A Dutch Festival Returns
By BEN RATLIFF
Le Guess Who?, the nine-yearold free-form Dutch music festival in Utrecht, will take place Nov. 19 to 22.
The Rolling Stones kicked off their 15-city “ZIP Code” North American tour in San Diego on Sunday night
Le Guess Who?, the nine-yearold free-form Dutch music festival in Utrecht, will take place Nov. 19 to 22.
Mr. Robinson, who was the chairman of the organ department at the Manhattan School of Music, was also the organist for several houses of worship.
This Toronto band offers jackhammer-level volume and a sloppy kind of aggression on its sophomore album.
In a joint album, Mr. Redman, the tenor saxophonist, brings a vital presence to the Bad Plus without altering the band’s dynamic.
Mr. Stone insists that he is committed to vintage soul on his third album, but he hints that he’s not entirely content to remain a throwback.
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Mr. Salvi, a former New York Philharmonic member, founded a company that became the world’s foremost harp producer.
An innovative orchestration by George Lewis, a composer, jazz trombonist and scholar on the faculty of Columbia University, about the humiliations of Jim Crow laws in the South.
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