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		<title>Improvising in any context</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Improvising is the ability to take the frameworks we have been handed and to alter the parameters that exist in them.  As a musician that means who you are playing with, the compositions you select, and how flexible or rigidly you approach the forms within which you improvise.]]></description>
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		<title>Guitar and MIDI at Gryphon</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 01:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dimitri started the day off with an absolutely beautiful piece that featured his enormous musical and artistic abilities.  My reaction was in the realm of "WOW!!!" Dimitri's piece ranged from heavenly ethereal sounds supporting his melodic excursions to percussive and "heavy" synth sounds used to set up hip, toe-tapping grooves (I had to remind myself that no drummer or bass player was accompanying him).  His playing demonstrated that be is an artist of the highest order, and for me it was inspirational to hear someone use technology in such an expressive manner.  This is what it is all about!!]]></description>
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		<title>The relevance of jazz</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The act of trying to create something musically and spontaneously is something that is a part of life. It’s like the weather — it’s always there. Jazz as something that fits into a narrow little remembrance, no, that kind of jazz is not relevant. But jazz is as relevant today as the yearning for people to be free.]]></description>
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		<title>Triple Threat Guitarist</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dimitri Vandellos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past dozen years, mandolinist David Grisman has showcased some of the world's finest steel-string acoustic guitarists-including Tony Rice, Mark O'Connor, Mike Marshall, and Jon Sholle - while producing his unique blend of Jazz, bluegrass, classical, and ethnic music.  Thus it's a surprise to discover that Dimitri Vandellos, the current occupant of the guitar chair in the David Grisman Quartet, never played or owned a steel-string until he joined the band. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mining the American Music Motherlode at Telluride</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, one was treated to country music by Michael Martin Murphey and Texan Robert Earl Keen.  The sound of Louisiana found powerful expression in Beausoleil's Cajun dance music and Little Feat's gumbo funk.  Unmistakable ethnic influences from Ireland to Poland and the Middle East found expression in Mark O'Connor's world-class fiddling and David Grisman's "jazzgrass" compositions.   A clearly classical influence shone in Edgar Meyer's bass variations, Nancy Blake's cello and Dimitri Vandellos' guitar wizardry. [...]]]></description>
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