of art by over thirty five artists. It is taking place at the Nu Hotel, in Downtown Brooklyn, New York. Included is my art work below.
Original Acrylic Paintings by E. Joyce Glasgow, 2018, on display at the Fridge Art Show, May 2-6, 2018, Nu Hotel, Brooklyn, New York. Please send all inquiries for purchase to joyce@artsandculturescene.com
"Fire Pixie Tulip", 2018, Original Acrylic on Canvas, Unframed, 8" by 10" By E. Joyce Glasgow, Image and Title Copyright, 2018 |
"Amish", 2018, Original Acrylic on Stretched Canvas, Unframed, 8" by 10", By E. Joyce Glasgow, Image and Title Copyright, 2018 |
"Blue Flower", Original Acrylic on Stretched Canvas, Unframed, 8" by 10", by E. Joyce Glasgow, Image and Title Copyright, 2018 |
"Watermelon With Seeds", Original Acrylic and Mixed Media on Stretched Canvas, Unframed, 8" by 10", By E. Joyce Glasgow, Image and Title Copyright, 2018 |
"Sunflower and Friends", Original Acrylic on Stretched Canvas, Unframed, 8" by 10", By E. Joyce Glasgow, Image and Title Copyright, 2018 |
"Midnight Moon Cactus", Original Acrylic on Stretched Canvas, Unframed, 8" by 10", By E. Joyce Glasgow, Image and Title Copyright, 2018 |
"Ascending Tulips", Original Acrylic and Silver Metallic Acrylic on Stretched Canvas, Unframed, 8" by 10", By E. Joyce Glasgow, Image and Title Copyright 2018 |
Thursday, April 5, 2018
Ann Hampton Callaway With Special Guest Cyrille Aimee, Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, Connecticut, March 31, 2018
By E. Joyce Glasgow
www.artsandculturescene.com
The opening act was Ann Hampton Callaway’s special guest,
young French jazz vocalist, Cyrille Aimee, in a duo with French guitarist, Michael
Valeanu. They performed a set of varied, well known popular songs, from the
great American songbook, including “I Could Have Danced All Night”, “Softly, As
in A Morning Sunrise”, “Whatever Lola Wants”, " Bye Bye Blackbird", “How Deep is the Ocean” and “Just
the Two of Us”. Aimee is an artistically prolific improviser and has a relaxed and
confident facility for fine, creative scat singing and the duo has a natural,
easy musical flow with one another. Aimee’s voice is dusky, sweet and calming. A
very entertaining, solo, original song that Aimee performed with the assistance
of an electronic “looper”, afforded her the ability to expertly build and weave
numerous layers of lush harmonies and polyrhythmic percussion vocal tracks. A
highlight of the duo’s performance was a beautiful, reflective, waltz ballad, by French
born, Jewish Ukrainian singer/songwriter, Serge Gainsbourg, “La Javanaise”, sung
in French.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGFgQLn74Ls
www.artsandculturescene.com
Ann Hampton Callaway has a beautiful, mature voice, rich as warm
honey, flexible, strong and emotive, with a wide vocal range. She is a
formidable, grounded performer and easily creates an intimate, comfortable, engaging rapport
with her audience, including audience sing-alongs.
Her musical tribute to Ella Fitzgerald “The Ella Century”,
presented on March 31, 2018, at the Ridgefield Playhouse in Ridgefield
Connecticut, flowed seamlessly from song to song, featuring some of the iconic
songs of Fitzgerald’s repetoire, picked from some of the greatest composers of
the twentieth century. Callaway performed with a trio of seasoned jazz
musicians; Matt Baker (piano), Dean Johnson (double bass) and Alvester Garnett
(drums). She opened with an upbeat swing version of George and Ira Gershwin’s “Oh,
Lady be Good”, followed by George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward’s operatic “Summertime”,
making full use of her soulful, deep vocal range. She then sang a short section
of “A Tisket a Tasket”, a song, she explained, that was written by a shy Ella Fitzgerald
at twenty-one, at the beginning of her career, at a time when she hoped to be a
dancer. She went to a dance audition at the Apollo Theater, and eyeing the
competition, she decided to try singing instead and ended up being the singer
with the Chuck Webb Orchestra.
Callaway praised Fitzgerald’s “impish” sense of humor and
her incredible scat singing ability.
She relayed the story of how she had come to love Ella
Fitzgerald. Her father was a TV and radio journalist in Chicago in the 1960’s,
covering serious issues including the Civil Rights movement and the Vietnam
War. When he wanted to decompress at the end of a long day of work, he would go
to a bar where the music played was Ella Fitzgerald and other jazz artists. Her
dad subsequently purchased these records and played them at home. Her dad’s
favorite Fitzgerald song to sing was “Embraceable You”, another Gershwin tune
and Callaway followed up her story by singing a romantic, dreamy version of
that great ballad. Other songs in her set were, “The More I See You”, “Mr. Paganini”,
“Just One of Those Things” and a gorgeous rendition of “Body and Soul”.
Callaway spoke of Fitzgerald’s marriage and musical
relationship with bassist, Ray Brown and her iconic, simpatic musical
partnership with the superlative trumpeter/vocalist, Louis Armstrong.
Callaway closed her set with a very poignant rendition of “Every
Time We Say Goodbye”, remembering her mother, an accomplished singer, pianist
and vocal coach, who just passed away last year.
She returned for an encore, for one of her famous
improvisational songs, creating a complete song with witty lyrics and music on
the spot, at the piano, with disparate subject matter shouted out from the audience.
Her improvised songs are always funny and smart and somewhat absurd and this
song was true to form. It ended up being a song about a guitarist named Amy,
who met a consultant named Richard, by flashing him in a Greek diner. They went
to the local library to get intimate and the story went on to Amy being
heartbroken forever, because of Callaway’s own added song narrative surprise,
that Richard turned out to be a married man and the two would never see each
other again. I would enjoy hearing Ann Hampton Callaway sing these witty,
improvised songs of hers all evening.
Ann Hampton Callaway is not only an accomplished vocalist
and pianist but is also a prolific songwriter and has written over 250 songs,
including Platinum Award winning hits for Barbra Streisand and the theme for
the TV series “The Nanny”. www.annhamptoncallaway.com
Cyrille Aimee is the winner of the Montreux Jazz Festival’s
Vocal Competition, the Sarah Vaughan International Vocal Competition and was a
finalist in the Thelonious Monk Vocal Competition. www.cyrillemusic.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGFgQLn74Ls
Thursday, January 11, 2018
GlobalFEST 2018, NYC, Fifteenth Anniversary, January 14th, 2018, Twelve International Music Acts
globalFEST 2018
NYC, Fifteenth Anniversary
Sunday, January
14, 2018
B.B. King’s,
Lucille’s Café, Liberty Theater, New York City
By E. Joyce Glasgow, www.artsandculturescene.com
GlobalFEST 2018, NYC, is relocating its 15th annual festival this year from
Greenwich Village to the heart of Times Square and the intensive, celebratory
evening of twelve international music acts will appear at three venues; B.B.
King’s Blues Club, sister venue, Lucille’s and across 42nd Street at the Liberty Theater. Visit www.globalfest.org for more information.
Flor de
Toloache (NY/USA/Mexico) is an all-woman Mariachi band, who perform traditional
Mexican Mariachi music as well as easily crossing over into performing rousing music
influenced by a number of other musical genres.
Eva Salina
and Peter Stan, voice and accordion (NY) are committed to keeping beautiful, passionate,
soulful, traditional Balkan Romani songs alive and current.
Miramar
(Puerto Rico/NY) sing and play the dreamy, romantic, sensual Latin Boleros of
mid-twentieth century Puerto Rico, including compositions by
composer/musician/poet, Sylvia Rexach, active in the bohemian artistic
community in San Juan. Rexach was an independent, free spirited woman,
revolutionary for her time. She died at 39 in 1961, but her boleros have continued
to grow in popularity since her death.
These are just three of the intriguing, eclectic musical acts performing at globalFEST 2018 NYC.
Nine more acts will play:
La Dame Blanche (Cuba)
Grand Tapestry (India/California/USA)
Iberi Choir (Georgia)
Mohsen Namjoo (New York/USA/Iran)
Jarlath Henderson Band (Ireland/Scotland)
Delgres (Guadeloupe)
Thornetta Davis (Detroit/USA)
Ava Rocha (Brazil)
Jupiter & Okwess (Democratic Republic of Congo)
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