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| Music Alive! Magazine Celebrates Black History Month In celebration of February as Black History Month, Music Alive!, the educational music magazine and listening program for teenagers, will bring the sounds of exciting African-American music masters into music classrooms across the country. The February issue includes feature coverage on Pop/R&B trio Destiny's Child; folk legend Odetta; the royal family of jazz, the Marsalis Family; historic gospel performers Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Mahalia Jackson, and the Fisk Jubilee Singers; and rock guitar greats Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley. A "Who's News" segment showcases emerging composer/violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain, who has written 24 "Hip-Hop Studies and Etudes" and serves as Chair of Music Theory and Composition at the Harlem School for the Arts. So that students can hear exactly why these musical luminaries have had such great impact, February's accompanying Music Alive! Classroom CD provides recordings by Destiny's Child, Odetta, the Marsalis Family, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Edwin Hawkins Singers, Bob Marley, and Daniel Bernard Roumain. This month's "Cool Careers" interview is with Warner Music Group Executive VP Kevin Liles, the hip-hop visionary who evolved from unpaid intern to label president of Def Jam Records and has recently articulated his inspiration and street-smarts in Make It Happen: The Hip-Hop Generation Guide to Success. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Jazz News :: home page |