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News: Recording

Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus (Ojc, 1956)

January 20, 2011

Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins was beginning an awe inspiring burst of creativity when this album was recorded on June 22, 1956 in the company of Tommy Flanagan on piano, Doug Watkins on bass and Max Roach on drums. Developing some of the thematic material that he would continue to explore for the rest of his career, ...

News: Recording

Mayo Bucher on ECM

January 20, 2011

ECM Records long ago established and has since maintained its own aural brand of musical definition, something that has rightly or wrongly come to be known as the “ECM sound" or what label hype in the 1970s called “the most beautiful sound next to silence." This “sound by design" is something that label founder Manfred Eicher ...

News: Festival

Headliners Announced for 2011 10th Edition of Xrijf

January 19, 2011

Producers John Nugent and Marc Iacona today announced five headliners for the 10th Edition of theXerox Rochester International Jazz Festival to be held June 10-18, 2011. Grammy Award winner Natalie Cole will perform on opening night, Friday June 10. The Fab Faux (a Beatles tribute band) plays Saturday June 11. Bela Fleck & The Original Fleckstones performs ...

News: Video / DVD

Correspondence (Illustrated): Bird and Desmond

January 19, 2011

Rifftides reader John Bolger writes with a suggestion:Somebody has posted the legendary interview between Paul Desmond and Bird on YouTube. I had a seen transcript of this before but never heard the interview. Rare and wonderful! Thought you might like to know—might be worth piece in Rifftides. It might, indeed. In the spring of 1954, Desmond ...

News: Performance / Tour

The Afro-Latin Jazz Alliance Presents Grammy Award Winners Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra in Concert Feb. 26th @ Symphony Space NYC.

January 19, 2011

“CubaNola: More Than the Spanish Tinge" concert to feature New Orleans' renowned saxophonist Donald Harrison Fresh from an historic journey to Cuba for the Havana Plaza Jazz Festival, Arturo O'Farrill returns to the Symphony Space stage on February 26th at 8PM with his GRAMMY Award-winning Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra (ALJO) for a powerful evening highlighting the ...

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News: Recording

Pianist Landon Knoblock and Drummer Jason Furman Release New CD for Fractamodi Music Titled "Gasoline Rainbow."

January 19, 2011

Pianist Landon Knoblock and drummer Jason Furman have been making music together for over 10 years. From their first performance together at a North Miami Beach mega church to their subsequent weddings gigs, club dates, and bar mitzvahs, they never played jazz or improvised. That all changed when an off the cuff recording session turned into ...

News: Recording

Arturo O' Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra Release New CD Titled "40 Acres and Burro" on Zoho Records.

January 19, 2011

Release Date: February 8, 2011 Yes—we, the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, are still here, 3+ years after leaving the womb of institutional life at a great cultural organization in Manhattan. Some said we'd never make it, but here we are,doing pretty well, too! We have our own non-profit organization and a New York concert season, perform ...

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News: Contest

Gary Burton on Lofty Fake Anagram

January 19, 2011

Toward the end of1966, vibraphonist Gary Burton left the Stan Getz Quartet to form his own group. The personnel he chose for his quartet shifted over the early months of 1967, but by the time Gary recorded Duster in April, he was joined by guitarist Larry Coryell, bassist Steve Swallow and drummer Roy Haynes. But in ...

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News: Festival

Coachella 2011: Arcade Fire, Kings of Leon, Kanye West

January 19, 2011

The 12th Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival is set for Friday, April 15, Saturday, April 16 and Sunday, April 17 at the beautiful Empire Polo Club in Indio, CA and the 2011 line-up includes headlining performances from Arcade Fire, Kanye West and Kings of Leon. While music serves as the centerpiece for Coachella, this year's ...

News: Performance / Tour

Rush Add Summer Dates

January 19, 2011

FINAL ROUND OF DATES BEGINNING JUNE 8 IN GREENVILLE, SC Rush have added the final dates to their “Time Machine Tour." After the previously announced US and European dates in the Spring, the band will hit the road for their final round of dates in the summer, starting June 8 in Greenville, SC. The tour features ...