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NYC Drummer Graham Doby 'Weathered Crown' New Release! Straight-Ahead To Funk!
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Graham Doby is a NYC-based drummer and composer. His sound has been described as “tremendously agile," with poly-rhythmic jazz fluidity grounded in funk and rock four-on-the-floor groove sensibility. Doby has shared the stage with The Impressions, George Clinton, Trombone Shorty, Thank You Scientist, and Antibalas. A drummer for over 20 years, Doby has cultivated his own diverse creative community that shares resources and networks in addition to talents and styles. Doby's new album Weathered Crown features a changing cast of ...
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Mosaics: The Life and Works of Graham Collier by Duncan Heining from Equinox Publishing
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All About Jazz
Mosaics is the first biography of bassist, band-leader, composer, educator and author Graham Collier. Duncan Heining draws extensively on Collier’s personal archive, as well as on interviews with fellow musicians, ex-students and colleagues from the Royal Academy of Music. It locates Collier and his work within the social and cultural changes which occurred during his life and, particularly, in relation to developments in British and European jazz of the 1960s and '70s. Collier’s work as a composer-bandleader represented an attempt ...
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Rock Impresario Bill Graham’s Sons Renew Estate, Memorabilia Fight
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HypeBot
Legendary concert promoter and music empresario Bill Graham died in 1991, but his sons are still locked in a bitter legal fight with the executor of his estate over his rock memorabilia, including hundreds of concert posters and scrapbooks. “Our clients have witnessed nearly a decade of litigation and it’s been hard. They found out a person they really trusted, their fiduciary, utterly betrayed their trust and arranged to sell things that had belonged to their dad,” attorney Therese Cannata ...
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Indie Empresario Graham Stairs On The Music Industry, Great Songs And Staring A New Record Label
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HypeBot
Here Odario Williams speaks with Graham Stairs about his new digital label imprint known as the Confidence Emperors, what it's place is in the industry, and what he looks for in a song. By Odario Williams Graham Stairs got his start in the business with Intrepid Records where, as their A&R rep, he was responsible for such seminal Canadian artists as National Velvet, Martha and the Muffins and Rheostatics. In addition, Stairs was behind the Bruce Cockburn tribute album that ...
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Neneh Cherry, Larry Graham, Rebecca Ferguson And Lisa Stansfield Added To Line-up For Love Supreme Festival
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Dom Christophers
The Love Supreme Festival, which returns to Glynde Place in East Sussex this July, has announced a second raft of names, which includes a broad selection of superstar international acts and outstanding emerging talent from the worlds of jazz, soul, R&B, pop and beyond. Joining an adventurous line-up, that already features the likes of Chaka Khan, Van Morrison, Candi Staton, Submotion Orchestra, The Bad Plus with Joshua Redman, GoGo Penguin and Ginger Baker, are chart-topping UK soul singer Lisa Stansfield, ...
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Interview: Graham Nash
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
At 11 a.m. on Labor Day, the front door of Graham Nash's anonymous house on an unassuming street in a beach community near the Los Angeles airport was wide open. From the outside, the house looked like a cottage out of a nursery rhyme—the kind where three bears eat porridge or the grandmother of a red-caped girl lives. Just as I was about to knock, I saw Graham through two rooms sitting at his kitchen table in front of his ...
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Jon Dee Graham's "Garage Sale" Started as Gift
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conqueroo
Gift becomes emotionally compelling disc due June 28 AUSTIN, Texas — Forget the spring-cleaning metaphors. Though Jon Dee Graham chose Garage Sale as the title of his June 28 release on Freedom Records, the 11 songs it contains are anything but cast-offs. It's just that, unlike the tracks on his seven previous solo releases, they weren't carefully written in advance, clustered around a theme, then recorded at breakneck speed. In fact, Graham confesses, this time around, he initially had no ...
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Jon Dee Graham, Freedy Johnston and Susan Cowsill Are the Hobart Brothers and Lil Sis Hobart
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conqueroo
Itinerant singer-songwriters unite to record album, At Least We Have Each Other, due for late February 28 release AUSTIN, Texas—Jon Dee Graham, Freedy Johnston and Susan Cowsill, united as the Hobart Brothers & Lil' Sis Hobart, will release their long-threatened debut album, At Least We Have Each Other, on Freedom Records in CD, LP and digital download formats, with a street date of February 28, 2012. A limited tour is planned for spring. The ten-song LP/CD/download release comprises seven songs ...
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Graham Collier, 1937-2011
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All About Jazz
Written by Duncan Heining Composer, bassist and bandleader Graham Collier left town on Friday, September 9,, 2011. He was holidaying with his partner, John, in Crete, when a sudden heart failure took his final breath. It was quick, relatively painless but unexpected. We all felt sure Graham had too much sparkle, too much music in him to go so soon. His career, indeed his life, was shaped by music. Collier grew up in Luton, Bedfordshire—reason enough to leave home at ...
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Graham Collier, 1937-2011
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
raham Collier died last night at home in Greece. A British composer, author and bandleader on the forward edge of modern music, Collier was 74. Early reports are that he succumbed suddenly to a massive heart attack or stroke. From the announcement by Birmingham Jazz: Graham Collier had a major influence on British jazz, being one of the first contemporary jazz composers to write extended works for a large ensemble, and one of the first jazz people to receive commissions ...
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Graham
Location: London
Instrument: Clarinet, bass
Born: August 15, 1970
Publicist: Cheryl Hughey Promotions
