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On Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Jazz

Dianne Reeves

Dianne Reeves, born on October 23, 1956 in the city of Detroit, in the state of Michigan, the United States, there is considered one of the most important feminine singers of jazz of our time. Discovered by the trumpeter Clark Terry when it was still going to the school, singer Dianne Reeves, he began to sing in the band of his school, and with her it received an award during Citywide Big Band, a school competition celebrated in Denver.

That one award served to him to be present at the conference of National Association of Jazz Educators in Chicago. Terry listened to it during the conference and decided to help it. Dianne Reeves has sung with the trumpeter when it was still in the University of Colorado. It initiated his career in Los Angeles in 1976. In California, Dianne Reeves discovers the work in study, and gets soaked in musical culture. It records with Lenny White, Stanley Turrentine, Alphonso Johnson, and The Latin Ensemble.

Between 1978 and 1980, there meets Billy Childs and begins an artistic relation that will last ten years; with Childs, Dianne tackles the most important period of musical development of his life. He accompanies the group Night Flight in the well-known "circuit of the beaches" Americans, being announced in all the south of California In 1981 works with Sergio Mendes and with the composer Phil Moore. Already in that epoch it receives the first praises of the criticism and the first samples of recognition of the public. On the following year, Dianne and Billy produce his first album for the stamp titled "Palo Alto": "Welcome To My Love"

In 1986 Reeves, he settles in New York and after recording his second album, in which the influence of Harry Belafonte is appreciated very much: "Fore Every Heart" (Palo Alto) returns to the coast West where both decide to form a trio with which they realize a wide tour along all the United States.

In 1987, Dianne Reeves takes control in the concert "Echoes of Ellington" in Los Angeles, in homage of the big composer and pianist. This night Bruce Lundvall, president of Blue Note Record, is between the public and after listening to it invites her to enter his record company, a decision that will reinforce definitely his career. His first album for the stamp of the blue tag, "Dianne Reeves" (Blue Note-1987) includes an arrangement of the topic of Ellington: "Better Days" that turns into an enormous success. After the success of that one the first recording, Dianne initiates a tour along the United States and Asia that extends until 1989. His recordings happen year after year and his voice is much appreciated by the understood ones and the public of jazz.

In 1991 it records: "I Remember" for Blue Note and the disc remains during more than three months in the list of vocal jazz more sold of the United States. To that one enormous disc is continued by: "Art and Survival" for the stamp EMI in 1994, working along with the producer Eddie del Barrio, friend and accomplice of musical adventures. A new album on the following year for Blue Note: "Quiet After The Storm" was nominated for the Grammy by Vocal Best Jazz Performance. Already raised in the comb of the wave, they record a disc with the big ones of the jazz between which they are: Joe Williams, Clark Terry, Harry "Sweets" Edison, James Moody, Phil Woods, Toots Thielemans, and Kenny Barron. The disc titles: "The Grand Encounter" and it constituted an enormous success.

His wide discography is completed by the following records:

1996 - Palo Alto Sessions
1997 - That Day
1997 - New Morning (live)
1999 - Bridges... produced by George Duke.
2000 - In The Moment (live)
2001 - The Calling: Celebrating Sarah Vaughan
2002 - Best of Dianne Reeves
2003 - To Little Moonlight
2004 - Christmas Time is Here
2005 - Good Night, and Good Luck (Soundtrack)
2008 - When You Know

Dianne Reeves, keeps on recording at present discs for Blue Note and she is strengthened like one of the voices most qualified in the world of the contemporary vocal jazz and his admirers usually enjoy with enormous interest every performance, concert or disc that it extracts to the market.

Source: www.apoloybaco.com

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On February 17, 1653: Arcangelo Corelli, musician and Italian composer is born. Grosso contributed to the crystallization of the concerto. Author of numerous instrumental works (Concert of Christmas, The Follia, sonatas), father of the sonata for violin and inspirer of a group of composers of this instrument like Varacini, Germiniani and Viotti.
On February 13, 1883: Richard Wagner dies in Venice. Composer of German origin, renovator of the romantic opera. His inclination towards the music did not wake up up to knowing the works of Weber and Beethoven. After a life lax and invested in the game and the women, he married and traveled to Paris and then to Dresden, where his work was recognized. The transfer of his remains was comparable to the funeral procession of a big sovereign one.
On February 13, 1976: the soprano Lily Pons dies. A voice crystalline and extended towards the sharp one, joined a graceful figure and personal friendliness, they constitute the props of the formidable success of Lily Pons. An exceeded publicity helped to do of her almost a sacred monster of the singing; so much it was so in the decade of '40 went so far as to consider her to be the best singer of the world.
On February 12, 1924: there is released "Rhapsody In Blue" of George Gershwin. Gershwin managed to unite in this work three fundamental elements of the music of his country: the piano popular tradition, the harmonic treatment of the music of the theater of varieties and all the ambience of the African American blues.
On February 10, 1881: I release in Paris of "The Stories of Hoffmann" of Jacques Offenbach. The opera is an adaptation of Jules Barbier and Michel Carr� of several stories of writer Ernst T.A. Hoffmann. The first one takes place with a mechanical doll, the second one with the victim of the conjuration of a magician, and the third one with a moribund sick person. The history begins with a prologue ambientado in a bar.

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Daniel Barenboim
"The director does not have physical contact with the music that his instrumentalists produce and at most he can correct the phrasing or the rhythm of the score but his gesture does not exist if it does not find a band that is receiving"
George Gershwin
"It would give everything what I have as a little of the genius that Schubert needed to compose his Ave Maria"
Gustav Mahler
"When the work turns out to be a success, when a problem has been solved, we forget the difficulties and the perturbations and feel richly rewarded"
Franz Schubert
"When one is inspired by something good, the musician is born fluently, the melodies sprout; really this is a big satisfaction"
Bedrich Smetana
"With the help and the God's grace, I will be a Mozart in the composition and a Liszt in the skill"

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Sonata for piano if minor

Franz Liszt
Icy Che manina

Rolando Villaz�n (Rodolfo)
Quando Men Vo

Anna Netrebko (Musetta)
Symphony N� 25

Wolfgang A. Mozart

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Astor Piazzolla

Piazzolla represents one of the rarest cases in which an author is unrolled of extraordinary form so much in the world of the popular music, with his tangos of Buenos Aires, as in that of the refined or classic music. Called symphonic tango created a new genre renewing this way of decisive form the tango. If it is considered that the work of Piazzolla begins in 1946 with The desbande and concludes in 1990, with Him grand tango and with Five tango sensations, that the same year records with the quartet of ropes Kronos, it is deduced that it covers 46 years, space in which it produced not less than eight hundred works.

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Carlos Gardel

Carlos Gardel is perhaps the biggest myth of the Argentina. His artistic skill, his incomparable talent as singer of the suburbs of Buenos Aires, his musical instinct to compose some of the biggest tangos of all the times, his marvelous character, his fanaticism for the careers, have led him to being equalled perhaps only by another legend of the country of the south of the Silver: Eva Per�n. Nevertheless, while all political activity can be worth of objections, comments and mistrust on the part of certain sectors of the population, the figure of Carlos Gardel is erected as universally for all the Argentinians and the followers of the tango across the world.

Paris, on February 16

Juan Jos� Mosalini: the soul of the bandone�n beats in Paris

The music and the dance of the River Plate came to the margins of the Seine more than one century ago, seducing the French, but Juan Jos� Mosalini lives through the tango now a real explosion in France, of the hand of some of his contemporary teachers, like the bandoneonista. In an interview with the AFP in Paris, before traveling to Argentina, where it will offer two concerts, and from which it will set off then in the direction of China, Mosalini evoked "passionate and unconditional" relation between Paris and the tango and between he and the bandone�n, which came to his hands when it was a chiquil�n.

Granada, on February 16

International festival tango Granada dedicates his XXII edition to Carlos Gardel

75 anniversary of the death of the singer and tanguista Carlos Gardel will lead XXII edition of the International Festival of Tango of Granada, which also will organize several parallel activities between which there are holidays of trasnoche, tango in the university or an exhibition. Between the artists who will take part in three forms of the festival - dance, set of instruments and sung - there is Leo Sujatovich, Cristian Z�rate and the Japanese couple of dance Kyoto and Hiros Yamao.

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