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Pianist Justin Kauflin Interviewed at All About Jazz

Source: John Kelman
March 8, 2011

The beauty of music lies in its subliminal spirituality. Religious or not, few can argue the effects of music on the human emotions and how it impacts our perception of things beyond what is skin-deep. For 24 year-old Justin Kauflin, a New York-based pianist notable for his work with Jae Sinnett, and for his freshman release of Introducing Justin Kauflin (Self Produced, 2010), the interconnection of music and faith is not only a sure conversation-starter, but also a great indicator ...

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Loose Tubes' Django Bates and Mark Lockheart Interiewed at All About Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
March 7, 2011

Twenty years after legendary British big band Loose Tubes played its farewell gigs at Ronnie Scott's Club in London, its first live album, Dancing On Frith Street (Lost Marble Records, 2010), became Jazzwise magazine's Archive Album of 2010. In the intervening decades, the band's members had spread across the British and international jazz scenes to become some of the most influential players around. The quality and power of the music on the album served as a welcome reminder of the ...

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Latin Jazz Conversations: Arturo O'Farrill (Part 5)

Source: The Latin Jazz Corner by Chip Boaz
March 5, 2011

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)

Source: The Latin Jazz Corner by Chip Boaz
March 4, 2011

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

Source: Lauren Rogers
March 3, 2011

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

Source: HypeBot
March 3, 2011

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

Source: Ars Nova Workshop
March 1, 2011

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

Source: JamBase
March 1, 2011

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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