Jazz News

Extensive Interview with Red Morocco's Joe Giardullo Now up on Web

Source: All About Jazz
November 20, 2007

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Aaron Levinson: Fixing a Musical Salad

Source: All About Jazz
November 20, 2007

Long before your favorite DJ was cutting and scratching, Aaron Levinson was crossing genres with some of contemporary music's most talented musicians. The music veteran has 16 albums under his belt, along with several Grammys and Billboard Awards. But, trying to describe his music category is difficult, because Levinson has composed and produced music from around the globe. So why is this important to Hip Hop? Because Levinson has just released the multi-genre project called The ...

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Cape Town International Jazz Festival to Grows into a 10-Day Event

Source: All About Jazz
November 20, 2007

The Cape Town International Jazz Festival is like a house with many rooms. Known as Africa's Grandest Gathering, the festival which will be in its ninth year when it takes place on Friday 28-Saturday 29 March 2008 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre brings together 40 jazz and jazz-related musical groups under its banner. Over the last eight years, African bands have shared the festival's five stages with their overseas counterparts on a 50/50 basis. This presentation of varied ...

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Us3 Producer Geoff Wilkinson Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
November 20, 2007

In 1992 Geoff Wilkinson produced the groundbreaking jazz/hip-hop crossover track “Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)," gaining international recognition with his Us3 project. Fourteen years and six albums down the line he's still going strong, but it could all have been very different.

For a man whose achievements are so widely respected, Wilkinson comes across as a genuine, open person--not at all pretentious or arrogant. AAJ contributor Frederick Bernas spoke with Wilkinson at London's Jazz Cafe, where Us3 played two nights, launching a ...

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Ayler Records Announces Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut as First Living Artist Chosen for Box Set

Source: All About Jazz
November 20, 2007

November 2007, Sweden -- Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut (New York City) is chosen as the first living artist to have a box set released by the Scandinavian record label Ayler Records.

Shurdut's Box Set documents the artist's journey into Environmental Tuning with the players who have been a part of his revolutionary vision.

This very unique box will include collaborations with Joe McPhee, Blaise Siwula, Brian Osborne, Daniel Carter, Luther Thomas, Sonny Simmons, Frode Gjerstad, Lukas Ligeti, Tom Chess, Marc Edwards, ...

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New CDs by Peter Evans and Tyshawn Sorey on Firehouse 12 Records

Source: Improvised Communications
November 20, 2007

Firehouse 12 Records is proud to announce the November 20th release of The Peter Evans Quartet's self-titled debut and Tyshawn Sorey's two-disc set, That/Not. These releases, recorded and produced by the label in its state-of-the-art recording studio in New Haven, Connecticut, are the first to document these acclaimed young artists at the helm of their own bands.

The Peter Evans Quartet The Peter Evans Quartet Firehouse 12 FH12-04-01-004

New York-based trumpeter/composer Peter Evans' first recording as ...

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Vocalist Sara Holtzschue's "Beneath" Now Available at Itunes and CD Baby

Source: All About Jazz
November 20, 2007

"[Sara Holtzschue] explores a dark, minor/modal world that extends the tradition of modal jazz with elegance and a sophisticated ear for harmony." About Sara Holtzschue A New York native, Sara Holtzschue began her career in music as a classically trained flutist. She graduated with a degree in music with honors from Barnard College at Columbia University where she studied with David Rakowski, Mario Davidovsky, Jeff Nichols and Harold Jones. Sara's interest in jazz led her to a master's degree with ...

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Poet M.L. Liebler and Guitarist/Poet Ron English on Detroit Jazzstage

Source: JazzStage Productions
November 19, 2007

Poet M.L. Liebler and jazz guitarist/poet Ron English are the November guests on Detroit JazzStage. M.L. fronts the group, M. L. Liebler & The Magic Poetry Band. By day, he is a Wayne State University professor (and St. Clair Shores, Michigan's first Poet Laureate). Over the last twenty plus years, M.L. has combined his insightful, urban poetry with the funky tones of modern jazz, resulting in a perfect elision of sound and vision. Ron has enjoyed a long and varied ...

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