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Contest

Enter the James Farm Giveaway at All About Jazz!

Source: All About Jazz
June 18, 2011

Recording

"A Fresh Take" Latest CD From Eugene Marlow's Heritage Ensemble

Source: Eugene Marlow
June 18, 2011

NEW YORK: In mid-June, MEII Enterprises, Eugene Marlow's indie label, will release A Fresh Take, its 7th album in as many years. “A Fresh Take," a collection of nine tracks performed by Marlow's Heritage Ensemble, is a re-record of the group's 2006 debut album Making the Music Our Own. Why a re-record? According to Marlow: “In the last few years, The Heritage Ensemble's personnel have changed. The arrangements has not only grown in number, they have also evolved with the ...

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Recording

Ellery Eskelin, Andrea Parkins & Jim Black: One Great Day... on Hatology

Source: Werner Uehlinger
June 18, 2011

In some ways I think that a recording is the best medium for this music. I can think of a lot of music that speaks better on a recording than it does in a club where the environment and the audience's expectations exert an effect on the music. With this recording we've found a mix between the two. Writing music for this band has been a real break through for me. Andrea and Jim have ears for anything I put ...

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Recording

Ray Anderson, Han Bennink & Christy Doran: ABD on hatOLOGY

Source: Werner Uehlinger
June 18, 2011

Listening to Anderson's four compositions, Doran's piece, four free improvisations, and an Ellington tune, from the two sessions strike me as collages of a sort, bringing together very different aesthetics, directions, and materials, for a direct confrontation. Not a confrontational confrontation, mind you. A very amenable comparing, contrasting, and combining of sensibilities, the very thing that makes creative music tick. —John Corbett Originally released as Azurety and Cheer Up. Recorded in 1994-1995. Personnel: Ray Andeerson (trombone, tuba); Han Bennink (drums); ...

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Festival

The 18th Istanbul Jazz Festival starts on July 1

Source: Elif Obdan
June 17, 2011

The 18th Istanbul Jazz Festival, organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, and sponsored for the 14th time by Garanti Bank, will take place between July 1-19. The 18th Istanbul Jazz Festival will again fill the heart of Istanbul with jazz with over 40 concerts and more than 300 local and foreign artists. This year, the concerts in the Istanbul Jazz Festival will take place in classic venues such as the Cemil Topuzlu Open Air Theatre, Archaeological Museum, ...

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Performance / Tour

The Legend Of Clifford Brown, Delaware's Jazz Great, Lives On

Source: Chris Rich
June 17, 2011

If you're not that familiar with the work of the namesake of the jazz festival starting in downtown Wilmington this weekend, consider this: When Wilmington-born Clifford Brown died at the age of 25, his name was already being used in the same breath as iconic names like Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie. After all, it was Gillespie himself who pushed a 20-year-old Brown to continue with his gift after an earlier car accident in 1950 that left him ...

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Performance / Tour

Chihiro Yamanaka Trio featuring Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, 6/22 at Regattabar, 6/30 at Iridium

Source: Scott Foster
June 17, 2011

The Chihiro Yamanaka Trio featuring Bernard “Pretty" Purdie will present two Universal/Decca CD release concerts: June 22, 2011 at Regattabar (Cambridge, MA) and June 30, 2011 at Iridium Jazz Club (New York City.) At Iridium, Chihiro and Purdie will be joined by bassist Ben Williams. Chihiro Yamanaka's latest CD, “Forever Begins" (Universal/Decca), her U.S. major label debut, was released in May, 2011. “Forever Begins" was first released in Japan (on Universal/Verve) in the fall of 2010, where it quickly ascended ...

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Award / Grant

Stanley Clarke Set To Be Honored At Montreal Jazz Festival With Esteemed Miles Davis Award June 26

Source: Diane Hadley
June 17, 2011

Stanley Clarke will be the 18th recipient of the Miles Davis Award at the Montreal Jazz Festival June 26, 8:00 p.m., Salle Wilfrid-Peiletier venue. The award will be presented before his festival performance with Return To Forever. The Miles Davis Award was created in 1994 to honor a great international jazz musician for the entire body of his or her work and for that musician's influence in regenerating the jazz idiom. “Awards such as this make me remember and appreciate ...

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