Laidback Luke has enjoyed an action-packed, decidedly un-laidback year. He’s worked with David Guetta, Diplo, A-Trak, Steve Aoki, and Lil Jon, and he’s remixed a host of artists, from Moby to Robyn. In addition to earning a #17 ranking in DJ Mag’s Top 100 DJs poll, Luke snagged an IDMA for his “Leave the World Behind” and three Beatport Music Awards nominations. Now he’s asking for your help in making 2011 an even bigger year for him.

Laidback Luke has enjoyed an action-packed, decidedly un-laidback year. He’s worked with David Guetta, Diplo, A-Trak, Steve Aoki, and Lil Jon, and he’s remixed a host of artists, from Moby to Robyn. In addition to earning a #17 ranking in DJ Mag’s Top 100 DJs poll, Luke snagged an IDMA for his “Leave the World Behind” and three Beatport Music Awards nominations. Now he’s asking for your help in making 2011 an even bigger year for him.

Laidback Luke has enjoyed an action-packed, decidedly un-laidback year. He’s worked with David Guetta, Diplo, A-Trak, Steve Aoki, and Lil Jon, and he’s remixed a host of artists, from Moby to Robyn. In addition to earning a #17 ranking in DJ Mag’s Top 100 DJs poll, Luke snagged an IDMA for his “Leave the World Behind” and three Beatport Music Awards nominations. Now he’s asking for your help in making 2011 an even bigger year for him.

Storyline: Disheartened when his story about Canadian snipers possibly mutilating corpses in Afghanistan is buried, Luke (Nick Stahl) quits his job but is even more determined to return to Afghanistan to get the real story. With his offbeat buddy, Tom (Nicolas Wright), tagging along, Luke returns to Afghanistan and intends to gather enough evidence to get his old story into print. But he soon finds that the country is an even more dangerous place than when he left. To make matters worse, his old friend and fixer, Mateen (Stephen Lobo) has been hired away by Luke's journalistic nemesis, Imran Sahar (Vik Sahay). Soon the trip for Luke and Tom in Afghanistan turns into a surreal and perilous adventure, a journey into an alternate reality, filtered through a haze of gun smoke.

For all those who have a big axe to grind with Brubeck, for all those who claim the band was only successful because they were predominantly white, or played pop-jazz, or catered to the exotica craze, or any of that, you are invited to have all of your preconceptions, tepid arguments, and false impressions hopelessly torn to shreds by the CD debut of one of the great live jazz albums of the 1960s. At Carnegie Hall is a date that showcases all of the finest elements of the storied Brubeck Quartet that featured, alongside Brubeck's piano, alto innovator Paul Desmond, bassist Eugene Wright, and Joe Morello on drums. First the rhythm section: On this February night in 1963 -- either the 21 or 22nd depending on which side of the cover you believe -- W.C. Handy's "St. Louis Blues" was given a knotty rhythmic workout it had never seen on Basin or Bourbon Street. Time signatures moved and shifted all over the tune for 12 minutes as Brubeck and Desmond exchanged cross-contrapuntal solos and melodic inventions back and forth. Movement and plenty of it was the identity this old nugget took on, with Brubeck taking Wright's cue and moving the blues into unheard of harmonic spaces and intervals.

Storyline: Disheartened when his story about Canadian snipers possibly mutilating corpses in Afghanistan is buried, Luke (Nick Stahl) quits his job but is even more determined to return to Afghanistan to get the real story. With his offbeat buddy, Tom (Nicolas Wright), tagging along, Luke returns to Afghanistan and intends to gather enough evidence to get his old story into print. But he soon finds that the country is an even more dangerous place than when he left. To make matters worse, his old friend and fixer, Mateen (Stephen Lobo) has been hired away by Luke's journalistic nemesis, Imran Sahar (Vik Sahay). Soon the trip for Luke and Tom in Afghanistan turns into a surreal and perilous adventure, a journey into an alternate reality, filtered through a haze of gun smoke.

Disheartened when his story about Canadian snipers possibly mutilating corpses in Afghanistan is buried, Luke (Nick Stahl) quits his job but is even more determined to return to Afghanistan to get the real story. With his offbeat buddy, Tom (Nicolas Wright), tagging along, Luke returns to Afghanistan and intends to gather enough evidence to get his old story into print. But he soon finds that the country is an even more dangerous place than when he left. To make matters worse, his old friend and fixer, Mateen (Stephen Lobo) has been hired away by Luke's journalistic nemesis, Imran Sahar (Vik Sahay). Soon the trip for Luke and Tom in Afghanistan turns into a surreal and perilous adventure, a journey into an alternate reality, filtered through a haze of gun smoke.