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MOA: Maverick
by Chris M. Slawecki
Max Wild wears many musical hats: A jazz musician who plays alto saxophone, an instructor at one of New York City's hottest music production schools (Dubspot), and producer of his own original dance and other electronic music. Wild began to play the saxophone in his native Zimbabwe and earned his Master in Jazz degree from the Manhattan School of Music, where he also began to discover that his unique instrumental jazz, African and electronic perspectives might make him a difficult ...
read moreBackgrounder: Moacir Santos - Coisas
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Moacir Santos was a Brazilian composer, multi-instrumentalist and educator who never became as well known as his peers, including Bola Sete and Baden Powell. While he collaborated on songs with Nara Leão, Roberto Menescal and Sérgio Mendes among others, he privately taught artists who went on to become highly successful global bossa nova singers and songwriters. In 1965, he released Coisas (Things, in English), which combined the new Brazilian beat with big band jazz. The album didn't attract much attention ...
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Jazz This Week: Gateway Jazz Festival, Moaje Jam Session, and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
As the dog days of August wind down and we look forward to the start of the fall presenting season, here's a look at some of the more noteworthy live jazz performances happening in and around St. Louis this Labor Day weekend. On Friday night, singer Ann Dueren's trio will provide the music for the annual Queeny Park Art Fair; The Sidemen will play at Evangeline's; guitarist Tom Byrne's trio will perform at Thurman Grill; saxophonist Kendrick Smith leads a ...
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Samoa 2010 International Jazz & Blues Festival Nov 12-14th Opolu Island Samoa
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Colin Briscoe
Samoa 2010 International Jazz & Blues Festival November 12-14th Opolu Island Samoa hosts some of the best jazz and blues musicians from around the globe in one of the world's most beautiful places, Samoa. Featuring world renowned musicians, San Francisco's Robbie McGregor, UK blues guitarist Tony Painting, jazz pianists Phil Broadhurst and Julie Mason, LA crooner Diana Harris, Australian legendary guitarist Ian Moss, New Zealand Blues sensation Billy TK Junior and new four piece Auckland blues band, The Flaming Mudcats, ...
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John Moawad Jam Session and Celebration, May 16
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Seattle Jazz Scene
On May 16 jazz musicians will gather at Central Washington University to remember the late jazz educator John Moawad in the way that he would most appreciate: a day-long jam session!
Moawad was a charismatic educator who brought jazz to high school and college classrooms before it was normal in the Pacific Northwest. During his 30-years at CWU he built what arguably was and still is the best instrumental and vocal jazz program on the West coast. He also built ...
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New Mark Levine CD, Due 9/15, Features the Music of Moacir Santos
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Grammy-nominated pianist Mark Levine was introduced to the music of Moacir Santos in the late 1960s, when he had the good fortune to work with the Brazilian composer. Now Levine is preparing to release a tribute album in Santos’s memory on his own Left Coast Clave label. The new CD, Off & On: The Music of Moacir Santos, made with Levine’s Afro-Caribbean ensemble The Latin Tinge, is scheduled for release on September 15. “This is something I’ve wanted to do ...
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The Genius of Moacir Santos on Freedom Jazz Dance
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All About Jazz
5 - 7 PM Sunday WDCE 90.1 FM Listen via streamcast at http://www.student.richmond.edu/~wdce/ 804-289-UR90 Studio Give thanks for great jazz with Freedom Jazz Dance--modern jazz from bebop to freebop and beyond--live from the beautiful campus of the University of Richmond this Sunday. This week I will be featuring some remarkable music from the late Brazilian jazz composer Moacir Santos. A recent clipping I read about his music turned me on to this brilliant and ...
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Legendary Brazilian Composer And Arranger Moacir Santos Dies At 80 Years Of Age
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GoMedia PR
Acclaimed Musician Had Recently Won Both Shell Music and Premio Tim Awards
Moacir Santos, the legendary composer and arranger whose body of work served to expand popular preconceptions of Brazilian music beyond bossa nova and Musica Popular Brasileira (MPB), died in Pasadena, California on Sunday, August 6th. Santos was recently enjoying a resurgence of interest in his career, thanks in part to the efforts of producers Mario Adnet and Ze Nogueira, and New York based record label Adventure Music.
Moacir's ...
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Moacir Santos Wins Shell Music Award In Brazil
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All About Jazz
Moacir Santos, whose two recent Adventure Music releases, Ouro Negro and Choros & Alegria have earned considerable acclaim from such respected media outlets as the New York Times, National Public Radio, DownBeat and JazzTimes magazines, has just been awarded the prestigious Shell Music Award for 2006 in his homeland of Brazil.
The jury unanimously chose Santos, citing both the status of his work as a composer and arranger and the significant role he has played in Brazilian music education. Bello ...
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John Moawad Jazz Scholarship Concert Set for Saturday, June 3
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All About Jazz
Making Jazz -- Moawad Style at Central Washington University ELLENSBURG, WA.,--When certain people walk into a room, their presence is immediately felt. Whether it's a certain quality or personality trait that person radiates, others instantly pay attention. John Moawad, Central Washington University professor emeritus of music is that way. He is very charismatic," says Chris Bruya, CWU director of jazz studies and Central alumnus (B.A. '83 & M.A. '85). When someone is like that, you can't explain what it is ...
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