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Event

Five Free Public Concerts Featuring World-Renowned Artists During New England Conservatory’s Jazz Lab

Source: Braithwaite & Katz Communications
June 19, 2014

Sunday, June 22 – Friday, June 27, 2014 Concerts by Special Guest Artist Grammy-Award Winning Bassist Dave Holland with Dominique Eade, NEC Jazz Studies Chair Ken Schaphorst, the Ayn Inserto Jazz Orchestra and a Jazz Lab Student Farewell Concert New England Conservatory’s Jazz Lab, a one-week intensive program for students ages 14 – 18, will feature five free concerts featuring renowned artists including Grammy-award winning bassist Dave Holland and Dominique Eade, Ken Schaphorst, the Ayn Inserto Jazz Orchestra and a ...

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Recording

Cuong Vu And Richard Karpen Join Forces On Provocative Ellington/Strayhorn Tribute, Indigo Mist

Source: Antje Hübner
June 19, 2014

That The Days Go By And Never Come Again, Scheduled for August Release on RareNoiseRecords Trumpeter-composer Cuong Vu has established himself as a distinctive voice on the new music/improvising scene for his adventurous work over the past 20 years with the likes of guitarist Bill Frisell, Pat Metheny and Laurie Anderson as well as his four recordings as leader. Composer Richard Karpen has earned accolades for his work in the classical field as well as for being a cutting edge ...

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Recording

Interstatic's Arise With Roy Powell, Jacob Young, Jarle Vespestad, To Be Released On Rarenoise In August

Source: Antje Hübner
June 19, 2014

Interstatic Takes The Gloves Off On Third Recording For RareNoise. Arise Represents The Organ Trio's Most Intense Offering To Date. With each successive outing — first 2011ʼs Anthem followed by their raucous RareNoiseRecords debut, 2013ʼs InterStatic — the potent Norway-based trio of expatriate Brit organist Roy Powell, Norwegian guitarist Jacob Young and Norwegian drummer Jarle Vespestad has upped the ante on intensity and audaciousness while arriving at a nexus where rock organically meets jazz. Now the powerhouse unit has reached ...

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Radio

The Fats Waller Bluebird Sessions This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

Source: Don Mopsick
June 19, 2014

This week our radio show explores the Fats Waller Bluebird Sessions. Joining The Jim Cullum Jazz Band are master pianist Dick Hyman and Portland-based vocalist Rebecca Kilgore. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International. You can also drop in on a continuous stream of shows at the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound. Thomas ‘Fats’ Waller earned his reputation in the 1920s as one of the greatest of the ‘stride’ pianists. He became widely respected as the ...

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Website

All About Jazz Data Recovery Project Update

Source: All About Jazz
June 18, 2014

All About Jazz recovered 60,000+ JPGs and MP3s lost in the June 7th crash Good news! 95% of the MP3 files and 85% of the image files (album covers, photos, and avatars) added to the website after December 24, 2013 were fully restored. If you recently uploaded images that were not restored, please upload them again. If you see broken links associated with you images, please delete them from your Manage Photos page, then reupload them. We apologize for the ...

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Interview

An Interview With James Dean Claitor

Source: Eric Taylor
June 18, 2014

Q: What made you decide to title your new album Pseudonyms? A: It seems to me that each melody in a tune is played by several different instruments, like the clarinet or saxophone for example, and as such are pseudonyms for that tune. Q: What instruments do you play, and when did you decide to become a musician? A: I began learning bass at age 13 and later guitar and piano. I played bass in a band called Tempest in ...

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Recording

Lonely Universe Re-issue

Source: Lambert
June 18, 2014

MONTREAL, QC (CANADA) — On June 18, 2014, Jazz from Rant will re-issue their pivotal recording, Lonely Universe, à la plage, one of the first recordings produced on the label, originally released in 1993. It features Jeannette Lambert performing her poetry along with Michel Lambert, drums, and Michael White, trumpet (who had performed as a duo called Lonely Universe before this project), as well as Perry White saxophone, Rob Piltch and Reg Schwager guitars, Hugh Marsh violin, and Dianne Aitken ...

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Recording

New Carmen Lundy CD, "Soul To Soul," Set For Release 9/23

Source: Muse Media
June 17, 2014

Album Features A Myriad Of Special Guests Including Geri Allen, Randy Brecker, Simphiwe Dana, Bennie Maupin, Carol Robbins, Patrice Rushen, Warren Wolf And More Los Angeles, CA: Soul To Soul, a passionate new song cycle from vocalist, songwriter, producer and musician Carmen Lundy, is set for release September 23rd, 2014 via Afrasia Productions. “Soul To Soul”, Lundy’s 14th album, is the next chapter in her critically-acclaimed career as both a musical artist and a visual artist; a return to her ...

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