Irish Author Doyle Tackles Jazz in America
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A former Irish schoolteacher known for writing about soul music and working class life in Dublin was bound to be setting himself up for criticism when he turned his attention to jazz and gangsters in America.
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Variety - Lincoln Center's American Songbook series enters its seventh season with a new home at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall at Columbus Circle, which houses the Rose Theater and the Allen Room.
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Being a bartender is not what I expected to do when I moved to Spain. Serving what seems like thousands of pints of Guinness a night in an Irish pub in the heart of Madrid has truly brought me closer to the ...
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Passages from a folk legendÂs latest album, ÂModern Times,Â echo a 19th-century ConfederateÂs verses.
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Playbill - Allan Knee's play with music, The Jazz Age, putting Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre in the spotlight, will get its world premiere Feb. 8-March 2 at Off-Broadway's 59E59 Theaters.
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The âAmerican Experienceâ documentary âGrand Centralâ is such an entertaining wallow for New York PBS viewers that itâs disconcerting to note that it was produced in Boston.
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Oscar Hijuelos is writing a companion novel to his Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love" and also plans a memoir that will include his encounters with such musicians as Ruben Blades and Lou Reed.
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Jazz, Pop, and Country all make an appearance in this week's roundup of new releases.
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I own quite a few Coltrane CDs -- mad jazz saxophone player from the &#39;60s. Timeless. If you&#39;ve never heard &quot;A Love Supreme,&quot; well, you&#39;ve missed out.
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Playbill - Bookends, M.J. Feely's tale of two men looking to rebuild a friendship shattered by their testimony before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, gets its world premiere Feb. 6 in Philadelphia.
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Eldar Djangirov's fingers flew across the ivories of the Steinway grand piano at Carnegie Hall as he romped through Oscar Peterson's "Place St. Henri," one of the tunes that first kindled his interest in jazz as a child prodigy in distant Kyrgyzstan.
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He may have converted Ireland to Christianity, immortalised the shamrock and inspired some of the world's most raucous street parades, but Saint Patrick was also an astute operator, according to a new book.
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Migration is a genuine preoccupation for the tenor saxophonist David SÃ¡nchez.
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The sounds of Irish melodies soon will be drifting from the Main Street site formerly occupied by Metro Grille.
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Music producer Tony Visconti shares  decades worth of stories in his new book, "Tony Visconti: The  Autobiography -- Bowie, Bolan and the Brooklyn Boy," which  arrived last month in the United Kingdom via Harper Collins.
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Ken Casey of the Dropkick Murphys  admits that Martin Scorsese&#39;s &quot;The Departed&quot; has earned the  hearty Celtic-punk crew a great deal of interest.
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"The Tin Roof Blowdown" (Simon &amp; Schuster, 373 pages, $26), by James Lee Burke: Dave Robicheaux, the hero of a brilliant series of crime novels by James Lee Burke, has always been an angry lawman, but rarely have we seen him in such a murderous rage.