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  1. What's Happening in the SF Bay Area

    in Live Shows & Festivals

    Posted

    8TH ANNUAL JAZZ ON 4TH STREET FESTIVAL

    Sunday, May 16, 12:30pm-4:30pm!

    On 4th Street in Berkeley, between Hearst & Virginia,

    FREE! Jazz On 4TH Street Hotline, 510.526.6294

    FREE Musical Performances with

    * Mark Hummel & The Blues Survivors

    * Quimbombó

    * Natasha Miller

    * The Award-Winning Berkeley High Jazz Orchestra & Combos

    Presented by KCSM/Jazz 91, 4th Street Merchants and Yoshi's at Jack London Square, the 8th Annual Jazz on 4th Street Festival will Sunday, May 16, 12:30pm-4:30pm. This free outdoor music festival benefits the Berkeley High Performing Arts and the award-winning Berkeley High Jazz ensemble. The Berkeley High Jazz Ensemble, once home to Joshua Redman, Dave Ellis, Benny Green and many others, is facing major budget cuts including the possibility of ending support of the jazz programs. "This Festival is one way we can help keep jazz going at Berkeley High,". Parent Coordinator Lori Ferguson says. "Without the wonderful help of the merchants on 4th Street and Abrams/Millikan each year with this Festival, people all over the world would not have the joy of hearing these accomplished musicians. We truly appreciate the help of the community in giving to the Jazz Program. This year is dire with budget cuts to the High School and we need all the help we can get." 4th Street and the ! plaza will be filled with plenty of sunshine, music, fun and 4th Street merchants with food and their wares. Raffle Tickets will be for sale to enter to win many prizes form the Merchants including a shopping spree on 4th Street!

    There will be free musical performances by several of today's top Bay Area groups, including blues from Mark Hummel & The Blues Survivors, salsa dancing with Quimbombó, jazz vocalist Natasha Miller and two Berkeley High School Combos and the award-winning Berkeley High Jazz Orchestra.

  6. Is there a 12-step program for CD addicts?

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    Women just don't understand our addiction to jazz and music in general. If I had a shoe addiction, my wife would be hunting and shopping with me.

    No, not all women, but maybe it's finding the right one. :) And then again, not every woman has a shoe fetish. :P Hmmm... as I think about it, I do know more woman who prefer shoe shopping to cd shopping. I do know women who have an equal desire for shoes and cd's. Now that's scary.

  13. stefon harris & blackout--evolution

    in New Releases

    Posted

    I'm a big Harris fan, so I picked it up on Tuesday. It's quite good, but I must say that I was a little disappointed. I saw this group live last summer and they KICKED ASS. Particularly bassist Darryl Hall and drummer Terreon Gully. Hall was on electric bass at the time, and he has a beautiful PHAT liquid sound on that instrument. For some reason, Harris switched Hall to acoustic bass by the time they recorded this album, and the difference is audible. Moreover, Gully was a MONSTER live. He was all over the place. He's much more restrained on the album.

    I haven't picked this one up yet. I saw Terreon Gully play with the Christian McBride Band a couple of years ago and he was too good for words. Now I'll have to pick this one up.

  14. NBA Playoffs...

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    why wasn't phil the coach of the year?

    :huh: why would he be? To hear all the Laker fans before the season started, they shouldn't have lost a game all year with the additions they bought in the off season.

    The Lakers should have been the team to beat. Too many big heads, IMO. Didn't they start the season winning games without Shaq and Kobe?

  15. Black College Women Take Aim at Rappers

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    About time! Yes it is time that women start fighting against this degradation. What I find hard to believe is that some women actually fight to be in these videos. Many just don't have the mindset to see that they are making themselves look bad and portraying to the world that this is the way things are. I have to tell two of my goddaughters constantly that this is not real life. One who is 15 gets it. The other who is 13 does not and I don't think she wants to get it.   :angry:

    Listen, Jack. This isn't a negative response to you. Seriously....

    I just wanted to say that (1) I agree that dudes like Nelly present awful images of women as sexual objects but, more importantly, (2) women "fighting back" against this sort of image portrayal isn't exactly late-breaking news. It just so happens that someone at the AP chose to write a story about it this time. Queen Latifah's "U.N.I.T.Y." came out eleven years ago.

    First verse:

    "Instinct leads me to another flow

    Everytime I hear a brother call a girl a bitch or a ho

    Trying to make a sister feel low

    You know all of that gots to go

    Now everybody knows there's exceptions to this rule

    Now don't be getting mad, when we playing, it's cool

    But don't you be calling out my name

    I bring wrath to those who disrespect me like a dame

    That's why I'm talking, one day I was walking down the block

    I had my cutoff shorts on right cause it was crazy hot

    I walked past these dudes when they passed me

    One of 'em felt my booty, he was nasty

    I turned around red, somebody was catching the wrath

    Then the little one said (Yeah me bitch) and laughed

    Since he was with his boys he tried to break fly

    Huh, I punched him dead in his eye and said "Who you calling a bitch?"

    I like this song. Forgot I even have the CD. Yes, I believe some efforts were made long ago. I think now more of an effort is being made to change things and that effort is being bright to the light more.

  17. Black College Women Take Aim at Rappers

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    About time! Yes it is time that women start fighting against this degradation. What I find hard to believe is that some women actually fight to be in these videos. Many just don't have the mindset to see that they are making themselves look bad and portraying to the world that this is the way things are. I have to tell two of my goddaughters constantly that this is not real life. One who is 15 gets it. The other who is 13 does not and I don't think she wants to get it. :angry:

  21. Joyce Cooling

    in Artists

    Posted

    I saw Joyce Cooling some years ago at a mall in Richmond, Ca. She can play. Her and her band were scheduled to play for 1 hour that turned in 2 hours and 15 minutes. Lots of fun and excellant musicians.

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