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Book / Magazine

New Boston Book Looks Back On A Sparkling Jazz Scene

Source: Richard Vacca
July 11, 2012

Nat Pierce, Joe Gordon, and Charlie Mariano started their careers in Boston. It’s where Nat Hentoff worked as a deejay, George Wein planned the Newport Jazz Festival, and Lawrence Berk started the Berklee School of Music. Richard Vacca writes about all of them and more in The Boston Jazz Chronicles: Faces, Places, and Nightlife 1937–1962, the first book to document that city’s vibrant jazz scene at mid-century. “In a city that isn’t shy about telling its stories, the jazz history ...

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Recording

Concord Music Group Releases Five New Titles In Very Best Of Jazz Series

Source: conqueroo
July 11, 2012

Titles include the works of music legends Dave Brubeck, Vince Guaraldi, The Bill Evans Trio, Thelonious Monk, and Cannonball Adderley LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Concord Music Group is launching five new titles in its Very Best Of jazz series, which showcases some of the very best tracks culled from the recordings of some of the most influential artists in the history of the genre. The five new titles, which highlight the work of Dave Brubeck, Vince Guaraldi, The Bill Evans ...

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Education

Usdan Center's 8/1 Gala Features World Premiere By Ted Rosenthal

Source: Reva Cooper
July 11, 2012

8/1 Usdan Gala Features World Premiere Jazz Work Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, the renowned summer arts day camp once again cited by TimeOutNY as a “Best Camp" for 2012, will present its annual Gala Concert on Wednesday August 1 at 7:00 PM at its 200-acre woodland campus center, the 1,000-seat McKinley Amphitheater. The 2012 Concert will feature the World Premiere of R ‘n B, a Usdan-commissioned jazz work by critically acclaimed pianist/composer Ted Rosenthal, performed by ...

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Recording

"Lifetimes," New CD By Brubeck Brothers Quartet, To Be Released July 24

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
July 11, 2012

Since the early 1970s, Chris and Dan Brubeck have performed and recorded frequently with their father Dave in Two Generations of Brubeck, the New Brubeck Quartet, and Trio Brubeck. Now, on the Brubeck Brothers Quartet’s new CD LifeTimes, they and “honorary brothers” Mike DeMicco (guitar) and Chuck Lamb (piano) have chosen to honor Brubeck père by reimagining a number of his best-known songs. “Dave Brubeck’s music is rich with challenging chord progressions and beautiful melodies,” says Chris. “Dave is one ...

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Recording

Random Touch’s "Flock" Concludes Their Career With A Bang

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
July 11, 2012

Asheville, NC - Thirty-three years of collaboration and sixteen releases culminates in the masterpiece Flock, Random Touch’s final album. The ten tracks range from the bigger-than-life “Arena” to the uninhibited joy of “Dance of the Elementals” to the psychedelic final track, “She Wore Sheepskin”. In-between is found all manner of genre bending complexity and unnerving cinematic suspense. Scott Hamill’s mastery of the bass guitar is notable on the album. Its pervasiveness recreates the traditional jazz trio, and yet jazz could ...

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Advocacy

Brooklyn Conservatory Of Music To Experiment With Engaging Jazz Audiences More Effectively

Source: Michael Schwab
July 11, 2012

Brooklyn, NY: The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music has been chosen as one of six organizations across the U.S. to implement data from the Jazz Audiences Initiative (JAI) study in their everyday practices of presenting and producing jazz. Theory-to-practice experiments will begin in the fall of 2012. The Jazz Arts Group (JAG) in Columbus, Ohio commissioned the Jazz Audiences Initiative Study in November 2009 and released the results in late 2011. JAG received a $120,000 Continuing Innovation Stage II grant from ...

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Performance / Tour

The Blue Room On Historic 18th And Vine Weekly Line Up July 11th-14th

Source: C. L. Burnett, American Jazz Museum
July 11, 2012

Kansas City, Mo: The Blue Room, one of the Down Beat Magazine’s top ranked jazz clubs, has another stellar line up in store for its patrons this week. Thursday July 12th, the Blue Room will host a special performance from Nicolay featuring the Hot at Nights. Nicolay is an electronic music, hip hop and R&B producer from the Netherlands. The Hot at Nights are an exploratory jazz trio from North Carolina. Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the ...

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Recording

Jamie Ousley's "Hymn Of The Tides" Featured At The Franciscanized World

Source: Phil Kolter
July 11, 2012

Green Bay, WI: Franciscan Sisters’ July featured song for young adults is “Hymn of the Tides” by Jaime Ousley. It is available as a free download at Franciscanized World. Composer Jaime Ousley, a Miami based ascending jazz bassist and composer, reflected that “As I continue to learn to be a “jazz” composer, I find the most peace and satisfaction in my compositions when I can let the music that’s in my heart out into the world. This hymn-style of music ...

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