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Jazz Pianist Bill Anschell Releases Debut Book Of Stories From 40 Years In And Out Of The Trenches
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Mr. P.C.
What happens when a jazz pianist spends his career bouncing between high-profile concert halls, hellish wedding gigs, major festivals, cruise ship disasters, recording dates, and insane jam sessions? Bill Anschell turns it all into comic gold. His debut book, Benched, released on November 25th, offers satirical stories that pull back the curtain on the absurd realities of jazz life. Drawing on four decades as a working musician, Anschell finds humor in the venues, audiences, industry, and artists that make up ...
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Perfection: Doug Raney - 'Lean Years' (1979)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Guitarist Doug Raney was one of the greats. The son of guitarist Jimmy Raney, Doug spent much of his career in Copenhagen. Doug was a hard-wired addict. As his brother, Jon, told me soon after Doug's death in 2016, at age 59: Doug was struggling with prior drug addiction and was on the program for a long time. But it was really his addiction to alcohol, in excess, that did him in. He was a different type of drunk than ...
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Songlines' Gamelan Alligator Joy Releases Penumbra, Its First Album In Fifteen Years
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GoMedia PR
It's been 15 years since Vancouver’s new music / Javanese gamelan group released its last record, Hive. In the meantime, the ensemble took a new name. Traditionally, gamelans are named after the poetic honorific title bestowed on the large gong: Madu Sari translates as “the essence of honey.” But times change, and Alligator Joy was named after the rumored-to-be-gun-running freighter that brought this newly created, chamber-sized gamelan gadhon to Vancouver in 1990. The pieces on Penumbra were workshopped and premiered ...
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Iconoclastic Composer Yelena Eckemoff Celebrates 15 Years As A Critically Acclaimed Independent Artist
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
In 2010, jazz pianist Yelena Eckemoff made a brazen decision for the time. She would produce all of her albums independently, despite the interest major jazz labels had shown in representing her. Today—22 masterful albums featuring more than 50 world-class musicians later—Yelena’s artistic vision has come to fruition: an oeuvre of works completely her own. Yelena understood early on that to communicate her musical vision, she would need a certain measure of creative freedom in her projects. As something of ...
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Trey Gunn’s 7d Media Releases Experimental Guitarist, Composer, And Producer Andre Lafosse Releases 'Entry Level: An Introduction To Andre Lafosse' Spanning More Than Twenty Years Of His Career
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
7D Media is proud to announce that experimental guitarist, composer, and producer Andre LaFosse is joining our musical family with Entry Level: An Introduction to Andre LaFosse. Spanning more than twenty years of his career, this 14 track album brings together remastered classics, remixed favorites, and even offers a sneak peek into the future with an exclusive new track. Throughout the collection, LaFosse’s distinctive “turntablist guitar” technique takes center stage, showcasing his skill in looping, multitracking, and creative sound manipulation. ...
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The New Jersey Performing Arts Center And The Bethany Baptist Church Celebrate 25 Years Of Free Monthly Jazz Vespers Concerts
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AMT Public Relations
February to June 2025 Schedule Includes Cassandra Wilson, Sheila Jordan, Arturo O'Farrill, Rhoda Scott and More First Saturday of every month—February 1, March 1, April 5, May 3 and June 7, 2025. All shows begin at 6:00 p.m. Bethany Baptist Church 275 W. Market Street Newark, NJ 07103 Tickets + Information FREE. For more info, please visit NJPAC.org or call 1.888.GO.NJPAC. Saturday, February 1 | Sheila Jordan with Roni Ben-Hur and Harvie S Sheila Jordan – vocals
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60 Years Of Jazzfest Berlin: Still Digging
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Berliner Festspiele
From October 31 to November 3, Jazzfest Berlin is celebrating its 60th anniversary with 24 concerts at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Quasimodo, A-Trane and the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church. This year, the concert programme is bolstered by two anniversary specials: the Jazzfest Research Lab and the Jazzfest Community Lab Moabit. The full programme. Jazzfest Berlin, founded in 1964 in West Berlin as one of the first jazz festivals in Europe, is turning 60 years old. Reason enough to take ...
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Duke Ellington at 125 Years Young
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
April 29 marked the 125th anniversary of Duke Ellington's birth in 1899. Catching the Ellington bug over the weekend, I figured what better way to kick off the week than with seven celebratory video clips and a bonus album: Here's Ellington conducting the Dick Cavett band on August 8, 1969. Bill Kirchner sent this one along. The band included Duke Ellington (p); George Duvivier (b); Bobby Rosengarden (d,leader); Joe Wilder and Ernie Royal (tp); Boomie Richman (b-cl,ts); Harvey Estrin (lead ...
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100 Years of Max Roach
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Max Roach's birth date could easily be a time signature played by the drummer. Though his birth certificate listed his arrival as January 10, 1924, he told radio historian Phil Schapp that his parents said he was born on January 8. As a result, his birth date is typically given as January 8/10. Last week was his centenary. Roach would become the first jazz drummer to fully exploit bebop's speed, freedom and form. While keeping time, he'd often drop in ...
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Marianne Trudel Celebrates 20 Years Of Career With The Release Of Three New Albums
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Vivo Musique Internationale
This year marks the twentieth year of the musical career of the pianist, composer, and improvisor Marianne Trudel. For the occasion, the artist-producer launches a triptych of albums of original compositions: a solo album, a duet album with the drummer John Hollenbeck, and a trio album with Remi-Jean Leblanc (double bass, electric bass) and John Hollenbeck (drums). Rich, abundant, simultaneously different and each one complementary. Three albums, three facets. Music that combines depth, originality, surprises and emotions. These albums are ...
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