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Outhere Music acquires HatHut Records
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All About Jazz
Outhere Music is proud to announce the acquisition of the catalogue of the legendary Swiss jazz and contemporary music label HatHut Records. HatHut Records boasts an impressive number of more than 500 CD’s and LP’s, produced by its visionary founder, Werner X. Uehlinger over 40 years. Major composers such as John Cage, Morton Feldman, Giacinto Scelsi, Galina Ustvolskaya and interpreters like Paul Bley, Anthony Braxton, Ellery Eskelin, Steve Lacy, Joe McPhee, Cecil Taylor or the Sun Ra Arkestra have put ...
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Jazz this week: Peter Martin, Bobby Watson & Angela Hagenbach, Rhys Chatham, and more
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week's lineup of jazz and creative music performances in St. Louis includes a rare nightclub appearance by a favorite hometown pianist, several noteworthy touring performers, and a rather eclectic selection of tribute shows. Let's go to the highlights.... Wednesday, May 18 Pianist Peter Martin will lead his trio for the first of two nights at Jazz at the Bistro, the first time he's played the room since it was expanded and renovated in 2014. Martin will be joined by ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: The music of Rhys Chatham
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Today, let's look at some videos featuring the music of Rhys Chatham, who's coming to St. Louis to perform a solo show on Sunday, May 22 at The Luminary. Chatham, who's 63 years old, is a composer, guitarist, and multi-instrumentalist who's been a notable figure in American avant-garde and minimalist music for nearly five decades. Living in France since 1987, he tours only occasionally in the United States, lending his gig here next week an additional sense of importance. A ...
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Shout! Factory to Reissue Two Acclaimed Donny Hathaway Live Albums July 17
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Chris M. Slawecki
Shout! Factory has announced plans to celebrate renowned soul artist Donny Hathaway with a new 2-Disc reissue titled Donny Hathaway Live + In Performance, to be released on July 17. The set features 2 albums of live material produced by Jerry Wexler & Arif Mardin, including the critically acclaimed Donny Hathaway Live album on Disc 1, and Donny Hathaway In Performance on Disc 2. A dedication written for Donny Hathaway Live + In Performance has been provided by Hathaway’s daughter, ...
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From the Stacks 2011, Vol. 3: Michel Reis, Pitom, Rhys Chatham, Ken Peplowski, Others
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Something Else!
by S. Victor Aaron Rhys Chatham: The Man With The Horns. Many, many horns. It might be only the third Stacks so far this year, but it's a much overdue one. There's a whopping seven 2011 releases discussed here, with several other worthy ones being pushed back to a later fourth installment. Two of these albums are by veteran acts, but the remaining five capture five budding talents at or near the beginning of their recording careers as leaders. Some ...
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Interview | Rhys Chatham
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Ars Nova Workshop
Rhys Chatham has played trumpet since the early-1980s but it’s still appropriate to recognize his new Brass Trio as a significant sea change. Known for organizing terrifyingly large ensembles with up to 400 guitarists, the pioneering composer who has found a common thread running through punk fury, minimalism, and avant-garde jazz displayed the strongest trumpet work of his career on last year’s stunning record The Berne Project. On February 13, Ars Nova Workshop presents the Philadelphia debut of the Rhys ...
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Kirk Whalum's Donny Hathaway Tribute out Now: Everything is Everything
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Giant Step
Donny Hathaway would have been 65 years old on October 1, 2010. Tenor saxophonist Kirk Whalum's work has similarly crossed the boundaries between R&B, gospel and jazz with an emotional immediacy that is beyond compare. Kirk's new release, Everything Is Everything: The Music of Donny Hathaway brilliantly exhibits 8-time Grammy nominee Kirk's singular interpretive skills. Highlights include “You Had To Know," featuring a heartfelt performance by Donny's daughter, Lalah Hathaway, and Musiq Soulchild's retro take on “We're Still Friends."
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Anne Hathaway to Play Judy Garland on Broadway - Film
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All About Jazz
Anne Hathaway will go over the rainbow for the Weinstein Co. The Oscar-nominated actress is set to play Judy Garland in both film and stage adaptations of Gerald Clarkes 2000 biography, Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland.
The project, which has not yet signed a writer or director, will be based on Gerald Clarke's biography of the same name, which TWC recently optioned. Clarke draws on numerous real-life sources to tell the life story of Garland, who began singing ...
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New Releases from HatHut: Prognostication / We Concentrate
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All About Jazz
Prognostication Noriko Hisada (hat(now)ART 163 - 1963) Performed by Ensemble Fuer Neue Musik Zuerich
“I'm Japanese and write music the same way other people do!" she disarmingly remarks as we talk about any possible connections to the Japanese music tradition... Noriko Hisada does not let herself be pinned down as to whether or not Japanese tradition clashes with the Western dominance of the music establishment. Only the first impression of her music sounds like Western European New Music ...
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Lalah Hathaway and Miguel Zenon, Berklee Performance Center/BeanTown Jazz Festival
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All About Jazz
BOSTON, July 26, 2005 -- Berklee College of Music and the BeanTown Jazz Festival - both of which create accessibility to great jazz for Boston audiences– are partnering to present the opening concert for the fifth-annual BeanTown Jazz Festival, September 23 – 24. On Friday, September 23, Berklee and BeanTown are bringing jazz and R&B vocalist Lalah Hathaway to the Berklee Performance Center for a special pre-festival concert. On Saturday, September 24, the pair brings alto saxophonist Miguel Zenon, with ...
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