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Career

Taking Note: Artist Employment Projections

Source: Michael Ricci
July 1, 2011

By Sunil Iyengar, NEA Director of Research & Analysis This summer, the National Endowment for the Arts is piloting its 2012 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA). The SPPA underwent major surgery this year, in the wake of a November 2010 meeting with arts organizations, study methodologists, and social science researchers. At the meeting, participants proposed strategic changes to the questionnaire. Indeed, the goal of the meeting was to find ways to make the survey more relevant to ...

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Recording

Canadian duo Koller Michels' second album reflects depth of friendship and mutual love for jazz

Source: Lauren Rogers
June 30, 2011

George Koller is the bass; Julie Michels is the voice. On their aptly-titled second album, Bass and Voice, that is all the Canadian duo needs. On Bass and Voice, Koller and Michels are on the opposite ends of an emotional thread, each of them holding up a side; listening to the music that unreels between them is like prying into a private conversation. There is a level of intimacy that happens between two musicians communicating with one another through the ...

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Recording

Australia's Backlash Jazz Quintet revives hard bop sounds with cage-rattling energy on new CD

Source: Lauren Rogers
June 30, 2011

To trumpeter Benn Hodgkin, jazz is about an era. A specific style. And a record label. When Hodgkin formed his band the Backlash Jazz Quintet in 2002, it was to pay homage to the hard bop records that Blue Note released in the '50s and '60s. Artists such as Cannonball Adderley, Art Blakey, and Freddie Hubbard helped pioneer the genre, which brought a funky element to jazz inherited from rhythm and blues, gospel music, and the blues. On the Backlash ...

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Jazz Violinist Duane Padilla Releases Debut Solo Album "Sentimental Swing"

Source: Michael Ricci
June 30, 2011

Violinist Duane Padilla releases debut solo album Sentimental Swing (Honolulu, HI) On June 1, 2011, Violinist Duane Padilla released his debut solo album entitled “Sentimental Swing." Inspired by the lyricism of Frank Sinatra and the eternally optimistic melodies of French jazz violinist Stephane Grappelli, the album presents a selection of romantically swinging jazz improvisations based on classics from The Great American Song Book. Honolulu Symphony Violinist Duane Padilla stumbled into Honolulu's jazz scene very much by accident. “After Symphony rehearsal ...

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Recording

Legendary Drummer Mike Clark to Record Live Album at Iridium with His 'Indigo Blue' Band

Source: Seth Cohen PR
June 29, 2011

Legendary drummer Mike Clark will record a new, live album at Iridium Jazz Club in New York City, July 29th to 31st. Clark will be joined by his Indigo Blue band, featuring an All- Star line-up of Wallace Roney (trumpet), Donald Harrison (alto sax), Christian McBride (bass), Rob Dixon (tenor sax) and Antonio Farao (piano). The upcoming album, to be culled from recordings of the multi-night-run at Iridium, will feature a combination of standards and original compositions / arrangements by ...

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Education

Jimmy Heath, Arturo O'Farrill, Jane Monheit in Educational Concerts at Usdan Center

Source: Reva Cooper
June 29, 2011

Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, the Long Island summer arts day camp whose alumni include Natalie Portman, Seth Rudetsky, Mariah Carey and many other stars, is presenting its Festival Concerts for the season. These are a special feature of the Center: private, on-site daily educational performances by distinguished artists for students in Usdan's 1,000-seat McKinley Ampitheater. Many of the artists will also teach workshops and master classes during the season. Jazz artists this year include: On Monday ...

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Contest

Announcing the Winners of the "Roberta Piket - Sides, Colors" Giveaway

Source: All About Jazz
June 29, 2011

Recording

The Melodies Make Jeff Logan's "Black Tie Affair" an Affair to Remember

Source: Great Scott P.R.oductions
June 29, 2011

Title track garnering radio spins ahead of the jazz/R&B keyboardists August 9th album release Upper Marlboro, MD : Although he appears on the album cover wearing a tuxedo with a bowtie, keyboardist Jeff Logans forthcoming Black Tie Affair is far from a stuffy, extravagant and exclusive soire. Everyone is invited to enjoy the irresistibly charming, jazzy R&B collection that humbly serves an endless feast of soul-nourishing melodies. Literally the host with the most, Logan wrote ten of the twelve songs, ...

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