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Education

Creative Music Studio Announces Fall Workshop, October 5-9, 2015

Source: Creative Music Foundation
July 31, 2015

Composer/multi-instrumentalist and Creative Music Studio alumnus Peter Apfelbaum, master percussionist/educator Billy Martin, and composer/saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa will join CMS Artistic Directors/Co-Founders Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso as Guiding Artists for the Creative Music Studio Fall 2015 Workshop Intensive, October 5-9, at the ear-inspiring Full Moon Resort in Big Indian, NY. CMS’s Fall 2015 Workshop features a format designed to create ample opportunities for participants and Guiding Artists to interact directly, both formally and informally. This workshop, during the height of ...

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Crowdfunding Campaign

Photographer Richard Corman Plans Roadtrip To Benefit Jazz Foundation Of America

Source: Dashiell Feiler
July 29, 2015

Wendy Oxenhorn, Executive Director of Jazz Foundation of America, has launched an Indiegogo campaign. Oxenhorn plans to send photographer Richard Corman, whose photo work spans Bill Clinton to Madonna, and videographer Alan Gastelum across the United States to meet with and profile 50 jazz and blues greats. “I cannot keep watching such great individuals pass with so few traces of their existence and their work,' said Wendy Oxenhorn, “This project will ensure that we record the many-sided history of this ...

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Performance / Tour

Chihiro Yamanaka At San Jose Jazz Summer Fest (Aug. 8) & Don Quixote's (Aug. 6)

Source: SF Media
July 28, 2015

The Chihiro Yamanaka Trio will perform August 8, 2015 at San Jose Jazz Summer Fest in San Jose, CA, and will precede the festival appearance with an August 6 concert at Don Quixote’s International Music Hall in Felton, CA. The trio, led by jazz pianist/composer Chihiro Yamanaka, a Blue Note Records recording artist, features bassist Yoshi Waki and drummer Eric Garland. At San Jose Jazz Summer Fest, Ms. Yamanaka’s group will perform at 2:00 PM at the Umpqua Bank Stage, ...

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Recording

A New Album, "Predawn Shenanigans Club" By Wataru Uchida

Source: Wataru Uchida
July 28, 2015

Born in Japan, tenor saxophonist Wataru Uchida was compelled by the power of swing to move to New York, only to come under the spell of Latin rhythms such as samba, Baião and Maracatu that form the core of a new release entitled Predawn Shenanigans Club. A specially recruited lineup of Brazilian jazz players bring life to his ten original compositions and give Wataru ample room to shine. Among many highlights, the title tune, “Predawn Shenanigans Club” contains alternating 3/4 ...

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Website

Jazz Near You Across Massachusetts: Pittsfield Added!

Source: All About Jazz
July 27, 2015

Jazz Near You has added Pittsfield as its third website in Massachusetts. If you live in Berkshire County and use Jazz Near You, please spread the word to the musician and presenter community about our free event listing and distribution service. Thanks much! pittsfield.jazznearyou.com With the addition of Pittsfield, Jazz Near You now provides jazz event and jazz venue listings for 260 cities worldwide. If you have an active jazz scene in your city and it's not listed here, let ...

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Recording

Benjamin Sutin's Klazz-Ma-Tazz New York-based Klezmer/Jazz Fusion Group To Release Their Debut Album

Source: Benjamin Sutin
July 25, 2015

New York-based Klezmer/Jazz Fusion Group to release their Debut Album Tangibility on OneTrickDog* Records September 1, 2015 Klezmer/Jazz fusion group Klazz-Ma-Tazz will release its debut album Tangibility on OneTrickDog* Records. Founded by violinist and composer Benjamin Sutin, in 2014, Klazz-Ma-Tazz blurs the boundaries of labels and genres. Rooted in the jazz idiom, the music reflects the influences of folk music from around the world, but particularly from the varied ethnic backgrounds of its band members: Klezmer and Balkan Folk music, ...

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Recording

Jazz Recording Artist Matt Savage Releases Summer Single - "Go On" - July 24th

Source: McMullen & Company Public Relations
July 24, 2015

Matt Savage, Jazz recording artist, pianist and composer, is releasing Go On as a summer single on Friday, July 24th. Recorded at Avatar Studios in New York City, Go On is a catchy jazz-fusion tune featuring Matt Savage on both piano and electric keyboard, with Brandon Wright (tenor saxophone), Tom Berkmann (bass) and Richie Barshay (drums). Go On will be available on CD Baby, iTunes, Amazon and Spotify. Matt just graduated from Manhattan School of Music, earning his Master of ...

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Recording

Gabriel Alegria Afro-Peruvian Sextet Celebrates 10th Anniversary With "10," Due From ZOHO Music on August 7

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
July 23, 2015

A decade of musical innovation by Gabriel Alegría's Afro-Peruvian Sextet is something to celebrate, and the ensemble marks this anniversary in glorious style with the release of 10, due for release August 7 by ZOHO Music. The program on the band’s 5th CD is richly infused with Alegría’s trademark synthesis of folkloric Afro-Peruvian rhythms, jazz, and other musical strains. “It’s a concept album,” Alegría says. “For our 10th anniversary, we wanted to give special care to American and Peruvian standards. ...

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