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All About Jazz Improvements: February 2012

Source: All About Jazz
March 3, 2012

Your favorite jazz website continually improved throughout the month of February. If you like what you see, please help us support jazz music by making a modest contribution to All About Jazz today. WHAT'S NEW All About Jazz Imports GigPress Dates! All About Jazz, the web's leading jazz event aggregator, now imports calendar listings posted by musicians and presenters through Gigpress (a WordPress plugin). Musicians such as vibraphonist Joe Locke and pianist John Beasley, both WordPress ...

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Outpost 186 March Highlights: Jacob William

Source: Chris Rich
March 3, 2012

Jacob William returns his Para Quintet to Outpost 186 on Saturday March 24th after an interlude of gigs in other dubious roosts. Now that he is once more in the cozier confines of the Outpost, free of the concerns attending tavern work, he'll shine at his usual level of dazzle with his astute and earnest compadres. Laurence Cook will once again demonstrate his agile defiance of the aging process til the walls well ring as sonic cascades, thunderclaps and whirlwinds ...

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Creative Sources Recordings Releases "Numbers" by Richard Barrett and Han-earl Park

Source: Han-earl Park
March 2, 2012

Released by Creative Sources Recordings: Numbers (CS 201 CD), a duo album by composer, performer and electronic musician Richard Barrett and guitarist, improviser and constructor Han-earl Park. Numbers is a high-energy, quick-footed, scatter-brained two hander—a looping, convoluted, interactive dance made audible—a musical fender bender involving electroacoustic complexities and (physio)logical splutter-cuts, jump-cuts and match-cuts—an intense white- knuckle extemporization unit—the duo of composer, performer and electronic musician Richard Barrett and guitarist, improviser and constructor Han-earl Park. Celebrated for his dense, complex, intricate ...

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Luthea Salom Kicks Off The U.S. Release Of Her Third CD "Kick In The Head" At The Living Room In NYC

Source: Carol Green, Redwood Entertainment
March 3, 2012

New York, NY: Indie/Folk songstress Luthea Salom is a uniquely talented singer/songwriter with a distinct voice, a sly wit and a playfully engaging performance style. Hosting a CD release party in support of her third U.S. CD release, Kick in the Head, she will be appearing at The Living Room, New York City's venerable singer/songwriter music venue on the Lower East Side, on Friday, March 2, 2012, at 7:00 PM. “Luthea stands out from her peers." —Rolling Stone Magazine Luthea ...

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Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records Announces The Release of "Poetry Of Earth" from Anne Mette Iversen

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
March 3, 2012

Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records Announces The Release of Poetry Of Earth from Anne Mette Iversen Poetry by Grøn, Keats, Housman, Hardy & others Poetry of Earth features: Anne Mette Iversen (acoustic bass, compositions), Maria Neckam, Christine Skou (vocals), Dan Tepfer (piano), John Ellis (ten. saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet & flute) CD Release Concerts for Poetry of Earth: March 15, 8:30 PM: The Cornelia Street Café, NYC March 17, 4:00 PM: Special concert & discussion with Ms. Iversen @ The Danish ...

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1979 Herbie Hancock Interview Unearthed at All About Jazz!

Source: All About Jazz
March 6, 2012

For the second installment of AllAboutJazz.com's new column, Jazz in the Aquarian Age Bob Kenselaar unearths a 1979 interview with pianist Herbie Hancock. At the time of this this interview, Hancock had been making ventures away from straight-ahead jazz for some time, but they were still fresh enough to have some fans up in arms. From today's perspective, though, it's clear that his eclecticism is a big part of what makes him the grand man of music that he is. ...

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Pianist Matthew Bourne Interviewed at All About Jazz!

Source: All About Jazz
March 6, 2012

"I've accepted that I'm not a traditional composer who sits and scores things out, plays them, learns them. I just have a rough sense of something and go out and do it. It often ends up being completely different," says pianist, improviser and composer Matthew Bourne. It's a characteristically honest appraisal, but it fails to do justice to Bourne's talent as a writer or player. This approach makes him one of the most fascinating of Britain's contemporary performers; it also ...

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February 2012 Advertisers - Thank You!

Source: All About Jazz
March 2, 2012

All About Jazz would like to thank the following organizations for their support in February 2012: SFJAZZ The Kimmel Center ECM Records eOne Music The Annenberg Center The Painted Bride Art Center Motema Records The Berks Jazz Fest Mack Avenue Records Resonance Records Goldenvoice Please click the links above to visit our sponsors! Something to sell? Advertise.

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