Boston -- The largest independent college of contemporary music in the world has awarded honorary degrees to the Eagles and Grammy Award-winning country singer Alison Krauss at a ceremony in Boston.
The city's Berklee College of Music also has honored influential Ethiopian musician Mulatu Astatke, an alumnus.
The artists were honored during the school's commencement ceremony Saturday.
Students paid tribute to the artists with a concert featuring their music. More than 900 students from 58 countries graduated from Berklee this year.
Eagles Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit didn't perform at the nonprofit school.
Berklee says its alumni include Quincy Jones, Esperanza Spalding, Diana Krall, Joey Kramer, Natalie Maines, John Mayer, Aimee Mann, Branford Marsalis, Melissa Etheridge and Gary Burton, who have won a total of 221 Grammys.
The city's Berklee College of Music also has honored influential Ethiopian musician Mulatu Astatke, an alumnus.
The artists were honored during the school's commencement ceremony Saturday.
Students paid tribute to the artists with a concert featuring their music. More than 900 students from 58 countries graduated from Berklee this year.
Eagles Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit didn't perform at the nonprofit school.
Berklee says its alumni include Quincy Jones, Esperanza Spalding, Diana Krall, Joey Kramer, Natalie Maines, John Mayer, Aimee Mann, Branford Marsalis, Melissa Etheridge and Gary Burton, who have won a total of 221 Grammys.
- 5/13/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
For 41 years, Berklee College of Music has been presenting honorary doctorate in music degrees to influential figures in the music industry. This year’s honorees are Rock and Roll Hall of Famers the Eagles, 27-time Grammy winner Alison Krauss and Ethiopian musician Mulatu Astatke. They will receive their degrees during the Berklee’s commencement ceremony May 12 at Boston University’s Agganis Arena. Keeping with tradition, on the night before the ceremony, Berklee students will play a concert at Agganis featuring music associated with the honorees’ careers. The show and the commencement are not open to the public. The Eagles, Krauss
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- 3/29/2012
- by James Hermon
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The ingredients sound... odd. Mulatu Astatke grew up in Ethiopia but went abroad to study jazz in America, where he was influenced by Miles Davis and John Coltrane --- and by the organist Jimmy Smith. What he brought back to Ethiopia was a blend of soul and jazz. Which he then proceeded to blend, once more, with traditional Ethiopian music. The result is easy to listen to and hard to describe. The horns play cool jazz figures; you could almost mistake them for clarinets. But under that is a groove that could have been created by Booker T and the MGs. And connecting the two are some Ethiopian chords that sound exotic, space-changing, hypnotic. Think desert cha cha. Cuba goes to Memphis. Desert trance music. Like nothing you have ever heard before. Mulatu Astatke is the man in charge of all of it. He...
- 4/8/2010
- by Jesse Kornbluth
- Huffington Post
If you're like me (and be glad you're not), you were probably a bit disappointed when you went to go see Spike Jonze's "Where the Wild Things Are" and didn't hear any Arcade Fire songs playing behind footage of the mopey nine-foot beasties wandering around in the Outback.
Not to worry. In addition to the excellent Karen O and the Kids-fueled official soundtrack to the film, skate rat Jonze has taken a cue from recent collaborator Kanye West and cooked up a street-legal mixtape of songs he has posted on his "Wild Things"-related blog, We Love You So. The site, a Kanye-style compendium of amazing things, features instructions on how to make your own Max costume, images of "Wild Things" cakes and cookies, amazing outsider art and a great "We Were Once a Fairytale" mock outtake in which Jonze slaps 'Ye for acting like a stuck-up celebrity during the shoot.
Not to worry. In addition to the excellent Karen O and the Kids-fueled official soundtrack to the film, skate rat Jonze has taken a cue from recent collaborator Kanye West and cooked up a street-legal mixtape of songs he has posted on his "Wild Things"-related blog, We Love You So. The site, a Kanye-style compendium of amazing things, features instructions on how to make your own Max costume, images of "Wild Things" cakes and cookies, amazing outsider art and a great "We Were Once a Fairytale" mock outtake in which Jonze slaps 'Ye for acting like a stuck-up celebrity during the shoot.
- 10/29/2009
- by Gil Kaufman
- MTV Newsroom
Mulatu Astatke Ethio-jazz composer/arranger and musician Mulatu Astatke was born in western Ethiopia in 1943. After music studies in London and New York, Astatke became the first African student at Boston's Berklee College of Music. Astatke contributed to the flowering of world music throughout the '70s. Most recently, he held court at Harvard and M.I.T. Collaborations include Duke Ellington, Jim Jarmusch, and the Either/Orchestra. Discover Mulatu Astatke with "Mètché Dershé (When Am I Going to Reach There?)," from his 1998 release Éthiopiques, Vol. 4: Ethio Jazz & Musique Instrumentale (1969-1974). It's got a haunting swing. Buy: iTunes Genre: Jazz/World Artist: Mulatu Astatke Song: Mètché Dershé (When Am I Going to Reach There?) Album: Éthiopiques, Vol. 4: Ethio Jazz & Musique Instrumentale (1969-1974) Paul Desmond Jazz composer/arranger and alto-sax master Paul Desmond (a.k.a. Paul Emil Breitenfeld) was born in San Francisco in 1924 into a musical family.
- 10/9/2009
- by Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin
- Huffington Post
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