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Recording

Henry Threadgill: Complete Novus/Columbia Recording

Source: Michael Ricci
September 15, 2010

A First-Ever Opportunity To Experience Two Decades of Exceptional Artistry Henry Threadgill & Air Available at shop.allaboutjazz.com Talk to Henry Threadgill about the influences in his music, and he is drawn to talk about food. Or patterns of light in the sky. Or a building across the street from a rehearsal studio. Talking about an instrument's role in a composition, he is likely to mention not the rhythm of the drums, but the tuning, and a discussion about harmony becomes ...

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Interview

Mercury Prize-Nominated Pianist Kit Downes Interviewed at All About Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
September 15, 2010

Kit Downes' career as a jazz musician has, indeed, taken off in a very short time. He's still in his mid-20s, but such is his talent and appetite for music that Downes has become one of the most sought-after keyboardist in Britain, and he's a key presence in a series of cutting-edge bands, with The Golden Age Of Steam, Troyka, Big Cat and his own Kit Downes Trio all springing readily to mind. While the intelligent but unassuming musician has ...

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Recording

Khing Zin Shwe & Shwe Shwe Khaing: Songs from Myanmar & Burmese Traditions

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
September 14, 2010

For seven hundred years, serpentine songs of glorious kings, ancient wealth, and deep love have echoed at weddings and social occasions in Myanmar (Burma). Though steeped in musical and literary tradition, these songs, called the Maha Gita (which means “great song"), speak with a voice that transcends personal gain, political tension, economic hardship, or cultural difference. This is what the producers of Voice Over the Bridge (EarthSync; October 12, 2010) heard when they first encountered two striking—yet strikingly humble—vocalists in ...

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Recording

By Dogsled, Tugboat or Kayak: Paul Winter's Latest Adventure in Japan

Source: rock paper scissors, inc.
September 14, 2010

The Garden of Sonic Delights: Paul Winter Consort Finds a Resonant Paradise in a Japanese Architectural Treasure Paradise began as an enclosed garden but morphed into Shangri-la, a valley concealed and shimmering with peach blossoms. Now it echoes in a peaceable kingdom inside a mountain top, filled with resonant chambers and great treasures: the I. M. Pei-designed Miho Museum in the Shigaraki Mountains of Japan. This unique setting has inspired the Paul Winter Consort's latest exploration of sound, spirit and ...

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Performance / Tour

Lina Allemano Four - USA Tour & "Jargon" CD Release, Oct 2010!

Source: Michael Ricci
September 14, 2010

LINA ALLEMANO FOUR: Lina Allemano, trumpet Brodie West, alto saxophone Andrew Downing, double bass Nick Fraser, drums Toronto's cutting edge avant-jazz band, LINA ALLEMANO FOUR—known for their inventiveness and synergy—deftly blur the line between composition and improvisation. LINA ALLEMANO was featured as one of DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE's top innovative trumpeters for the future. The band has toured extensively over the past 5 years, having released two widely acclaimed CDs, and releasing their 3rd ...

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Event

Conversations with Composers: Miya Masaoka in Conversation with Vijay Iyer

Source: Yulanda Denoon
September 14, 2010

Award / Grant

Alex Hargreaves Awarded Jimmy Lyons Scholarship at Berklee School of Music

Source: GoMedia PR
September 14, 2010

Presentation will be made to Adventure Music's Youngest Recording Artist on the Jimmy Lyons Stage at the Monterey Jazz Festival on September 19 Berklee College of Music and the Monterey Jazz Festival have announced that award-winning violinist and Adventure Music recording artist Alex Hargreaves is the fourteenth recipient of the Jimmy Lyons Scholarship at Berklee, a major music education prize. The full-tuition scholarship is named in honor of the festival's late founder, James L. (Jimmy) Lyons, who began the festival ...

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Award / Grant

Five Berklee Alumni Nominated for Eleven Latin Grammy Awards

Source: Berklee Public Relations
September 14, 2010

BOSTON, MA, September 13, 2010—Five Berklee alumni have been nominated for 11 Latin Grammy Awards including Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Tropical Album, and Best Latin Jazz Album. Winners will be announced at the 11th Annual Latin Grammy Awards ceremony November 11 from 8:00㬇:00 p.m. EST, broadcast live on the Univsion Network from the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. Juan Luis Guerra '83 leads the pack with four nominations. His ...

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