Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...core, rock video is the kind of cultural shotgun wedding that delights the heart of any aging McLuhanist: rock, radio, movies, music, video, new technologies and new marketing tilting the popular culture onto an angle so it can, if so ordained, slip off onto a whole new course. "The musician in me really resents having to interpret my music into something visual," says Billy Joel. "But the thing that outweighs all of that is that video is a form of communication. Why not use every means of communication available?" Joel has communicated extremely well-his videos are among the genre...
Currier has also hosted a jazz musician--Douglas Daniels, a Mellon Fellow who has written several books on jazz history--because, according to Herschbach, "we have many people who are interested in jazz...
There may never have been a soloist who passed so freely over the closely guarded borders between jazz and classical. Marsalis, who has just turned 22, makes the usual declaration at customs ("I'm just a musician, I just play music"), but though his predisposition may be toward jazz, his training is markedly classical. "Not very much is similar between jazz and classical," he says, "but both are about the elevation of the audience. Both have spirituality. You learn the jazz vocabulary by listening to records and watching other musicians. Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey. Jazz...
...have gotten other gigs and one was 'discovered' by an RCA Records representative and hired as a studio musician," said Kronberg...
...Musician David Gilden said he has been hired to perform at several weddings after people saw him in the newly renovated Square station...