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Frustrated by the lack of funding for music in his own public school, Wish, 36, started a "peanut-sized" operation while he was both a primary-grades teacher and a moonlighting jazz guitarist in Redwood City, Calif., in 1996. Wish borrowed instruments from friends and began recording his students and mailing CDs to local musicians known for philanthropy, like Santana and Bonnie Raitt. Soon the stars were dropping in for jam sessions. "I was especially knocked out by one of the young girls who I could see was nailing the guitar parts," says Raitt. "The whole experience gave me vivid...
...Favorite Things to originals like Groovin' on Mount Everest. He traced melodies simply, sometimes decorating them with trills, and shifted between softly gliding passages and furious fantasias with his arms whipping up and down the keyboard, using even his fist to bang out a climactic chord. "Scary," marveled jazz pianist D.D. Jackson, who was in the Blue Note audience. So it was, especially for a performer who was up well past his bed-time and who could barely reach the pedals with his favorite blue sneakers. Savage is 11 years...
Prefuse takes his name from an era of music his alter-ego “holds dear”—the pre-fusion jazz of 1968 to 1973. Also influential for Herren are “80s edit records” and hip-hop, primarily from the years between...
Ideal date: Going out to a jazz club or a sporting event...
...open to all kinds of musical genres, T.T.’s specializes in rock, folk, electronic and punk. Occasional hip-hop acts perform, but Millman says she tries to stay away from “kinds of music that don’t fit the venue, like reggae, jazz and extreme hardcore...