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Abbey Rader & Kidd Jordan Release First Album Together - "Reunion"
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Kai Rader
In a busy summer, Abbey Rader has released his second recording in as many months. Reunion is a collaboration with saxophonist Kidd Jordan. The album is their first together. It follows the June release of It's Time, a duet session with Abbey and longtime collaborator Peter Ponzol. The chain of events that led to Reunion can be traced to the early 2000s. Abbey was on tour with Billy Bang and Frank Lowe when the band performed at the Zeitgeist Arts ...
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Kidd Jordan - On Fire (Engine, 2011)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
New Orleans music isn't totally about the neo-traditionalism of the Marsalis clan and Donald Harrison, although no disrespect is meant to those musicians. Saxophonist Kidd Jordan takes the lessons of growing up as a musician in the south and New Orleans in general and combines with the open ended nature of free jazz to develop music bringing strong images, memories, and feelings to mind. He is aided and abetted by Warren Smith on percussion and vibraphone and Harrison Bankhead on ...
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Kidd Karrim's "PASAJE" - Explodes WorldWide!
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Kidd Karrim
New York, NY (Top40 Latin Charts/ PASAJE C.U.B.A.)—Can you say “ nuevo-latin, jazz, funk and fusion in the same sentence. Apparently so! A multi-talented musician-performance artist-videographer-designer, KIDD KARRIM describes her new “PASAJE—From There To Here" 12 track super dynamic CD as: Tjader meets Jobim meets Tito. If you love the music of the young, nuevo latin movement in Cuba like Charango Habanera, Klimax, Tito Puente, Cal Tjader, Chucho Valdez, or Astrid Gilberto and Sade, or Motown's Marvin Gaye, you're at ...
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Ellis Marsalis, T. S. Monk, Kidd Jordan, and the Jordan Family of Jazz Honors Thelonious Monk on Fathers Day Weekend
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Sylvain Music Notes
"For the Fathers of Jazz" New Orleans jazz patriarch Kidd Jordan and the Jordan Family of Jazz; Marlon Jordan, considered one of the best trumpeters in the world; older brother Kent Jordan, a highly regarded flutist; Stephanie Jordan, whom critics have placed in the company of Nancy Wilson and Shirley Horn; and Rachel Jordan, an classical violinist and music instructor at Jackson State University performs as featured artists at the For the Fathers of Jazz concert in honor of jazz ...
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New Orleans' Kidd Jordan Featured at 15th Other Minds Music Festival
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Michael Ricci
New Orleans saxophonist and jazz patriarch Kidd Jordan has been invited to perform at the 15th Other Minds Music Festival in San Francisco. Other Minds, in cooperation with the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the Eugene and Elinor Friend Center for the Arts of the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, and the Polish Cultural Institute in New York, is bringing together some of the most innovative musical minds at work in the world today. Three days of public performances from ...
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Kidd Jordan to Receive 2009 Asante Legend Award
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All About Jazz
Edward Kidd Jordan has been announced as a recipient of the 2009 Asante Awards in the area of Music Education; The Year of the Legends.The 2009 Asante Awards and Festival will held at the Mahaila Jackson Theatre of Performing Arts in New Orleans, Louisiana in the famed Louis Armstrong Park/Congo Square on Wednesday, July 1, 2009. Produced by NOLA.TV, this year's event pays tribute to New Orleans Legends in the field of Jazz, Music Education, Theatre, Gospel, Spoken Words, Business, ...
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Saxophonist Kidd Jordan Profiled at AAJ
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All About Jazz
“Oh yes, I lost compositions, all my music, my instruments... pretty much everything," smiles Kidd Jordan.
He hasn't actually mentioned Hurricane Katrina by name, nor does his voice betray the bitterness he must still feel, even two-and-a-half years after the disaster that nearly cost him members of his family.
There is gentleness in his delivery, but it's underpinned by steel, by a determination to press on in the face of unbelievable tragedy and to do so with an unpretentiously positive ...
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Kidd Jordan's Sax is Honored at the Clemente Soto Velez
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Michael Ricci
A Sax Man of Distinction and That Vision Thing
To the extent that the tenor saxophonist Kidd Jordan is known in the general jazz world, he's known as a New Orleans patriarch and educator. Dig deeper and you might also hear about his long, eclectic career as a sideman and his role in inspiring the formation of both the Dirty Dozen Brass Band and the World Saxophone Quartet. But Mr. Jordan, 73, has never made much of a dent as ...
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Reviews of Kidd Jordan at Vision Festival XIII
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Improvised Communications
Critics review the lifetime achievement celebration of Kidd Jordan in the New York Press, New York Sun and New York Times. The Vision Festival continues through Sunday night. About Kidd Jordan Edward Kidd Jordan's multi-faceted legacy is among of the most influential and enduring in the history of improvised music. An integral part of the seminal musical tapestry of New Orleans, he is the patriarch of one of the city's most respected musical families and his parallel careers as a ...
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Vision Festival XIII to Honor New Orleans Jazz Legend Kidd Jordan June 11th
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Improvised Communications
On Wednesday, June 11th, Vision Festival XIII will present an entire night of music dedicated to this year's special honoree, New Orleans saxophonist and educator Edward “Kidd" Jordan. Five groups, four featuring Jordan himself, will pay tribute to a musical legacy that spans more than a half century. Advance tickets are available online or by phone at 1- 800-838-3006.
Jordan will be joined on stage by collaborators from throughout his career, including Fred Anderson, Billy Bang, Hamiet Bluiett, Dave Burrell, ...
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