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Latin Jazz Conversations: Arturo O'Farrill (Part 5)
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The Latin Jazz Corner by Chip Boaz
The idea of making a statement is given a lot of lip service in the jazz world, but little thought goes into the impact of that statement. Most times, people consider improvisational solos to be the major statements in jazz, and in a sense, that's true. Musical choices in improvisation say a lot about an individual's personality, culture, and identity; their public displays make an impact upon the people that experience their performances. Jazz can be more influential than any ...
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Latin Jazz Conversations: Arturo O'Farrill (Part 4)
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The Latin Jazz Corner by Chip Boaz
Life is certainly an endless circle of possibilities; whenever we see an ending, it's always likely to find a new beginning. The artistic world seems filled with an inherently frustrating series of roadblocks, derailing finely tuned plans for new directions. Some individuals see this as an ending point to further artistic work and simply stop any forward motion. Creative minds look past ending points though, always finding new and inspiring directions that insure artistic continuity. This forward-looking attitude may not ...
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An interview with Daniel Lantz, keyboardist for Swedish jazz-funk band Beat Funktion
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Lauren Rogers
As the keyboardist of the jazz-funk outfit Beat Funktion, Daniel Lantz is at the center of a disco maelstrom. Taken as a whole instead of the sum of its parts, Beat Funktion is a fireball of pop smarts, a living, breathing groove machine that grinds together the sweat-drenched vintage R&B of James Brown with the sexy hooks of '70s dance music and the soulful depth and instrumental complexities of jazz. On their debut album, The Plunge, Beat Funktion gyrates with ...
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Interview with My Major Company CEO PR Albertini on Fan-Funding and Record Labels
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HypeBot
Recently I spoke with Paul-Rene Albertini, the CEO a new internet-based, fan-funded record label called My Major Company. In this interview, Albertini and I talk about various aspects of fan-funding and how it's posed to shift the current music landscape. Kyle Bylin: Well, thank you for chatting with me today. What led you to start MMC? PR ALBERTINI: My pleasure. In the last few years, I have worked a lot on all of the possible models to adapt to the ...
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Interview | Nate Wooley
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Ars Nova Workshop
On March 5, Ars Nova Workshop presents a performance at Vox Populi by trumpeter Nate Wooley, violinist and electronicist C. Spencer Yeh, cellist Okkyung Lee, and percussionist Paul Lytton. With expansive avant-garde affiliations – noise, jazz, free improv, downtown – Wooley assembled this quartet “to see if a collision of forward thinking practitioners of each of these histories will create something greater than a well-thought out musical fusion." This Philadelphia concert is the third stop on a Wooley-Lytton US tour, ...
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Drive-by Truckers: Mercy Buckets
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JamBase
By : Dennis Cook The Truckers are currently out on the road bringing their glorious rock show to cities far and wide. Their next show is Wednesday, March 2, in Reno, NV, followed by gigs in Las Vegas (3/3) and a two-night stand in San Francisco (3/4-3/5). Find full tour dates here. Go-Go Boots (released February 15 on ATO) may be the most idiosyncratic, oddly compelling album in the Drive-By Truckers' long, circuitous run. The band has never sounded more ...
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Flautist Geni Skendo Interviewed at All About Jazz
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John Kelman
Flautist and shakuhachi master Geni Skendo does not genre-mash so much as genre-crash, like a late-night interloper joining a lame party and livening it up with exotic sound. It's miraculous, this color he brings to anything, given the drab Iron Curtain he exited under on his flight from his native Albania, traveling to Boston, Massachusetts to study at Berklee College of Music in 2002. Shy but my no means timid, he has rendered his jolt of culture shock into a ...
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My Friend Teo
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Jazz Online By Joseph Vella
Contributed by guest blogger Dr. Dave Schroeder, Director of Jazz Studies at NYU Steinhardt I actually organized this interview session with Teo along with John Snyder from Artists House Music and was present at the session to direct traffic. I had gotten to know Teo Macero back in 2003 when I became director of Jazz Studies at NYU. Chico Hamilton, one of my friends and colleagues at the New School, was also a close friend of Teo's and suggested that ...
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