Till Bronner & Bob James –
On Vacation (Masterworks): “Together with jazz legend and Grammy award winner Bob James, trumpeter Till Brönner – Germany’s most successful jazz musician – has transformed holiday moods into a multi-layered sound painting. Close your eyes and dream: “On Vacation is first and foremost a feeling for me and we have transformed this feeling into music,” explains BrönnerVirtuosic, full of creative love for refined details and at the same time of the greatest possible nonchalance, Brönner and James create an imaginative and sonorous music for inspiration, reflection and daydreaming. Confirming the cliché “Unity is Strength”, German trumpetist and singer Till Brönner and the American pianist Bob James have cowritten On Vacation, a work of smooth, hedonistic jazz. Before becoming the king of smooth jazz who has been sampled by every rapper on the planet (his Nautilus has ended up on over 400 tracks by the likes of Public Enemy, A Tribe Call
Valentine’s Day Dinner & Serenade from the Spokane Symphony
Symphony Concertmaster/Lead Violinist Mateusz Wolski. The symphony is partnering with Beacon Hill Catering to provide a chef-prepared meal for two (pick up at the Fox box office on Feb. 14 from 1-4 pm). Ordering deadline is Feb. 10 at 6 pm. The gourmet dinner comes with a 12-minute virtual video musical serenade from Spokane Symphony Concertmaster/Lead Violinist Mateusz Wolski and pianist Archie Chen. Selections include Massenet’s romantic classical piece, “Meditation from Thaïs,” Monti’s passionate fiddle music, “Czardas,” plus one other piece.
Beacon Hill’s meal is ready to heat and serve. Purchasers also have the option of adding a bottle of wine from Barrister Winery. An easy-to-use video link comes with each meal purchase, and will be emailed. The music link is live at 1:30 pm on Feb. 14 so the music can be a romantic serenade during dinner, played on a phone or laptop compute
Chris Cook is Spokane’s current Poet Laureate. His first collection of poetry,
The View from the Broken Mic, was published in 2012 (Gray Dog Press). Additional work has been published by Sage Hill Press, Scablands Books, and The Spokesman-Review. His children’s poetry has been published by Little, Brown Books, Meadowbrook Press, and Scholastic Press. His latest collection,
Damn Good Cookie, was released in 2016 by Korrektiv Press.
Chris competed in the 2013 and 2014 National Poetry Slam, and was the winner of the Limerick Slam at the 2014 Individual World Poetry Slam. He’s also the host of
3 Minute Mic, Auntie’s Bookstore’s poetry open mic, and he co-hosts Broken Mic, Spokane’s longest-running poetry open mic.
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Let s be clear: 2020 absolutely sucked. For pretty much everyone. (I gather Jeff Bezos and some other billionaires did just fine, but I digress.) And it especially sucked for the arts community, a world that operates on a shoestring even during the best of times. We re obviously not close to the best of times, or even so-so times. The national response to the pandemic when it comes to arts organizations, artists and businesses dedicated to the things that make life worth living concert halls, theaters, clubs, etc. is an embarrassment. Anyone wanting to make the case for Americans being an uncultured mob with no regard for anything but money need look no further than how we ve treated artists during the pandemic. I d love to say the state response was better, but Washington s support in terms of CARES Act funding aimed at the arts pales compared to many states.