[Dixielandjazz] Updating the N. O. Brass Bands????

[Beth Schweitzer]

Doesn't that sound wonderful?!

Still more evidence that there is hope for the future.

Beth

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Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Updating the N. O. Brass Bands????
From: Stephen G Barbone <barbonestreet at earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, January 09, 2010 6:39 am

January 9, 2010 - NY Times - by Allan Kozinn

Going to Lincoln Center to Find a Parade Ground


Lincoln Center is determined to make the most of its newest space, the 
David Rubenstein Atrium — the former Harmony Atrium, on Broadway 
between 62nd and 63rd Streets — so it has packed it with attractions 
of all kinds, including free wireless Internet, a discount ticket 
booth, an information desk and a cafe.

It is also presenting Target Free Thursdays, a series of weekly free 
concerts, sponsored by Target. Most are pop, jazz and world music, 
with occasional glimpses of the experimental.

The Asphalt Orchestra, an idiosyncratic brass, woodwind and percussion 
ensemble that performed at the atrium on Thursday evening, embraces 
all those styles and more. Among the pieces in its set were 
arrangements (mostly its own) of songs by Bjork and the Swedish art- 
metal band Meshuggah; jazz by Charles Mingus; Afropop by Thomas 
Mapfumo; and a burst of avant-garde classicism by Conlon Nancarrow.
...