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TV / Film

New Jazz Film "They Died Before 40" Seeks Help With Photographs

Source: Howard E. Fischer
January 23, 2015

They Died Before 40, a new jazz film with licensing concerns needs help from the jazz community. In order for the film to be shown publicly all photographs and music must be licensed. There are over 600 photographs and graphic images in the film. It has been determined that about 100 are in the public domain and need not be licensed. In order to determine which of the others are in the public domain the jazz community can help. Those ...

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Recording

Jovan Alexandre’s Debut Album Collective Consciousness Out February 24

Source: Erika Santucci
January 23, 2015

“Jovan Alexandre is one of the most exciting new voices to emerge on the tenor saxophone—conceptually—in a long time. A gifted composer, his personal sound can seem variously molten and sharp-cornered within the same tune, sometimes almost within the same phrase. There’s an understated, almost implied, restlessness in his solos… He has that rare originality everyone strives for, and he definitely has a promising future in front of him.” —René McLean Tenor saxophonist Jovan Alexandre’s debut album, Collective Consciousness, is ...

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Performance / Tour

Despite setbacks, Jazz music survives and thrives in Boston

Source: Michael Ricci
January 23, 2015

Jazz has become fringe  art. Sure, Chris Botti and Diana Krall still move tickets, but the talented students pouring out of Berklee College of Music and the New England Conservatory face a tough economic reality: Graduates often make more money behind the counter at Starbucks than blowing their horns. But young players can take heart in an upswing in the scene. The South End's Beehive has done so well booking jazz in the past seven years, the owners opened a ...

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Performance / Tour

Singer-Songwriter Alexa Ray Joel Returns To Cafe Carlyle, February 24-March 7

Source: Matt Gross
January 22, 2015

Café Carlyle is pleased to welcome back Alexa Ray Joel for a two-week engagement, February 24–March 7. Reviewing a previous engagement at the Café, The New York Times called Joel, daughter of music legend Billy Joel and supermodel Christie Brinkley, “a singer following her own heart,” adding, “Her original work... is firmly grounded in a pop tradition in which streams converge, from gospel to Tin Pan Alley. The songs are bluntly melodic, lyrically direct and catchy.” Since she was 15, ...

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Recording

Saxophone Giants Azar Lawrence & Al McLean Kick Off "Conduit"

Source: Randy Cole
January 22, 2015

Cinematographer Randy Cole and saxophonist Al McLean deliver Conduit, an iconic Jazz recording, captured in a former church in Montreal. Cole and McLean invited American saxophonist Azar Lawrence, to the session (McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, Miles Davis), and the resulting tracks are mesmerizing. Digitally released on major music download sites (iTunes, Amazon, etc.), Conduit will be officially launched on March 7th in Montreal at Upstairs Jazz Bar & Grill by Azar Lawrence and Al McLean. Together, Lawrence and McLean cast ...

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Book / Magazine

"The Ultimate Sideman" by Eric Ineke & Dave Liebman

Source: Michael Ricci
January 22, 2015

By Marta Ramon The Ultimate Sideman Eric Ineke & Dave Liebman 224 pages ISBN:978-94-90532-04-8 Pincio Uitgeverij 2012 When you see a jazz musician on the stage, you connect with their playing. Sometimes, you wonder what crosses their mind to do that particular and subtle thing which touches you and makes a difference. You wonder about the person behind the instrument. This book gives you that portrait. The Ultimate Sideman talks ...

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Music Industry

Soaring Music Launches The Grand Opening Of Bassist Greg Nathan's Website Now Offering Charles Nathan's Musicals For Sale

Source: Greg Nathan
January 22, 2015

Greg Nathan, son of Charles Nathan, (songwriter who penned the music to Perry Como's 1953 hit, “Say Your Mine Again") and Tonie Nathan, (the first woman in history of the United States to receive an electoral vote for U.S. Vice President while running on the 1972 Libertarian Party ticket) has opened a website to facilitate sales of two musicals written by his dad that were produced within the last six years at the Actor's Cabaret in Eugene, Oregon. Greg Nathan ...

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Event

Bill Mays Presents "Ten Decades Of Jazz Piano" In Feb. 21 Program

Source: Ed Bride Associates
January 21, 2015

Berkshires Jazz, Inc. Participating in Pittsfield’s Annual 10x10 Upstreet Arts Festival with One-time Performance PITTSFIELD, MA: Berkshires Jazz, Inc. today announced that the legendary NY-based pianist Bill Mays will perform in a special headline concert on Feb. 21 at Baba Louie’s Backroom. Part of the Pittsfield 10x10 Upstreet Arts Festival, the master pianist surveys jazz' progression from raggedy honky-tonk sounds to its speakeasy era, to its heyday in the mid-20th century, to bebop, and now, to “America's Classical Music." To ...

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