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Radio

Johnny Hartman Feature Ahead Of New Book

Source: Gregg Akkerman
June 4, 2012

Radio host Bill McCann will air a Johnny Hartman feature on his June 23 “Saturday Morning Edition of Jazz" show in acknowledgement of the artist's 89th birthday and an upcoming book. Heard on WCDB 90.9FM in Albany, New York, McCann will include guests Tom Pierce and Gregg Akkerman. Piece will contribute his recollections of seeing Hartman perform before the jazz singer died in 1983 from cancer. Akkerman will feature anecdotes from his upcoming book The Last Balladeer: The Johnny Hartman ...

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Recording

David Krakauer releases Pruflas: The Book of Angels Vol. 18 Music by John Zorn on Tzadik Records

Source: Jensen Artists
June 4, 2012

Clarinetist David Krakauer, praised internationally for his astounding ability to play in a myriad of music genres with “prodigious chops” (The New Yorker) and “soulfulness and electrifying showiness” (The New York Times), has recorded for the Tzadik label a collection of tunes selected especially for him to play by John Zorn from his milestone work, The Book of Angels. The Book of Angels is the second book of 300 songs for Zorn’s band, Masada, composed over a period of a ...

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Recording

MoonJune Records Announces Three New Releases

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
June 4, 2012

Allan Holdsworth: Hard Hat Area (re-mastered): Originally offered in very limited print and distribution in the USA, this great effort has been remastered and repackaged in digipak format (with intriguing new liner notes provided by Barry Cleveland). While the music on Hard Hat Area may seem a logical extension of the sophisticated, highly idiosyncratic style of jazz-fusion that Allan developed on his previous seven albums, it possesses a major difference: It was recorded by the guitarist's touring band, which had ...

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Performance / Tour

Columbus Jazz Orchestra Goes Wild in Seventh Season of Jazzoo!

Source: Michael Ricci
June 4, 2012

Columbus, OH: This summer, the Jazz Arts Group will take jazz to a wilder place as the Columbus Jazz Orchestra takes center stage at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium for the seventh season of JazZoo! The four-concert series returns to the Water's Edge Events Park at the Columbus Zoo providing a beautiful waterfront setting along the O'Shaughnessy Reservoir. Gates open at 6:30 PM with concerts beginning at 8 PM. July 13, 8 PM: “Rock 'n' Roll Meets the Blues" featuring ...

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Performance / Tour

This Week At The Cornelia Street Cafe, June 4-11

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
June 4, 2012

The Cornelia Street Café, which celebrates its 35th Anniversary this July, is a true New York City landmark, an epicurean destination, an artist's café that cultivates and inspires, and one of the few remaining Greenwich Village bastions for creative music, spoken word, art, theatre, cabaret and much more The Cornelia Street Cafe is Proud to Announce “Spotlight On New Talent" A NEW monthly series, dedicated to showcasing some of the most brilliant up-and-coming jazz musicians This Week at The Cafe, ...

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Recording

Ed Partyka, Nubox & Concept Art Orchestra

Source: Concept Art Orchestra
June 4, 2012

Ed Partyka, nuBox & Concept Art Orchestra Bigbandtronics – Prague Edition Six Movements of Sonification A unique combination of modern big band and electronic club music called BIGBANDTRONICS is being released. On his new album, Bigbandtronics – Prague Edition, American conductor Ed Partyka combines jazz big band with contemporary electronic dance music. In cooperation with the best musicians of the young Czech jazz generation he has picked up the threads of a similarly ambitious 1970s project, ...

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Contest

Enter the "Kenny Garrett - Seeds from the Underground" Giveaway at All About Jazz!

Source: All About Jazz
June 3, 2012

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Mack Avenue Records “Kenny Garrett - Seeds from the Underground“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on July 2nd. Click here to enter the contest (Following Kenny Garrett at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! Your Friends at Mack Avenue Records About Kenny Garrett and Seeds from the Underground Over the course of a stellar career that has spanned more ...

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Recording

Choban Elektrik Releases Self-Titled Debut

Source: FlipswitchPR, LLC
June 3, 2012

If a prog rock power trio had ever sprung up in the mountains of Albania, it would have sounded like Brooklyn’s Choban Elektrik (“Electric Shepherds”). Using the vintage grit and funk of Hammond organs and Fender Rhodes to open up new facets of Albanian, Macedonian, Greek, and Armenian tunes, the band makes this unlikely pairing feel organic and obvious, thanks to their intense focus and anything-goes approach. “We never set out to do this,” explains masterful keyboard player and arranger ...

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