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Recording

Sue McCreeth reveals early writing and demos

Source: Sue McCreeth
August 22, 2010

Sue McCreeth, celebrated UK jazz artist, is recording a new CD with her band, Infinite Sunday, to be released early 2011 through Tru-nu and Proper Music Distribution. Leading up to this, McCreeth will be releasing early tracks, recordings, demos, videos, solo piano/vocal work. Sue McCreeth's technique, originality and quality of writing have long been the subject of music press plaudits in the UK. These early tracks show the development of an artist, and will lead nicely into the highly produced ...

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Interview

Curlew Founder/Saxophonist George Cartwright Interviewed at All About Jazz

Source: John Kelman
September 13, 2010

George Cartwright can't be forgotten. The triple sax threat is part of the archaeology of modern New York. The downtown scene, just like New Orleans or 52 Street, has its mythology, and, as much as John Zorn, Cartwright figures in that, having come to the city fresh out of The Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, New York in the late 1970s, bringing with him his trio featuring the equally crucial percussionist David Moss and reed player Michael Lytle. Curlew came ...

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Interview

Guitarist Kevin Frenette Interviewed at All About Jazz

Source: John Kelman
September 8, 2010

However cool the surface of his music, Kevin Frenette is not content to serve up any sort of “easy listening." The guitarist grew up in Fall River, a small city in southeastern Massachusetts, but the beauty of his music is akin to a sylvan setting—to enter into it is to traverse a forest trail. Some themes and motifs—"organisms"—are finely formed and highly developed; some are just budding—new ideas still in the rough, offered to the ear as tokens of innovations ...

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Interview

Composer/Pianist Julian Joseph Interviewed at All About Jazz

Source: John Kelman
September 7, 2010

Julian Joseph is something of a jazz master of all trades. Pianist, composer, bandleader, arranger, broadcaster and educator, Joseph is constantly busy, always working on new ideas and projects, spreading the word about music, encouraging young performers and generally promoting jazz around the world. With Shadowball Joseph has turned his attention to the relationship between jazz and baseball, bringing the two together in a major jazz opera. In a professional career that started in the mid-'80s Joseph, who is also ...

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Interview

New Innerviews iPhone/iPad App Delivers In-Depth, Immersive Interviews With Jazz and Rock Luminaries

Source: Anil Prasad
August 21, 2010

Innerviews, a pioneering online music magazine located at innerviews.org, and Heuristic Media, a leading mobile app development company, are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Innerviews app for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch via the Apple App Store. The Innerviews iPhone/iPad app delivers in-depth, uncompromising interviews with music's most vital and original voices, optimized for mobile reading. Brought to you by the creator of Innerviews.org, the first and longest-running music magazine on the Web, the app explores the ...

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Festival

Sedona Jazz on the Rocks returns after one-year hiatus

Source: Patricia Myers
August 22, 2010

By Patricia Myers Sedona, AZ—- It's being termed the “re-jazzination" of the Sedona Jazz on the Rocks Festival, the outdoor event returning after a year's hiatus related to financial issues. The daylong program on Saturday, Oct. 2, is aimed at increasing attendance by moving beyond the modern and contemporary jazz formats of the past 28 years to feature more blues and rhythm-and-blues bands. The lineup will feature jazz-Motown vocalist Dennis Rowland, guitarist Craig Chaquico, blues vocalist Maysa, Cuban pianist Alfredo ...

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Festival

Blues Music Aboard the Alaska Railroad--Simply Too Cool!

Source: Just Roots PR
August 22, 2010

Blues band Champagne and Temporary Saint will play a live concert onboard the Alaska Railroad. The roundtrip Anchorage to Seward train adventure treats guests to Turnagain Arm before heading deep into the lush alpine regions of the Chugach National Forest passing glaciers and wildlife on its way to the shores of Resurrection Bay. The special Blues Train is a tour package from the Alaska Railroad and Blues Central that runs from Anchorage to Seward on Sept. 18 and kicks off ...

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Event

Ponderosa Stomp Announces the Clandestine Celluloid Film Series Daytime, September 24-25, 2010 at One Eyed Jacks in New Orleans' French Quarter

Source: Just Roots PR
August 22, 2010

The Ponderosa Stomp music festival has been growing every year, giving birth to a music history conference and film series during the day before the concerts, then a record hop. This year's Clandestine Celluloid film series moves to One Eyed Jacks, a few blocks from the Music History Conference being held in the Cabildo in Jackson Square. For film series producer Madeleine Molyneaux, Clandestine Celluloid, the second incarnation of the moving image component of the Ponderosa Stomp “will expose Stomp ...

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