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Victoria Rowell: Kevin Garnett As A Jazz Pianist?

HuffingtonPost.com | Brennan Williams | Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Victoria Rowell, Kevin Garnett, Football, Thelonious Monk, Bv-Pop-Culture-Entertainment, Boston Celtics, Ballet, Basketball, Nba, NBA Players, Nba Player Uses Dial Soap, Victoria Rowell Book, Black Voices News

Every Sunday "In Love Of The Game", Huffington Post BlackVoices talks sports with a person of note. This week, Victoria Rowell, the actress and bes...

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Yellowcard's Audio Exclusive, Chatting With Pegi Young, Van Hunt and Tommy Keene, Plus PopMarket and Girl Talk's Halloween Playlist

Mike Ragogna | Posted 12.30.2011

Read More: Pegi Young, John Hampton, Alan Ginsberg, Prince, Los Lobos, The Ramones, Tommy Keene, Merle Haggard, Occupy Wall Street, Neil Young, Live Nation, Girl Talk, The Heartbreakers, Danny Whitten, Lincvolt, Crazy Horse, The Beatles, The Who, Don Dixon, Robert Pollard, David Bowie, Ben Keith, The Bridge School, Van Hunt, James Brown, The Rolling Stones, Simon & Garfunkel, Elliot Mazer, T-Bone Burnett, The Beats, Muddy Waters, Jack Kerouac, Thelonious Monk, The Stooges, The Keene Brothers, Paul McCartney, Iggy Pop, Roy Thomas Baker, Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, Nils Lofgren, Tom Petty, Es Sullivan, Chuck Berry, Rick James, Pearl Jam, Guided by Voices, Jennifer Aniston, Steve Berlin, Gillian Welch, The Sex Pistols, Brian Eno, Sly Stone, American Idol, Mathieu Bitton, Bruce Springsteen, The Replacements, Popmarket, Grin, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

With Yellowcard's release of the acoustic version of their critically-acclaimed album When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes last week, it only proved that Yellowcard is indeed back.

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What's It All About: Chatting with Pat Metheny, Jonathan Elias, and Viva Voce

Mike Ragogna | Posted 08.16.2011

Read More: Masters Apprentices, A View to a Kill, Sting, Nusrat Fateh, Global Zero, Gary Burton, Sinead O'Connor, Doug Martsch, Geoff Emmerick, Alan Parsons, Queen Noor, Nike, Chick Corea, Yes, Jonathan Elias, Simon Le Bon, Chaplin, Keith Jarrett, Alan Freed, Desmund Tutu, Steve Swallow, Daniel Lanois, Thelonious Monk, Ornette Coleman, 9 1/2 Weeks, Bach, Mahler, Sonic Youth, Pat Metheny, The Police, Andy Warhol, Michael Jordan, Robert Downey Jr., Herbie Hancock, Keith Haring, Duke Ellington, Alien, Jimmy Carter, Jack DeJohnette, Joni Mitchell, John Taylor, Stravinsky, Linda Manzer, Children of the Corn, Paul Simon, David GIlmour, Lady GaGa, Bud Powell, Nels Cline, Grace Jones, Miles Davis, The Beatles, John Barry, Yahoo, Lyle Mays, Charlie Chaplin, Carly Simon, Yo La Tengo, Ralph Bakshi, Duran Duran, Debussey, Salif Keita, Mtv, Mick Ronson, Prayer Cycle, Jon Anderson, Brian Blade, The Doors, Randy Newman, Alanis Morrisette, Ali Khan, Stephen Malkmus, Wes Montgomery, Gorbachov, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

Pat Metheny's new album is titled What's It All About, which is based off a line from the song "Alfie." Since this is an unusual approach for Pat Metheny, he tracked him down to talk about it.

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Mondo Amore, a Mission Bell and Joey's Song: Conversations With Amos Lee, Nicole Atkins and Michael Gomoll

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jason Ringenberg, Amos Lee, Mickey Raphael, Thea Gilmore, Robbie Fulks, Dravet's Syndrome, The Moldy Peaches, Calexico, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Miles Davis, Angelo Badalamenti, Nicole Atkins, Justin Curry, The Avett Brothers, Epilepsy Foundation, AT&T, Greg Allen, Norah Jones, David Lynch, Teletubbies, My Morning Jacket, Duncan Sheik, Priscilla Ahn, Steve Forbert, Blue Note, Willie Nelson, Joe Vent, Love, Traffic, Sidewalk Café, Lucinda Williams, Peter Yarrow, Sam Beam, Farm Aid, Eileen Rose, Ronnie Spector, Pietta Brown, Thelonious Monk, Neko Case, Brothers Grimm, Paul McCartney, Epilepsy, Bryan George, Kruu, Del Amitri, Elmo, Razor & Tie, Hotel Café, Arthur Lee, Sara Watkins, Cheryl Pawelski, Regina Spektor, The Doors, Baby Einstein, Pink Floyd, Phil Palazzolo, Raul Malo, Jon Brion, Joey Burns, Bruce Springsteen, Blomndie, Largo, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

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Four Horns, One Siren: Black Bear Combo and the Rebecca Sullivan Quintet

Robert Rodi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rob Pleshar, John Tate, Sub T Lounge, Blossom Dearie, Jazz Showcase, Gerald Bailey, St. Vincent, Thelonious Monk, Rhinoceros Theater Festival, Matt Ferguson, Rebecca Sullivan, Black Bear Combo, Wicker Park, Doug Abram, Boygirlboygirl, Irving Berlin, Josh Moshier, Jeremy Cunningham, Joe & Wayne Segal, Mike Allemana, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Dersu Burrows, Andrew Zelm, Ehsan Ghoreishi, Chicago News
Robert Rodi

On a frigid December night I squeezed into the Sub T Lounge in Wicker Park to warm up beneath the undulating Balkan rhythms of Black Bear Combo.

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Dog Ears Music: Born in October Playlist

Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jelly Roll Morton, Jackson Browne (& David Lindley), Daryl Hall (& John Oates), Mahalia Jackson, John Mellencamp, Cliff Richard, Thelonious Monk, Paul Simon, Dizzy Gillespie, Danielle Evin, Sean Lennon, Music, Tom Petty, Sting (the Police), Richard Hell (& the Voidoids), Vladimir Horowitz, Ivory Joe Hunter, Gwen Stefani (No Doubt), mp3s, John Lennon, Donny Hathaway, Phil Ramone, Franz Liszt (Performed by Claudio Arrau), Groucho Marx, Lenny Bruce, Dog Ears, Booker Ervin, Entertainment News
Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin

This week we feature music by Paul Simon, Gwen Stefani, Sting, Hall & Oates, John Lennon, and more.

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JAZZ: The Innovative Intersection Of Physics And Jazz

wsj.com | STUART ISACOFFF | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Neuroscience, Jazz, Thelonious Monk, Physics, Le Poisson Rouge, UC Berkeley, Jazz Musician, Vijay-Iyer, Musicians, Jazz Music, Arts News

During the '90s, while Mr. Iyer was cultivating his artistic voice at late-night gigs, his daylight hours were spent working as a physics major at the...

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Vijay Iyer's Life in Music: "Striving is the Backstory..." (AUDIO)

Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Great Pianists, India, Indian Diaspora, New York, America, Jazz Improv, Marcus Gilmore, Vijay Iyer, Christopher Lydon, Improv, Historicity, Thelonious Monk, Music, Radio Open Source, Diaspora, Du Bois, Jazz, American Experience, Vijay Iyer Trio, Periodic Table, Drummer, Improvisation, Piano, Arts News
Christopher Lydon

Vijay Iyer brings rare stuff to jazz piano, starting with a Brahmin Indian name and heritage, and a Yale degree in physics. Gujarati stick dances and ...

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They're Sleeping

Reverend Billy | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Brookyln, Mountaintop Removal, Children, Thelonious Monk, Childbirth, The Inner Life, Healthy Living News
Reverend Billy

A great reclaiming mountain, hundreds of millions of years old, waiting there all over the sky.... waiting for the city that never sleeps to wake up.

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Black History Month Events In New York

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepoll, David Ruggles, Brooklyn Museum, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Thelonious Monk, Underground Railroad, Charles Mingus, Reggae, Thomas Allen Harris, Josephine Baker, Wynton Marsalis, Barack Obama, Gentrification, Black History Month, New York News

As we enter the second week of Black History Month, New York City is offering a host of activities to participate in. There are lectures, concerts, fi...

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Robin Kelley's Transcendental Thelonious Monk

Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jazz, Thelonious Monk Biography, Biography, Thelonious Monk, Books News
Christopher Lydon

There's a vastly detailed, fresh take here on an immortal jazz pianist and composer whose life is often remembered as freakish, at best impossibly mysterious.

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