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News: Education

Jazz Night School Presents "Up-Beat Girls Jazz Camp"

August 6, 2011

The Jazz Night School is offering a special jazz camp for girls in grades 6-12. The “Up-Beat Girls Jazz Camp" is a week-long day camp that gives young musicians an opportunity to sharpen their improvisational skills and also gain experience playing in a jazz combo. Daily sessions include instruction in ear-training, theory, rhythm and jazz history ...

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News: Festival

All Star Septet from Jazz Port Townsend on Jazz Northwest, August 7 on 88.5 KPLU

August 6, 2011

A stellar septet of jazz greats played at McCurdy Pavilion during Centrum's Jazz Port Townsend 2011 the last weekend of July. Cuban-born, now American citizen Paquito D'Rivera was nominal leader and spokesman, playing alto sax and clarinet. He played alongside Dizzy Gillespie and other jazz greats who helped bring him to world-wide attention. Along with him ...

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News: Festival

First Annual Martha Vineyard Jazz Festival Runs August 6-13, Featuring Jazz Performances, Art Exhibits and Book Signings

August 6, 2011

Nnenna Freelon The 1st annual Martha's Vineyard Jazz Festival kicks off on Saturday, August 6, and runs through Saturday, August 13, 2011 on Martha's Vineyard, Cape Cod. Some of the featured performers include jazz vocalist Nnenna Freelon, saxophonist Elan Trotman, Antonio Hart Quartet and Warren Wolf Quartet. In addition, the festival features an opening day parade, ...

News: Recording

Various Artists - Music Inside: A Collaboration Dedicated to Waylon Jennings (2011)

August 5, 2011

By Fred Phillips Ah, the tribute album. It started out as a good idea—current artists getting together to salute a classic artist that had a major influence on them. But, then, it spiraled out of control. All of a sudden, everyone had a tribute. In the metal and hard rock world, small record labels sprang up ...

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News: Recording

Augusto Pirodda, with Paul Motian and Gary Peacock - No Comment (2011)

August 5, 2011

Pianist Augusto Pirodda, on his fifth long player, plays with the melodic, insinuating sensitivity that belies his brief recording career. In fact, No Comment, put to tape in 2009 but just out on the German label Jazzwerkstatt, is often off-handedly bold in that way. The opener, “It Begins Like This," is actually the initial soundcheck performed ...

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News: Recording

Something Else! Sneak Peek: Warren Wolf, "427 Mass Ave." (2011)

August 5, 2011

Vibraphonist Warren Wolf is very, very talented, something he might have been aware of when he titled a past release Incredible Jazz Vibes, with a cover which looks conspicuously like Wes Montgomery's for The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery. But even if Wolf might think he's incredible, so what: bass master Christian McBride has thought ...

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News: Music Industry

Trumpeter Thomas Heberer's Trio on "Klippe," Solo Trumpet on "One" for "Clarino," a 2-LP Set

August 5, 2011

Trumpet stalwart Thomas Heberer is doing in his own way what a guy like Peter Evans is doing in the States. Making it new. Heberer's double LP Clarino (No Business LP 31/32) gives you two aspects of his music: “Klippe," a chamber trio offering, and “One," a solo trumpet record. Joachim Badenhorst brings his post-Giuffre clarinet ...

News: Technology

Adva Mobile Offers Free Mobile Websites Designed for Musicians

August 6, 2011

Adva Mobile focuses on mobile websites for musicians. The basic service is free and the sites are dubbed “Mobile Fan Clubs" though you don't have to think of them as fan clubs per se. However, they are designed to build mobile contact lists, meet the needs of fans on as wide a variety of phones as ...

News: Technology

Cent2Cent Provides Platform to Charge for Video Content

August 6, 2011

When it comes to engaging with fans online, it's been said time and time again: “Content is King" Well, coming up with the content has never really been the difficult part, given all the different methods artists can create content with (Twitter, FB, Youtube, etc). However, the challenge remains in monetizing that content. Difficulties usually arise in ...

News: Recording

Quintus McCormick - Put It on Me! (2011)

August 6, 2011

Quintus McCormick doesn't quibble with genre on this new project from Delmark Records. Instead, he sings with a remarkable facility, at once bright and sweet then hard and accusatory, sounding at times like some after-midnight deep bluesman and then like a spit-shined mainstream soulster—and moving, along the way, well outside of any neat modern-day pre-packaging. Put ...