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News: Performance / Tour

WRD (Walter, Roberts, Deitch): August Tour Dates

August 4, 2011

ROBERT WALTER, EDDIE ROBERTS AND ADAM DEITCH POWER TRIO TO HIT THE ROAD Robert Walter, Eddie Roberts and Adam Deitch will be introducing their new power funk trio WRD at a series high profile shows in the month of August. Described by Eddie Roberts as “60's SoulJazz, Rare Funk Grooves & Driving Latin Beats, with a ...

News: Festival

Long Beach Funk Fest: Fred Wesley, Zigaboo, Katdelic

August 4, 2011

SUMMER AND MUSIC ANNOUNCES LINEUP FOR 3RD ANNUAL LONG BEACH FUNK FEST Summer And Music (SAM) has officially announced the line up for its third annual Long Beach Funk Fest (LBFF), which takes place on Saturday, August 20, 2011, from 1 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Pine Avenue and the Promenade between Broadway and 3rd Street ...

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News: Interview

Something Else! Interview: Zigaboo Modeliste, Co-Founder of the Meters

August 4, 2011

Joseph “Zigaboo" Modeliste, a funky furnace that once powered the Meters, has just released a tour-de-force project aptly titled New Life. It reestablishes, perhaps unsurprisingly, Modeliste's claim to co-ownership of the band's late 1960s/early 1970s string of R&B and rock hits—from “Cissy Strut" and “Fire on the Bayou," to supporting gigs with Lee Dorsey, LaBelle and ...

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News: Recording

Human Element - The Human Element (2011)

August 4, 2011

Easy comparisons arrive quickly as the new self-titled Abstract Logix debut release by Human Element spins, since the group has connections to the original pioneers who fused jazz and world music. In fact, this nascent supergroup includes ex-members of the Joe Zawinul, John McLaughlin, Chick Corea, Al Di Meola and Herbie Hancock bands. But Human Element's ...

News: Recording

Sean Nowell - Stockholm Swingin' (2011)

August 4, 2011

A blossoming career that started in Birmingham, Alabama recently had a stop all the way over in Stockholm, Sweden. For tenor saxophonist Sean Nowell's third album (all of which are on Posi-Tone Records, by the way), Nowell and drummer Joe Abba flew over to Sweden, joined Frederik Olsson (guitar), Leo Lindberg (piano), and Lars Ekman (bass), ...

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News: Recording

The Dave King Trucking Company - Good Old Light (Sunnyside, 2011)

August 4, 2011

Drummer Dave King is the lynchpin of many a group, notably The Bad Plus collective and his own Happy Apple. This new group merges his influences from the music of Nashville to the hard-hitting jazz of John Coltrane. King has the reputation of a bit of a brute behind the kit, something of a diabolical crossbreed ...

News: Recording

William Hooker Duets with Thomas Chapin! "Crossing Points" Documents the Convergence.

August 4, 2011

I have a friend who is dedicated to the music. He prides himself on NOT being a collector, of not making a fetish out of owning thousands upon thousands of recordings to line up in long rows and nod knowingly about the music when guests arrive. “Yes, you see I own all this music, so you ...

News: Performance / Tour

Midtown Global Jazz

August 4, 2011

Community jazz and more general music festival seem to be “in" these days, at least in the Twin Cities. After a successful 2nd Dakota StreetFest in mid-July, the first-ever Midtown Global Market Jazz Festival took off last Saturday, and hopefully the audience and vendor response will help make this an annual event. Organized to help celebrate ...

News: Event

Jazz Concert on Friday, August 26 to Benefit Family of Police Dispatcher

August 3, 2011

Trumpeter Jim Manley's Wild, Cool and Swingin' Orchestra (pictured) and singers Dean Christopher and Valerie Tichacek will perform in a benefit concert at 8:00 p.m., Friday, August 26 at the Parkway United Church of Christ, 2841 N. Ballas Rd. Proceeds from the performance will benefit the children of Lisa O'Brien, a police dispatcher in Town and ...

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News: Festival

U City Jazz Festival to be Held Saturday, September 24 in Heman Park

August 3, 2011

The municipality of University City will present the first ever U City Jazz Festival from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., Saturday, September 24 at Heman Park, 7210 Olive Blvd. The free outdoor concert will feature performances from singer Jeanne Trevor, Latin jazz group Clave Sol, and the Classical Jazz Quartet (pictured), plus a tribute to John ...