Stuff Mc Dizzle
Submitted by john on Thu, 04/24/2008 - 9:08pm.
2008 Portland Jazz Festival
Show Description:
Spanish Harlem Orchestra at the 2008 Portland Jazz Festival
Pianist Oscar Hernandez leads a dozen great musicians in classic sounds of New York City salsa at McMenamin's Crystal Ballroom in Portland. Listen and dance!
Air Date and Time:
Friday the 11th at 6pm
Citizen Tain
Show Description:
Citizen Tain: Jeff "Tain" Watts
—At the Stanley Kaplan Penthouse, the explosive drummer Jeff "Tain"
Watts shows off his big vibrant band: David Budway (piano), Paul
Bollenback (guitar), John Benitez (bass), Ravi Coltrane (saxophone),
Joe Locke (vibes), Joe Barbato (accordion), and Luisito Quintero
(percussion). They wind through Watts originals, including his infamous
"The Impaler" in a killin' 7/8 time.
Air Date and Time:
Monday the 28th at 6pm
Brass Diva, Golden Books
Show Description:
Ethel Merman started out as a working
class girl who literally brought the house down one fine night. Tonight, Inquiry speaks with CARYL FLINN, Professor of
Women's Studies and Media Arts at the University of Arizona, about her
new rich biography BRASS DIVA: THE LIFE AND LEGENDS OF ETHEL MERMAN.
Then at 9:30: Do you remember The
Poky Little Puppy? Scruffy the Tugboat? Tootles? The Color
Kittens? Tonight on Inquiry we speak with noted children’s literature
historian LEONARD MARCUS about his fascinating and charming history
GOLDEN LEGACY: HOW GOLDEN BOOKS WON CHILDREN’S HEARTS, CHANGED PUBLISHING
FOREVER, AND BECAME AN AMERICAN ICON ALONG THE WAY.
Air Date and Time:
Sunday the 20th at 9pm
Sunday the 27th at 6pm
What can a 17th Century painting by the Dutch artist Vermeer tell us about the aesthetics of the rich and powerful in China? Our guest tonight is TIMOTHY BROOK, who has written a unique history of the 17th Century, a time when commerce and culture from all around the globe collided in unexpected ways to form the beginnings of the modern world, entitled VERMEER’S HAT: THE 17TH CENTURY AND THE DAWN OF THE GLOBAL WORLD.
Have you ever smelled a color? Or heard the song of a day of the week? If so, you may be a synesthete. CRETIEN VAN CAMPEN's discoveries open up an amazing world beyond our basic five senses and look at how synesthesia, far from being a problem that should be cured, may actually aid our creativity. Cretien van Campen’s book is THE HIDDEN SENSE: SYNESTHESIA IN ART AND SCIENCE.
