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DeeAnne Gorman Jazz Duo Appears in Peter Chelnik's "East Coast Jazz Poetry Explosion"

Source: All About Jazz
May 13, 2008

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David Sanchez "Cultural Survival" Released Next Week

Source: On Target Media Group
May 13, 2008

The new culturally inspired album from from 4-time Grammy Award winning Jazz sax master David Sanchez is now in stores.

Released next week (5.20.08) on Concord Picante, the album draws heavily on classic Jazz influences such as Miles Davis & John Coltrane, while fused with David's own distinct variety of Afro-Caribbean and Latin influences.

Cultural Survival features 8 straight ahead jazz tracks that showcase a new direction for Sanchez as he debuts a piano-less quartet on all but three of ...

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Jazz Animation

Source: All About Jazz
May 13, 2008

Early Pixar

I caught a presentation by Pixar director Gary Rydstrom at the Chicago Film Festival. Rydstrom was giving the first public screening of his new short Lifted, and he opened the show with 4 early Pixar shorts: Luxo Jr., Red's Dream, Knick Knack and Tin Toy (all of which were sound designed by Rydstrom). These films were all new to me, and I was surprised to discover that the first two films, Luxo Jr. and Red's Dream, feature jazz ...

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Bebop's Effect on Graphic Arts

Source: All About Jazz
May 13, 2008

UPA, Bebop, and other Degradations

I read on Cartoon Brew today that a debate of sorts has erupted online about the artistic merits of the animation studio UPA and the studio's contribution to the art form. Blogs point to where many reveal a misunderstanding of innovation and tradition in the arts in general. In particular, I was amused by a comment by animation theorist: I blame bebop which exerted a bad influence even on graphic art on and which wasn't ...

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Trailblazers Selling a Romantic Kind of Love

Source: Michael Ricci
May 13, 2008

Has any pop song evoked a generation's romantic self-infatuation more hauntingly than Joni Mitchell's “Woodstock"?

Sheila Weller, in her book Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon -- and the Journey of a Generation (Atria Books), which weaves the biographies of these singer-songwriters into a post-feminist history, writes: “It was the first line of the chorus -- 'We are stardust, we are golden' “ -- that “conveyed the impression of hundreds of thousands of people speaking as one." ...

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Free MP3 Download: Christoph Irniger's "Mania" from Chat Noir

Source: All About Jazz
May 13, 2008

Download “Mania," a free MP3 from Christoph Irniger's latest release Chat Noir.

Download: Mania Christoph Irniger Quartet 5:43 From: Chat Noir

About Christoph Irniger Christoph Irniger, born in 1979, began his musical career with the age of 11. From 2000 till 2004 he studied at the Jazzschool of Zurich with Christoph Grab, Thomas Grnewald and Rtus Flisch, as if from 2004 till 2006 at the Jazzschool of Lucerne with Nat Su, John ...

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Hacienda Brothers Release Final Album in Memorial to Member Chris Gaffney on June 24

Source: conqueroo
May 13, 2008

Album, with five tracks produced by Dan Penn, represents the last work of singer Chris Gaffney, who passed away on April 17

TUCSON, Ariz. --The Hacienda Brothers, whose Western soul sound received worldwide acclaim in the course of the band's five-year history, will release their final album, Arizona Motel, on June 24, 2008, distributed by Proper Records. It's an unexpected memorial to the band's lead singer and original member Chris Gaffney, who tragically passed away on April 17th after a ...

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Marcus Goldhaber Live @ The Kitano on Wednesday, May 28th - 8PM & 10PM

Source: AMP3 Public Relations
May 13, 2008

WHEN: Wednesday, May 28th

WHO: Marcus Goldhaber

WHERE: The Kitano, a coveted Manhattan venue known for its top shelf jazz.

This concert will feature new material and preview a few tracks from his upcoming album, TAKE ME ANYWHERE. At this performance, Marcus will team up once again with The Jon Davis Trio: Martin Wind, bass and Marcello Pellitteri, drums. These new songs were born out of a demand from Marcus' audience for original material. ...

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