There will be plenty of nostalgic music at the Count Basie Theatre during the 2008-09 season. Of the 37 events planned for the historic Red Bank site, the majority will center on songs from the past.
So, upon completion of this week's issue, it will have been a full year of you all having to decipher my incoherent and tense-confused rants and rambles, and I think now would be as good a time as any for a bit of collective "scene" reflection. Take a moment.
An ongoing trend in music is for veteran artists to do albums comprised of cover songs??whether to celebrate a particular musician, era or record label, revisit the music they grew up with or for commercial reasons. Done poorly, the collection can be trite.
A saxophone group that takes off on the theme of the Rat Pack, a flutist and journeymen sax and bass players will headline the outdoor performances in Jacksonville Beach's upcoming 7th Summer Jazz Series.
The comfortable, shaded atmosphere of Oswego??™s East Park will be filled with music once again as NRG Energy brings back the Family Stage for Harborfest 2008.
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