Tag: 03.11.18

Top AJBlogs Posts From The Weekend Of 03.11.18

Taylor Made
Paul Taylor American Modern Dance at Lincoln Center, March 6 through 25. Eran Bugge and Michael Trusnovec in Paul Taylor’s Roses. Photo: Paul B. Goode When Paul Taylor’s Roses premiered in 1985, fake petals drifted … read more
AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2018-03-10

Weekend Listening Tip: SRJO On Brubeck And Desmond
Jazz Northwest airs at 2 PM PST Sunday on KNKX-FM in the Seattle-Tacoma region. It streams online at  knkx.org   … read more
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2018-03-09

Replay: Tony Bennett and Dave McKenna perform “The Very Thought of You”
Tony Bennett and Dave McKenna perform Ray Noble’s “The Very Thought of You” at Boston’s Copley Plaza Hotel in 1982: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in … read more
AJBlog: About Last NightPublished 2018-03-09

Sultanof On His Big Band Book
A few weeks ago the Rifftides Monday Recommendation was Jeff Sultanof’s new book Experiencing Big Band Jazz. You can read the recommendation here. Sultanof (pictured right) was recently the guest on Michael … read more
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2018-03-08

Museums In The UK Help Stop Some Of The Agonies Of Dementia

The Liverpool Museums have created about 40 suitcases full of mementos that help people with declining memory and function regain some understanding of the world around them. “Themes include transportation, the natural world and ethnicity; for example, Irish and Afro-Caribbean people are among the groups represented. One suitcase contains items like fliers from early Gay Pride marches and club nights; photos of venues in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s; and a pair of brown suede Hush Puppies, which some gay men wore to spot each other at a time when homosexuality still had not been decriminalized in Britain.”