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Public Radio Host Paul Slavens Is Also A Brilliant Composer. His Intellectually Mad 'Alphabet Girls, Vol. II' (from 'Naomi' To 'Zelda'), Out June 24
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Fanatic Promotion
Alphabet Girls, Vol. II by Paul Slavens (June 24, State Fair Records) is the crystallization and distillation of the Nebraska born, Denton, TX-based artist’s long, varied, and accomplished career, complete with all of the requisite breakthroughs and disappointments. On record, Slavens’s endurance is a listener’s treat. Alphabet Girls, Vol. II plays like the product of a “been everywhere, seen everything” guru-type somehow fitting all of his experience and education onto five lines of musical staff like some kind of trippy ...
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Recursive Improvisations: The Art of Eric Metcalfe, With Jason Moran and Naomi Beckwith
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Yulanda Denoon
An introduction to the art of Canadian avant-garde artist Eric Metcalfe opens out into a discussion of the complex relationship among jazz, art, and contemporary global culture. Thursday, March 24, 2011, 7:30 pm 301 Philosophy Hall, Columbia University Morningside Campus Free and open to the public Vancouver-based artist Eric Metcalfe (b. 1940) epitomizes the avant-garde in Canadian art. Since the late 1960s, Metcalfe's art practice has crossed and merged disciplines: painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, printmaking, performance, ...
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Book Review: ECM 40th Anniversary Catalog by Kenny Inaoka, Et. Al. Ed.
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Music and More by Tim Niland
ECM catalog by 稲岡 邦彌 A labor of love for all concerned, especially editor Kenny Inaoka and contributor Nobu Stowe, this lavishly illustrated catalog traces all of the albums released by the ECM label both in Europe and Japan and also provides complete discographical information for each album in English and commentary in Japanese. The catalog portion of the book is particularly interesting because it has full color reproductions of all of the album covers. ECM is well known now ...
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Amram & CO (Mon) 4/Five-VI (Wed) Naoki Iwane Quintet (Thu) Bigmouth (Fri & Sat) This Week at Cornelia Street Cafe
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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
Mon Dec 03, 8:30PM AMRAM & CO David Amram, piano, french horn, flutes, composition & surprises;Kevin Twigg, drums, glockenspiel;John de Witt, bass;Adam Amram, percussion;John Ventimiglia, actor
This series explores in his highly personable, generous and informal style the astonishing variety of David Amram's interests and accomplishments--renowned composer of symphonic classical music, jazz compositions, improvisation, spoken word, scat, he sits at the piano, schmoozes about music, about the greats, the beats, the obscure, the legendary; ...
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May 5 Benefit with William Edgar, John Patitucci and Ruth Naomi Floyd in NYC
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All About Jazz
Heaven in a Nightclub: A Benefit Concert for Chesterton House NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Philosopher and pianist William Edgar, along with Grammy Award winner and bassist John Patitucci, vocalist Ruth Naomi Floyd, and saxophonist Joe Salzano, will present an evening journey of music and history to benefit Chesterton House, a center for Christian studies affiliated with Cornell University and located in Ithaca, N.Y. The benefit event is titled Heaven in a Nightclub, in which the African-American experience of misery and ...
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