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Advocacy

B-JAZZ 2017: Help Young Belgian Jazz Musicians Realize Their Dreams

Source: All About Jazz
December 11, 2016

Although governments in Europe are withdrawing their subsidies for the performing arts and life is getting more and more difficult for performing artists to earn their living, the jazz scene in Europe continues to forge ahead. Music colleges, academies, conservatories and jazz institutes are attracting more young musicians than they can enroll. The number of jazz and world music festivals are proliferating. The challenge is to ensure that emerging artists receive a platform to perform, earn a living, whilst keeping ...

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Recording

Lyric Fury, The Adventurous Octet Led By Pianist/Composer Cynthia Hilts, Debuts On Record January 13

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
December 8, 2016

Twenty years ago, Brooklyn-based pianist/composer Cynthia Hilts was seeking to form a band “that sounds like a celestial collision of Mingus and Debussy” as a vehicle for her brisk, striking originals. Her avant-meets-mainstream writing, as the band name Lyric Fury suggests, is demanding and defined by powerful contrasts. Hilts and her octet have been honing a sound and a vision ever since, and their brilliant efforts are captured on their first recording together—the like-named Lyric Fury—set for January 13 release ...

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Website

Who are your favorite jazz musicians? All About Jazz wants to know.

Source: Michael Ricci
December 7, 2016

Past or present, All About Jazz wants to know which jazz musicians are your personal favorites, and you can tell us by adding them from your Favorite Musicians page. Simply sign in or sign up, then click the “Favorite Musicians" link under “Hi, [Your Name]" in the header section. See sample screen below... Whether you have five favorites or 500, you can quickly add and track them from this new page. We keep a running total of the leading musicians ...

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Opinion

More Christmas Classics from JazzWax

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
December 6, 2016

Now meet the rest of the JazzWax Vintage Holiday Album Hall of Fame family, in order of their induction and linked to Amazon... 2015—Two albums with the same name: Bobby Timmons' Holiday Soul and Don Patterson's Holiday Soul. Both trio albums were recorded for Prestige in Nov. 1964—the former on the 24th and the latter on the 25th. 2014—Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass: Christmas Album (1968). 2013—Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme's That Holiday Feeling! (1964).

Here are albums that ...

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Event

Paris Jazz Club Presents French Quarter: Jazz in NYC from January 7-10

Source: All About Jazz
December 5, 2016

The FRENCH QUARTER's fourth edition is on its way to New York for three special evenings on the occasion of three major international jazz events (APAP, Winter Jazz Festival and Global Fest). French jazz currently lives a wonderful revival and Paris Jazz Club aim to spread its creativity, dynamism and richness all over the world. FRENCH QUARTER is organized by PARIS JAZZ CLUB, the network of jazz venues of Paris and its region, with the support of ADAMI, SACEM, SPEDIDAM, ...

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Event

Soulful Sounds Of Christmas Featuring Will Downing & Najee at the Palace Theater in Waterbury, CT

Source: Helen Taylor
December 3, 2016

Usher in the spirit of the holiday season with Soulful Sounds Of Christmas featuring Will Downing & Najee presented by ACT Jams Productions on December 16 at the Palace Theater, 100 East Main Street, Waterbury, CT. Show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are available at the box office at 203-346-2000 or online here. Following the concert, guests are invited to take to the dance floor in the orchestra lobby for an Old School Holiday Dance Party featuring everyone's favorite R&B, ...

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Recording

Bay Area Vocalist Sandy Cressman Reaffirms Her Deep Connections With Brazilian Music On New CD "Entre Amigos"

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
December 2, 2016

As founder and leader of the group Homenagem Brasileira, San Francisco-based vocalist/educator Sandy Cressman has had many opportunities over the last 20-plus years to forge creative partnerships with like-minded musicians from the Bay to Brazil. Her entrancing new album, Entre Amigos, which will be released on February 3 by her Cressman Music imprint, marks the culmination of these relationships and is a celebration of her own deep history with the music and the players. Though the new CD is her ...

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Music Industry

Outhere Music acquires HatHut Records

Source: All About Jazz
December 2, 2016

Outhere Music is proud to announce the acquisition of the catalogue of the legendary Swiss jazz and contemporary music label HatHut Records. HatHut Records boasts an impressive number of more than 500 CD’s and LP’s, produced by its visionary founder, Werner X. Uehlinger over 40 years. Major composers such as John Cage, Morton Feldman, Giacinto Scelsi, Galina Ustvolskaya and interpreters like Paul Bley, Anthony Braxton, Ellery Eskelin, Steve Lacy, Joe McPhee, Cecil Taylor or the Sun Ra Arkestra have put ...

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