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Shakers N' Bakers: YFZ (Yearning For Zion)

by Eyal Hareuveni
Sometimes odd matches promise the most perfect couplings. Such is the case with the second release of the New York-based improvising ensemble, Shakers N' Bakers. They succeed beautifully with inspired interpretations of 19th century spiritual vision songs by the radical Utopian religion community known as the Shakers. The ensemble transfers the original texts through the musical lens of the revolutionary figures of free jazz, most notably Albert Ayler, while spicing an ecstatic stew with quotes from contemporary modern composers including ...
Continue ReadingFirehouse 12 to Present Shakers N' Bakers October 10th

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Improvised Communications
On Friday, October 10th, New Haven's Firehouse 12 will present a two-set performance by Shakers n' Bakers, an improvising ensemble of New York jazz scene veterans created to reinterpret original 19th century music discovered in the archives of the Shaker religious community. The band, featuring vocalists Mary LaRose and Miles Griffith, multi-instrumentalist Jeff Lederer, keyboardist Jame Saft, bassist Chris Lightcap and drummer Allison Miller, is on tour this fall in support of its second CD, YFZ (Yearning for Zion), which ...
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Shakers N' Bakers - Mother Ann's Day Tour 2007

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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
The Shakers n' Bakers is a band made up of leading improvisers on the New York jazz/new music scene who perform reinterpretations of Shaker vision" songs, received in states of inspiration by young women of the Shaker religious community during the years 1837-50. The group will be performing three special concerts this summer at sites of historical significance to the Shaker movement. The band's tour will roughly retrace some of the travels of the founder of the Shaker movement in ...
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Shakers n' Bakers CD release event at the BAM Cafe on Friday Jan 5th: Free

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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
Little (i) Music announces a CD release event at the BAM Cafe on Friday Jan 5 featuring a performance by the Shakers n' Bakers, an ensemble which performs the music of the utopian religious community known as the Shakers. Their repetoire is primarily made up of Vision" songs, received in trance during the years 1837-50 by young women and reinterpreted through the lens of Albert Ayler and John Lennon. The group is made up of Mary LaRose and Miles Griffith ...
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