Join us for an impromptu concert series in the heart of Central Park, titled Walk With The Wind and featuring performances by tenor saxophonist Mark Turner, drummer Nasheet Waits and more.
BANGKOK BRIEF:
Yingluck rejects Chalerm’s comments but doubts she can get referendum turnout. Extremists in South hunt Buddhists, burn TAO building. Total Access Communication (DTAC) earmarks 25 billion baht for installation of its third-generation (3G) mobile network over the next three year, hopes to cover 80% of the population.
WORLD SUMMARY:
World fails to end, China arrests Doomsday cult of 1,000 members. Assange vows “million documents in 2013” for Wikipedia. Internet eagle video is a hoax. The three students who made the video, apparently showing a golden eagle snatching a toddler in Montreal, did so in a production simulation workshop at their university.
Christian McBride (left), Corea and Jack DeJohnette recording McBride’s
Number 2 Express in 1995. (Photo: Jimmy Katz)
Chick Corea’s passing reverberated through the jazz world with a multigenerational outpouring for an artist seen as both a creative force and a compassionate soul. Drummer Jack DeJohnette, 78, traces his collaborations with Corea back to mid-1960s jams in the pianist’s house in Queens, New York. Those meetings, DeJohnette said, transcended the boundary between work and play:
“You knew you were going to have fun and the level of playing would be the highest possible.” Working through material that would appear on Corea’s second album
ONLINE: Nicholas Payton
Nicholas Payton
This addition to the Wisconsin Union Theater schedule is a big one: Nicholas Payton. First coming to national prominence as a jazz trumpeter â picking up a Grammy as well as several nominations over the years â Payton s musical range transcends genre boundaries. (As stated on his website, There are no fields, per se. There are lineages. ) The New Orleans native is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, runs his own record label, and a prolific essayist on topics as wide-ranging as his musical directions. Find tickets here; the concert will be followed by a Q&A session. UPDATE: This concert is rescheduled for Feb. 27.