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Monty Alexander At Blues Alley

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2008-10-03 07:03:08 by Rifftides in Rifftides
...Alexander has arrived at Washington, DC's Blues Alley for a four-night stand. If the US is looking for a source of renewable energy, we need seek no further than the bandstand in that venerable Georgetown jazz joint Gesturing to the wall behind the piano, Alexander told the opening night audience that he was happy to return to Blues Alley....
 
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--=[ Alexander O'Neal ]=--

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2008-02-23 10:00:00 by Lord Blak in Blaks Lair
Alexander Oneal - Alex Loves..[Import][2008 Link 2 2008 album from the master of soulful, romantic R&B love. Alex Loves... contains recordings of popular love songs, including a couple of Alex own songs re-recorded for this release, demonstrating why O'Neal has been labeled one of the Top 10 R&B singers of all time. Hailing from Minneapolis,...
 
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DEJF: Yardena @ DC JCC; Monty Alexander @ Blues Alley

2008-10-03 16:32:13 by Michael J. West in Black Plastic Bag
 
...Alexander is an underappreciated pianist: He has a heavy, percussive touch; a love of thick chords; and a vast rhythmic sense encompassing swing, funk, and the Caribbean islands (Alexander is Jamaican). But last night at Blues Alley he was practically a sideman in his own trio His drummer was Herlin Riley , a New Orleans native and alumnus of...
 
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Alexander the Great

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2008-01-21 00:03:00 by The Pop Cop in The Pop Cop - on the beat of the Scottish indie music scene.
...ALEXANDER at the Liquid Ship on Friday, The Pop Cop reckons listening to the Glasgow singer-songwriter's music covers all three Alexander sings warm, mellow acoustic songs that belie his 27 years and he possesses an effortless stage confidence. His side-splitting wit was best summed up while re-tuning his guitar when he simply stated,...
 
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Alexander Goehr, "Sonata In One Movement Op. 2" (1953)

2008-01-26 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
 
...Alexander Goehr, Peter Maxwell Davies, Harrison Birtwistle and John Ogdon, all of whom were then students in Manchester, founded together the New Music Manchester Group. At that time the music of the younger continental composers, and even that of Schoenberg and Webern, was hardly known in this country. But since then a minor revolution has...
 
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Alexander Goehr, "String Quartet, No. 3, Op. 37"

2008-02-07 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
 
...Alexander Goehr about his own music since 1976, when the Third String Quartet was first performed by the Lindsay Quartet in London. The Quartet is, to date, his last work to be ordered serially; following a period of preoccupation with modality, the Kafka cycle approaches a tonal conception of musical order. But the listener will more readily...
 
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Now's the Time: Monty Alexander

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2008-05-09 09:01:00 by Happy In Bag in Plastic Sax
 
...Alexander will be spectacular in a trio format Saturday night at the Folly Theater. He's an incredibly agile pianist. Still, it's his reggae-oriented work that has most excited me in recent years. Check out the way Alexander breaks it down at the 2:20 mark in this live video. Amazing. And how about the audience's response? Tito Puente was the...
 
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Alexander Goehr, "Two Choruses"

2008-02-08 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
 
...Alexander Goehr Two Choruses, op.14 I had hope when violence was ceas'd from Milton's 'Paradise Lost Take but degree away from Shakespeare's 'Troilus and Cressida', 1.3 During the late 1950s. the first generation of British composers to have accepted the innovations of the Viennese serialists was beginning to gain a hearing. The time-lag...
 
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Black Lips' Alexander Talks Hotline, Movie, New Album

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2008-04-04 07:00:00 by Dave Maher in Pitchfork: News
...Alexander about all of the above. Over the course of the conversation, he also revealed his band's similarity to Mike Jones and New Kids on the Block, as well as his witchcraft-y plans for their new record Pitchfork: So what's the deal with this hotline Cole Alexander: The guys had cell phones, and they were like, "Cole, you need a cell...
 
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Black Lips' Alexander Talks Hotline, Movie, New Album

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2008-04-04 07:00:00 by Dave Maher in Pitchfork: News
...Alexander about all of the above. Over the course of the conversation, he also revealed his band's similarity to Mike Jones and New Kids on the Block, as well as his witchcraft-y plans for their new record Pitchfork: So what's the deal with this hotline Cole Alexander: The guys had cell phones, and they were like, "Cole, you need a cell...
 
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