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...cemented their partnership in marriage. Their daughter Hannah is now eight months old. West says that the name of their record company is inspired by the idea of music pointing in many different directions. Compass Records’ artists are a motley mix, with styles ranging from that of jazz bassist Victor Wooten to Celtic phenomenon Kate Rusby to British pop artist Bill Jones. West and Brown have even released an album of music played on the North Australian didgeridoo...
Though she’s released seven solo albums, Brown mainly records and plays with her band. The Alison Brown Quartet consists of keyboardist John R. Burr, West on bass and drummer Kendrick Freeman. Critics praise the group’s interesting twist on bluegrass music, bringing in jazz, world rhythms, folk and classical. “In Brown’s hands, the banjo is capable of fluid musical phrases of boundless beauty,” Billboard Magazine writes...
...them as different sounds all in a sort of hot pot,” Vadim says. “There’s elements of all kinds of stuff in my music, because I listen to everything, from reggae, to rap, to hip hop, to soul, to funk, to jazz, to ethnic music...
...DIED. MONGO SANTAMARIA, 80, Cuban-born percussionist who fused American jazz, funk and R. and B. with Afro-Cuban sounds in such standards as Afro Blue, made famous by John Coltrane, and a popular 1963 rendition of Herbie Hancock's Watermelon Man; following a stroke; in Miami. A veteran of the Tito Puente Orchestra, Santamaria recorded albums ranging from salsa and contemporary soul to congo-driven percussion and chanting...
...MAINLY JAZZ DANCE COMPANY: MAINLY MOVIES II. The Mainly Jazz Dance Company performs a concert of pieces choreographed by company members in a variety of styles including traditional jazz, lyrical, hip hop, funk, and modern to movie music from James Bond to Coyote Ugly. Guest starring the Fallen Angels, TAPS, the the Gentlemen of the Sigma Chi fraternity doing the Full Monty. Friday, February 14 and Saturday, February 15 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office or by phone (617)-496-2222; $7 regular, $5 students in advance; or at the door: $8 regular, $6 students...