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The great guitarist Wes Montgomery died of a heart attack at the tragically young age of 43 in 1968 after about a decade in the spotlight and just as he was achieving significant crossover fame.
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra has one more week of activity before turning dark for the rest of the summer.
The summer jazz festival season kicks into full swing this week with the 18th annual Michigan Jazz Festival. An indispensible showcase for the everyday heroes of the Detroit jazz scene, Sunday's free all-day event features more than 150 musicians, including nearly 30 professional acts and six student groups .
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra's "Salute to America" concerts at Greenfield Village celebrate their 20th anniversary this week. The annual merger of two of metro Detroit's most cherished cultural treasures around the Fourth of July holiday has become one of the region's most beloved family traditions, attracting more than 25,000 people annually in recent years.
At 46, trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis comes third in the line of the famous jazz-playing Marsalis brothers, after older brothers Wynton and Branford, but before younger brother Jason.
The local jazz scene reaches out this week in support of two worthy causes with a pair of fund-raising concerts. Detroit trumpeter Marcus Belgrave, the reigning patriarch of the scene, is the star attraction of the first event, which carries the intriguing title Stereotype.
Detroit tenor saxophonist and clarinetist Chris Collins met Italian saxophonist Emanuele Cisi in New York in 2007. The two found friendship and inspiration in their common post-bop styles and their similar heroes (John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, et al.). They also bonded because of the important role that their cities, Detroit and Torino -- both auto capitals facing varying degrees of post-industrial fallout -- played in shaping their destinies
Two of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's long-range recording projects take another step toward the finish line this week as the orchestra completes its 2011-12 classical season with a program that seems designed to show off the sweeping palette of color, power and virtuosity that an orchestra can produce.
Of all the great bellwethers of Italian opera, "I Pagliacci" (1892) by Ruggero Leoncavallo is probably the least known among Michigan Opera Theatre audiences. The company has staged the work only twice in its 41 years, most recently in 1985.
On Saturday, Kid Rock will hit the stage of the Fox Theatre accompanied by his regular band and the DSO led by music director Leonard Slatkin. A benefit concert, the performance is expected to raise $1 million for the DSO.
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