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Grazyna Auguscik takes on music of Nick Drake, to mixed effect
Jazz artists love to take chances, and Chicago singer Grazyna Auguscik has taken a big one with her plunge into the music of Nick Drake. The eclectic British singer-songwriter died in 1974, at age 26, his slim discography never embraced by the wide...
Tags: Jazz (genre), Music, Green Mill (club), Entertainment, Music Industry
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Grazyna Auguscik jazzes music of Nick Drake
The songs of Nick Drake get under your skin, insinuating their way into your consciousness through the gentle contours of their melody lines and the expressive urgency of their lyrics. And though Drake died in 1974, at age 26, with a slender...
Tags: Music, Green Mill (club), Entertainment, Music Industry, Irving Park
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Polish jazz blossoms at the Chopin Theatre
Jazz took root in Poland long ago – even before World War II – and the country has prized it ever since. If the music lived underground in the 1950s, when the Soviet Union considered it "decadent," Polish listeners – and their...
Tags: Jazz (genre), Vocal Music (genre), Arts and Culture, Green Mill (club), Jimi Hendrix
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Decisive Singer-Songwriter Christopher Paul Stelling Plays a Free Show at BAR
Christopher Paul Stelling w/ Brian Dolzani. Free. 9 p.m., Sept. 12. BAR, 254 Crown St., New Haven, barnightclub.com, manicproductions.org As Christopher Paul Stelling recalls how he acquired his first guitar — a hand-me-down received at 8 or...
Tags: James Taylor, Nirvana (music group), Kurt Cobain, Spain, Music
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Gryphon Trio: 'We love Beethoven'
The Gryphon Trio will be thinking a lot about Beethoven when this Canadian ensemble performs locally for the Candlelight Concert Society Saturday, Feb. 18 at 8 p.m. at Howard Community College's Smith Theatre.
"We love Beethoven," cellist Roman Borys...Tags: Toronto (Canada), Laurie Anderson, Canada, Arts and Culture, Colleges and Universities
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Free Music Friday! Mellow warmth from Denison Witmer
![Pennsylvania native <a href="http://denisonwitmer.com/site/" target="_blank">Denison Witmer</a> is a veteran singer-songwriter who has achieved more critical acclaim than record sales.](http://www.dailypress.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-02/67995206-10080512.jpg "Pennsylvania native <a href="http://denisonwitmer.com/site/\" target=\"_blank\">Denison Witmer</a> is a veteran singer-songwriter who has achieved more critical acclaim than record sales.")
Pennsylvania native Denison Witmer is a veteran singer-songwriter who has achieved more critical acclaim than record sales.
That's not to say his music is edgy or difficult. The song "Brooklyn With Your Highest Wall" from Witmer's new, ninth album,...Tags: Washington, DC, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Arts and Culture, Neil Young, Burlington (Kane, Illinois)
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2011 year in review: Best in pop music
Pop & Hiss The best music of 2011 — or, more accurately, my favorite music of the year – is a genre-blind mix of the eloquent and the aggressive. The below 10 full-length albums, organized in order or preference, are further evidence...... -
Wednesday Morning Coffee: Corbett Aide Who Edited Faith-Based Pub. Resigns.
Capitol Ideas with John L. MicekGood Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. We're running a little behind this morning, so we're going to dispense with the formalities and instead will dive right into a quick countdown of the Top 5 stories making news this 18th day of...... -
Bert Jansch, influential guitarist for the prog-folk Pentangle, dies at 67
![<span style="font-size: medium;">Bert Jansch, a virtuoso guitarist and singer who influenced generations of post-British Invasion luminaries including <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBmIIgA68vQ&feature=fvst" target="_blank">Jimmy Page</a>, Paul Simon, Donovan, Nick Drake and Johnny Marr, died after a long battle with cancer,<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/oct/05/pentangle-bert-jansch-dies" target="_blank"> the Guardian reported earlier this morning</a>.</span>](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-10/245917620-05064134.jpg "<span style="font-size: medium;\">Bert Jansch, a virtuoso guitarist and singer who influenced generations of post-British Invasion luminaries including <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBmIIgA68vQ&feature=fvst\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy Page</a>, Paul Simon, Donovan, Nick Drake and Johnny Marr, died after a long battle with cancer,<a href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/oct/05/pentangle-bert-jansch-dies\" target=\"_blank\"> the Guardian reported earlier this morning</a>.</span>")
Bert Jansch, a virtuoso guitarist and singer who influenced generations of post-British Invasion luminaries including Jimmy Page, Paul Simon, Donovan, Nick Drake and Johnny Marr, died after a long battle with cancer, the Guardian reported earlier this...Tags: Pentangle (music group), Jimmy Page, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Paul Simon, Donovan
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David Berkeley's Books and Music at Holcomb Farm in Simsbury
The New Jersey-born singer-songwriter and current San Francisco native David Berkeley (pictured), who was recently interviewed by the Huffington Post about his new album, Some Kind of Cure (the fourth he's released on his own label), and also about his...Tags: Simsbury, Arts and Culture, The Huffington Post, Fine Arts, Paul Simon
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My go-to movie cliches
LakeviewIt's no secret I love movies. The ones I relish most are the indies: anything I can find playing here in good old Lakeview, at Music Box Theatre (3733 N. Southport) or Landmark Century Centre Cinema (2828 N. Clark). Low budgets and subtitles automatically... -
Rob Young's 'Electric Eden'
![Rob Young's "Electric Eden" is a rich, overgrown garden of a book. Subtitled "Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music," its ostensible purpose is to chronicle the late 1960s/early 1970s heyday of British folk rock: artists such as Fairport Convention, Nick Drake, Vashti Bunyan, Pentangle, Shirley Collins and Richard Thompson, who captured something powerful and strange even as they failed to dent the U.S. charts. Many of them came to tragic ends as well — suicide, sudden loss of voice, decades of wandering in the artistic wilderness.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-06/62173450-06225522.jpg "Rob Young's "Electric Eden\" is a rich, overgrown garden of a book. Subtitled \"Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music,\" its ostensible purpose is to chronicle the late 1960s/early 1970s heyday of British folk rock: artists such as Fairport Convention, Nick Drake, Vashti Bunyan, Pentangle, Shirley Collins and Richard Thompson, who captured something powerful and strange even as they failed to dent the U.S. charts. Many of them came to tragic ends as well — suicide, sudden loss of voice, decades of wandering in the artistic wilderness.")
Special to the Los Angeles TimesRob Young's "Electric Eden" is a rich, overgrown garden of a book. Subtitled "Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music," its ostensible purpose is to chronicle the late 1960s/early 1970s heyday of British folk rock: artists such as Fairport Convention, Nick...Tags: William Morris, Peter Ackroyd, Pete Seeger, United Kingdom, Folk (genre)
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