Forgive me for bringing up a 25-year-old catch phrase that really ought to remain dead and buried, but Friday's opening concert of the second edition of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's 8 Days in June festival had me wondering, "Where's the beef?"
Courting controversy, that impish Radio 1 Worldwide DJ Gilles Peterson has just announced A Night Of Death Jazz at Camden's Roundhouse which will feature Tokyo's Soil & “Pimp" Sessions, The Mighty Jeddo and the Neil Cowley Trio, alongside musikal selectahs Toshio 'UFO' Matsuura, drum'n'bass don Fabio and GP himself.
Biography The music of The Microscopic Septet was the sound of jazz in 20th C. America: all of it, from Ellington to Ayler, bebop to Zorn, Dixieland to experimental, captured in a microcosm.
Most of the time, the term "hot seat" focuses on coaches and front office personnel, but there is no shortage of players who realize they may be at a crossroad in their careers should they not get off to fast starts during the 2008 season.
The Retreat, a gated golf course community that boasted the Inland region's first million-dollar tract homes, has been hit by a tsunami of foreclosures, proving that even the most elite neighborhoods can't escape the devastation of falling real estate values.
Symphony orchestras don't often let their hair down, and when they do, the results are often a bit embarrassing -- like your middle-age aunt trying to get jiggy with it on the dance floor at your cousin's wedding reception.
Today, class, great thoughts, comments and column follow-ups from the other side of the great writer-reader divide -- some a little more tongue-in-cheek than others.
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