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Performance / Tour

Singer/songwriter Raul Midon Performs This Sunday 1/16 at SOPAC

Source: AMT Public Relations
January 10, 2011

An Evening with Raul Midon @ South Orange Performing Arts Center One SOPAC Way, South Orange, NJ, 07079 Sun, Jan 16 at 7pm; Tickets: $35, $25. To purchase, visit SOPACnow.org or call 973.313.ARTS About Raul Midon: One man, one guitar—but not like you've ever heard before. Raul Midon uses his mouth like a trumpet and his guitar like a drum for an explosive blend of bass, harmony, rhythm and melody. His rich, supple tenor, not to ...

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Recording

Singer Tony Adamo's Funky Hip Eleanor Rigby

Source: Kl Ma
January 10, 2011

This very fresh take on the Beatles' symphonically infused downer reemerges here in Adamo's arrangement as decidedly less depressive but certainly no less enticing. The melancholy of the original comes through less so in Adamo's phrasings but is threaded throughout by the plaintiveness of the organ. The sadness of McCartney's voice has been leeched out here but miraculously not so much prettified by Adamo as hepped up by his jazz inflections and flavorings. The tempo's faster and the crispness of ...

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Recording

Melvin Gibbs' Phree-dem Downloads series reaches week 8

Source: Melvin Gibbs
January 10, 2011

Recording

Leila Adu finds Harmony with the Voiceless In "Ode To the Unknown Factory Worker" Album Release

Source: 4961 Polemics
January 10, 2011

Leila Adu celebrates global CD release on Rai Trade/Tracce, the Italian National Radio label New York, NY—Leila Adu reemerges to the international music scene on January 18th with her powerful new album “Ode to the Unknown Factory Worker." The 11 song CD is a raw musical travelogue of uncertainty and triumph in the exciting nomadic life of the popular New Zealand/Ghanaian singer-composer-multi-instrumentalist. Touring the globe solo and with band throughout 2009-2010 in support of her Steve Albini produced “Dark Joan" ...

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Recording

Richard X Heyman Readies 'Tries/and Other Stories,' Two Separate Albums Packaged Together

Source: conqueroo
January 10, 2011

April 19 releases are next step in the evolution of what RollingStone.com called “hooks galore and ebullient melodies" NEW YORK, N.Y.—Richard X. Heyman's ambitious new release, Tiers/And Other Stories, affirms what his longtime admirers have known for years: the veteran singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and DIY recording pioneer is a world-class artist whose effortless mastery of popular music idioms is matched by his uncanny knack for infusing classic styles with timeless emotional truths. Those abilities have won Heyman a fiercely loyal ...

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Event

APAP 2011: NEA Jazz Masters Awards Concert and Jazz Forum on January 11th

Source: Michael Ricci
January 10, 2011

NEA Jazz Masters Awards Concert at Jazz at Lincoln Center APAP SPECIAL EVENT 1/11/2011 1:00 PM-2:00 PM Jazz at Lincoln Center (Rose Hall) Jazz Forum APAP SPECIAL EVENT 1/11/2011 3:00 PM-5:00 PM Hilton (Gramercy Suite A) Session Description Click here to RSVP for this forum Artists, agents, managers, presenters, producers and aficionados come together to share their experiences, ideas, opportunities and hopes for jazz ...

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Event

The Dom Minasi String Quartet

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
January 10, 2011

The University of the Streets Presents The Dom Minasi String Quartet @ 8PM Featuring Dom Minasi (nylon string guitar), Jason Kao Hwang (violin), Tomas Ulrich (cello) and Ken Filiano (contrabass) “More than jazz, the quartet's music is more at home within the field of modern classical music, daring to strike out sharply if, at times abrasively from the a the angular camps of Shostakovich and Bartok." —Matt Marshall, All About Jazz January 11th, 2011, 10 PM The Blaise ...

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Contest

Enter the "Kermit Driscoll - Reveille" Giveaway

Source: All About Jazz
January 9, 2011

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Nineteen-Eight Records “Kermit Driscoll—Reveille“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select THREE winners at the conclusion of the contest on February 9th. Click here to enter the contest (Following Kermit Driscoll at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! Your Friends at Nineteen-Eight Records About Reveille One thing's certain: it was definitely worth the wait. Kermit Driscoll has been a remarkable bassist and inspired sideman for the last 30 years, ...

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