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I have been in a number of bands over the years. Ones worth mentioning: The Koboliz: 1991-1993 A thrash band that probably sounded too much like Forbidden for its own good but oh well. We recorded a 3 song demo tape that got a solid review in Metal Maniacs way back when. We played a lot in the north bay being based in Angwin near St. Helena. I also met Jake and Ari of StageSen during this time. Earlier this year I did some rehearsals and played a show with Outrage. At the moment I'm writing about drumming at and teaching kids. Unfortunately, they are based too far from me to be able give my all to. In Paradigm: 1994-1997 A modern electronic type band that I was in with a good friend for many years, Irish, and his brother Dustin. I played electronic drums with plastic pink cymbals (visulite) using the Alesis D4 for the brain. I still threw in double bass here and there without overplaying too badly. Some great fun in the band and it gave me time to focus getting a career together. We did shows in San Francisco and San Jose. Always a challenge to play along with a click and loops, samples, sequencers. By the end of the band I had decided to get back into acoustic drums and had purchased a then new 1997 Tama Rockstar. Total Eclipse: 1998-2002 An epic metal band capable of displacing the gravitational pull of Jupiter. The first day I jammed with the Sheldon brothers, Alex & Gill, we also saw Morbid Angel that night at the now defunct Maritime. Hall. We had epic 8 and 9-minute-long songs with a truckload of parts to remember. We recorded a demo in 1998 "Guardians of the Past" with the dino on the cover at Prairie Sun up in Cotati. Later in 2000 we would record the unreleased "Shaman lust" to shop around and eventually get signed by Limb in Austria. In 2001 we followed up with Diverse of Eden before the band called it a day. The band played countless shows at all the local dives in the IL Skokie. There is nothing like dragging a 9-piece double bass kit up the narrow stairs at Kimo's, or lugging them down the steps at the CoCo club. Mix in a bunch of Lucifer's. Hammer and Depot out in Concord. At this time the style of metal the band played was quite out of touch with the rest of the scene in the Bay Area, but we had a blast anyways.
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Markus Reuter & Stefano Castagna To Release New Collaborative Album 'Sea Of Hopeless Angels'
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Glass Onyon PR - William James
An unexpected concerto. The streets of Berlin. Nourishment and exhaustion. The celestial, moving among us. All of these things might describe (or, more accurately, permeate) Markus Reuter’s latest project—a spontaneous collaboration with Stefano Castagna. From a strictly Reuterian perspective, Sea of Hopeless Angels could be seen as a reaction to Markus’ furious and abrasive work with the free-rock improvisation quartet Anchor & Burden, one of his central priorities during 2022. At the same time, it stems directly from that project ...
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New Symphonic Jazz By Jakob Buchanan, Featuring Aarhus Jazz Orchestra, Marilyn Mazur And Chopenhagen Royal Chapel Boys Choir with Conductor Carsten Seyer-Hansen
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Lars Hannibal
Ever since it quietly emerged on the international scene in the late ‘60s, Scandinavian jazz carved out for itself a distinctive niche. Drawing on the influence of Miles Davis and Gil Evans, Scandinavian jazz embraced a free, spacious, experimental, and contemplative aesthetic. It has also been open to modern or contemporary classical music and collaborations with European folk and ethnic-musicians. This is not OUR Recordings first journey into Scandinavian Jazz; the critically acclaimed album Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart, ...
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Backgrounder: Elmo Hope - Complete Trios
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Pianist Elmo Hope's centenary was on June 27. To celebrate the bebop pianist and composer, here are five hours of Hope's trio recordings between 1953 and 1966. Before I serve up the music, here are the tracks and trios and their respective times on the Backgrounder: New Faces—-New Sounds (1953), with Elmo Hope (p), Percy Heath (b) and Philly Joe Jones (d). 0:00:02 Happy Hour 0:02:54 Freffie 0:05:59 Carvin' the Rock 0:08:52 Hot Sauce 0:12:45 Mo Is On 0:15:33 Stars ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Elmo Hope
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Elmo Hope's birthday today!
This profile was inspired by an exceptional article here on All About Jazz by Derek Taylor called “St. Elmo’s Fire” where he focuses and expands on Elmo Hope’s music and recordings.St. Elmo Sylvester Hope was born in New York on June 27, 1923, began piano studies by age seven and went on to win prizes for his piano recitals. He was a childhood friend of Bud Powell, and Thelonious Monk and ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Elmo Hope
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Elmo Hope's birthday today!
This profile was inspired by an exceptional article here on All About Jazz by Derek Taylor called “St. Elmo’s Fire” where he focuses and expands on Elmo Hope’s music and recordings.St. Elmo Sylvester Hope was born in New York on June 27, 1923, began piano studies by age seven and went on to win prizes for his piano recitals. He was a childhood friend of Bud Powell, and Thelonious Monk and ...
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Pianist Yaniv Taubenhouse's New Solo Piano Album 'Hope' Release Concert at Revelation Gallery
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
Yaniv Taubenhouse solo piano release concert for Hope on March 6th 2022 at 3pm (ET) Revelation Gallery 224 Waverly Place New York, NY 10014 In-Person Tickets | Streaming Tickets Taubenhouse decided to follow up his latest trio recording with a format which enables him to tell you his story as an artist, as a pianist, as a person in this world, intimately, and from his heart. Hope, recorded ...
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The Title Track From Yaniv Taubenhouse's Upcoming Solo Piano Album 'hope' Is Out Now!
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
Pianist/Composer Yaniv Taubenhouse Announces the Release of Solo Piano Recording – Hope Available on Fresh Sound New Talent – February 18, 2022 Extraordinary times often produces extraordinary art. In the case of pianist Yaniv Taubenhouse, his new solo piano recording, Hope, was created during the onset of the global pandemic, in February 2020, against a backdrop of news about the virus spreading, coupled with anxiety and fear of the unknown, but also a survival instinct laced with hope. ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Elmo Hope
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Elmo Hope's birthday today!
This profile was inspired by an exceptional article here on All About Jazz by Derek Taylor called “St. Elmo’s Fire” where he focuses and expands on Elmo Hope’s music and recordings.St. Elmo Sylvester Hope was born in New York on June 27, 1923, began piano studies by age seven and went on to win prizes for his piano recitals. He was a childhood friend of Bud Powell, and Thelonious Monk and ...
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Glimmers of hope, turning a corner
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
This 2021 edition of Jazz Appreciation Month underscored the notion that we can’t take the music or its makers for granted. Especially after the past year: clubs shuttered temporarily or permanently, or forced to present music to their supporters virtually via webcasts because of limited or no live audiences. Musicians without steady gigs or, in some cases, any gigs for over a year. Or others performing from their living rooms, stoops, driveways and public parks to keep their chops—and sanity—hoping ...
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Elmo Hope and Joe Morris
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Bebop's fast tempo and complex rhythms were embraced by modern-jazz fans when the jazz style emerged in the mid-1940s. But bop also provided jump blues with an opening. Bebop was spectacular and electrifying, but it wasn't for dancing. It was mostly for sitting and listening. As a result, the big-beat, horn-driven dance music made major inroads in Black neighborhoods and in the record market. By 1949, R&B was so popular that Billboard started an official R&B chart. Hundreds of R&B ...
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