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SUMMARY:Don Was and The Pan Detroit Ensemble
DESCRIPTION:“There’s only two kinds of music\, selfish music and g
 enerous music.” - Don Was\nFEATURED ARTISTS:\nDon Was\, bass guita
 r\, guitar\, vocals\, piano\, songwriter\, producer\, The Pan Detroit
  Ensemble \nYou could fill both a record store and a hat store with t
 he albums DON WAS has touched and the lids he’s donned on the way
  to six GRAMMY®s\, an Emmy\, a BAFTA\, and the respect of musicians
  and fans of all ages worldwide. In nearly 50 years in the music busi
 ness the Was (Not Was) bandleader has collaborated with an astonishin
 g list of top-flight artists in pursuit of making a truthful\, transc
 endent\, healing and joyful noise. As a producer\, songwriter\, recor
 ding artist\, music supervisor\, documentarian\, musical director\, r
 adio host\, multi-instrumentalist\, and President of Blue Note Record
 s\, Was has been enthusiastically and fearlessly genre fluid\, moving
  freely across rock\, pop\, jazz\, country\, reggae\, R&B\, and world
  music.\nFor his work as a record producer\, he has won six GRAMMY® A
 wards – including Album of the Year in 1989 for Bonnie Raitt’s N
 ick of Time and Producer of the Year in 1994. Records that Don has pr
 oduced have sold close to 100 million albums for a wide array of artis
 ts like The Rolling Stones\, Bob Dylan\, Willie Nelson\, John Mayer\,
  Ringo Starr\, Wayne Shorter\, The B52s and Charles Lloyd. In 1995 he 
 produced and directed a documentary about the life of Brian Wilson\, 
 I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times\, that won the San Francisco Film
  Festival’s Golden Gate Award. As a film composer\, he won the 1994 
 British Academy Award (BAFTA) for Best Original Score in recognition o
 f his work on the film Backbeat. He won the 2014 Emmy Award for Outsta
 nding Music Direction for his work on the CBS TV special The Beatles:
  The Night That Changed America. In 2018 Don was invited to join Grat
 eful Dead guitarist Bob Weir to form the Wolf Brothers. They continu
 e to consistently tour the US.\nIn 2011 Was became President of the ic
 onic jazz label Blue Note Records. He fiercely protects the company’
 s eighty-five-year-old legacy\, meticulously caretaking the revered ca
 talog of Black American Music. This includes maintaining the availabil
 ity and quality of vinyl reissues in the Tone Poet and Classic Jazz au
 diophile release series. He also signs and produces many of the label
 ’s recent roster of artists including\, Robert Glasper\, Charles Ll
 oyd\, Wayne Shorter\, Dr Lonnie Smith\, Gregory Porter and Jason Moran
 .\nDon’s deep Detroit roots keep him anchored to the city where\, wh
 ere for the last 15 years he has music directed and played bass in the
  Don Was Detroit All Star Revue concerts which are part of Detroit’s
  annual diversity festival\, The Concert of Colors. From 2009-2012 Don
  hosted a weekly Sirius XM radio show on the Outlaw Country channel ca
 lled The Motor City Hayride. Since 2021\, he co-hosts a weekly\, live 
 radio show on Detroit’s NPR station\, WDET-FM called The Don Was Mot
 or City Playlist. Don is also the voice of Neville the Dog in the hit 
 Amazon Prime Video children’s show\, Pete the Cat.
URL:https://www.soka.edu/soka-performing-arts-center/calendar-events/d
 on-was-pan-detroit-ensemble?utm_source=my-city-scene&utm_medium=click&
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