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Interview

Jazz Be Nimble

Source: Tamela D'Amico
January 20, 2012

In the music “business," art is often eclipsed by commercialism, and these days, I find myself growing partial to songs that showcase vocals and instrumentation over electronic enhancements. I recently touched upon artists who present a retro sound that appeals to my nostalgia and longing for a modicum of purity. This type of player is perhaps not exposed as readily as Lady Avril Cyrus Bieber, but hey, if ye seeketh, ye shall find. One of the most flexible and enduring ...

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Music Industry

Request for Proposals Jazz Arts Group's Jazz Audiences Initiative (JAI) Theory-to-Practice Experiment Partners

Source: Michael Ricci
January 19, 2012

Letter of Interest Deadline Friday, February 3, 2012 at 5:00 p.m. Invited Full Proposal Deadline March 2, 2012 at 5:00 p.m. The Jazz Arts Group (JAG) in Columbus, Ohio has been awarded funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to conduct programming and marketing experiments based on results of the Jazz Audiences Initiative (JAI) study, released in October 2011. JAG is looking for three organizations to participate in theory-to-practice experiments linked to the study's key findings. ...

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Recording

Modern Jug Band SANKOFA To Release The Uptown Strut On March 27th Via Kingswood Records

Source: 1888 Media
January 19, 2012

Album Features Dom Flemons of Carolina Chocolate Drops, Professor Louie And John Sebastian of The Lovin' Spoonful New York, NY: In February 2006, Sankofa Strings, a progressive collective comprised of percussionist Sule Greg Wilson along with multi-instrumentalist Dom Flemons and singer Rhiannon Giddens, from the Grammy-Award Winning Carolina Chocolate Drops, were taped in concert for inclusion in the award-winning jug band documentary Chasin' Gus' Ghost, a film which chronicles a worldwide quest to assemble a comprehensive lineage to Gus Cannon, ...

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Event

2012 Arrives at Outpost 186 with Bern Nix and Much More

Source: Chris Rich
January 19, 2012

Having shaken off holiday torpor and distractions, the Boston area array of gifted musicians roosting at Outpost 186 are shaping their event streams for the beckoning year. The highlight for January will be a reunion of colleagues from Ornette Coleman's Prime Time, guitarist Bern Nix and keyboardist Dave Bryant with help from Jacob Williams on bass and Eric Rosenthal on drums. This happens on Saturday, January 28th at 8pm with a suggested donation of $10.00. In the week leading up ...

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Radio

Shelly Berg Plays Art Tatum This Week on Riverwalk Jazz

Source: Don Mopsick
January 19, 2012

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, actor Vernel Bagneris offers a glimpse of Art Tatum through the words of jazz musicians who knew him, and noted pianist Shelly Berg performs Tatum masterworks with the Jim Cullum Jazz Band. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM sattelite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. Squarely grounded in the stride piano style of James P. Johnson and Fats Waller, Art Tatum took solo ...

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Performance / Tour

February West Coast Tour for Bobby Broom's Deep Blue Organ Trio

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
January 19, 2012

Chicago's acclaimed Deep Blue Organ Trio—guitarist Bobby Broom, B-3 organist Chris Foreman, and drummer Greg Rockingham—are heading west next month for the first West Coast tour in the group's 12-year history. The six-city tour begins at Yoshi's San Francisco 2/4 (10pm), then proceeds to Kuumbwa Jazz, Santa Cruz 2/6; Jazz Alley, Seattle 2/7-8; Jimmy Mak's, Portland 2/9; Dazzle, Denver 2/10; and the Rhythm Room, Phoenix 2/11. Fresh from a successful year-end week of performances at the Umbria Winter Jazz Festival ...

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Award / Grant

Jazz Arts Group Awarded Funds for Continuing Innovation by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

Source: Michael Ricci
January 19, 2012

The Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) is honored to be the recipient of a $120,000 Continuing Innovation Stage II grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF). In November 2009, JAG received a $200,000 grant from the DDCF Fund for National Projects. That funding was used to launch a first-of-its-kind national study to gain deeper understanding of current and potential jazz audiences, their level of involvement with jazz, preferences for artists and venues, motivations to attend performances, and what ...

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Book / Magazine

Armen Donelian's New Book, "Whole Notes: A Piano Masterclass," Just Published by Advance Music

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
January 19, 2012

Whole Notes: A Piano Masterclass, the third instructional book by veteran pianist, composer, bandleader, and educator Armen Donelian, has just been published by Advance Music. Written in a conversational tone, the book “offers practical guidance grounded on principles of music theory, rhythm, analysis and composition as well as physics, anatomy and holistic development," Donelian writes in the book's final chapter. Although “this is not the first attempt to examine these subjects in writing, nor will it be the last," he ...

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