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Book / Magazine

All About Jazz Senior Contributor John Kelman Announces New King Crimson Book

Source: All About Jazz
July 25, 2020

All About Jazz Senior Contributor John Kelman is pleased to announce, after nearly fifteen years associated with the website, his first book, currently in progress and expected to be released sometime next year by Panegyric Publishing. The book revolves around his vast amount of writing about King Crimson, one of the founding fathers of progressive rock though, 50 years on, the group prefers not to be saddled with what has become a reductionist term. The book will repurpose his AAJ ...

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Event

Three-Day HeartH Star Festival:One Streaming Event Begins May 21, 2020!

Source: John Kelman
May 22, 2020

Welcome Aboard HeartH Star Festival:One A unique world-wide music and arts festival! The Hearth Star Festival: One is a live three-day, online festival intended to weave an international array of passionate storytellers, dancers, healers and musicians into a beautiful tapestry of sound, light and color. Please join us at our opening ceremony from the beach in Maui this Thursday, May 21, 2020, and participate in the creation of our collective worldwide tapestry. It’s all too beautiful! Featuring: Ron Carter, Dick ...

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Crowdfunding Campaign

Photographer Žiga Koritnik Announces Cloud Arrangers Kickstarter Campaign

Source: John Kelman
September 9, 2018

Renowned Photographer Žiga Koritnik Announces Kickstarter Campaign for Cloud Arrangers, His Forthcoming Book of Music Photography Music is something that profoundly defines Žiga Koritnik’s work. His photography expresses a deep passion for the performers while being aware of and showing respect to the entire musical scene. Koritnik began to follow music over thirty years ago in 1986. Since then, Koritnik has produced more than 60 solo photo exhibitions all over the world, worked for several music festivals and taken more ...

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Advocacy

Bill Frisell Offers Special Download To Benefit Houston’s Mayor, Sylvester Turner’s Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund

Source: John Kelman
September 28, 2017

Worldwide release date: September 18, 2017 American guitarist, Bill Frisell, one of the most sought after voices in contemporary music is offering a special download to benefit Houston’s mayor, Sylvester Turner’s Hurricane Harvey relief fund. 100% of the profits will go to the Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund which was created by Turner, as a direct response to individuals and corporations asking how they could help the city. On Monday, August 28th, three days after Hurricane Harvey hit Houston, Turner who ...

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Recording

Pianist/Composer Yelena Eckemoff recollects Childhood In Russia through "Sense Of Smell" On Blooming Tall Phlox, Featuring An All-Finnish Lineup Of Young Rising Stars

Source: DL Media
November 9, 2016

Available January 20, 2017 on L&H Production “Blessed with prodigious classical chops, Eckemoff's a gutsy, imaginative improviser. She's also a gifted composer who's devised a totally original take on the whole jazz-classical hybrid concept. Effortlessly modern, with nothing to prove beyond total involvement in the moment, Eckemoff presents a thoroughly modern, yet intimate and highly personal sound-world."— Dave Wayne, All About Jazz It's not uncommon to read about musicians—especially those who deal solely in instrumental music—struggling to come up with ...

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Recording

Pianist Yelena Eckemoff Returns with "Lions"

Source: All About Jazz
February 20, 2015

Pianist Yelena Eckemoff Returns with Lions, Her Most Ambitious Marriage of Music and Narrative Yet. “Themes of nature, sounds of isolation, stark settings, and blurred lines between compositional and improvisational elements are visible on all of Eckemoff's trio dates, but no two records sound exactly the same ... Mystery, blooming musical thoughts and vaguely haunting notions are at the heart of this captivating album." —Dan Bilawsky, All About Jazz “Eckemoff’s classical background is audible in the intricacy and proportion and ...

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Performance / Tour

Joel Harrison Five On Tour!

Source: All About Jazz
February 17, 2014

Guitarist and 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient Joel Harrison will be hitting the road for a short tour, beginning February 26, 2014 at the Edinboro University in Erie, PA and ending in Kingston, Canada on March 2, with stops in Toronto, Canada and Ottawa Canada in-between. The Joel Harrison Five will also include saxophonist Chris Cheek, pianist Jacob Sacks, bassist Drew Gress and drummer Jordan Perlson. Dates are listed under Harrison's All About Jazz Musician Profile and at the various Jazz ...

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Advocacy

Canadian Government: Don't Ruin Live Music!

Source: All About Jazz
September 12, 2013

Canadian Government: Don't ruin live music with $425.00 charge per international artist per performance in Canada According to the Calgary Herald, many venues like bars, restaurants, and coffeeshops in Canada may pay four times more for international musicians as a new regulation says they will be required to pay “an application fee of $275 per musician and those travelling with the band (tour manager, sound person, guitar tech, etc.”) On top of that there is ”an extra $150 for each ...

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