posted by Alex on Aug 21
If you’re lacking for good alternative music, you might want to try getting Kings of Leon concert tickets and it might be the perfect thing for you. These guys, all from the same family, have such great musical style and their songs are just fun to listen to. While they have been more successful in Britain than they have in the US, they are still a lot of fun to listen to. In the UK they have had 9 Top 40 hits over the course of their ten years in the music world. Meanwhile, we can enjoy their music live during their current tour. They are apparently going to be performing in cities across the the country and North America for the next few months so make sure that you are there to see them!
posted by Alex on Aug 3
George Russell was one of the best jazz players in the world and was a pioneer of modal jazz. He passed away this weekend of Alzheimers Disease. He was never a famous musician in the public world, but he was one of the most influential in the jazz world. This musician has been well-known over the course of many years on the inside world of the music. Modal jazz was more simple than Bebop and allowed the musicians, like Miles Davis etc, to be more free and interesting in the way that they played. When we hear jazz now, you can often hear a lot of this modal style, though sometimes it gets combined with the regular kind of jazz too, in a great fusion. George Russell gave us some of the best jazz that we had ever heard and we certainly appreciate it.
