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Experimental Jazz Guitarist Ian Smit To Release New Album '¿QUÉ? ' Featuring David Torn, Tom Rainey, And Scott Petito
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
Experimental jazz guitarist Ian Smit announces that he will release his new album ¿QUÉ? on December 5, 2025. The album features Scott Petito on acoustic/electric bass and as recording engineer, Tom Rainey on drums, Ian Smit on electric/acoustic guitar/effects, and David Torn on electric/national steel guitar/effects. Smit's purpose for making music with David, Tom and Scott was to be conversational with lots of dynamic ups and downs, which is very natural to all of them. That was the only stated ...
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SF Bay Area Trumpeter-Composer Ian Carey Pays Homage To His Late Artist Father On 'Strange Arts,' To Be Released March 22 On Slow & Steady Records
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Ian Carey extends his oeuvre of unique, ambitious chamber jazz with Strange Arts, set for a March 22 release on Slow & Steady Records. Carey’s seventh album is also the Bay Area trumpeter-composer’s first with his septet Wood Metal Plastic, which augments a working quartet—featuring alto saxophonist Kasey Knudsen, bassist Lisa Mezzacappa, and drummer Jon Arkin—with the free-wheeling string trio of cellist Jessica Ivry and violinists Alisa Rose and Mia Bella d’Augelli, resulting in a nimble unit that brings together ...
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Brad Mehldau & Ian Bostridge Present 'The Folly Of Desire'
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Vivo Musique Internationale
NEW SONG CYCLE INQUIRING THE LIMITS OF SEXUAL FREEDOM Brad Mehldau presents The Folly of Desire, a song cycle inquiring the limits of sexual freedom in a post-#MeToo political age, together with tenor Ian Bostridge, one of the greatest song interpreters of our times. Setting poetry by Blake, Yeats, Shakespeare, Brecht, Goethe, Auden and Cummings, Mehldau’s music shifts seamlessly between a jazz idiom and Classical art song, and the work explores a theme as timeless as it is topical. The ...
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Trumpeter/Composer Ian Carey's 6th CD, "Fire In My Head: The Anxiety Suite," To Be Released April 24 By Slow & Steady Records
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Bay Area trumpeter and composer Ian Carey has long aimed to blend the swing and virtuosity of jazz with the dense compositional textures of chamber music, but for his latest multi-movement creation, he turns that ambition towards a more personal topic. Fire in My Head (The Anxiety Suite) is the centerpiece of his new album, due for release by San Francisco’s Slow & Steady Records on April 24. “Normally I write a piece and try to figure out what it’s ...
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Sarah Partridge Expands Jazz Vocal Repertoire On "Bright Lights & Promises: Redefining Janis Ian," Due April 21 From Origin Records
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Vocalist Sarah Partridge introduced an impressive body of original compositions on her 2015 Origin Records release I’d Never Thought I’d Be Here, but for her new project, she wanted to celebrate a singer/songwriter outside of her own genre and beyond the Great American Songbook. On Bright Lights & Promises: Redefining Janis Ian, her 5th album and second for Origin Records, Partridge reimagines 11 well- and lesser-known works from the legendary singer/songwriter’s discography, and also co-wrote two with Ian. The new ...
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Trumpeter/Composer Ian Carey's 5th CD, "Interview Music: A Suite For Quintet+1," To Be Released April 8 By Carey's Kabocha Records
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Bay Area trumpeter and composer Ian Carey’s big, bold new jazz suite, Interview Music, is the centerpiece of his like-titled new album, due for release by his Kabocha Records on April 8. The piece, which was premiered in 2013 at the California Jazz Conservatory (formerly the Jazzschool) in Berkeley, is a 45- minute, four-movement adventure and Carey’s longest composition to date. It is a vehicle for both his intricate writing and the improvisational chops of his group, the Ian Carey ...
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Trumpeter Ian Carey To Premiere "Interview Music: A Suite For Quintet+1" In Berkeley, Sept. 20
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Terri Hinte Publicity
“The first thing you need to know about ‘Interview Music,’” says Bay Area trumpeter and composer Ian Carey about his new jazz suite, “is that it’s not about trying to get more interviews.” (Though he’s not averse to the idea, he adds.) The piece, which will be premiered at the California Jazz Conservatory (formerly the Jazzschool) in Berkeley on Saturday, September 20, at 8:00 pm, is a 45-minute, four-movement adventure and Carey’s longest composition to date. It is a vehicle ...
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Kabocha Records To Release "Duocracy," Duo Album By Trumpeter Ian Carey And Pianist Ben Stolorow
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Terri Hinte Publicity
In the musical realm of Duocracy, the new CD by trumpeter Ian Carey and pianist Ben Stolorow, “two” rules. Mainstays on the Bay Area jazz scene, Carey and Stolorow have released highly regarded albums as leaders but found their way to the duo format after several satisfying gigs together last year. They chose to capture their singular improvisational ensemble on record, and Carey’s Kabocha label will release the inventive results as Duocracy on February 25. “It’s super-naked and that was ...
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"Roads & Codes," By Ian Carey Quintet+1, To Be Released By Kabocha Records Feb. 19
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Terri Hinte Publicity
For the last decade, Bay Area trumpeter/composer Ian Carey has been developing his singular, post-bop-inflected music with a stable quintet of formidable improvisers, documented in the CDs Sink/Swim (2005) and Contextualizin’ (2010). In recent years Carey has wanted to explore more complex writing, and move further away from head-solo-head conventions. The result is Roads & Codes, Carey’s most ambitious and fully realized recording to date, which will be released February 19 by his Kabocha Records label. Recorded in an 11-hour, ...
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Topspin's Ian Rogers Joins Beats as CEO New Digital Music Service Daisey
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HypeBot
Respected digital music and direct to fan pioneer Ian Rogers has left Topspin to serve as the CEO of Project Daisey for Beats Electronics. Rogers will remain on the Topspin board of directors and serve as Executive Chairman. Beats will make a substantial investment in Topspin to “help create meaningful business opportunities for artists inside project Daisey". It has been rumored for months that Topspin was looking for a deep pocketed investor, but exactly what the new relationship with Beats ...
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