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J. Dash's "Wop" Ignites New Dance Craze

Source: Michael Ricci
November 15, 2011

EMERGING SUPERSTAR J. DASH'S MUSIC VIDEO FEATURING FLO RIDA HAS CREATED A MULTI-MEDIA DANCE CRAZE New York, NY: Emerging superstar and music sensation, J. Dash, has created a new dance craze with his hit single “WOP." The music video featuring J. Dash's friend and multi-platinum selling rapper Flo Rida, along with other “WOP" videos, have gained attention from over 25 million YouTube viewers worldwide, resulting in over 100,000 sales on iTunes before radio airplay began. In fact, every second of ...

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Marc Ducret, Tower, Vol. 2: Vladimir Nabokov's "Ada" as Avant Jazz Continues

Source: Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards
November 15, 2011

Guitarist Marc Ducret returns with his second volume of Tower (Ayler 119), a musical commentary on Vladimir Nabokov's novel Ada. I reviewed the first volume on my Gapplegate Guitar and Bass Site (www. gapplegateguitar.blogspot.com) several months ago. I review volume two here to ensure that the news of this project reaches the bulk of my readers. This time out, Marc's well conceived guitar abstractions are joined by the alto of Tim Berne, the violin of Dominique Pifarely, and the drums ...

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Will Martina - The Dam Levels (2011)

Source: Something Else!
November 15, 2011

Erik Friedlander and Tom Cora are two legends of jazz cello, true pioneers an standouts as there are so few cellists with such an improvisational jazz bent and fewer still who regularly have gone for the jugular as those two. Out of Australia is another cello player who turned onto jazz and is creating another approach to fitting in this instrument to that music form. His name is Will Martina. Martina arrived in NYC just five years ago and quickly ...

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Reg Schwager releases album of guitar and bass duets

Source: Reg Schwager
November 15, 2011

TORONTO, ON (CANADA): On November 15th, 2011, Jazz From Rant will release Toronto guitarist {Reg Schwager}'s 11th recording as a leader, “Duets" (rant 1142) which features collaborations with four internationally respected Canadian bassists—{Don Thompson}, {Dave Young}, {Neil Swainson} and {Pat Collins}. Reg Schwager is a four-time winner of Canada's National Jazz Award for Guitarist of the Year. From 1994-2004, Schwager toured and recorded with master jazz pianist George Shearing, and he has also worked with Diana Krall, Peter Appleyard, Rob ...

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Matthew Shipp Enters His Second Decade with the Exhilarating Trio Release “Elastic Aspects” Feb 2012

Source: Chris Rich
November 14, 2011

"Subversive," “cantankerous," “pugilistic" are words that have been used to describe Matthew Shipp but in reality he is proudly paradoxical, confounding the listener with exhilarating leaps from traditional to parts unknown. Striking a singular path at once ultra modern yet embedded in deep historic musical roots, Shipp's presentation is both organic and science fiction. He wears his genius well. Coming off the live release Art of the Improviser, which has been noted as a hallmark release in an already highly ...

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Rudresh Mahanthappa - Samdhi (Act, 2011)

Source: Music and More by Tim Niland
November 14, 2011

Alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa has become an important force on the modern jazz scene, leading his own groups and touring with legends like drummer Jack DeJohnette. This is Mathanthappa's most experimental recording to date, combining music from the Indian sub-continent, jazz and fusion to create a potent and heady brew. Accompanying him are David Gilmore on guitar, Rich Brown on bass, Damion Reid on drums and “Anand" Anantha Krishnan on percussion. There are also electronics and loops that add to ...

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Ivo Perelman - The Hour of the Star (Leo Records, 2011)

Source: Music and More by Tim Niland
November 14, 2011

South American saxophonist Perelman has been a fixture on the free jazz scene for decades now, recording albums in a variety of musical combinations for a variety of record labels. This is the best one of his I have heard, he is in rare form and the band is absolutely stellar: Matthew Shipp on piano, Joe Morris on bass and Gerald Cleaver on drums. The quartet setting suits the music perfectly as it sits on the nexus of modern jazz ...

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Roy Ayers: Soul Vibes

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
November 14, 2011

Back in the early 1970s, Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Tony Williams and John McLaughlin leveraged Miles Davis' new electric approach to jazz and created different streams of jazz-rock fusion. At the same time, vibraphonist Roy Ayers went off in a separate direction—pioneering electronic jazz-funk, which Herbie Hancock would build on with Headhunters in 1973. This Thursday, Nov. 17, Ayers will make a rare performance appearance in Los Angeles at the Exchange LA club, from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. Go ...

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