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Recording

Bill Frisell and Bill Morrison's The Great Flood in Select Markets

Source: Michael Ricci
October 17, 2011

THE GREAT FLOOD BILL FRISELL + BILL MORRISON COLLABORATE ON MULTIMEDIA WORK INSPIRED BY THE 1927 MISSISSIPPI RIVER FLOODS The Great Flood Comes to Select Markets Throughout the U.S. Grammy Award-winning guitarist and composer Bill Frisell and Obie-winning experimental filmmaker Bill Morrison recently premiered “The Great Flood,"—an electrifying, soulful, and thought provoking 75-minute multimedia work of original music and film inspired by the 1927 Mississippi River floods. Now, Frisell and Morrison take The Great Flood on the road, stopping at ...

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Music Industry

Jazz Arts Group of Columbus Releases National Data for Regenerating Jazz Audiences

Source: Michael Ricci
October 17, 2011

The Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) has released findings from a 21-month research project focused on current and potential jazz ticket buyers across the U.S. and in Central Ohio. Funded in part by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) with a $200,000 grant, the Jazz Audiences Initiative (JAI), is a first-of-its-kind study designed to explore how and why people engage with jazz. The main goal was to learn new ways for engaging audiences, and infusing the art form with ...

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Performance / Tour

Carl Testa (from Anthony Braxton 12tet+1) at Outpost on 10/22

Source: Kevin Frenette
October 17, 2011

Saturday—October 22, 2011 OUTPOST 186 186 1/2 Hampshire Street Cambridge, MA 02139 8:00 PM Carl Testa/Kevin Frenette Quartet World renowned master bassist Carl Testa (from Anthony Braxton's 12+1tet) and Boston's own avant-jazz co-conspirators Kevin Frenette (guitar), James Rohr (piano) and John McLellan (drums) present an evening of improvised music centering on exceptionally intricate interplay, texture and timbre on Saturday, October 22. The Carl Testa/Kevin Frenette Quartet will take the stage at 8 p.m. at ...

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Recording

German band Gordon Blue remodels classic rock staples into solid jazz songs

Source: Lauren Rogers
October 17, 2011

Classic rock is new again. To the German band Gordon Blue, the FM radio staples of the '70s still have life in them. However, don't expect the group to unleash Led Zeppelin's “Whole Lotta Love" with the stadium-blasting power metal of the 1970 original. Instead, Gordon Blue remodels it as chilled-out piano jazz. Guitar purists may either be perplexed or outraged by the jazzy interpretations that Gordon Blue has compiled on their new album, The Hippie Standards, but there's no ...

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Festival

The Biggest Jazz Party in the Himalayas: Jazzmandu 2011

Source: Jazzmandu Reporter
October 17, 2011

The 9th edition of the Surya Nepal Jazzmandu will kick off on 20th October for a musical feast for peace and compassion in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. The International Kathmandu Jazz Festival, more popularly known as “Jazzmandu," is bringing world-class musicians and famous national bands for a week of musical treats culminating with the grand finale on 25th October. Jazzmandu 2011 will also feature a unique music competition to encourage and acknowledge upcoming musicians in Nepal, and a special Afro-Latin ...

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Recording

Ken Hatfield Sextet's New Recording Project: For Langston

Source: Ken Hatfield
October 17, 2011

Award-winning composer and guitarist Ken Hatfield has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to complete the recording of his jazz song cycle “For Langston," in which he set to music poems by the great African-American poet Langston Hughes. This will be Hatfield's ninth recording project as a leader and his first to feature lyrics. In addition to Hatfield on guitar, the ensemble includes vocalist Hilary Gardner, Jamie Baum on alto flute, Hans Glawischnig on bass, Jeff Hirshfield on drums, ...

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Radio

Kurt Elling, Rudresh Mahanthappa and more on Reeds & Deeds II

Source: Lydia Liebman
October 17, 2011

Reeds and Deeds II presents its current line up! The jazz program is thrilled to announce two interviews and two in studio performance/interviews for the next coming weeks. The schedule is as follows: October 23: Kurt Elling Interviewed October 30: Rudresh Mahanthappa Interviewed November 6: The Jeremy De Jesus Quintet Interviewed with in studio performance November 13: The 427 Factory with Willy Rodriguez interviewed with in studio performance Reeds & Deeds II broadcasts every Sunday from 6 to 8 on ...

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Performance / Tour

Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials to Perform in Levittown on Saturday October 29

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
October 17, 2011

LIL' ED & THE BLUES IMPERIALS TO PERFORM IN LEVITTOWN! Alligator recording artists Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials will perform as part of the 34th Annual Halloween R&B Spectacular at McStew's Irish Sports Pub in Levittown on Saturday, October 29, 2011. They will be playing songs from their most recent CD, Full Tilt. Chicago slide guitar master Lil' Ed Williams and his blistering, road-tested band, The Blues Imperials—guitarist Mike Garrett, bassist James “Pookie" Young and drummer Kelly Littleton—are celebrating ...

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