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Book / Magazine

Bebop, Swing, and Bella Musica: Jazz and the Italian American Experience

Source: Michael Ricci
March 26, 2015

A book by Bill Dal Cerro and David Anthony Witter. Frank Sinatra, Louis Prima, Louie Bellson, Lennie Tristano, Tony Bennett, Buddy DeFranco, Flip Phillips, and Joe Lovano: These are just some of the hundreds of musicians of Italian descent whose talents have enriched jazz. Bebop, Swing, and Bella Musica is more than just a book about jazz. From the lynching of Italian immigrants in New Orleans in 1891 through the headliners and award winning performers of today, this book documents ...

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Recording

Michael Mull Octet Releases Source Code On Orenda Records

Source: Michael Mull
March 25, 2015

Saxophonist and Composer Michael Mull Digs Deep for the Source on his debut Octet album, Source Code! Michael Mull is a saxophonist and composer of surprise breadth and depth and to say his music is chameleonic is an understatement. On Source Code, the debut album of his flagship ensemble, the Michael Mull Octet, he shows just how cutting and poignant a paradox can be. It’s dark yet uplifting, wrenching yet airy, manic yet precise, crushingly heavy and ineffably light—in a ...

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Book / Magazine

Listen to This Miles Davis and "Bitches Brew"

Source: Michael Ricci
March 25, 2015

THE FIRST CLOSE CRITICAL TREATMENT OF THE ALBUM THAT SHOOK JAZZ WITH ITS ELECTRIC SOUND AND ROCK-INFLUENCED STYLE Listen to This stands out as the first book exclusively dedicated to Miles Davis's watershed 1969 album, Bitches Brew. Victor Svorinich traces its incarnations and inspirations for ten-plus years before its release. The album arrived as the jazz scene waned beneath the rise of rock and roll and as Davis (1926-1991) faced large changes in social conditions affecting the African American consciousness. ...

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Event

Beka Gochiashvili Trio Plays Limerick, Dublin, March 25-27

Source: Ian Patterson
March 24, 2015

Teddy D Productions proudly present The Beka Gochiashvili Trio, Dolan’s Limerick, Wednesday March 25, 8pm and Dublin, St. Ann’s Church, Dawson Street, Friday 27, 8pm. “Beka Gochiashvili is a brilliant young piano prodigy. You’ll be seeing a lot more of him in the next few years" —Chick Corea, 2010 Line-Up: Beka Gochiashvili (Piano), Marty Jaffe (Bass), Jimmy MacBride (Drums) The young Georgian sensational pianist Beka Gochiashvili will be appearing in Ireland during March to play three very special concerts in ...

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Performance / Tour

Chihiro Yamanaka Trio At Blues Alley In Washington, DC, March 30

Source: SF Media
March 23, 2015

The Chihiro Yamanaka Trio will perform March 30, 2015 at Blues Alley in Washington, DC. The trio, led by jazz pianist/composer Chihiro Yamanaka, a Universal Music/Blue Note recording artist, features bassist Yoshi Waki and drummer John Davis. Ms. Yamanaka’s performance, part of Blues Alley’s Japanese Jazz Series, marks her return to Blues Alley after her well-received debut engagement in March, 2014. Ms. Yamanaka’s concerts at Blues Alley have been organized with the support of the Embassy of Japan in association ...

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Performance / Tour

Ginny's Supper Club - April - Marc Cary, Winard Harper & More!

Source: Scott Thompson Public Relations
March 22, 2015

Marc Cary - Album Release Party! Winard Harper, Damien Sneed, Michael Mwenso, Fela! & More! Ginny's Supper Club at Red Rooster - Harlem 310 Lenox Ave. (Between 125th & 126th) New York, NY 10027 Phone: 212-421-3821 Thursday, March 26 DUANE EUBANKS QUINTET 7:30PM & 9:30PM Trumpeter Duane Eubanks has performed everywhere from the Hollywood Bowl to Birdland, the Kennedy Center to Europe and Japan. His highly successful musical ...

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Interview

Interview: Andy Waddell

Source: Eric Taylor
March 21, 2015

Q: How do you feel you have developed creatively with your new album, Alive? A: This is an honest trip. It came like Sunday boredom, almost baptismal, a dip in the river after a week’s bend. I've been writing and creating my own music for a long time, but everything on this album came from a different source. My heart finally came up for air after a lifetime of experimental asphyxiation. Every piece came about like a drought’s first heavy ...

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Music Industry

A Dixieland Song Just Waiting For The Right Band

Source: George Wells
March 22, 2015

Huntsville, AL: Long time songwriter, George Wells, has written an exciting Dixieland song that tells how sweet the world seems when you are looking through chocolate covered glasses I have just finished a demo on my brand new idea, “Chocolate Covered Glasses.” Well, what’s so exciting about that? At age 84 and writing songs for more than 52 years, why would one song out of the thousands written, have an effect on me. Well, I have never written a Dixieland ...

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