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Crowdfunding Campaign

B.J. Jansen, Ralph Peterson Jr., Delfeayo Marsalis & Duane Eubanks To Make A Record

Source: Kari-On Productions
July 8, 2016

BJ Jansen has launched an IndieGoGo Crowdsourcing Campaign for his 10th recording project as a leader with a planned release in the Spring of 2017. The recording will feature all original compositions and arrangements. He will be joined on the recording project by: Delfeayo Marsalis- trombone Ralph Peterson – drums Duane Eubanks – trumpet Zaccai Curtis – piano Dezron Douglas – bass Back This Project Praise for B. J. Jansen “A rising ...

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Interview

Baritone Saxophone Artist, B.J. Jansen Interviewed On WHCR 90.3FM "The Voice Of Harlem"

Source: JM Creative
January 10, 2014

Baritone Saxophone Artist, B.J. Jansen was interviewed on WHCR 90.3FM “The Voice of Harlem", January 5th, 2014 by Lamon Fenner on Lamon's Jazz Break @ 8. Jansen discusses his first new release in nearly two years, a new quartet album entitled, RONIN. He talks with Lamon about the deeper and more philosophical aspects of his new release, Ronin. “The plight of the Ronin draws many similarities to what I have observed with those of us who adopt the way, or ...

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Recording

Baritone Saxophonist, B.J. Jansen Releases, "Ronin, The Masterless Samurai"

Source: JM Creative
January 4, 2014

His first new release in nearly two years, B.J. Jansen returns with a new quartet album Ronin. Ronin hits the streets March 4th, 2014 and features; Mamiko Watanabe on piano, Mike Boone on bass, Amanda Ruzza on bass, Chris Beck on drums and Dorota Piotrowska on drums. During the feudal period in Japan (1185-1868), a Ronin was a samurai (knight) with no lord or master. A samurai could become masterless from the death or political fall of his master, or ...

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Career

B.j. Jansen Becomes An Official Endorsing Artist For Yanagisawa (Conn-DSelmer Inc.)

Source: JM Creative
July 9, 2012

Baritone Saxophone Artist, B.J. Jansen, has just become an official endorsing artist and clinician for Yanagisawa Saxophones of Japan. With a heritage of instrument-making in Japan that traces back to 1893, Yanagisawa is recognized today as a maker of the most carefully handcrafted family of artist-level saxophones in the world. In models ranging from sopranino to baritone, these superb instruments have won the praise of many celebrated musicians worldwide. Conn-Selmer, Inc. is the leading manufacturer and distributor of band and ...

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Recording

TC III, B.J. Jansen and The Uptown Jazz Collective Release New Album on ARC - Artists Recording Collective

Source: JM Creative
February 25, 2011

T.C. the rd, B.J. Jansen and The Uptown Jazz Collective have released, She Do What She Do, on the internationally known ARC Artists Recording Collective Label. She Do What She, is dedicated to T.C.'s late mother Trudy Pitts and features one of her original compositions, “Psalm 150." Also featured is the title composition, “She Do What She Do," written by T.C. III., “LATIN," along with standards from the American Jazz Song Book. Jansen and Carney are joined by Marcus Persiani ...

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Recording

B.J. Jansen and T.C. The 3rd to Release New Album on ARC

Source: JM Creative
January 4, 2011

B.J. Jansen and T.C. the 3rd have collaborated on a new album featuring the Uptown Jazz Collective on Artists Recording Collective. The new release, She Do What She Do (ARC-2260), features original compositions, standards as well as spoken word performances. Jansen and T.C. have dedicated She Do What She Do to the memories of Trudy Pitts (T.C.'s late Mother), Sid Simmons, Andy McCloud, Charles Fambrough, James Moody, Abbey Lincoln and Dr. Billy Taylor. The album features the musicianship of T.C. ...

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Website

B.J. Jansen teams with All About Jazz to create "The Business of Jazz" Column

Source: JM Creative
October 13, 2010

Four months after graduating from William Paterson University with an MBA in Music Management, B.J. Jansen has teamed up with AllAboutJazz.com to create The Business of Jazz—a new self-help and educational column for musicians. States Jansen, “My goals are simple. I want to help jazz musicians fully monetize their music, promote themselves and therefore strengthen the genre as a whole in the ever changing music industry landscape. It's about spreading education more than anything else... I want to teach people ...

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