Article: Jazz it Up! 7 Folk Songs Arranged for Jazz Piano Solo, w/CD.(Sound recording review)

Article: Jazz it Up! 7 Folk Songs Arranged for Jazz ...
The American Music Teacher;  October 1, 2008 ;     579 words ...Piano Jazz it Up! 7 Folk Songs Arranged for Jazz Piano Solo, w/CD, by Eric Baumgartner ... 95. Eric Baumgartner s 7 Folk Songs are musical theater-type arrangements ... while jazzy, are not really "jazz piano solos." The bass lines are ...

Article: Bill Jones: folk songs from the U.K. with a twist. ...
Sing Out!;  March 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... Then as a music student at a university in London she studied jazz piano. "It sort of opened up the world of chords in a bigger way ... around the city and at festivals like Glastonbury. But singing folk songs was more an afterthought for Bill, which she stumbled upon ...

Article: Old Hands on the Jazz Piano
The Washington Post;  July 9, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... Weston and Keith Jarrett illustrate, it's still no substitute for experience. On "Steal Away: Spirituals, Hymns and Folk Songs" (Verve), Jones quietly collaborates with bassist Charlie Haden, who conceived of the project after listening to the ...

Article: Folk songs are more Pan
New Straits Times;  September 25, 2001 ;     683 words ... ... Yap New Straits Times 09-25-2001 Folk songs are more Pan Byline: Ricky Yap Edition ... or the emergence of rhythm and blues, folk songs (or min yao ker in Mandarin) ruled ... airwaves in Taiwan. Unlike pop music, folk songs are more acoustic-based and focus on ...

Article: Folk Songs in Print: Text and Tradition
Folk Music Journal;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... considered a defining characteristic of folk songs. Yet England has been a text-based ... of the period from which ballads and folk songs are known (often through printed sources ... or 'centrifugal', is identified in folk songs, irrespective of whether they are manifested ...

Article: Some 1,100 Mongolian folk songs rescued from ...
Xinhua News Agency;  December 14, 2005 ;     420 words ...Some 1,100 Mongolian folk songs rescued from extinction HOHHOT ... Xinhua) -- Mongolian long-tune folk songs have been approved of as representative ... China and Mongolia. Alxa Mongolian folk songs are more than 300 years old, according ...

Article: Chinese folk songs hit the right note abroad (2)
Xinhua News Agency;  December 4, 2002 ;     462 words ...Chinese folk songs hit the right note abroad (2) Jia Yuanpei, of the Dong ethnic ... imagine the comfort and pleasure in life through traditional folk songs, and new folk songs cater to modern people's demand for expressing their state ...