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Ron McCurdy Quintet: Once Again for the First Time
by Geoff Barber
Usually when I see the title of doctor (Dr.) next to a person's name, thoughts of intellectual elitism cross my mind. Here, however, the title asserts a knowledge that transfers nimbly into catchy and sincere tunes. Dr. Ron McCurdy, having taught jazz for the last 15 years, finally decided to jump into the fray and record his own CD. He gathered some of the best talent in Los Angeles and Once Again for the First Time is the result.
read moreRap Legend Ice-T and Jazz Trumpeter Ron McCurdy Debut The Langston Hughes Project At The Barbican On November 21, 2016 At 7:30pm!
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Rap Legend and actor Ice-T joins musical director and trumpeter Ron McCurdy, along with the Ron McCurdy Quartet, to bring a brilliant 21st century realization of American icon Langston Hughes’ creative masterpiece, the epic twelve-part jazz poem: Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz. A homage in verse, music, and multi-media to the struggle for artistic and social freedom at the beginning of the 1960s, Ask Your Mama evokes Hughes’ life and times and a message that resonates as strongly ...
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