Three Jazz Greats
September 30, 2019Chick Corea, Christian McBride and Brian Blade come together with cuts from their Grammy award-winning 2014 album Trilogy. Corea, on piano, got his start with Miles Davis’s band in the 1960s. With 22 Grammys, he has written several jazz standard compositions. McBride on double bass and Blade on drums, each with their own impressive list
Noah Fishman & Baron Collins-Hill’s magnificently melded mandolins at Kerrytown Concert House on October 11
September 30, 2019You might not think of the word “intense” when you think of mandolin music, but there is definitely something intense about the bond forged between Noah Fishman and Baron Collins-Hill. Their four minute stints of melody-splashed serenades on their stringed instruments is akin to two hands on a piano, or something even as close as
Stormy Chromer’s embrace adventure in composition, creativity and life
September 10, 2019A Stormy Chromer song spans the spectrum; it sounds like a pure adventure. But fate would have it that this Ypsilanti quartet caught a bit of calamity when they were out in the Midwest for their most recent tour. Before these rock-fusionists perform at the Blind Pig on October 5, you should really hear the
Amadeus Live
August 31, 2019by Grace Jensen The eight-time Academy Award-winning 1984 motion picture Amadeus will be projected on the big screen at Hill Auditorium with Mozart’s famous pieces performed live by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the UMS Choral Union. Amadeus, adapted from Sir Peter Shaffer’s original stage play, tells the story of the frustrated Vienna composer Antonio
Ducktails @ The Blind Pig
August 31, 2019by Grace Jensen New Jersey-born Matt Mondanile brings his indie-pop musical project Ducktails to Ann Arbor. His newest album, Watercolors, is “the best album of the musician and perhaps one of the best of the season,” according to French music review site Section-26. Although disgraced by harassment allegations in 2017, Mondanile has continued to create
Tyler Duncan On Versatility & Community
August 31, 2019by Jeff Milo Music forges connections. And with an artist like Tyler Duncan spending the last 15 years in the producer’s chair for albums by Michigan-based artists, music cultivates versatility. Ann Arbor-based Grammy-nominated multi-instrumentalist composer/producer, Tyler Duncan’s fall/winter slate of production/writing-contribution credits include the forthcoming debut album by singer/songwriter Madeline Grant, followed by new releases