Raquel Aurilia
Raquel Aurilia’s warm-toned vocal hues free her from any easy comparison with the past. Sure, her debut was a more traditional pop material, but really, this young...
Raquel Aurilia’s warm-toned vocal hues free her from any easy comparison with the past. Sure, her debut was a more traditional pop material, but really, this young...
Spliffy is an original composer who puts a lot of thought into his work. The music provides a perfect lab for his experiments in blending rhytmic, vocal, and rhymes...
Terra Incognita are a band that stand out because they know their craft. A multitude of musical styles are covered on “Broken Wings”, from in-yer-face solid rock of the...
Menelik's rapping voice has a strong and engaging immediacy, but his real skill lays in creating a transcending musical place where hip hop lines and R/B feel co-exist...
Berna-Dean Holland is a singer with an extraordinary artistic talent and an undoubted personal approach to music. As a songwriter she loves to talk about life and how love could be the right answer to modern deseases. When did you feel the spark about music, and how did it grow up in your life?
Berna-Dean: Well to tell the truth I felt the spark about music as I recall around 4 or 5 years of age. I remember making up songs to sing. In fact I can recall some of these
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TORONTO, CANADA - It was a cold day. I really don't remember what day it was, only that the night before was filled with all the things that make up rock n' roll and my head was confirming that. The taxi dropped me off at "Eastern Sound", an upper crust studio located in the heart of downtown Toronto, Canada. It was the Rodeo district of TO as they called it. Expensive cars, clothes and women that looked like they just walked out of a Cosmopolitan ad. I tipped the cab driver well, only because I ...more
This year has been one of surprises and achievement for Bruce Springsteen. He began 1995 with an armful of Grammys for ``Streets of Philadelphia,'' then delighted his faithful by reassembling his E Street Band for four new songs on his ``Greatest Hits'' album. He followed that with ``The Ghost of Tom Joad,'' a stark, mostly acoustic album whose bleak story songs describe a series of characters ravaged in their quest for the American Dream.
Springsteen's tour, which stopped last month in Berkeley, is ...more
Even though he engineered Dark Side Of The Moon and many other landmark recordings, by the mid-70s, Alan Parsons was experiencing dire financial troubles. Meeting manager and collaborator, Eric Woolfson, was a case of right place, right time...
“There I was, with all this success but nothing in the bank. Eric went around and said – Where’s my boy’s money? – I had just produced two consecutive number one singles, but I didn’t have the nerve to tap EMI for more
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Kraftwerk was founded in 1970 by Florian Schneider (flutes, synthesizers, electro-violin) and Ralf Hütter (electronic organ, synthesizers). The two had met as students at the Düsseldorf Conservatory in the late 1960s, participating in the German experimental music scene of the time, which the British music press dubbed "Krautrock".
The duo had originally performed together in a quintet known as Organisation. This ensemble released one album, titled Tone Float for RCA Records in ...more
The SFJAZZ High School All-Stars program provides advanced-level training and performance opportunities for some of the most talented musicians in the nation....
Jazz in the Middle, linking Jazz and Academic Subjects
Launched in 2001, the SFJAZZ Jazz in the Middle (JIM) program provides curriculum-based residencies,...
SFJAZZ Education: fascinating jazz moments for students of all ages. Inspiring, informative and interactive
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SFJAZZ Hotplate, where locals meet legends.
SFJAZZ Hotplate is a monthly concert series featuring up-and-coming local artists re-imagining the music of jazz...
Since its inception in 1981, The Blue Note Jazz Club has been a home for the world's finest jazz musicians and a cultural institution of New York City. In honor of...
Renowned and revered the world over as one of the greatest saxophone players of all time, David Sanborn is an artist...