Music Industry News

Still Some Room in Tritone Jazz Camps

Source: All About Jazz
April 8, 2007

The ever-popular Tritone Jazz Fantasy Camps will be held once again at Nazareth College in Rochester, NY June 24-30 and at Bjorklunden in Baileys Harbor, WI July 29-Aug. 4, 2007.

Tritone camps offer adult (over 21) jazz players and singers of any ability the opportunity to learn jazz improvisation from some of the country's finest players and teachers, including renowned guitarist Gene Bertoncini, vocalist Janet Planet, and composer/arranger John Harmon. The week-long experience includes master classes, small-combo and big-band playing, ...

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Boosey & Hawkes Signs Jazz Master Andrew Hill

Source: All About Jazz
April 4, 2007

Boosey & Hawkes is pleased to announce the addition of jazz legend Andrew Hill to its distinguished roster of composers. Hill holds a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Jazz Foundation of America (1997), is board advisor to the Jazz Composers Collective, and is one of the first to receive the Doris Duke Foundation award for jazz composers. In 2003 he was selected by an international committee to receive the JAZZPAR Award, the largest annual jazz award given to an active ...

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Ruby Flower Records Signs with Pianist Claude Marc Bourget

Source: All About Jazz
April 2, 2007

Ruby Flower Records signs with pianist Claude Marc Bourget for a solo album planned to be released by the end of the year 2007. Jazz and Free improvisational pianist with some classic as well as modern and current inspiration, Bourget possesses a palette of the richest association with a beautiful virtuosity, supported by an extremely interesting philosophy of improvisation.His music, often very personal in the long sequences of rhythmic sounds and in the always surprising harmonies, cannot leave the music ...

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Tarik Shah Update, 3/27/O7

Source: Margaret Davis Grimes
March 27, 2007

I hope all are well and that everyone has seen the New York Times article about bassist Tarik Shah and his brother, written by Corey Kilgannon. I

f you need to refresh your memory about Tarik Shah's case, please visit the website beelow. Very briefly, he is accused by the government of “terrorist" conversations, associations, and intentions, though he has never harmed anyone, participated in any violence, or indeed been arrested for anything before in his whole life.

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Mosaic Records to Launch New Imprint--Label to be Spearheaded by Jazz Industry Veteran Matt Pierson

Source: All About Jazz
March 12, 2007

New York, NY - Mosaic Records, widely recognized as the most respected name in the jazz catalog business, is pleased to announce the launch of MOSAIC CONTEMPORARY, a new imprint dedicated to reissuing and compiling timeless recordings from the annuls of Contemporary Jazz. Mosaic Contemporary is being spearheaded by producer Matt Pierson, formerly EVP/GM-Jazz for Warner Bros. Records, and will launch March 20, 2007 with the release of two exciting reissues: Freddie Hubbard's Super Blue and Hubert Laws' classic CTI ...

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Be Featured on Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band's Next Record

Source: All About Jazz
March 10, 2007

Grammy winning artist Gordon Goodwin and the Big Phat Band are showing just how much they love their fans by inviting them to perform on their next album by way of a talent search called The Big Phat Jam (www.bigphatjam.com). The talent search, launching March 19, will feature fans competing with other contestants for eight weeks to see who has the best jazz improvisational skills. Additionally, a special vocal category will give fans an opportunity to sing with the band. ...

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Grammy Winning Jazz Producer, Hip-Hop Engineer Join Forces for Trumpeter Mark Rapp's Debut Release

Source: All About Jazz
March 7, 2007

Jazz trumpeter Mark Rapp recently recorded his debut effort under the producing prowess of Grammy Winner Jason Olaine (Roy Hargrove, Michael Brecker) and The Roots' engineer Robert “LB" Dorsey who has recently started working with Beyonce and her team.

Mark describes his sound as “...bridging the gap between modern and contemporary jazz music. There's a wide division between the two, both artistically and in the audiences - just go to a Christian Scott gig and then a Chris Botti gig ...

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Tarik Shah Update (Corey Kilgannon Article, NY Times, 3/6/07)

Source: All About Jazz
March 6, 2007

Jazz Pianist's Muse: His Jailed Brother By Corey Kilgannon Published: March 6, 2007 Growing up in the Bronx, Antoine Dowdell and his younger brother, Tarik, were jazz lovers who spent their allowance on Dinah Washington and Cannonball Adderley records, to the approval of their jazz-buff parents. Tarik took up the upright bass at 12 and by adulthood was playing with the likes of Betty Carter, Ahmad Jamal, Abbey Lincoln and Art Taylor. He also became a Muslim, changing ...

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