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Hot Track: I Talk to the Trees
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In an effort to capitalize on Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Lowe's Broadway winning streak in the 1950s, Orrin Keepnews of Riverside Records produced an album in July 1959 of Chet Baker playing their songs. Aptly titled Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Lowe, the album featured the lyrical trumpeter accompanied by some of the prettiest jazz players in New York. On I Talk to the Trees, from Paint Your Wagon (1951), Baker was teamed with Herbie Mann ...
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Afro-Cuban jazz under the banyan trees
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
Latin fire is in pianist Chuchito Valdés' genes. He's the son of Chucho Valdés and grandson of the late Bebo Valdés, two of Cuba's venerable jazz pianists.Though now based in Cancun, Mexico, he carries on the family tradition, much like his globetrotting father. Chuchito shared many elements of his Afro-Cuban jazz technique with a crowd beneath the majestic banyan trees at the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota FL on Sunday, February 19. He performed in a trio format with ...
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As Alike As Trees Returns to Café Oto
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John Eyles
Café Oto, London, Saturday 12 October and Sunday 13 October. In 2011, the inaugural As Alike as Trees festival was held at The Rag Factory near Brick Lane in London. Organised by drummer Eddie Prévost, saxophonist David O'Connor and violinist Jennifer Allum, it drew from the pool of musicians who had been participants, alumni or sympathisers of the weekly improvisation workshop run by Prévost since 1999. In addition to such musicians, the festival also featured AMM, the French ensemble Hubbub ...
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More Like Trees Releases "Roots, Shoots & Leaves" (BBE)
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Press Junkie PR
Officially born on 10th March 2011 when their east London debut gig effortlessly sold out, London- based acoustic 3-piece More Like Trees have been creating a buzz on the London music scene and beyond with their exciting new genre, dubbed “Strum & Bass.” This May sees the release of their debut album, Roots, Shoots and Leaves. Last November, More Like Trees released their debut EP, Full Circle, which lit the spark for exciting things to come. Steve Lamacq was quick ...
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Ginger Baker - Horses and Trees (1986, Reissue)
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Something Else!
By Nick DeRiso Fusion in the most complete sense of the word, Ginger Baker's all-too-brief Horses & Trees melds jazz, funk, world music, electronica, reggae, hip-hop and something noiser still. Issued in 1986 on the New York-based art-dance label Celluloid label, this angular, deeply challenging effort was produced by Bill Laswell, who also appears on bass. The victim perhaps of its own complexity, Horses & Trees has been out of print in the U.S. since at least 1995—until now. A ...
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Full line-ups announced for As Alike As Trees
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John Eyles
Saturday 5th March and Sunday 6th March 2011 London's latest improvised music festival As Alike As Trees makes its debut over the weekend of 5th and 6th March, curated by saxophonist David O'Connor and violinist Jennifer Allum, both of whom are regulars at Eddie Prévost's weekly Friday evening improvising workshops. Alongside O'Connor and Allum, the weekend will feature a large number of players who attend those workshops. Some—including saxophonist Seymour Wright, guitarist Ross Lambert and pianist Sebastian Lexer—are Friday evening ...
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London Welcomes a New Improv Festival: As Alike As Trees
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John Eyles
On the weekend of March 5th and 6th, London will host a new addition to its ever-growing roster of festivals of improvised music—the intriguingly titled As Alike As Trees. Organised by saxophonist David O'Connor and violinist Jennifer Alum, both regulars at Eddie Prévost's Friday evening workshop sessions, the festival features many musicians from the workshop alongside guests from across Europe, including the groupings Hubbub and AMM. Saturday 5th March Afternoon 2pm: David O'Connor Matthew ...
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Daniel Levin Quartet : Some Trees on hatOLOGY 632
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All About Jazz
Daniel Levin Quartet : Some Trees, hatOLOGY 632
Nate Wooley - trumpet Matt Moran - vibes Daniel Levin - cello Joe Morris - double bass
Performing “Out To Lunch" by Eric Dolphy, “Wickets" by Steve Lacy, “Morning Song" by Ornette Coleman and compositions by Daniel Levin.
“It's obvious this is not an ordinary jazz quartet. Paul Bley once suggested to me that “one of the ways to get out of a particular ...
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New Orleans Jazz Ascona - Switzerland: Hot Jazz under the Palm Trees...
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All About Jazz
During the past days, art director Karl Heinz Ern announced the definitive program of the 18th New Orleans Jazz Ascona festival. From June 28 to July 7, 2002 , the swiss town on the shores of Lake Maggiore will host no less than 250 concerts on 14 stages, for a total of 450 hours of music.
40 bands and over 300 artists are featured the program, among whom are several of the most acclaimed musicians on the contemporary New ...
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