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Mark Watkins Enhances His Celebrated Saxophone Quartet With 'Four + Six,' To Be Released March 29 On Jazz Hang Records
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Mark Watkins envelops his long-running saxophone quartet in lush, billowing textures on FOUR + Six, the band’s deliriously tuneful sixth album, set for a March 29 release on Jazz Hang Records. Watkins augments the core quartet of himself (soprano and tenor saxophones), Sandon Mayhew (tenor sax), Ray Smith (alto sax), and Jon Gudmundson (baritone sax) with Corey Christiansen (guitar); a three-piece rhythm section of Justin Nielsen (piano), Braun Khan (bass), and Kobie Watkins (no relation, drums); and the esteemed Gardner ...
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Jazz to hang your hat on
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
Judi and Alex Glover worked the cruise ships and the casinos in Las Vegas and Atlantic City for more than two decades. Eighteen months ago, without any job prospects lined up here, they decided to take a gamble on Florida. They haven't looked back. For most of those years up north, Alex was in the spotlight as vocalist and leader of Alex Glover & Company, which ranged from small groups to larger ensembles and even a big band. His wife ...
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Pink Martini - Hang on Little Tomato (2004)
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Something Else!
What with all of the bits of nasty weather, work deadlines, etc ... a person can get just plain frazzled. So what's needed on the drive to work is some romantic and swanky musings. Pink Martini definitely fits the bill. The suave Oregon-based collective bravely mixes together influences from many, many genres to produce something completely unique. I can't even give it a label. In fact, let's not even try. Just consider this giant array of instruments: trumpet, trombone, violin, ...
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Jazz Hang: Tangabrazo. Wow!
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Seattle Jazz Scene
By Katy Bourne
As a writer, it is sometimes very difficult to capture the riveting loveliness of an experience and translate it into mere words. This is the dilemma that I am confronted with now as I attempt to write about a very enchanting band that I had the pleasure of hearing last night at Bake's Place. I am talking about Ben Thomas and his magical group Tangabrazo.
As the name suggests, Tangabrazo plays tango music or, more specifically, the ...
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BID on Culture Annnounces Artists/Unveils New Banners to Hang Throughout Harlem
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Carolyn McClair Public Relations
BID ON CULTURE 2011 Project Unveils New Banner Designs Selected in Third Annual Banner Competition HARLEM, NY—There is always something exciting to see on the streets of Harlem, but few sights are more magnificent than the 36 new banners that are now flying on streetlight poles along the world-renowned 125th Street corridor. Today at the Dwyer Cultural Center, the BID ON CULTURE 2011 project, in conjunction with its celebration of Black Music Month, unveiled the six winning designs that were ...
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The Loss of the Targeted Hang
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Brilliant Corners, a Boston Jazz Blog
My last post bemoaned the disappearance of local places to buy horns. Another aspect of moving instrumental sales online was the demise of places where you could do what you might call a “targeted hang." That is, a place where musicians could indulge themselves with some serious checking in and screwing off, while convincing themselves they were actually getting something done-fixing a dicty spit valve, re-corking a pad, getting a dent banged out, or looking at horns you couldn't afford. ...
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Hang in There. Music 2.0 is Just Getting Started...
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HypeBot
A Wine Guy Teaches Personal Branding Using 80's Hip Hop Stars
This video from web 2.0 maven Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV is a mini-lecture on both the time required to create a personal (or artist's) brand and the signs that we are all only at the very beginning of a huge upward opportunity curve. It's aimed mostly at tech start ups and bloggers. But, in part because of his use of mid-80's hip hop stars as examples, as ...
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The Jazz Hang: Sandy Cressman and Homage to Brazil
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Seattle Jazz Scene
Sandy Cressman is a San Francisco jazz vocalist, who has devoted the majority of her career to the study and performance of Brazilian music. This Saturday, Sandy will be appearing at along with the Jovino Santos Neto Trio and together they will perform her Homage to Brazil- a musical journey through the world of Brazilian jazz at Bakes Place. Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of interviewing Sandy about her career and about Brazilian music. She was warm and ...
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The Jazz Hang: Local Color - Art, Jazz and Big Fun
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Seattle Jazz Scene
There is some seriously fun hang happening right in the belly of the Pike Place Market: Local Color Gallery. This spunky spot is a working art studio, coffee shop, wine bar and live jazz venue all rolled into one. Anyone looking for a great place to listen to jazz should definitely check this out. Local Color sits on the corner of Pike Place and Stewart Street. I recently went down to check out their “Jazz in the Market” series, which ...
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The Jazz Hang: 2009 - The Year of Live Music
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Seattle Jazz Scene
Well, here it is the New Year again. It seems I should have some inspiring personal missive or perhaps a bold, optimistic profundity to share. But the truth is people: I got nothing. Oh sure, I’m plenty excited for the January 20th inauguration. Even though the election was back in November, I still grapple to find the words to express how it feels to be alive during such an unprecedented moment in history. Trust me, it’s big stuff for me...for ...
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