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From January 11th through the 14th at Smalls in Greenwich Village, NYC the group will present their first annual festival to officially launch The Brooklyn Jazz Underground, featuring all ten members leading their own ensembles in performances of original music. The Underground's first annual compilation CD will also be issued at this time. Other ambitions of the collective include becoming a charitable organization (plans are in the works to contribute to funds to benefit public school music programs), and to present a weekly residency in a NYC club featuring members' bands.
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Brooklyn Jazz Underground: Seven by Seven
by Alberto Bazzurro
Settetto molto compatto, solido, il Brooklyn Jazz Underground pratica un jazz non particolarmente avventuroso ma comunque ben congegnato e condotto, col ruolo-guida che passa dalla voce (persino iperpresente nella prima parte dell'album) alla tromba, al sax tenore. Ci sono delle ripetizioni e un asservimento al canto a volte persino eccessivo, quasi supino, tuttavia il lavoro prende corpo via via, e la sua notevole coesione, la coerenza intestina pur con qualche carenza di dinamiche, di dialettica tra i ruoli, finisce per ...
Continue ReadingBrooklyn Jazz Underground: Revolution on the F Train
by J Hunter
Some of 2009's jazz is being made far from Manhattan Island, home to a number of the genre's biggest labels. However, the revolution is also happening on the other side of the East River, where the artist collective Brooklyn Jazz Underground is making its own breaks and its own discs. BJU just released their second brace of CDs, and there's no sophomore slump to be heard anywhere.
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Continue ReadingBrooklyn Jazz Underground: Puzzles & Best of the West and Many Places
by Donald Elfman
Alexis Cuadrado Puzzles BJU Records 2007 Anne Mette Iversen Best of the West + Many Places BJU Records 2007
Brooklyn continues to be a beautifully complementary alternative to the New York scene. The music that comes out of this borough is bold and audacious yet also eminently listenable and highly engaging. ...
Continue ReadingBrooklyn Jazz Underground: Brooklyn Jazz Underground: Volume 1
by Jon Ross
The second track on Brooklyn Jazz Underground: Volume 1, a compilation from Brooklyn's collective of independent musicians, is a shock. Sandwiched between the winding melody of bassist Alexis Cuadrado's “El Gran Profeta" and the addictive creativity of trombonist Alan Ferber's “Filin"--both tracks steeped in a contemporary jazz sound--"Jim White" seems out of place. At first listen, the chorale composed by trumpeter Shane Endsley seems antithetical to the Underground's aesthetic. The CD starts with heads and solos entrenched in bebop and ...
Continue ReadingAlexis Cuadrado: A Jazz Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by AAJ Staff
By Alexis CuadradoIt had been too many conversations; after gigs, on the subway, in airplanes, at the park. Always about similar subjects: Our struggles as bandleaders; how we set up a tour and it drained all of our energies; how we would have loved to have advance warning about that lousy club owner in France; how it would be so cool to figure out a way to open more doors for our own creative projects; how we really ...
Continue ReadingThe Neal Kirkwood Big Band's 'Night City' Available February 23, 2024 On Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
Available February 23, 2024 on Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records Featuring: Matt Hong (alto sax, soprano sax, flute, piccolo), Bruce Williamson (alto sax, clarinet), Dan Block (tenor sax, clarinet, bass clarinet on “Night City”), Adam Kolker (tenor sax, flute, alto flute), Patience Higgins (baritone sax, bass clarinet, oboe)/Andy Gravish, Ron Horton, David Smith, James Zollar (trumpet)/Willie Applewhite, Art Baron, Nick Grinder, Ed Neumeister, James Rogers (trombone)/Neal Kirkwood (piano, conductor, compositions), Rob Garcia (drums), Jennifer Vincent (bass), Diana Herold (vibraphone and marimba), ...
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Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records Proudly Releases "Spirit Forward" From Bassist/Composer Michael Blanco - Available October 7
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
NYC CD Release Celebration: October 9 at The Cornelia Street Cafe, sets at 8:30 & 10 PM Michael Blanco Quartet: John Ellis: tenor saxophone; Lage Lund: guitar; Clarence Penn: Drums; Michael Blanco: bass/compositions. “Michael Blanco is a resourceful young bassist with two albums to his name, and a reputation confirmed by the caliber of his partners."—Nate Chinen, The New York Times The story of bassist/composer Michael Blanco's third album as a leader, Spirit Forward, available on Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records ...
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Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records Proudly Releases "Of Water And Ghosts" From Bassist/Composer Daniel Foose, CD Release Celebration - Rockwood Music Hall On November 22
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
Available October 7, 2016 CD Release Celebration at Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 3 November 22, 2016, 8:30 PM ($10, 2 drink minimum) Featuring Sebastian Noelle: guitar; Tomoko Omura: violin; Maria Im: violin; Allyson Clare: viola; Jennifer Devore: cello; Keita Ogawa: percussion; Daniel Foose: bass. In 2015 bassist/composer Daniel Foose returned to his ancestral home of the Mississippi Delta to write an album of music at the crossroads of history, race, and the natural world. Joining Foose ...
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Brooklyn Jazz Underground Presents The 10th Annual BJU Festival @ Smalls & Shapeshifter Lab!
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
BROOKLYN JAZZ UNDERGROUND Presents The 10th Annual Brooklyn Jazz Underground Festival @ Smalls & Shapeshifter on August 17 & 18! The Brooklyn Jazz Underground is an association of independent artists with a shared commitment to creativity and community. Through cooperative efforts, the BJU aims to build a greater awareness of original music emerging from Brooklyn, NY. January, 2007 saw the birth of The Brooklyn Jazz Underground, a collective conceived in the spirit of an entrepreneurial, do-it- ...
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Brooklyn Jazz Underground & Connection Works present Underground Works - May 2011 - The Release of the BJU CD Sampler Volume 5!
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
BROOKLYN JAZZ UNDERGROUND & CONNECTION WORKS present UNDERGROUND WORKS May 2011 @ Sycamore Curated by the Brooklyn Jazz Underground
Two artist-run jazz organizations based in Brooklyn, the Brooklyn Jazz Underground and Connection Works, co-produce a weekly jazz series called UNDERGROUND WORKS. Performances take place every Sunday evening at Sycamore in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. The series is generally curated by a different individual member each month, however, in celebration of ...
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The Brooklyn Jazz Underground Announces the 4th Annual BJU Festival @ The Cornelia Street Cafe - March 5, 6 and 7
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
THE BROOKLYN JAZZ UNDERGROUND ANNOUNCES THE 4th ANNUAL BJU FESTIVAL @ THE CORNELIA STREET CAFE - MARCH 5, 6 & 7 The Cornelia Street Cafe is located at 29 Cornelia Street, NYC, Tel 212 989 9319, corneliastreetcafe.com THE BROOKLYN JAZZ UNDERGROUND SAMPLER, VOL. 4 Available NOW at brooklynjazz.bandcamp.com THE 4th ANNUAL BROOKLYN JAZZ UNDERGROUND FESTIVAL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: Friday, March 5 9 PM: Dave Smith Quartet w/ Nate Radley (guitar), Gary Wang (bass), drums and saxophone TBA 10:30 ...
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The 3rd Annual Brooklyn Jazz Underground Festival @ Smalls – January 9, 10 & 11
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
THE 3rd ANNUAL BROOKLYN JAZZ UNDERGROUND FESTIVAL @ SMALLS – JANUARY 9, 10 & 11 Smalls is located at 183 West 10th Street, at 7th Avenue South THE BROOKLYN JAZZ UNDERGROUND SAMPLER, VOL. 3 Available On Opening Night of The Festival! “...these renegade BJU bands are comprised of intelligent composers, open-minded arrangers and free-spirited improvisers. They all deserve to be heard.” – JazzTimes Friday, January 9 8:00 PM: TANYA KALMANOVITCH – Tanya Kalmanovitch (violin & viola), Douglas Yates ...
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The Brooklyn Jazz Underground's Monday Night Residency at Park Slope's Tea Lounge Continues!
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
The Brooklyn Jazz Underground Monday Night Music & Movies @ Tea Lounge June 2008: The Tea Lounge is located at 837 Union Street, Brooklyn NY 11215 (between 6th and 7th Avenues). Music begins at 8:30 PM. Movies begin at 10:30 PM. A suggested donation is in effect. June 2: A Shane Endsley Configuration June 9: The Sunny Jain Collective, Sunny Jain (drums); Rez Abbasi (guitar); Steve Welsh (tenor sax/effects); Gary Wang (bass) June 16: Benny Lackner, Benny Lackner (keyboards), Derek ...
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The Launch of Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
Members of the Brooklyn Jazz Underground CELEBRATE The Launch of BROOKLYN JAZZ UNDERGROUND RECORDS All About Jazz Profiles Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records BJURecords Artists' CD Release Celebrations/Performances: Friday, May 23 @ The Jazz Gallery: ALEXIS CUADRADO PUZZLES QUARTET - CD Release Celebration for Puzzles Alexis Cuadrado (bass), Loren Stillman (alto sax), Brad Shepik (guitar), Mark Ferber (drums) Saturday, May 24 @ The Jazz Gallery: ANNE METTE IVERSEN QUARTET Anne Mette Iversen (bass), John ...
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Members of the the Brooklyn Jazz Underground Announce the Launch of Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
BJURecords Kicks Off This Spring With Its First Three Releases From Alexis Cuadrado, Anne Mette Iversen and Bernard Emer Lackner Ferber - Available on April 22 “Consider this the opening shot in the latest revolution to hit New York's improv scene." -- Time Out New York “Think of it as a mix-tape, a calling card from artists who operate in a small world but like to think big." -- JazzTimes (on the BJU Compilation, Vol. 1) “Brooklyn jazz is happening ...
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