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SUMMARY:David Cross
DESCRIPTION:Emmy Award winner and two-time Grammy Award nominee\, David Cross is an inventive performer\, writer\, and producer on stage and screen. David’s eighth stand-up special\, David Cross: Worst Daddy In The World\, is available on the 800 Pound Gorilla Media YouTube channel\, and he will join the cast of the Netflix series\, The Umbrella Academy\, for their fourth and final season premiering August 8. \nDavid hosts the new podcast\, Senses Working Overtime With David Cross\, which premiered on December 7\, 2023 with new episodes released on Thursdays available on all audio platforms and video available on David’s YouTube page. \nIn 2023\, David was seen in the Julia Louis-Dreyfus film\, You Hurt My Feelings\, and the FX series\, Justified: City Primeval.  In 2021\, Cross starred in the National Geographic series\, Genius: Aretha\, portraying famed music producer\, Jerry Wexler opposite Cynthia Erivo as Aretha Franklin; he made guest appearances in the\, critically-acclaimed HBO Max miniseries\, Station Eleven; and starred in the HBO Max film\, 8-Bit Christmas. \nOn February 12\, 2022\, David premiered his comedy special\, David Cross: I’m From The Future\, as a livestream event available internationally on his website.  David’s 2019 comedy special\, David Cross: Oh Come On\, is available on Amazon Prime and Peacock. \nDavid was nominated for two Grammy Awards for the albums\, …America…Great\, and Shut Up You F***ing Baby\, and his comedy special\, David Cross: The Pride is Back\, was named one of the 25 best stand-up comedy specials and concert films of all time by Rolling Stone in July 2015. \nOther groundbreaking TV credits include Arrested Development\, Goliath\, The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret\, Mr. Show with Bob and David\, Freak Show\, and The Ben Stiller Show. In 2020\, David received rave reviews for his starring role in the dramatic film\, The Dark Divide\, and in 2018\, he was part of the ensemble cast with Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep in Steven Spielberg’s The Post.  David released the indie film Hits\, which he wrote and directed\, and he has appeared in numerous films including Kill Your Darlings\, It’s a Disaster\, Abel\, Year One\, Waiting for Guffman\, Men in Black and Men in Black II\, Ghost World\, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind\, Pitch Perfect 2\, I’m Not There\, and he provided his vocal talents for several animated films\, including Megamind\, the Kung Fu Panda franchise and Curious George.
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LOCATION:Michigan Theater\, 603 East Liberty\, Ann Arbor\, MI\, 48104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Jesse Cook
DESCRIPTION:For Jesse Cook\, music has been a journey. Sonically and literally. \n“Over the years\, I’ve taken my music and tried to cross-pollinate it with music from different parts of the world\,” explains the 50-year-old global-guitar virtuoso. “For the (2003) album Nomad\, I went to Cairo and recorded with musicians there. On my (2009) record The Rumba Foundation\, I went to Colombia\, and worked with musicians from Cuba as well. On (1998’s) Vertigo\, I went down to Lafayette\, La.\, and recorded with Buckwheat Zydeco. For me\, the question has always been: Where did you go? Where did you take your guitar?” \nThe short answer this time? Nowhere. And everywhere. After two decades of criss-crossing the world in restless pursuit of inspiration\, innovation and collaboration\, the Paris-born\, Toronto-raised Cook changed course for his ninth studio albumOne World\, out April\, 28th\, 2015 on eOne Music Canada. Instead of exotic locales\, he stayed home in his studio. Instead of a foreign legion of performers\, he relied on his own devices. And instead of exploring cul de sacs of music — flamenco\, classical\, rumba\, world beat\, pop\, blues or jazz — he united them. \n“On this record\, it’s not really about going someplace\,” he says of the album\, whose cover depicts a vast\, ancient tree. “The idea is that there really is just one world. If you pull your focus back far enough\, you start to see all music as being branches of the same tree. They’re all connected to the same trunk from way back. \n“For example\, my strange way of playing guitar is a hybrid of styles. I was a classical guitarist as a kid\, and I studied flamenco and then I studied jazz. So there are three musical and guitar traditions in my background. And one of the forms I use\, rumba flamenco\, is itself a hybrid created in the 1800s when sailors were coming back to Spain from Cuba\, having heard these Cuban rhythms. And here I am\, 150 years later\, taking it and mixing it back with modern music and seeing where it takes me. Music is a constantly evolving thing.” \nAs is Cook’s creative approach. Despite its humble home-made origins\, One World begins another chapter in the multi-tasking artist\, composer and producer’s quest. His destination: The digital realm. To create the disc’s emotive melodies\, fluid grooves and rich sonic tapestries\, he incorporated technology more than ever before. Give credit to his precocious young assistant. \n“I have two small children\, and my son is forever trying to get on my computer. If I’m in my studio\, he’ll come in and sit down and just start pushing buttons and making things happen in the recording program I use. At first I was terrified he would mess things up. But he actually got really good at poking around. I started going\, ‘Wow\, what’s that? What are you doing? Let me in there!’ I started writing tunes using weird loops and metallic and electronic sounds. And I found myself interested in taking what I do and putting it in a more modern context. I’ve leaned heavily on ancient instruments. But for this record\, I put those instruments side by side with modern sounds — unabashedly so.” \nWhat results is the most sonically diverse and distinctive disc in Cook’s vast and varied catalogue\, which has earned 11 Juno nominations and one win for 2000’s Free Fall. On these 11 instrumentals\, programmed beats and dusty electronic textures are interwoven with syncopated handclaps\, deep dubby basslines and popping percussion. Sitars and violin share the space with synthesizers and sound effects. Notes and rhythms dance playfully back and forth between speakers. Naturally\, Cook’s masterful guitar work commands centre stage with its elegant balance of subtlety\, in-the-moment honesty and blazing technical prowess. But here\, it also pivots between worlds — past and future\, familiar and fresh\, acoustic and electronic — redefined by technology like every element of modern life. \n“We’re all involved with our computers in a big way\, though we malign them\,” laughs Cook. “People complain social media is ruining communication and that people just text instead of call. But love and romance and imagination and art also happen through computers. People fall in love online. People talk to loved ones on Skype. People write great love letters on the computer\, create great works of art\, great compositions. It has become this integral part of human expression and I wanted to give it a voice in what I was doing.” \nAnd in doing so\, the artist who hadn’t planned to travel for this album found himself in the most exotic locale imaginable. \n“I wanted to make what I was doing feel like Constantinople\, the ancient city that existed between the East and the West. It was the meeting point of all these great cultures — Africa\, Europe\, Asia\, India. I want my music to be that place: The Constantinople of sound. A place where ancient sounds meet with modern ones and pass though that port.” \nThe journey continues.
URL:https://theark.qltddev.com/event/jesse-cook-250503/
LOCATION:Royal Oak Music Theatre\, 318 W 4th St\, Royal Oak\, MI\, 48067\, United States
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