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Education

21-Time Grammy-Winning Engineer Al Schmitt To Receive Berklee Honorary Doctorate

Source: Berklee Media Relations
August 28, 2014

Berklee College of Music president Roger H. Brown will present an honorary doctor of music degree to producer and engineer Al Schmitt on Wednesday, September 10, in Los Angeles. Schmitt is a 21-time Grammy Award-winner who has worked on 160 gold and platinum selling albums. The ceremony, at the iconic Capitol Records building, is part of an event commemorating the 25th anniversary of Berklee Today – the college’s alumni magazine. This is the first time Berklee – named the industry’s ...

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Festival

Saxophonist Joshua Redman on the issues that face jazz musicians

Source: Michael Ricci
August 28, 2014

Tenor saxophonist Joshua Redman has been a star since he burst onto the jazz scene in his early 20s, winning the Thelonious Monk competition in 1991 and launching his prolific recording career in 1993. At 45, he remains a charismatic musician with broad stylistic interests, but with a blues sensibility and a fundamental allegiance to mainstream values of swing. Local audiences will get a big dose of Redman’s talents at the 35th annual Detroit Jazz Festival, which opens Friday and ...

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Interview

Drew Nugent And The Midnight Society Performs At Paris Bistro & Jazz Café

Source: Wendy Wolf
August 27, 2014

For Drew Nugent and the Midnight Society, playing a gig isn’t just about music. It’s about taking a step back in time. Led by pianist, trumpeter and vocalist Drew Nugent, his ensemble recreates the music of a bygone era—playing what has been coined HOT Jazz—which was popularized from 1897 to 1935. “In essence, it’s jazz in its original form,” says Nugent, “the original American pop music.” But the band does it in its own eclectic way. The tunes, the clothes ...

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Recording

M.O.D. Technologies Presents Six Releases Of Its Incunabula Digital Series

Source: hubtone PR
August 27, 2014

MILFORD GRAVES & BILL LASWELL The Stone - April 22, 2014 Song Title: Back In No Time AVAILABLE AS DOWNLOAD ONLY. ONLINE AND VIA M.O.D.TECHNOLOGIES. OUT NOW! Milford Graves - Iconic Force of Nature, Teacher, Healer, Shaman, Spiritual Rhythmatist... His drums speak in heavy African and Afro-Cuban dialects. Echoes of timeless voices... From his beginnings with Albert Ayler, Sonny Sharrock and others... To the present space / time... Milford Graves has been a profound ...

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Recording

Peter Hand Big Band New Release, "Out Of Hand" On Savant Records, September 23

Source: Peter Hand
August 27, 2014

Album Features Stellar Jazz Artists Including Don Braden, Ralph Lalama, Valery Ponomarev, Eddie Allen, Vincent Gardner, James Weidman, Harvie S, and Special Guest Houston Person NEW YORK, NY—Out Of Hand, an ambitious new big band recording from guitarist, composer and arranger Peter Hand on Savant Records, his second for the label, will be released on September 23, 2014. Leading an outstanding group of jazz soloists in a program of original compositions and creative arrangements of standards, the album marks a ...

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Festival

New Frequencies Fest: Jazz@YBCA San Francisco February 4-7, 2015

Source: Marshall Lamm Promotions & Public Relations
August 27, 2014

Yerba Buena Center for The Arts announced programming for New Frequencies Fest: Jazz@YBCA running February 4-7, 2015 New Frequencies Fest: Jazz@YBCA is a radical exploration of jazz's future through the lense of its pioneering spirit. The entire program is dedicated to jazz in the present tense while paying homage to the legacy of visionary artists of the 1960s and 70s through their impact on contemporary jazz and improvisational music. The past, current, and future San Francisco jazz scene and New ...

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Job Posting

DC Jazz Festival Announces A Search For Artistic Director

Source: All About Jazz
August 26, 2014

BACKGROUND After 10 years of annual, multi-day jazz programming coupled with a year round education program, the Board of the DC Jazz Festival has launched a search for a new artistic director. The Festival is recognized as a leading arts organization in the Mid-Atlantic, having garnered praise far and wide. The Artistic Director will work in partnership with the Board of Director, the Executive Director, producers, and a small, but talented team to take the Festival to new heights. DC ...

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Recording

Drummer Abbey Rader Releases Smoldering New Trio Album - "The Message" Available August 26

Source: Kai Rader
August 26, 2014

The Message captures the spiritual sound of Abbey Rader and two members of his acclaimed quartet, John McMinn and Noah Brandmark. The album is their first as a trio and the latest chapter in their quest for musical unity, following Live at PAX (2011) and Reach for the Skies (2013), named runner-up for Album of the Year by Avant Music News. The longtime collaborators push each other through relentless explorations as they seek to interpret the three phases of life: ...

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