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Mardi Gras Streaming LIVE 2021 (WAC) Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler! Let the good times roll at The Watchung Arts Center s Mardi Gras virtual celebration on Saturday, February 20 at 8PM. The Mardi Gras Band returns following the success of last year s sell-out performance. Band leader, bassist Thaddeus Exposé, New Orleans native will be joined by vocalist Arlee Leonard, pianist Brandon McCune, drummer Gordon Lane, Michael Green on the trumpet and Marty Eigen on the clarinet. Due to the Pandemic this Concert will be streamed LIVE from the Watchung Arts Center to the comfort and safety of your home via Zoom.
Andrew Gilbert January 25, 2021Updated: January 26, 2021, 7:35 am
Wynton Marsalis kicks off Sonoma’s online series with “The Democracy! Suite.” Photo: Erika Goldring , Getty Images 2019
Pulitzer Prize-winning trumpeter Wynton Marsalis has long championed jazz as an art form that embodies democratic ideals, and during an interview with The Chronicle in the midst of Inauguration Day festivities, he often evoked some of the same soaring tropes that poet Amanda Gorman threaded through “The Hill We Climb.”
“We’re not trying to describe chaos,” he said when asked about “The Democracy! Suite’s” subtly calibrated arrangements and inviting melodic lines. “We’re trying to acknowledge it and provide antidotes. I believe art is ultimately optimistic. It’s always more satisfying to go up than down.”
Beaver County s jazzy-soul saxophonist still jammin’ at age 90
Timothy Cox
Today, the man known as Aliquippa s jazzy-soul saxophonist celebrates his 90th birthday.
Though several of his contemporaries have earned their way into rock n roll heaven, Charles Sonny Childs is the Georgia-born musician that continues to enjoy onstage performances and staying in tune with his tenor saxophone.
Childs like Peach State notables James Brown, Little Richard, Ray Charles and Otis Redding were reared among those pine trees made famous by Charles version of the song Georgia. Childs is enjoying his ninth decade as a working musician.
And importantly, while blessed with good health, Childs said he has no plans to end his show.
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To the casual listener, George Benson is all about those astoundingly suave pop/disco crossover records he made in the late 70s and early 80s. They are,
of course, very much part of his legacy, but to consider him just for those would be akin to thinking Orson Welles only made TV adverts for sherry. It is without a shred of over-exaggeration to state that he is one of the world’s greatest jazz guitarists, and he is talking to RC to promote his new album, Weekend In London, recorded live at Ronnie Scott’s in 2019. It’s still an enormous deal for him to have been performing back at a venue where he first appeared 45 years ago, notwithstanding the people he’s played with and the places he’s been.