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Fran: Play

Read "Play" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


If technique and imagination are the spirit of improvisation, then the François Carrier Trio has a brimful. Here are three musicians whose travelogue would make the most jaded witness sit up and take notice, attention and marvel at the way they scope the terrain and then mark it with their personal landmarks. What they construct is at once captivating and mesmerizing. Time is the essence and they take their own to build layer upon layer, soul and passion the creation ...

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Album Review

Fran: Elenar

Read "Elenar" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


First, François Théberge: the man who likes to bring a twist to his tale. Second, the musicians: players who can vision the craft of the leader and augment it with their approach. Third, the instruments: brass and some unusual wind instruments that give the music a distinctive air. Fourth, the title: Elenar, a play on L and R for line and rhythm, which gives one the sense of direction, abetted by the fine balance struck between structure and freedom.

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Album Review

Fran: Indefinite Time

Read "Indefinite Time" reviewed by J. Robert Bragonier


Although unfamiliar to many Yankees, François Bourassa and his groups have been a staple on the Canadian jazz scene for the past 20 years. With a trio and now a quartet, Bourassa has toured from Moscow to Mexico, from Europe to East Asia. This is the group’s sixth album since 1986; its last, Live from 2001, won a JUNO (Canada) and an OPUS (Québec) for best jazz album of 2002. Bourassa has degrees from McGill University and the New England ...

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Album Review

Fran: Music of Konitz

Read "Music of Konitz" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


There are quite a few so-called tribute albums floating around, a concept that takes its urge from commercial rewards, or to take a look from another angle, a drought of compositional inspiration. This album is also a tip-of–the-hat to one of the great players on the jazz scene, but with a major difference—the source of inspiration is in the band!

Konitz has carved a deep niche over his long career. He has traversed a wide terrain, leaving landmarks ...

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Album Review

Fran: Compassion

Read "Compassion" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


French Canada has a new standard bearer in Free Jazz.

François Carrier's alto saxophone weaves its way through the title track in the same way John Coltrane's tenor passed through A Love Supreme. Steve Amirault's piano accents the composition as McCoy Tyner did for Coltrane. Carrier's music on Compassion is firmly grounded in the Love Supreme mode. At times swinging, at other times solidly iconoclastic, this Canadian Juno Award Winner (Canada's Grammy® Award) weaves a complex carpet of sound and ...

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Recording

Single Release: 'Gånglåt Från Halland' From Daniel Stahre's Upcoming Album 'Margin Call II'—A Melodic Sequel With A Nordic Sound

Single Release: 'Gånglåt Från Halland' From Daniel Stahre's Upcoming Album 'Margin Call II'—A Melodic Sequel With A Nordic Sound

Source: Daniel Stahre

Gothenburg pianist Daniel Stahre released the Dolby Atmos single “Gånglåt från Halland" on April 24, 2024. In May 2024, the second single “Swinging" will be released ahead of the forthcoming album Margin Call II—an instrumental fusion of contemporary, jazz and pop. The musicians once again include members of Little Dragon and Franska Trion, with Viktor Turegård on double bass, Erik Bodin on drums and Martin Freidlitz on electric guitar. First up is the Dolby Atmos single “Gånglåt från Halland"—a melodic ...

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Video / DVD

Fran Jeffries: the Sixties

Fran Jeffries: the Sixties

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

Many female pop singers who were young adults in the mid-1960s ran into career trouble. Most had come up in the late 1950s with their hearts set on becoming traditional pop singers and had dreams of being signed by Capitol Records. But the powerful rock and Motown incursions of the pop charts mid-decade completely changed the landscape, devaluing '50s-style singing. The exception among older female pop singers was Petula Clark, who was 31 in 1964 when she had a No. ...

Interview

Tommy Wolf + Fran Landesman

Tommy Wolf + Fran Landesman

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

If many of today's jazz musicians and singers lack anything, it's curiosity. Talent they've got plenty of, but a deep interest in the past beyond what they already know about the music seems alien to their approach. Based on the CDs that cross my desk, the same two dozen standards are being recorded endlessly—At Last, Autumn Leaves, When Lights Are Low, Like Someone in Love, The Very Thought of You and so on. What's hurting the music isn't a lack ...

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Event

Women In Jazz: Photographs By Lena Adasheva, Enid Farber, And Fran Kaufman

Women In Jazz: Photographs By Lena Adasheva, Enid Farber, And Fran Kaufman

Source: Jazzheads

Women in Jazz: Photographs by Lena Adasheva, Enid Farber, and Fran Kaufman Curator: Sandra Kraskin Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College 135 East 22nd Street, New York, NY 10010 November 9 - December 12, 2012 Opening Reception: November 8, 6 to 8 P.M. Gallery Hours: Tuesday–Friday, Noon to 5 P.M. Thursday, Noon to 7 P.M. Photographer Lena Adasheva is a Russian born photographer, based in New York City. She is a recipient of ...

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Performance / Tour

Jazz This Week: Legacy Jazz Quintet Plays Art Blakey, a Tribute to Fran Landesman, and More

Jazz This Week: Legacy Jazz Quintet Plays Art Blakey, a Tribute to Fran Landesman, and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman

Assuming that drivers in the St. Louis area recover from the havoc caused by today's snowstorm, there are a number of jazz and creative music performances happening over the next few days that may reward those who choose to venture out into the mid-January cold. Let's go to the highlights... Tonight, pianist Ken Kehner, who teaches at UMSL and plays with bassist Jim Widner's big band, the Poor People of Paris and others, celebrates the release of his new CD ...

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Performance / Tour

Mercurial Songwriter Fran Landesman Back In Spotlight With Shepley Metcalf's Show

Mercurial Songwriter Fran Landesman Back In Spotlight With Shepley Metcalf's Show

Source: Shepley Metcalf

SHEPLEY METCALF RETURNS TO NEW YORK'S METROPOLITAN ROOM TO REPRISE “SOMETHING IRRESISTIBLE" BEGINNING MARCH 2 The Boston-based singer Shepley Metcalf who, last year, was the first American to record and perform a new trove of songs by the lyricist Fran Landesman, is bringing back her critically acclaimed Landesman tribute to the Metropolitan Room, 34 West 22nd Street, for an exclusive four-show engagement in March. “Something Irresistible," featuring songs by Landesman and the British jazz composer Simon Wallace, performs Wednesday March ...

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Shepley Metcalf Celebrates the Songs of Fran Landesman

Shepley Metcalf Celebrates the Songs of Fran Landesman

Source: Sue Auclair Promotions

SINGER SHEPLEY METCALF PRODUCES TRIBUTE TO JAZZ LYRICIST FRAN LANDESMAN WITH NEW CD

Something Irresistible: Songs of Fran Landesman + Simon Wallace

AND SCULLERS JAZZ CLUB SHOW

TUESDAY, MARCH 23 AT 8:00 PM

Boston, MA--If you are impressed by the haunting lyrics of the well-known tunes “Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most" or “Ballad of The Sad Young Men," then you should seek out this unique Scullers show celebrating the hippest of the hippest of all jazz lyricists, ...

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Performance / Tour

Jazz This Week: Les McCann and Javon Jackson, Fran Landesman, Cooper-Moore, TKT Memorial Scholarship Concert, and More

Jazz This Week: Les McCann and Javon Jackson, Fran Landesman, Cooper-Moore, TKT Memorial Scholarship Concert, and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman

There's lots going on in jazz and creative music this week in St. Louis, and so we bring you StLJN's weekly highlights post slightly earlier than usual to perhaps better help facilitate some advance planning.One of the week's major attractions is the team-up of pianist and singer Les McCann (pictured) and saxophonist Javon Jackson, who will perform Wednesday through Saturday at Jazz at the Bistro. Both men previously have led their own bands at the Bistro, but their ...

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Performance / Tour

Fran McIntyre: Lucky in Love CD Release Party @ Saint Peter's Church Sunday, March 25 7:30PM

Fran McIntyre: Lucky in Love CD Release Party @ Saint Peter's Church Sunday, March 25 7:30PM

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services

FRAN McINTYRE: LUCKY IN LOVE ECLECTIC NEW CD FROM A FRESH VOICE CD RELEASE PARTY @ SAINT PETER'S CHURCH MARCH 25 Vocalist/percussionist FRAN McINTYRE has culled a collection of tunes from the catalogs of the Great American Songbook, Duke Ellington, pop and r & b hits, Stevie Wonder, jazz and especially from her Gospel roots. She calls it “Lucky In Love" [CAP 1002, www.jazzbeat.com] CD Release Party: “Lucky in Love" will be celebrated in the Living ...

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Play

482 Music
2005

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Elenar

Effendi Records
2004

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Indefinite Time

Effendi Records
2003

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Music of Konitz

Effendi Records
2002

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