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Event

Joe Caro & The Met Band (Live At Drom, NYC) Dec. 13th, 2012

Source: Roman Klun
November 26, 2012

Joe Caro, Clifford Carter, Lou Marini, Anton Fig, Conrad Korsch, Lew Soloff And Randy Brecker Live At Drom, NYC December 13th presented by Innsbruck Records Published: 2012-05-22 In the New York City underground scene, Joe Caro led an allstar band which included trumpeter Chris Botti, saxman Lenny Pickett, Late show drummer Anton Fig, bassist Will Lee, trumpeter Randy Brecker and saxman Andy Snitzer among several other notables performing every Tuesday night at the NYC club, The Metropolitan Café. What started ...

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Recording

New Release By The Hammer Klavier Trio "Rocket In The Pocket"

Source: Jan Matthies Music Management
November 26, 2012

The Hammer Klavier Trio (hKT) is one of Germany's premiere jazz piano trios. In fact they are the only jazz act from Germany that ever has been nominated for an award by the American Jazz Journalists Association (JJA) - “Best Video of the Year" in 2010. Having played a lot in Germany and Europe this nomination meant a lot to them and they put in all efforts to do a 1-week tour in New York City, USA in June 2011. ...

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Event

Marcus Miller Hurt In Swiss Bus Crash

Source: Maxim Micheliov
November 26, 2012

(Reuters) - U.S. jazz musician Marcus Miller was injured on Sunday along with members of his band when their bus crashed in Switzerland, killing the driver, police said. The two-time Grammy winner was travelling with 10 members of his band from Monte Carlo in Monaco to Hengelo in the Netherlands when the bus crashed on the highway near the town of Schattdorf in central Switzerland. A Swiss police spokesman said the driver died from his injuries. The reserve driver, Miller ...

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Education

Modern Jazz Guitarist Hristo Vitchev's New Video Masterclass "Harmonic Expansions" - Now Available

Source: Hristo Vitchev
November 26, 2012

Bulgarian modern jazz guitarist/composer Hristo Vitchev demonstrates material from his book on chordal theory and construction: “Between the Voicings" in a comprehensive video lesson exclusively available through JazzGuitarSociety.com In this video masterclass, Hristo Vitchev demonstrates how to expand your chordal vocabulary by breaking away from the traditional “Drop 2" and “Drop 2 & 4" voicings and bringing a fresh and modern sound to your chordal playing, accompaniment, and harmonic improvisations. Hristo takes you through his method of creating voicings utilizing ...

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Recording

Origin Records Has Just Released The Hal Galper Trio's Latest Foray Into Their Original "Rubato Style" Of Playing

Source: Hal Galper
November 26, 2012

Dear Fellow Travelers. Thanks for taking the musical journey with us. It’s a journey without a road map, where the road takes us wherever it wants to go. The destination? There is none. It’s the trip that counts. We strive to intuit the direction upon which the road takes us without imposing our ego’s on the music, to play, as Jeff Johnson says, without intention. Dave Liebman calls this “playing in the zone,” defined scientifically as a “dissociative“ mental ...

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Event

The Delton Walker Band Performs At The Metropolitan Room On December 21, 2012

Source: Cres O'Neal
November 25, 2012

Washington, DC: Jazz sensation, Saxophonist, Delton Walker, takes center stage at the Metropolitan Room, 34 West 22nd Street, NY, NY, on Friday, December 21, 2012, for a one night only performance. Joining Delton will be Jon Mernyk, Adrian Fields, Greg Taylor, James Collins, and special guests, Danie Ocean, and American Idol contestant, JCurtis. Delton’s music is immeasurable as it fully embodies the depth of his listeners’ souls. His highly acclaimed CD, “Back In Your Arms Again” is nestled in an ...

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Website

Purchase All About Jazz Ad Space and Merchandise on Small Business Saturday!

Source: All About Jazz
November 24, 2012

Help celebrate Small Business Saturday by purchasing All About Jazz / Jazz Near You advertising space or official All About Jazz merchandise. Advertise at the Internet's most trafficked website Learn more about advertising at the All About Jazz and the Jazz Near You websites and in the Jazz Near You weekly email announcement. Shop at the All About Jazz Store The All About Jazz store officially opens on Monday, November 26th, and will carry a variety of T-shirts, embroidered sweatshirts ...

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Recording

Jazz On Film... Beat, Square & Cool, Vol. 2 In The Highly Acclaimed Jazz On Film Box Set Series

Source: Selwyn Harris
November 24, 2012

Beat Square & Cool—the 2nd box set in the Jazz on Film series following last year’s Film Noir—is not just a collection containing some of the greatest jazz-inspired film scores ever recorded, but it also tells the story of how jazz (mostly drawing from the bebop that was one of the defining American subcultural and artistic moments of the post-war era)became the soundtrack to key 'outsider' movies from the first wave of youth rebellion, teen angst and the emerging Beat ...

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