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...backing blues singer-pianist Georgia White as she belted out Andy Razaf's raunchy threat, 'If I can't sell it, I'll keep sittin' on it, before I give it away.' A year later he formed his first trio, with the bass player Ernie Newton and rhythm guitarist Jim Atkins (the older half-brother of Chet Atkins, with whom Paul would cut the 1995 album 'Chester and Lester'). They came east and, 64 years before Paul's gig at Iridium, there was a Les Paul Trio playing a New York club...
DIED. JOHN HARTFORD, 63, quirky, sociable bluegrass banjo virtuoso, fiddler and guitarist, who penned the much recorded country song Gentle on My Mind, which won him two Grammy Awards and became a Top 40 hit for Glen Campbell; of cancer; in Nashville, Tenn. Beloved for spirited performances at bluegrass festivals and for throwing picking parties at his home, Hartford collaborated with the Byrds and Benny Martin but also recorded some 40 of his own albums, most recently appearing on the sound track for the film O Brother, Where Art Thou...
...Counting Crows, and their tunes have ethereal titles like Ode to a Butterfly. But this nontraditional trio is the biggest thing behind a budding bluegrass revival. Their sound? Something like Dueling Banjos as remixed by Fatboy Slim. This cultural collision of the sweetest kind is the handiwork of guitarist Sean Watkins, 24; his sister Sara, 19, a violinist; and mandolin player Chris Thile, 20. Their virtuoso flights of whimsy give the music's Celtic roots a postmodern jangle of complexity. Says Watkins: "We want to bring the acoustic message to youth right...
...Improvements in technology have played a major role in Uematsu's work: the release in the U.S. in 1995 of the Playstation platform, with its increased storage capacity and CD sound quality, enabled game developers to employ more sophisticated music. Uematsu, a self-taught guitarist and keyboardist, writes while playing test versions of each game, getting "constant feedback" from the development team. But despite the high-tech aspects of his calling, he is inspired most when "surrounded by nature." Every morning the composer, who lives in Tokyo, walks along the river Tama with his dog Pao, musing on new ideas...
Improvements in technology have played a major role in Uematsu's work: the release in the U.S. in 1995 of the Playstation platform, with its increased storage capacity and CD sound quality, enabled game developers to employ more sophisticated music. Uematsu, a self-taught guitarist and keyboardist, writes while playing test versions of each game, getting "constant feedback" from the development team. But despite the high-tech aspects of his calling, he is inspired most when "surrounded by nature." Every morning the composer, who lives in Tokyo, walks along the river Tama with his dog Pao, musing on new ideas...