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Calaminus' New Album "On The Trail" Released For Free!

Source: Calaminus
August 26, 2012

Two years after his first album Filet de Fonque, AllAboutJazz artist Calaminus from Stuttgart, Germany has finally released his new work On The Trail. The 14 original instrumental compositions reflect his personal musical journey through different music influences of the world, merged with AcidJazz, Fusion & Funk to some groovy flavored listening adventure. As a so called “one-man-band," Calaminus created everything alone: the whole music work as well as the artwork. All tracks are sequenced, using samples, loops, virtual instruments ...

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Knyaz Mishkin Releases "Usialiakaje"

Source: Ladzes
August 26, 2012

A lengthier tradition of this folkish psychedelia, however, comes from outfits like Knyaz Mishkin, named after the hero of Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot and based in Minsk. That ensemble, fronted by Leonid Narushevich has, in fact, been in existence for two decades. Over that lengthy period, and thanks nowadays to the distribution possibilities of the web, the band has also managed to publish over thirty albums. Electrate proposed a form of self-expression that was devoid of punctuation and thus “freer": ...

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Pat Metheny Unity Band Week at All About Jazz!

Source: All About Jazz
August 24, 2012

With the release of Unity Band (Nonesuch, 2012), guitarist Pat Metheny has delivered one of the best records of his career, and his first to feature tenor saxophone since his already classic-status 80/81 (ECM, 1980). With both Michael Brecker and Dewey Redman sadly deceased, the mantle falls upon Chris Potter, and in a career that has seen the barely 40 year-old saxophonist go from triumph to triumph, the guitarist couldn't have picked a better foil for this set of nine ...

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Universal Music Releases GRP 30: The Digital Master Company 30th Anniversary September 25, 2012

Source: Michael Ricci
August 24, 2012

GRP RECORDS CELEBRATES 30 YEARS WITH TWO-CD SET FEATURING DAVE GRUSIN, LEE RITENOUR, PATTI AUSTIN, GEORGE BENSON, ARTURO SANDOVAL, RAMSEY LEWIS, MICHAEL BRECKER, GARY BURTON, B.B. KING, DIANE SCHUUR, KEVIN EUBANKS, DIZZY GILLESPIE, LARRY CARLTON, YELLOWJACKETS, SPYRO GYRA, GRP ALL-STAR BIG BAND. 10 GRP Classic Albums To Be Reissued Digitally in New Hi-Res Audio Format Groundbreaking label started by musicians/collaborators Dave Grusin and Larry Rosen leaves an impressive legacy LOS ANGELES, CA: From its very start as an independent record ...

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Golden Anniversary Of Jazz At MIT To Feature New Work By Chick Corea

Source: Clarise Snyder
August 24, 2012

2012-2013 50th Anniversary Season to Celebrate Pomeroy, Corea and others The 2012-2013 season marks the 50th anniversary of formal jazz performance and study at MIT, where jazz has thrived since 1963. This academic year’s special performances and events celebrating MIT’s jazz golden anniversary will culminate on April 27, 2013 with a Gala Concert in Kresge Auditorium featuring the world premiere of an original piece by Chick Corea, specially composed for this performance by the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble. The NEA ...

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Andy Kahn / Bruce Klauber / Bruce Kaminsky Develop "History Of The Jazz Trio" Program

Source: Bruce Klauber
August 24, 2012

Collectively, pianist Andy Kahn, bassist Bruce Kaminsky and drummer Bruce Klauber have been playing jazz professionally—and have worked in virtually every facet of the entertainment industry—for close to 150 years. As examples, in addition to their acclaimed work as musicians, Andy Kahn wrote and produced the number one hit record, “Hot Shot." Bruce Kamsinky invented—and manufactures—the widely used electronic/acoustic hybrid—KYDD bass. Bruce Klauber is the biographer of Gene Krupa and was the Jazz Legends DVD producer for Warner Bros. Publications ...

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Madeleine Albright To Be Honored By Monk Institute At This Year's Competition And Gala

Source: Muse Media
August 24, 2012

THELONIOUS MONK INSTITUTE OF JAZZ ANNUAL COMPETITION AND GALA, MADE POSSIBLE BY CADILLAC, WILL BE HELD IN WASHINGTON, D.C. SEPTEMBER 22-23 FESTIVITIES WILL HONOR FIRST FEMALE UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT Cast features Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Jimmy Heath, George Duke, Patti Austin, Nnenna Freelon, James Carter, Ingrid Jensen, Jane Ira Bloom, James Genus, Lee Ritenour, Geri Allen, Vinnie Colaiuta, Ada Rovatti, Claire Daly and special guests Aretha Franklin and Chris Botti Washington, D.C. – The 25th annual ...

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Enter the "Eddie Gomez - Per Sempre" Giveaway at All About Jazz!

Source: All About Jazz
August 24, 2012

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the BFM Jazz “Eddie Gomez - Per Sempre“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on September 24th. Click here to enter the contest

(Following Eddie Gomez at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.)

Good luck! Your Friends at BFM Jazz About Per Sempre Recorded in Bologna, Italy while on tour in winter 2009, Per Sempre is a luminous jazz ...

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