At last night's Tony Awards, fresh-faced musicals battled for the spotlight with powerful revivals. Today, we discuss the winners. Later: Saxophonist Maceo Parker helped create the sound of funk in the '60s a sideman for James Brown. He joins us to talk about playing -- and singing -- on his new record, "Roots & Grooves."
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Maceo ParkerThe Tonys Roundup
The 62nd annual Tony awards pretty much conformed to expectation on last night at Radio City Music Hall. The sincere and salsa-inflected "In the Heights" trumped the wildly audacious rock musical "Passing Strange" to take the Tony for best new musical. Lincoln Center Theater's acclaimed revival of South Pacific took ...
Maceo Parker
Saxophonist Maceo Parker helped create the sound of funk in the 60s as right-hand man to James Brown. But before that he was influenced by Ray Charles. Parker pays tribute to Charles in a new two-disc album featuring him singing with Germany’s WDR Big Band. Maceo Parker joins us to ...
Black Cab Sessions
Your task: Find a critically acclaimed songwriter, stuff him or her into a cab, and record an intimate live performance to be shared on the Internet. In New York, it might get you killed. But that's just what a team of British music promoters and filmmakers are doing inside London's ...
Passing "Strange," Picking Familiar
Here's what bugs me about Broadway - well, aside from the ticket prices: you have a somewhat edgy, idiosyncratic musical like 'Passing Strange' (the brainchild of musician Stew, pictured) actually trying to do something different and getting a great amount of critical ...