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Video / DVD

MuthaWit pours it on for URB ALT Festival 2011 with release of spicy music video "Wasted (Fill My House With Salt)"

Source: 4961 Polemics
September 20, 2011

New York, NY: Multi-national experimentalists MuthaWit celebrate the September 25th launch of URB ALT Festival 2011 with the immediate release of their maniacally paced video “Wasted (Fill My House With Salt)." Nodding towards the legendary Stanley Kubrick, video directors Bighead Scientists showcase live band footage mixed with the studio based antics of MuthaWit singer/songwriter/producer Boston Fielder. “Wasted" projects the sheer exuberance of MuthaWit's 3-24 piece live show from frame to frame. It is the second single off of MuthaWit's current ...

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Event

Bass Player Live! Returns to Los Angeles for Annual Exhibition, Hands-On Clinic at SIR Studios & Exclusive Concert at Key Club Oct 22-23, 2011

Source: Kim Koury
September 20, 2011

Music Player Network Presents... BASS PLAYER LIVE! RETURNS TO LOS ANGELES FOR ANNUAL EXHIBITION, HANDS-ON CLINIC AT SIR STUDIOS AND EXCLUSIVE CONCERT AT KEY CLUB OCTOBER 22-23, 2011 FEATURING BASS PLAYER'S “LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD" PRESENTATION TO FUNK LEGEND LARRY GRAHAM, ROCK VISIONARY JACK CASADY AND MOTOWN MASTER JAMES JAMERSON (PRESENTED POSTHUMOUSLY TO JAMES JAMERSON JR) AT KEY CLUB Also Featuring Performances and Clinics by Bass Heavyweights Anthony Jackson, Rickey Minor, Hadrien Feraud, Andrew Gouche, Jonas Hellborg, Steve Bailey & Many ...

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Recording

"Karnas" latest album from Vocalist Grzegorz Karnas

Source: Cezary L. Lerski
September 20, 2011

Vocalist Grzegorz Karnas's latest album, entitled Karnas, is a one-of-a-kind mixture of 'borrowed songs' and original compositions by this outstanding alternative performer, whose creativity draws from a broad range of musical genres which, by virtue of his tremendous expressiveness, unique lyrics and exquisite playing on the part of the band, are fused into a single, coherent, jazz-based whole. It's been more than fourteen years since Grzegorz Karnas led his own band. His project in concert is either a quartet or ...

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Performance / Tour

The Rob Scheps / Greg Gisbert Quintet Tour

Source: Rob Scheps
September 20, 2011

Tenor saxophonist Rob Scheps and trumpeter Greg Gisbert tour this fall. Thurs. Sept. 22—COLD SPRING, NY— The Silver Spoon. 8-11 pm with pianist Jamie Reynolds. Thurs. Sept. 2- BOULDER, COLORADO—CU -BOULDER Clinic 11 am; Thurs. Sept. 29 DENVER, COLORADO—Dazzle Jazz Club . 7 & 9 pm with Rob Scheps. Greg Gisbert Quintet. with Eric Gunnison, Bob Bowman, Jim White. Fri. Sept. 30 —MISSION, KANSAS—Lucky Brewgrille . 6-9 pm with Ron Carlson Trio Mon. Oct. 3— LEAWOOD, KANSAS—Take Five Coffee Bar ...

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Interview

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey's Chris Combs Interviewed at All About Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
September 19, 2011

On a Memorial Day in 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma, an encounter between a young black shoe shiner named Dick Rowland and a white elevator operator named Sarah Page—an incident that was reported with hazy details and shocking incompleteness—started one of the most brutal and tragic race riots in American history. Even more tragic, however, was how little the event was discussed by national or even Oklahoman sources. It was an event that Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey's pedal steel guitarist Chris Combs, ...

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Recording

Abstract Logix to Release 2 DVD Set of the New Universe Music Festival on September 20, 2011

Source: Souvik Dutta
September 19, 2011

On November 20 and 21, 2010, maverick record label Abstract Logix hosted a series of spectacular performances, featuring an array of artists who handily defy genre categorization in favor of unbridled expression. Among the featured musicians were pioneering guitarist John McLaughlin and his current band the 4th Dimension with special guest, world music legend tabla maestro Zakir Hussain; Widespread Panic guitar hero Jimmy Herring with his electric band; Return to Forever Drummer Lenny White; the all-star quartet Human Element (keyboardist ...

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Recording

New Miles Davis: April 11, 1970 at the Fillmore West

Source: Wolfgang's Vault
September 19, 2011

Wolfgang's Vault, the live music and jazz archive, today releases a newly restored recording of the great Miles Davis. This performance was captured on April 11, 1970 at the Fillmore West, a Bill Graham Presents event. This set is available to be streamed free at Wolfgangsvault.com, and available to be downloaded as MP3 or FLAC for audiophiles. The set features the following musicians: Miles Davis—trumpet Steve Grossman—soprano sax Chick Core—electric piano Dave Holland—bass

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Festival

The 9th Annual Festival of New Trumpet Music Celebrates Kenny Wheeler at The Jazz Standard

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
September 19, 2011

New York City, NY: JAZZ STANDARD, one of the nation's premier jazz clubs, presents the 9th Annual Festival of New Trumpet Music (FONT) series, “Kenny Wheeler Celebration," from Thursday, October 20, through Sunday, October 23, 2011. Program schedule and artist bios are outlined below. The FONT series celebrates Kenny Wheeler, one of the most creative and iconic of progressive trumpeters. Wheeler, a Canadian residing in the UK since 1952, celebrated his 81st birthday this year. He will make a rare ...

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