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Making Trouble At Twenty-four: The Defiant Ascent Of Pavle Zvekic
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All About Jazz
If jazz is a city—endlessly rebuilt, its back alleys echoing with invention—then Pavle Zvekic is not merely wandering its streets, but laying down bold new thoroughfares through its neighborhoods. Award-winning Serbian writer Oto Oltvanji introduces a pianist who, at just 24, has become a gravitational force in the Balkan and international jazz scenes—equal parts visionary and architect. The mythology usually reserved for prodigies sticks differently to Zvekic. His story begins not with the usual late-night piano discoveries, but as a ...
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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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Why We Need Pirate Radio For The Twenty-First Century
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HypeBot
While streaming services do offer infinite variety and customization, the product remains essentially the same across platforms, and lacks the personal touch of a radio DJ. So then don't these services integrate a live hosting feature? Guest post by Thomas McAlevey, CEO of Radical.fm At the end of the movie “Pump Up the Volume,” Christian Slater’s character, pirate radio DJ Hard Harry, exhorts the kids who’ve come out to support him to start their own stations and “talk hard.” The film ...
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Dirty Dozen Brass Band Sign With Savoy Jazz, New Album "Twenty Dozen" Set for Release May 1st
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Michael Ricci
Band Celebrates Its 35th Anniversary With Live Dates Including BAM Residency With Dr. John & Headlining Jazz Fest SANTA MONICA, Calif., March 27, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — Exactly thirty five years ago born in the New Orleans neighborhood of Treme, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band revolutionized the New Orleans brass band by incorporating funk and bebop into the traditional style. Anchored by original members Roger Lewis, Kevin Harris, Gregory Davis, Efrem Towns and Kirk Joseph, the band has signed with ...
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Twenty Years of Exploration Leads Flippomusic to “Tao Tunes”
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Dave Flippo
Composer, pianist Dave Flippo created his modern jazz ensemble 20 years ago after 11 years of university study. As pianist and principal composer for his eclectic ensemble, Flippo's background includes a Doctorate and Masters degree in composition from the University of Michigan and Eastman School of Music with additional studies in ethnic music and jazz. The compositions he originally created were a synthesis of these elements, which he called “globaljazz"- a blend of jazz with ethnic music from cultures as ...
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Visionary Japanese Instrumentalist Keiko Matsui To Release Her Twenty-Second Album On January 25 Via Shanachie Entertainment
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1888 Media
With over a million and a half albums sold and sold out concerts around the globe, keyboardist Keiko Matsui is a citizen of the world and one of the brightest stars in instrumental music. On January 25th, Shanachie Entertainment will release The Road..., Keiko Matsui's first new recording in four years and a follow-up to her acclaimed 2007 South African inspired Moyo. This new self-produced opus (and 22nd album released in the U.S.) exhibits Matsui's profound affinity for melody while ...
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Jan Hammer's Music Remains Relevant Twenty-Five Years After Miami Vice
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GoMedia PR
Nike's LeBron James Video Featuring Hammer's Crockett's Theme Approaches 4 million views on YouTube This week marks the 25th anniversary of Jan Hammer's now iconic “Miami Vice" theme's ascent to the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In those 25 years, there has not been another instrumental track that has experienced an equal measure of chart success. While Miami Vice the television show came to epitomize the 1980s, spawning fashion trends and a culture that have long fallen ...
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Court Jesters and the Twenty-Three Fellows, the King's Minstrels
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All About Jazz
Although by the fourteenth century, minstrels had passed the time of it's greatest glory, which had been the period of the troubadours, the courts of kings and nobles were still the center of activities for the better class of musicians and entertainers.
While the lower orders of the profession roamed the highways, picking up a living where ever they could, their more skillful brethren usually attached to the households of the wealthy and powerful, where they not only received superior ...
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Twenty Years Later, Remembering Jim Henson
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All About Jazz
Its been twenty years since the world lost Jim Henson, and I still cant think about it without tearing up a bit.
His death at age 53 was sudden and catastrophic, like being hit by lightning on a cloudless day. Along with countless others around the world who had never met him, I felt like a close friend was gone. Five of my fellow GeekDads and I have put together this article as a tribute to his memory. On the ...
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Jonathan Richman Announces Twenty-Seven Shows in January & February
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1888 Media
Los Angeles, CA - Jonathan Richman has announced a new run of shows with drummer Tommy Larkins. These twenty-seven shows, including a four-night residence in Austin, TX and a three-night stand at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, NY will kick off another full year of touring.
Upon wrapping up these dates, Richman will put the finishing touches on his forthcoming as-yet-untitled 2010 album with Larkins. This collection of songs will be a follow-up to his Vapor Records release ...
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