Betrayed by her own longing to be at sea with her sea captain husband, and by her loneliness, Azuba finds herself closeted with her young daughter on her unforgiving husband's sailing ship. Over the next three years of heart stopping adventures, Azuba endures vicious storms, starvation, pregnancy and childbirth, and the shock of cold-blooded pirates. The enormity of world travel in the 1860's changes Azuba utterly as she and her husband slowly, tentatively learn how to trust each other again.
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Here it is! The line-up for this year's Winnipeg Jazz Festival. This is not a complete list, but our highlights:
Robert PlantTrombone Shorty (funky New Orleans music)
Gary Burton with Julian Lage, Antonio Sanchez & Scott Collley (killer band)
Kellylee Evans (her CD last year entitled "Nina" was one of our favourites)
Black Sea Station (Hot Winnipeg Klezmer)
Robert Glasper (superb young jazz pianist)
Lost Fingers (high energy gypsy jazz)
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The 2011-2012 Izzy Asper Jazz Performances were recently announced and here are a couple of the highlights:
Aaron Goldberg Trio: along with Reuben Rogers (bass) and Eric Harland (drums), pianist Aaron Goldberg is going to bring down the house with this powerful and swinging trio. March 2011
Clayton Brothers Quintet: John Clayton (bass), Jeff Clayton (sax), Gerald Clayton (piano), Terrell Stafford (trumpet). All of them are amazing, in-demand musicians, but the guy to watch at this show is the youngest Clayton, Gerald, on piano. October 2011
and the rest.... Sean Jones & Don Braden September 2011; Randy Brecker November 2011; Dee Daniels April 2012
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Watch here this weekend for the announcement of the official line-up of the 2011 TD Winnipeg International Jazz Festival, which runs from June 16-25.
So far it has been announced that both the Lincoln Centre Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and jazz lounge orchestra Pink Martini are returning to the Festival. And it leaked to the press recently that Robert Plant will be bringing his Band of Joy to the Concert Hall as one of the headlining acts as well.
It is always an exciting time when the line-up is announced so check back with us Friday afternoon for the full line-up.
Moonwalking with Einstein is a smart book about brain science that convinces us that the mind is capable of epic achievements. Joshua draws on cutting-edge research, a surprising cultural history of memory, and venerable tricks of the mentalist's trade to transform our understanding of human remembering. Under the tutelage of top "mental athletes," he learns ancient techniques once employed by Cicero to memorize his speeches and by Medieval scholars to memorize entire books. Using methods that have been largely forgotten, Foer discovers that we can all dramatically improve our memories.
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