Mike Eyia and Linda Vail share jazz honors
After 40-plus years of bringing Cuban-style salsa music to mid-Michigan, it’s no surprise that Mike Eyia is next in line for lifetime honors Sunday (April 23) at the 14th annual Jazz Alliance …
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Cyrille Aimée brings the sunshine
Cyrille Aimée, the ebullient embodiment of pure sunshine in 21st-century vocal jazz, was lolling in a hammock Monday afternoon charging up with photons on the deck of her self-designed house …
The circus and the spider
For the past month or so, Lansing has been home to several billboards that simply proclaim “Shostakovich Symphony No. 9.” The brave decision not to filter the work of a troubled, mid-20th-century Russian master …
An eyeful of flowers
Among the most reliable harbingers of spring in greater Lansing are snowdrops, crocuses and the comforting sight of Brian Snyder in a paint-spattered smock, dabbing al fresco at his latest …
Just part of the party
“Soloist” isn’t quite the right word for Ara Gregorian’s job at Saturday’s Lansing Symphony Orchestra concert, and not just because he will share the spotlight with his …
‘Get to the art’
Camille Thurman sings, her buttery, luminous voice and comforting warmth tempt you to close your eyes out of sheer pleasure. But keep them open. Otherwise, you’ll miss it when she casually picks up a saxophone …
The real Justice League
“This world’s a ship on its passage out; and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow,” Herman Melville wrote in “Moby Dick.” A growing group of faith …
History by the yard
If the selfie captures the spirit of the 21st century, a photo exhibit opening Saturday (Feb. 11) at the Library of Michigan steps back — way, way back — and takes a longer view. The exhibit covers the heyday of the panoramic photo, a wildly popular format in the early 1900s ...
Topping the charts
Across the nation, people are driving to work, typing in cubicles, flirting in coffee shops and doing God knows what else to the swinging sounds of a brand-new jazz CD with origins in Greater …
Don’t fence him in
With his 10-gallon hat, denim attire and unpretentious air, guitarist Bruce Forman is not a typical jazzman. He often masks his dazzling mastery of jazz guitar with an unpretentious cowboy attitude …