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Recording

io 0.0.1 beta++: human and machine improvisation on Slam

Source: Han-earl Park
August 7, 2011

Slam Productions releases a recording of improvisations by human and machine musicians. 'io 0.0.1 beta++' SLAMCD 531 Performers: io 0.0.1 beta++ (itself) with Han-earl Park (guitar), Bruce Coates (alto and sopranino saxophones) and Franziska Schroeder (soprano saxophone) “We watch and listen carefully because we know we're seeing a kind of manifesto in action. What is an automaton? A sketch, a material characterization of the ideas the inventor and the inventor's culture have about some aspect of life, and how it ...

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Radio

Jill Salkin featured on JazzOn2.org

Source: Jill Salkin
August 6, 2011

Selections from Jill Salkin's CD, The Very Thought of You were featured this week on JazzOn2.org, by host Joe Cataldo. Four songs from Jill's latest release were played, including one original composition. As Jill continues to be heard on stations around the country, she has garnered some fine reviews: “How sweet it is for a radio jazz DJ to now and then receive music from a talented vocalist, he or she has not heard before. Jill is by no means ...

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Interview

Courtney Bryan, Black composer, marches to the beat of her own drum

Source: Courtney Bryan
August 7, 2011

By Alicia Hall Moran “Musicians make decisions. They either support the status quo or break down barriers," says Courtney Bryan, a composer, pianist, academic and organist at Bethany Baptist Church in Newark, N.J., who prefers the latter. Born in New Orleans, Bryan soaked up the music of her Caribbean- and West African-based Anglican church and her piano lessons in the European classical tradition. She immersed herself in her marching band and explored firsthand every which way of jazz: New Orleans ...

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Festival

2nd Annual Chinatown Music Festival

Source: Marshall Lamm Promotions & Public Relations
August 5, 2011

The 2nd Annual Chinatown Music Festival in San Francisco's Chinatown on Sunday, September 25, 2011. The Festival will feature free performances by Jest Jammin,' Genryu Arts, Sherlin Chan & The Star Valley Children's Choir, Latin Jazz Youth Ensemble of San Francisco led by John Calloway, Charlie Chin, San Francisco Guzheng Society and the world-premiere of “Portrait of Sun Yat-sen" by Jon Jang and Unbound Chinatown, celebrating the October 10 Centennial of the Chinese Revolution and the Chinese Republic's first provisional ...

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Performance / Tour

Cuneiform Artists on Tour - August, 2011

Source: Michael Ricci
August 6, 2011

We post this information here once per month. For more up-to-date information (updated at least once per week) go to: JASON ADASIEWICZ'S ROLLDOWN November 18, The Stone 16 Avenue C (the corner of Avenue C and Second Street), NYC, NY 10009 November 20, Cuneifest 2011 An die Musik LIVE!, 409 North Charles Street, Second Floor, Baltimore, Maryland 21201 AFUCHE November 19, Cuneifest 2011, Orion Sound Studios, 2903 Whittington Ave., Suite C, Baltimore, MD. 21230 November 20, The Stone, 16 Avenue ...

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Festival

Fountains of Swinging Youth at Newport Jazz Festival

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
August 6, 2011

" [I] think we should allow these young players to share the spotlight, until the public can fully accept them ... these are all great players who are trying to find their own voice; trying to add something to the music that becomes part of the mainstream of what is happening. And it's a privilege for me to present them at Newport." —George Wein NEWPORT, RI—Jazz is music of creation in real time, and there is nothing more satisfying than ...

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Festival

Peekskill River Front Music Festival features Duchess Di and the Distractions

Source: cindy beer-fouhy
August 6, 2011

Aug 6th 6:00-7:00 PM Brand New CD “RED HOT AND REAL GONE" for Sale at the Event Peekskill, NY: There will be dancing and swinging at the River Front on August 6th from 6:00-7:00pm, as the Peekskill River Front Music Festival showcases Duchess and the Distractions—the incomparable 8 piece band capturing a bygone era with their hip blend of Risqué blues, jump and swing, Bringing the fabulous 40's back. Fans of American roots music like Swing, rockabilly and early rock ...

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Recording

Early Release of Karen Carroll's Blues Mix at Amazon.com

Source: Ron Templin
August 6, 2011

Karen Carroll was surprised this week when she found her new CD had been released early. This production was scheduled to go at the end of August but when shopping for some new music she ran across her own new mp3 download. This is most exciting with the wonderful attention she has gotten from All About Jazz. Karen was thrilled first at the response to the the preview of her single “Do You Ever Think About Me," then second being ...

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