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Joe Jackson Announces 2018 North American Tour

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Legendary songwriter Joe Jackson has confirmed a 2018 summer tour visiting cities across the U.S. and Canada, adding one more “encore” to his long-running Fast Forward Tour. These new dates follow four acclaimed tours over the last two years.

Supporting Jackson once again will be long-time collaborator Graham Maby on bass, along with guitarist Teddy Kumpel (Rickie Lee Jones, Feist) and drummer Doug Yowell (Suzanne Vega, Ari Hest).

The tour includes several cities where Jackson hasn’t been in years and several he’s never visited before. His set will once again feature songs from across Jackson’s entirecatalogue, including a mix of songs from his earliest albums as well as 2015’s critically acclaimed Fast Forward. Jackson will also offer an unpredictable selection of covers and brand new, never before performed originals.

Joe Jackson 2018 Tour
7/6 – Music Hall – Tarrytown, NY
7/8 – Flynn Center for the Performing Arts – Burlington, VT
7/9 – The Strand – Providence, RI
7/12 – The Music Hall – Portsmouth, NH
7/14 – Rebecca Cohn Auditorium – Halifax, NS
7/15 – Capitol Theatre – Moncton, NB
7/17 – Whitaker Center – Harrisburg, PA
7/18 – Carnegie Music Hall of Homestead – Munhall, PA
7/20 – Meijer Gardens – Grand Rapids, MI
7/21 – The Pageant – St. Louis, MO
7/25 – Burton Cummings Theatre – Winnipeg, MB
7/29 – Egyptian Theatre – Boise, ID

DJ Cummerbund: Wish of Confusion

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The master of mashups, DJ Cummerbund continues blow our minds with another amazing track. This time he’s using Stevie Wonder, Disturbed, Styx, Will Smith, and Randy “Macho Man” Savage and turning into a monster track.

The Periodic Table of David Bowie

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By creating false taxonomies and subjective maps of relationships between ideas and people of note, Paul Robertson creates the illusion of scientific relationships. Periodic Tables, molecules and DNA strands become vectors for a pseudo-scientific mapping of the worlds of celebrity, philosophy, art and music.

THE PERIODIC TABLE OF BOWIE is the last artwork in the Victoria & Albert ‘DAVID BOWIE is’ exhibition. A massive wall vinyl which charts the various influences on the foremost British performer, rock star and actor. The work will travel with the V&A exhibition to other major cities over the next two years (Toronto firstly then San Paolo).

Robertson utilities the fact that in the original real chemical periodic table there are ten “families” of elements which react with others in similar ways within a family. Within these artistic periodic tables the ten families are used to tease out different aspects of the subject matter in a poetic sense.

The work also exists in a number of alternative forms – it is possible to buy the original vinyl wall work (from an edition of three with one artist’s proof) or an A0 Giclee print of the work (one of ten copies plus one artist’s proof) or the much more affordable A2 full colour offset print of the work which is shown below. You can buy the print here.

Photo Gallery: Dashboard Confessional with The Elwins and Gabrielle Shonk at Toronto’s Danforth Music Hall

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All photos by Mini’s Memories. You can contact her at minismemories@hotmail.com

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Watch: Jazz drummer Max Roach remembers how he got his start in music

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Max Roach was one of the first drummers to play in the bebop style, and performed in bands led by Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Coleman Hawkins, Bud Powell, and Miles Davis. Roach played on many of Parker’s most important records, including the Savoy November 1945 session, a turning point in recorded jazz. The drummer’s early brush work with Powell’s trio, especially at fast tempos, is just genius. Check out this interview from 1993 where Roach explains how he got his start in music.

How Ornette Coleman changed the face of jazz

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How Ornette Coleman changed the direction of Jazz in 1959. Essential.

Music Doc: The birth of synth music in England

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Brilliant documentary about the birth of electronic music in Britain. The documentary enjoyed screenings at several film festivals around Australia and on ABC TV.

https://youtu.be/8KkW8Ul7Q1I

Doo-Wop And Soul Group The Impressions discuss music and race

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Formed in 1958 with members from Chicago and Chattanooga, The Impressions performed music ranging from doo-wop and soul to gospel and rhythm and blues. The group underwent multiple member changes, and today a core group including several of the original members from Chattanooga continue to perform. Their hits include “People Get Ready,” “Gypsy Woman,” “It’s All Right,” and “Finally Got Myself together (I’m a Changed Man).” The Impressions were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991.

Check out this TEDx couch interview with members of the group discussing equality and their experiences with segregation and racism.

Roland Kirk plays three horns at once

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Multiinstrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk plays Pedal Up on the 1975 Down Beat Readers Awards show with McCoy Tyner on piano, Stanley Clarke on bass and Lenny White on Drums.

Duke Ellington shares how he got the nickname “Duke”

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At the age of seven, Edward Ellington began taking piano lessons from Marietta Clinkscales. Daisy surrounded her son with dignified women to reinforce his manners and teach him to live elegantly. Ellington’s childhood friends noticed that his casual, offhand manner, his easy grace, and his dapper dress gave him the bearing of a young nobleman, and began calling him “Duke.” Ellington credited his chum Edgar McEntree for the nickname. “I think he felt that in order for me to be eligible for his constant companionship, I should have a title. So he called me Duke.”