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Bruce Hornsby: Non-Secure Connection
by Geno Thackara
It's hard to imagine Bruce Hornsby's listeners being fazed much by anything he does anymore. Harmonic layers of semi-processed voice drones in an ambient haze? Classy strings crossed with jarringly angular piano and over-jokey lyrics about internet girls? After a career that's touched on jazz and bluegrass as prominently as folk and classical, his familiar crowd knows how to take it all in stride. He could attempt perhaps the most smoove-jiving half-sincere-half-parody R&B pastiche ever, and hardly anyone would bat ...
Continue ReadingJazz Musician of the Day: Django Bates
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Django Bates' birthday today!
Django was born in a house near New Beckenham Station. A ropy, semitone flat D'Almaine Piano was the most fascinating toy in the house. He found the clatter of railway workers working throughout the night comforting, but had reoccurring nightmares about a Hippopotamus head slowly moving from one side of the ceiling to the other, and of having fluttering moths stuck between his toes. When he was three and a half, ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Django Bates
Source:
Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Django Bates' birthday today!
Django was born in a house near New Beckenham Station. A ropy, semitone flat D'Almaine Piano was the most fascinating toy in the house. He found the clatter of railway workers working throughout the night comforting, but had reoccurring nightmares about a Hippopotamus head slowly moving from one side of the ceiling to the other, and of having fluttering moths stuck between his toes. When he was three and a half, ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Django Bates
Source:
Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Django Bates' birthday today!
Django was born in a house near New Beckenham Station. A ropy, semitone flat D'Almaine Piano was the most fascinating toy in the house. He found the clatter of railway workers working throughout the night comforting, but had reoccurring nightmares about a Hippopotamus head slowly moving from one side of the ceiling to the other, and of having fluttering moths stuck between his toes. When he was three and a half, ...
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Live Bates! Bassist Leads His Band Through "Open Sessions"
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
Last week, Chris Bates sent out his usual update. But this time, the listing was not so usual. In addition to the gigs in which he plays a critical sideman role, Chris invited us to one of his first forays into bandleading, and not just on a gig. We were invited to a ringside seat of the creative act itself, observing his quintet's first encounter with new music during public rehearsals at Jazz Central. “Attendees will be witness to the ...
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Emotive Explosions in Blastin' Sounds! Harry Bates Releases Incendiary, Intuitive and Eclectic Tracks
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Creativity in Music
CINCINNATI, OHIO — The Supreme Sounds From Blastin' Sounds is the upcoming release from Cincinnati native Harry Bates. It is due out early in 2012. Also known as Blastin Sounds, Harry is releasing several tracks early — with good reason he explains, “I want to enlighten as many people as I can to the fact that they have the ability to change the world." His tracks are filled with emotive explosions in Blastin' Sounds. As both a songwriter and performer, ...
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Loose Tubes' Django Bates and Mark Lockheart Interiewed at All About Jazz
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All About Jazz
Twenty years after legendary British big band Loose Tubes played its farewell gigs at Ronnie Scott's Club in London, its first live album, Dancing On Frith Street (Lost Marble Records, 2010), became Jazzwise magazine's Archive Album of 2010. In the intervening decades, the band's members had spread across the British and international jazz scenes to become some of the most influential players around. The quality and power of the music on the album served as a welcome reminder of the ...
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Contrabassist/Composer Michael Bates on Tour in Support of "Clockwise" on Greenleaf Music
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
Dave Douglas' Greenleaf Music Announces The Release of Clockwise from contrabassist/composer MICHAEL BATES Available September 9, 2008 on Greenleaf Music “There's something about bassists who lead their own groups and write their own music that strikes a deep chord with me (no pun, intended). Michael Bates's new release is right up there with new releases by Drew Gress and William Parker. The playing by all in the band is passionate and Bates' pulse propels Nachoff, Johnson and Davis through a ...
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Dave Douglas' Greenleaf Music Announces the Release of "Clockwise" from Contrabassist/Composer Michael Bates
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
Available on September 9, 2008 on Greenleaf Music “There's something about bassists who lead their own groups and write their own music that strikes a deep chord with me (no pun, intended). Michael Bates's new release is right up there with new releases by Drew Gress and William Parker. The playing by all in the band is passionate and Bates' pulse propels Nachoff, Johnson and Davis through a set of fantastic music. These guys take no prisoners. One of the ...
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Pianist/Composer Django Bates Interviewed at AAJ
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All About Jazz
July, 2008: It's been 13 years since British keyboard player and composer Django Bates released the third album in his “four seasons" series, Winter Truce (And Homes Blaze) (Winter & Winter, 1995). That album followed close behind Autumn Fire (And Green Shoots) (Winter & Winter, 1994) and Summer Fruits (And Unrest) (Winter & Winter, 1993).
It has long been Bates's intention to complete the series with a spring-themed album, and in June, 2008 he finally did so with Spring Is ...
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Before NEC Residency, Django Bates Writes Own Biography
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All About Jazz
In Anticipation of His New England Conservatory Residency, December 7 - 8, Django Bates Has Supplied His Own Biography.
Django was born in a house near New Beckenham Station. A ropy, semitone flat D'Almaine Piano was the most fascinating toy in the house. He found the clatter of railway workers working throughout the night comforting, but had recurring nightmares about a Hippopotamus head slowly moving from one side of the ceiling to the other, and of having fluttering moths stuck ...
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