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Performance / Tour

John Ellis & Andy Bragen Present Mobro - A Narrative Chamber Piece At The Jazz Gallery, May 30 & 31

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
May 30, 2014

John Ellis & Andy Bragen Present The CD Release Celebration for MOBRO And the Official Launch of Ellis' New Label, Parade Light Records, May 30 & 31 at The Jazz Gallery, one set only @ 9:00 PM Featuring: Becca Stevens, Miles Griffith, Sachal Vasandani, Johnaye Kendrick, Shane Endsley, John Clark, Alan Ferber, Josh Roseman, Mike Moreno, Ryan Scott, Joe Sanders, Rodney Green, and Roberto Lange A New Work Commissioned by The Jazz Gallery in 2011, MOBRO marks the first CD ...

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Recording

Guitarist Joel Harrison Revisits His Roots Growing Up In Washington, D.C. On Latest Cuneiform Records Release, Mother Stump

Source: Matt Merewitz
May 30, 2014

Mother Stump Highlights Harrison’s Guitar Playing Over His Composing On Covers of Buddy Miller, Leonard Cohen, Al Kooper, Luther Vandross, Paul Motian, George Russell And More Featuring Top NY-Based Sidemen Michael Bates (bass), Jeremy ‘Bean’ Clemons (drums), Glenn Patscha (keyboards) For many years, guitarist Joel Harrison claimed he had no roots. Growing up in Washington D.C., a place whose identity and values are always in drift, Harrison was convinced he had to “go out into the world with a shovel ...

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Performance / Tour

Jamaican-British Soul-Jazz Chanteuse Zara McFarlane Makes Debut U.S. Tour In Support Of "If You Knew Her"

Source: Matt Merewitz
May 30, 2014

If You Knew Her, Released in Early 2014 on Peterson’s Soul-Inflected Brownswood Recordings Is Already One of 2014′s Most Acclaimed Recordings It’s a tough task for music critics to write about a singer that genuinely knocks their socks off. Zara McFarlane is the London based singer, who, in 2011 released Until Tomorrow, a debut album that had many critics in a spin. Sure, praise came thick and fast. They spoke of a caressing voice of sparkling clarity, a voice that ...

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Contest

Enter "The Nels Cline Singers - Macroscope" Giveaway!

Source: All About Jazz
May 29, 2014

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Mack Avenue Records “The Nels Cline Singers - Macroscope“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on June 28th. Click here to enter the contest (Tracking Nels Cline at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! Your Friends at Mack Avenue Records About Macroscope Taking in the full breadth of guitarist Nels Cline’s sonic sphere of influence has always required ...

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Music Industry

Jazz Journalist Association Presents Talking Jazz 8: Big Jazz Publications

Source: All About Jazz
May 29, 2014

From the Big Guns: What Lies Ahead? Thursday, May 29, 2014 | 8pm EDT JOIN THE GOOGLE HANGOUT STARTING AT 8PM EDT Frank Alkyer, publisher of DownBeat magazine, and Michael Ricci, founder of AllAboutJazz.com, All About Jazz magazine and Jazz Near You, discuss jazz in print and online as they produce it now, and provide their perspectives on trends, developments and innovations in jazz publishing. Is the traditional monthly, a paper magazine, delivered to subscribers via snail mail ...

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Recording

John Coltrane - Offering: Live At Temple University, A Long-Awaited Recording Of An Historic 1966 Performance

Source: Fully Altered Media
May 29, 2014

Features Coltrane In Rare Form, Exhorting Through The Saxophone & Vocal Chants Trane with Alice Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Rashied Ali, Sonny Johnson & Percussion In High-Fidelity Audio Taken From Recently Discovered Tapes To Be Released September 23, 2014, Coltrane’s 88th Birthday via Impulse!/Resonance Records Resonance Records and UME are proud to present Offering: Live At Temple University, documenting a legendary concert by John Coltrane at Temple University in his adopted hometown of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on November 11, 1966, six weeks ...

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Radio

Harold Arlen This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

Source: Don Mopsick
May 29, 2014

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, in rare archival interview clips, Harold Arlen speaks about his career and how he wrote some of his most enduring songs, performed by the Jim Cullum Jazz Band and their guests: Nina Ferro, Dick Hyman, Rebecca Kilgore and Carol Woods. 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. Critic Alec Wilder wrote of Harold ...

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Performance / Tour

The Stone Presents Weeklong Residency With Jazz Guitarist Eyal Maoz

Source: AMT Public Relations
May 29, 2014

Eyal Maoz Concert Residency Tuesday 7.15 – Sunday 7.20 at 8:00pm + 10:00pm nightly The Stone, Corner of Avenue C/2nd Street, NYC, Train: F/J/M/Z at Delancey-Essex $15/Students $10. No advanced ticket sales. “Maoz’s playing is just as often elegant, understated and even gorgeous... Wonderlech!” —Guitar Player Magazine “A cutting edge guitarist who combines the harmonic lyricism of Bill Frisell with the angst and skronk of Marc Ribot…keep your eyes and ears on this guy.” —John Zorn “NYC’s guitar shredder” —Time ...

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