Visiting maestro follows up master class with free concert

Ramsay Short

Daily Star staff

The last time Alex Wilson was in Lebanon he was stuck in a hotel band playing piano at a club in Kaslik. Contracted for three months, the experience was so bad he left after just one.

“The management of that place was terrible, we were stuck in a hotel on a hill, couldn’t really move around, everything that could go wrong went wrong,” he says.

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Bluebird’s legendary Flying Dutchman catalog captured the musical zeitgeist of the late sixties and early seventies with gritty funk meeting driving rock and soulful jazz. This new language, now known as “rare grooves” by the musical cognoscenti, is driving DJ culture around the world.

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On February 18th RCA/Bluebird will release Freak In, the latest CD from world-renowned trumpeter/composer Dave Douglas. Freak In (Douglas’ twentieth recording as a leader) is the follow up to the Grammy nominated CD, The Infinite, and a tireless pathfinder’s adventurous journey through the world of jazztronica.

The Music Of Stan Kenton”
Thursday, February 27, 2003 At 8 Pm In The Juilliard Theater

Victor Goines, Artistic Director of Jazz Studies, Conducts
On Thursday, February 27 at 8 PM in the Juilliard Theater, the Juilliard Jazz Orchestra plays music of big band innovator Stan Kenton in a concert entitled Stan: The Music of Stan Kenton. Victor Goines, Artistic Director of Jazz Studies at Juilliard, conducts. The first half of the program includes such Kenton signature works as Artistry in Rhythm, Opus in Pastels, Youngblood, Concerto to End All Concertos, What’s New?, Interlude, and Kingfish. The second half of the concert features Cuban Fire Suite, Kenton’s famously exciting combination of big-band power and Cuban rhythms.

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Bluebird’s legendary Flying Dutchman catalog captured the musical zeitgeist of the late sixties and early seventies with gritty funk meeting driving rock and soulful jazz. This new language, now known as “rare grooves” by the musical cognoscenti, is driving DJ culture around the world.

click here for official site

On February 18th RCA/Bluebird will release Freak In, the latest CD from world-renowned trumpeter/composer Dave Douglas. Freak In (Douglas’ twentieth recording as a leader) is the follow up to the Grammy nominated CD, The Infinite, and a tireless pathfinder’s adventurous journey through the world of jazztronica.