Keyboardist
Robert Irving III, Miles Davis' musical director for most of the
1980s, will be performing a concert and leading a workshop on Sunday,
February 18, at Davenport's River Music Experience.
Both the workshop and evening performance - organized by Polyrhythms - will feature Irving with saxophonist James Perkins, drummer Ernie Adams, and bassist Marlene Rosenberg.
Imagine if you will: You're six years old. You've been playing the violin for six months. And you're about to make your professional debut on live television.
The
third record from the Quad Cities' Minus Six, Hidden
Deep in the Green, has the
vibe of a musical-theatre soundtrack. If the idea of a pop record
that invokes Broadway makes you recoil in horror, then you're wise
to avoid this. If you're intrigued, you're likely to be carried
away by singer/songwriter Kevin Carton and his band.
Nancy
Schricker, the music teacher at Wilson Elementary in Davenport,
arrived to greet us with six students in tow. Debbie Bond - the
guitar player and bandleader for the the Alabama Blues Project, the
group that the Mississippi Valley Blues Society (MVBS) brought in for
a "Blues in the Schools" residency last November - told them,
"Some of the equipment will be heavy."
I was talking to someone, and she hadn't ever seen an opera," recalls Stacy Eckert, who performs the title role in Opera Quad Cities' new production of Carmen. "And I was trying to explain Carmen, and I said, 'Well, I bet you know more tunes from the show than you think you do.' And she said, 'Aw, no, I don't know any of them.'
There's
a look that passes between brothers Robert and Scott Cerny when I
interview them. It's merely a glance, but in that split second,
they've communicated which of them will answer the question.
When
you open your copy of the River
Cities' Reader to see
what's being offered in the way of live entertainment, you might
come to the conclusion the Quad Cities has little to provide in the
way of indie rock.
Year-end
lists of the best albums of the past 12 months are cruel, because
either you'll go bankrupt buying all these fantastic records or
you'll resent how much great music you're missing because you
can't afford to buy them.
