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Dave Douglas Quintet Returns With "Brazen Heart"
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Trumpeter and composer Dave Douglas, one of the most prolific and influential jazz musicians of our time, has created “a body of work [that] reflects an inveterate engagement with the world, taking inspiration from literature, politics, dance and film, as well as jazz and new-music traditions,” writes Nate Chinen of The New York Times. But Douglas also draws from deep personal experience to inform his art. In 2012 he honored his late mother, Emily, with the album Be Still, debuting ...
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Saxophonist Scott Jeppesen Takes Inspiration From Seven Wonders Of The Ancient World On Second Album, "Wonders" On Oct 23rd
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Album Features top Los Angeles players Larry Koonse (guitar), Josh Nelson (piano/keyboard), Dave Robaire (bass), Dan Schnelle (drums) Straight-ahead jazz’s fixation on the past can often lead to stagnation. But on his dazzling new album, Wonders, Los Angeles-based tenor saxophonist Scott Jeppesen attacks the problem in an unlikely way: he reaches way further back. So far back, in fact, that there’s no room for imitation. The album draws its inspiration from the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World—and without photos ...
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Motema Music Proudly Releases "Untold Stories" From Pianist/Composer Shai Maestro
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
CD RELEASE CELEBRATIONS: SEPTEMBER 29 @ THE JAZZ STANDARD, NYC NOVEMBER 7 @ EXIT 0 JAZZ FESTIVAL, CAPE MAY, NJ “He's developed on the piano a fluidity and hot intensity normally found in molten lava, with rapid improvisatory ideas spewing as if shot out of a volcano. Maestro's third album as a leader, features his current trio of bassist Jorge Roeder and drummer Ziv Ravitz. The band is a welcome and entry into the hallowed hall of ...
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David Allyn: When Love Comes
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
I listened extensively to the Boyd Raeburn Orchestra over the weekend while writing. I'm always awed by the band and how sophisticated it was as early as 1944. Nearly all of the musicians who played in the Raeburn bands turned out to be exceptional. The list includes Johnny Mandel, Hal McKusick, Al Cohn, Don Lamond, Pinky Savitt, Earl Swope, Serge Chaloff and on and on. As for the Raeburn arrangers, they included George Handy, Johnny Mandel, George Williams, Ed Finckel, ...
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Lockjaw Davis + Wild Bill Davis
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Tenor saxophonist Eddie “Lockjaw" Davis (above) and organist Wild Bill Davis recorded together intermittently in the 1950s, '60s and '70s. Their first session together was in 1959 on Arnett Cobb's Blow, Arnett, Blow for Prestige. Then, they were together on Sonny Stitt's The Matadors Meet The Bull: Stitt for Roulette in 1966. Finally, there was a series of recordings in France in 1976 for the Black & White label. The first was a live date in the town of Chateauneuf ...
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Chicago Drummer/Composer/Impresario Mike Reed Releases "A New Kind Of Dance" (482 Music) – The 6th Album By His Acclaimed Quartet People, Places, And Things - Out Sept 25th
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A New Kind of Dance Features Reed's Original Compositons, Alongside Covers of Ellington/Strayhorn, Mos Def & A Traditional Bulgarian Folk Dance Also Features Luminary Matthew Shipp & Thelonious Monk Competition Winner Marquis Hill When drummer, composer and bandleader Mike Reed isn’t playing music he spends much of his time watching others making it. But he also observes audiences. As a concert and festival organizer he’s informally noted the interaction between performer and audience for years, and while his rapidly expanding ...
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Henry Kuntz: "Double Vision" (Humming Bird, 13) -- Free Download!
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Henry Kuntz
Double Vision is the third Humming Bird release that actively attempts to extend the formal parameters of free jazz improvisation. The first recordings were Envision New Music and Envision Ensemble Live At Berkeley Arts Festival. The surface of this music will not feel unfamiliar, but the thinking behind it is different; the assumptions underlying it different. Taking off from the idea of “festival form”, the music embodies a kind of meta-archetype. It is less a confluence of interests, musical or ...
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Bassist And Composer Michael Janisch To Release Solo Double Disc "Paradigm Shift" October 2 (October 16 USA) + Launch Tour + New Website
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Emma Perry Publicity
Some four years in gestation, the ambitious new double-disc project Paradigm Shift from London-based US bassist, composer and producer Michael Janisch sees the Whirlwind Recordings founder enter the spotlight with his multi-level approach to composition and performance. Increasingly growing in stature as a creative artist, with this expansive new album he strengthens his already budding reputation as one of the preeminent bassist/bandleaders of his generation working in contemporary, improvised music. On Paradigm Shift Janisch has taken as its basis a ...
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