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Elysium Furnace Works' 2024 Season Begins With Joe McPhee With Strings On March 16, 8 PM In Poughkeepsie, NY

Elysium Furnace Works' 2024 Season Begins With Joe McPhee With Strings On March 16, 8 PM In Poughkeepsie, NY

Source: James Keepnews

Elysium Furnace Works is BACK in 2024 with our most exciting season yet! Uncompromising, boundary-pushing artistry is what EFW is all about and that's exactly what we have in store for you, all year long. All concerts will take place at the lovely 19th c. VBI Theatre, part of the Hudson Valley's outstanding Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center — the theatre is located at 12 Vassar St. in Poughkeepsie, NY. Elysium Furnace Works is thrilled and honored to kick off its 2024 ...

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Vincent Ding Assembles All-Star Big Band & Strings For A Scintillating Debut

Vincent Ding Assembles All-Star Big Band & Strings For A Scintillating Debut

Source: Outside in Music

Vincent Ding is a bright new flame in the world of vocal jazz. Refreshingly steeped in the traditions of icons like Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole, Ding blends this rich lineage with a depth of autobiographical authenticity from his Taiwanese-American roots to create music that is both thoughtful and powerfully rooted in hard-driving swing. Backed by an all-star big band and an equally fierce string section and produced by acclaimed vocalist Sirintip, Ding presents a musical debut that is ...

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Juilliard Faculty Lukas Gabric Releases New Album "Labor Of Love - With Strings" - Available Now

Juilliard Faculty Lukas Gabric Releases New Album "Labor Of Love - With Strings" - Available Now

Source: Lukas Gabric

Saxophonist and Juilliard Faculty Lukas Gabric announces the release of his new album Labor of Love: Lukas Gabric with Strings on Alessa Records. Liner Notes for Labor of Love When Lukas Gabric asked me to write a bit about this excellent new recording, I knew it would be a pleasure to sit and listen to his playing before I had heard a note. I’ve known Lukas for more than a handful of years at this point, and have had the ...

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Helen Merrill With Strings

Helen Merrill With Strings

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

Between 1954 and 1957, singer Helen Merrill recorded five albums for Mercury's EmArcy division. Yesterday, while writing, I spent the day listening to all of them as well as a bunch of assorted tracks she recorded for the label. Perhaps the best known album of the bunch is Helen Merrill, which she made in December 1954 accompanied by the Clifford Brown Sextet. The second most popular EmArcy album is probably Dream of You, arranged by Gil Evans and recorded between ...

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R.I.P. Six Strings: Is The Death Of The Electric Guitar Near?

R.I.P. Six Strings: Is The Death Of The Electric Guitar Near?

Source: HypeBot

Fred Jacobs surveys market trends of the past several years, many of which (including the bankruptcy of Gibson) point to the dwindling popularity of that most iconic of instruments, the electric guitar. Guest post by Fred Jacobs of Jacobs Media Strategies Disruption impacts virtually every business and platform – including the guitar. Over the past couple of years, a possible trend signaling the decreasing influence of the electric guitar appears to be emerging.  The trend toward electronic music, Gibson Guitars recently ...

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Many Birds With Strings

Many Birds With Strings

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

I love Charlie Parker With Strings. It's such pretty, soulful music from one of the first jazz artists to cross over to the American songbook with an easy listening twist. And I know many readers share my passion for Bird with strings. First, let's listen to an example so those who aren't familiar have a sense... Yesterday, I went on YouTube and looked around for tributes to the Parker with Strings catalog. To my surprise and pleasure, I was able ...

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More Bird With Strings

More Bird With Strings

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

In the wake of my post on the lost string arrangements for Charlie Parker (go here), I was curious about how these scores wound up in the hands of alto saxophonist Clark Gibson and the orchestra he assembled in 2015 for his album, The Lost Arrangements of Bird With Strings (go here). So I reached out to Jeff Sultanof, who helped edit the music scores and parts for publication and availability to the public through ejazzlinescom. For those unfamiliar with ...

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Lost Bird With Strings

Lost Bird With Strings

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

Late Friday afternoon, I grabbed coffee with Carl Woideck, the author of Charlie Parker: His Music and Life (University of Michigan Press) and an instructor of jazz, rock and music histories at the University of Oregon. Carl is a long-time JazzWax reader. As we chatted about this and that, Carl mentioned that he had just returned from the  Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University in New Jersey and asked if I knew that there were many more string arrangements ...

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Harry Lookofsky: Stringsville

Harry Lookofsky: Stringsville

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

I'm not a big jazz violin guy. No matter how you slice it, the instrument reminds me of the guy in the movies who shows up at lovers' tables in restaurants. For me, the jazz violin is too high-pitched, squeaky and relentlessly annoying. Of course, my personal taste takes nothing away from the swing-era violin masters. To be sure, they are technically marvelous. But I find the violin like trying to enjoy something that belongs someplace else. Like watching guys ...

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Bird with Strings: Live

Bird with Strings: Live

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

This Friday marks the 94th anniversary of alto saxophonist Charlie Parker's birth. Parker, who was nicknamed Yardbird or Bird for short, invented a new jazz style in 1946 with Dizzy Gillespie and a handful of other artists in New York. The form—which would become known as “bebop"—was the first post-war jazz style to rely on personal instrumental expression rather than traditional entertainment values. Improvisation and the invention of new melody lines using the chords of existing songs were key, and ...

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