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Matt Dickey's "Try This at Home" CD Release Party at the Williamsburg Music Center on December 16

Source: alexander borsody
November 29, 2010

After a production process of nearly four years, Matt Dickey brings you Try This At Home, a collection of original, instrumental jazz/funk infused with latin, african, hip-hop and electronic flavors. Larger sized ensemble arrangements and rhythm section improvisations round out more than 73 minutes of tasty, funky grooves. The recording was done 99% in his basement home studio and he wrote, arranged, produced and engineered it using a laptop. Featuring some of NYC's finest musicians, listeners might find parallels to ...

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Melvin Gibbs' Phree-dem Downloads Week 2 features Pete Cosey and John Medeski

Source: Melvin Gibbs
November 29, 2010

The Phree-dem Downloads free music series continues into its' second week with the composition “Pete's Mojo." Bassist/producer Melvin Gibbs features Miles Davis (Get Up With It, Dark Magus, Agartha) alumni Pete Cosey on guitar and John Medeski on organ and electric piano on this track from his “Melvin Runs The Hoodoo Down" project This project, which takes the music of the Miles Davis' album Bitches Brew as it's starting point, is based on a production technique Melvin calls “infrapolation." “Pete's ...

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Radio

The Billy Strayhorn Songbook

Source: David Brent Johnson
November 29, 2010

Night Lights celebrates the 95th anniversary of Billy Strayhorn's birth with “The Billy Strayhorn Songbook," a program featuring interpretations of Strayhorn's music by the Duke Ellington orchestra, Ellingtonians such as Johnny Hodges, Ray Nance, and Ben Webster, John Coltrane, the Dutch Jazz Orchestra, and Strayhorn himself. Strayhorn was Ellington's writing partner for 27 years, contributing scores of compositions and arrangements; we'll hear some of his signature tunes such as “Chelsea Bridge," “Lush Life" (a rare performance by Strayhorn himself), and ...

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Performance / Tour

Austin-Based Trumpeter Erik Telford to Appear with His Sextet, the Erik Telford Collective, at Kuumbwa (Santa Cruz) 1/13 & Jazzschool (Berkeley) 1/15

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
November 29, 2010

Austin trumpeter/composer Erik Telford returns to his native California in January 2011 to perform two concerts with his Texas-based sextet, the Erik Telford Collective—on Thursday 1/13, at Kuumbwa in Santa Cruz, and Saturday 1/15, at the Jazzschool in Berkeley. The shows are in support of his debut CD Kinetic, which Telford released earlier this year on his ETJ Music label. The Boston Globe's Steve Greenlee wrote of Kinetic that it “represents everything that is right with contemporary jazz.... Telford announces ...

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Event

Conversations with Composers: Henry Threadgill in Conversation with Brent Hayes Edwards

Source: Yulanda Denoon
November 29, 2010

The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University presents its Conversations Series, through which Brent Hayes Edwards will engage leading composer Henry Threadgill in a reflection on the role of improvisation in his creative life. Threadgill's compositions are strikingly original, always surprising, and far-reaching. Though his ensembles—Air, the Sextett, Very Very Circus, the Society Situation Dance Band, Make a Move, and Zooid—are all very different, his compositional voice is ever present and identifiable, always fresh and challenging. Threadgill is also ...

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Award / Grant

Michael Buble Wins American Music Award

Source: Michael Ricci
November 28, 2010

Michael Bublé went home Sunday night with an AMA for Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist on ABC's American Music Awards. “It was truly an honor to win and be among so much amazing talent. It was a big night for Canadians—especially my family and Justin Bieber's," quipped Bublé. Bublé left LA the very next morning to begin rehearsals for another run of 14 dates of his phenomenally successful “Crazy Love Tour, “ promoted by Beaver Productions which begins on November 23rd ...

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Contest

Enter the IPO "James Moody - Moody 4B" Giveaway Contest

Source: All About Jazz
November 27, 2010

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the IPO “James Moody—Moody 4B“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on December 28th.Click here to enter the contest (Following James Moody at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! Your Friends at IPO Recordings About Moody 4B The most recent of IPO Recordings' series of releases by James Moody, this new disc is a sequel to last year's JazzTimes Critics Pick, ...

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