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Jazz Mentors Program Presents The Woody Herman Orchestra July 14th Montgomery High School Skillman, NJ

Source: All About Jazz
May 30, 2006

The Woody Herman Orchestra under the direction of Frank Tiberi in Seminar and Concert

July 14th

Open to All Ages

Seminar: 4:00-6:00 pm Dinner: 6:15-7:00 pm Meet and Greet the Mentors 7:00-7:30 pm Concert: 8:00-10:00 pm Official Jazz Mentors T-shirt (for those who have attended before and have already received the official T- you may choose a white JM T-shirt or a Jazz Rocks ...

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Pauline Oliveros : The Roots Of The Moment on hatOLOGY 591

Source: All About Jazz
May 30, 2006

New CD: The Roots of the Moment

Pauline Oliveros : accordion in just intonation in an interactive electronic environment created by Peter Ward.

For more than 50 years, Pauline Oliveros has been on a continuing mission: “... to explore new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before." If those words bring to mind the voyages of the Starship Enterprise from the television series Star Trek, the parallels ...

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Steve Lacy - Brion Gysin : Songs on hatOLOGY 625

Source: All About Jazz
May 30, 2006

New CD: Songs, featuring Steve Lacy, Steve Potts, Bobby Few, Irene Aebi, Jean-Jaques Avenel, Oliver Johnson and Brion Gysin.

“Doubtless, Steve Lacy is one of contemporary music's most prolific practitioners - and certainly one of the most recorded. But even within a catalogue as bulging and varied as his, this sequence of Songs is a singular experience...Throughout these remarkable Songs the music is inseparable from the words. Extramusical echoes may occur - for example, the melismatic winding of themes in ...

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Russ Lossing : All Things Arise on hatOLOGY 629

Source: All About Jazz
May 30, 2006

Russ Lossing : piano solo : All Things Arise

performing “Alabama Song" by Kurt Weil, “Azure" by Duke Ellington, “Kathelin Gray" by Ornette Coleman, “Pent-Up House" by Sonny Rollins and his own compositions.

For Lossing, improvisation is clearly a special act, a study in transparence and transformation, a creative exchange amongthe elements. One hears fresh relations of time and space. His acute sense of time connects inevitably to its absence. Space is heard in his sense of density, the room ...

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Keyboardist James Auburn Keeps it Moving

Source: All About Jazz
May 30, 2006

Keyboardist James Auburn keeps busy these days. James' band Velvet Stylus recently learned of their nomination for Best Live Group in the Mass Industry Committee's First Annual Hip-Hop Awards, scheduled to take place on June 17. Velvet Stylus was recently featured on the Project: Think Different EmPOWERment: the power to break you freecompilation CD. Project: Think Different is an advocate for social change and all songs on the album reflect new ways to encourage social messages and anti-stereotypical content. Velvet ...

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AllAboutJazz-New York June 2006 Issue Now Available!

Source: All About Jazz
May 30, 2006

Last month AllAboutJazz-New York celebrated its 4th anniversary (we started back in May 2002). It seemed an odd number to make a big deal about so we let it pass. But we didn't have to hold back our festive spirit for long. June 2006 is our 50th issue and that is substantial enough to warrant mention. Just a quick expression of thanks to everyone who supported and helped us get to this point. Maybe not so coincidentally, AAJ-NY has been ...

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Stevie Holland Releases "More Than Words Can Say" on 150 Music

Source: All About Jazz
May 30, 2006

More Than Words Can Say is Stevie Holland's most soulful, swinging and bold CD to date. Arranged and orchestrated by award winning composer Gary William Friedman, More Than Words Can Say explores classic jazz standards, songs from the 50's and 70's and some original material with exciting, innovative and haunting approaches. Stevie is backed by a string orchestra on several selections and by some of today's hottest jazz musicians led by pianists Martin Bejerano and Kris Davis.

Stevie's repertoire, phrasing ...

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Polwechsel Releases "Archives of the North" on hatOLOGY

Source: All About Jazz
May 30, 2006

Burkhard Beins, Martin Brandlmayr, John Butcher, Werner Dafeldecker & Michael Moser. Barcode 752156063322 Our 3rd release of Polwechsel. Also available: Polwechsel on hat(now)ART 112 & Polwechsel 2 on hat(now)ART 119. The Polwechsel project has been exponential in defining new approaches to the composition/ improvisation paradigm and in doing so have created a music that defined, examined and radically reassessed its own genre. Each phase of Polwechsel has been marked by a defining document and the releases of their recordings have ...

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