World Music – TheUrbanMusicScene.com | Music Reviews! https://musicreviews.theurbanmusicscene.com Tue, 19 Apr 2016 15:30:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://musicreviews.theurbanmusicscene.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/TUMS-Icon-150x150.jpg World Music – TheUrbanMusicScene.com | Music Reviews! https://musicreviews.theurbanmusicscene.com 32 32 A Peek Into Transcendence with Anoushka Shankar at The Grammy Museum https://musicreviews.theurbanmusicscene.com/2016/04/anoushka-shankar-at-the-grammy-museum/ Tue, 19 Apr 2016 15:30:52 +0000 https://musicreviews.theurbanmusicscene.com/?p=4396 Anoushka Shankar Grammy Museum April 12, 2016 Special Event Reflections by A. Scott Galloway   As she glided to the stage of the Clive Davis Auditorium inside downtown Los Angeles’ Grammy Museum for a sweetly emotional mini-concert and chat commemorating the closing of a months-long museum exhibit focusing on the career of her legendary father, sitar master/composer Ravi Shankar - before she played a single note - the first thing I could not get over is how short Anoushka Shankar is... When photographed with the birthright sitar instrument she, too, now plays so beautifully, it appears to stretch her, not dwarf her…a trick of the eye into the mystical properties that her art and art form manifest. Indeed, her embrace of the sitar instantly, magically, makes her appear larger than mere mortal life.   ]]> Anoushka Shankar Grammy Museum April 12, 2016 Special Event Reflections by A. Scott Galloway As she glided to the stage of the Clive Davis Auditorium inside downtown Los Angeles’ Grammy Museum for a sweetly emotional mini-concert and chat commemorating the closing of a months-long museum exhibit focusing on the career of her legendary father, sitar master/composer Ravi Shankar – before she…

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]]> Reggae Legends Third World Rock Playboy Jazz Festival Day 2 https://musicreviews.theurbanmusicscene.com/2015/06/reggae-legends-third-world-rock-playboy-jazz-festival-day-2/ Fri, 19 Jun 2015 16:32:31 +0000 https://musicreviews.theurbanmusicscene.com/?p=4057 Playboy Jazz Festival – Day 2 - Sunday June 14, 2015   A Concert Reflection by A. Scott Galloway Photos: Mathew Imaging   042 Brown Bunnies of Playboy   An afternoon of tradition and roots gave way to an evening of mash-ups and fusions for the second day of the 37th Annual Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl.]]> Playboy Jazz Festival – Day 2 – Sunday June 14, 2015 A Concert Reflection by A. Scott Galloway Photos: Mathew Imaging Brown Bunnies of Playboy An afternoon of tradition and roots gave way to an evening of mash-ups and fusions for the second day of the 37th Annual Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl. Beyond the Bell All-City Jazz Band As is custom, Sunday started with a…

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]]> 37th Annual Playboy Jazz Festival Proves An Avalanche of Diversity https://musicreviews.theurbanmusicscene.com/2015/06/37th-annual-playboy-jazz-festival-proves-an-avalanche-of-diversity/ https://musicreviews.theurbanmusicscene.com/2015/06/37th-annual-playboy-jazz-festival-proves-an-avalanche-of-diversity/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2015 15:21:44 +0000 https://musicreviews.theurbanmusicscene.com/?p=4030 Playboy Jazz Festival – Saturday June 13, 2015   Concert Reflection by A. Scott Galloway Photos: Mathew Imaging   June gloom morphed into jazz-soul glory for Saturday June 13, 2015 - the first day of the 37th annual Playboy Jazz Festival – a day of great music that found the heat slowly and consistently escalating to the very end.   087 Honeys at Playboy]]> Playboy Jazz Festival – Saturday June 13, 2015 Concert Reflection by A. Scott Galloway Photos: Mathew Imaging June gloom morphed into jazz-soul glory for Saturday June 13, 2015 – the first day of the 37th annual Playboy Jazz Festival – a day of great music that found the heat slowly and consistently escalating to the very end. Honeys at Playboy The day began with the Los Angeles County…

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]]> https://musicreviews.theurbanmusicscene.com/2015/06/37th-annual-playboy-jazz-festival-proves-an-avalanche-of-diversity/feed/ 2 Marcus Miller | Afrodeezia https://musicreviews.theurbanmusicscene.com/2015/03/marcus-miller-afrodeezia/ Tue, 17 Mar 2015 14:07:27 +0000 https://musicreviews.theurbanmusicscene.com/?p=3862 Marcus Miller - Afrodeezia   Marcus Miller Afrodeezia (Blue Note) Album Reflection by A. Scott Galloway   Africa has been a river running through the music of Marcus Miller since he began his sojourn into the art form – as literally as from “Maputo” (his composition made famous by Bob James and David Sanborn) and “Gorée” (his mediation on the portal through which Africans were shipped as property to other lands far away, from his previous CD Renaissance) to the figuratively emphatic manner in which he percussively speaks his soul through the electric bass.]]> Marcus Miller Afrodeezia (Blue Note) Album Reflection by A. Scott Galloway Africa has been a river running through the music of Marcus Miller since he began his sojourn into the art form – as literally as from “Maputo” (his composition made famous by Bob James and David Sanborn) and “Gorée” (his mediation on the portal through which Africans were shipped as property to other lands far away…

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]]> Malika Zarra | Berber Taxi https://musicreviews.theurbanmusicscene.com/2011/06/malika-zarra-berber-taxi/ Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:52:35 +0000 https://musicreviews.theurbanmusicscene.com/2011/06/malika-zarra-berber-taxi/ Malika Zarra - Berber Taxi   Album Review: Malika Zarra – Berber Taxi By Peggy Oliver   Most have heard the old saying life imitating art. Yet maybe art imitating life would best apply to singer/songwriter Malika Zarra. Zarra was practically a sponge from the time she was singing and dancing as a little girl in her home country of Morocco. Even after she moved with her family to France at three years old, music would always rule Zarra’s mind and soul. Thanks to a wealth of music at her fingertips, her influences were extremely eclectic; from classic Moroccan pop (Haja Hamdaouia) to classic Arabic pop (Warda Al-Jazairia).]]> Album Review: Malika Zarra – Berber Taxi By Peggy Oliver Most have heard the old saying life imitating art. Yet maybe art imitating life would best apply to singer/songwriter Malika Zarra. Zarra was practically a sponge from the time she was singing and dancing as a little girl in her home country of Morocco. Even after she moved with her family to France at three years old…

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