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Article: Album Review

Nilson Matta: Nilson Matta's Black Orpheus

Read "Nilson Matta's Black Orpheus" reviewed by Edward Blanco


Brazilian bassist Nilson Matta has, like all artists, has drawn inspiration for his music from a variety of sources--of which a play and a movie serve as the influence for the moving Black Orpheus. Antonio Carlos Jobim's compositions for the 1957 Vinicius de Moraes Brazilian play Orfeu da Conceicao and the 1959 Black Orpheus movie that ...

News: Festival

Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival Announces Lineup For 12th Edition June 21-29 With Record Number Of Artists, Concerts And Venues

Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival  Announces Lineup For 12th Edition June 21-29 With Record Number Of Artists, Concerts And Venues

Rochester, NY: John Nugent and Marc Iacona, Producers of the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival (XRIJF) today announced the lineup for their biggest festival ever, to be held over nine days June 21-29, 2013. The XRIJF 12th Edition will feature Bob James & David Sanborn with Special Guest Steve Gadd, David Byrne and St. Vincent, Roger ...

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Article: Album Review

Nilson Matta: Nilson Matta's Black Orpheus

Read "Nilson Matta's Black Orpheus" reviewed by Dr. Judith Schlesinger


This CD is the culmination of Nilson Matta's lifelong dream: to record his interpretation of the Orpheus music from the Brazilian play and movie of the 1950s. To make it happen, Matta enlisted fifteen superb players from Brazil and the United States, building his ensemble up from the rhythmic, native heart of the music. The result ...

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Article: Big Band Report

"Lone Wolf" Finds Plenty to Chew On

Read ""Lone Wolf" Finds Plenty to Chew On" reviewed by Jack Bowers


With Betty sidelined by a bad cough, it was up to me to seek out local jazz events in February, and I managed to find a couple of pretty good ones, starting February 7 at the University of New Mexico's Keller Hall where SuperSax New Mexico performed for the third time in Albuquerque. As you may ...

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Article: Album Review

Nilson Matta: Nilson Matta's Black Orpheus

Read "Nilson Matta's Black Orpheus" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


The story of Orpheus and Eurydice has been told and retold in various mediums and manners throughout the ages. Claudio Monteverdi used opera as his means of transmitting the tale, alt-rocker Nick Cave tackled it head-on in song and author Neil Gaiman revisited the story in comic book format, but the list doesn't stop there; any ...

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Article: Dan's Den

Every Now and Den

Read "Every Now and Den" reviewed by Dan Morgenstern


It's been so long since the last Den that it should perhaps be renamed, “Every Now and Den." But here I am with some of the events that stand out from the past five months or so, not necessarily in chronological order.I've never missed the annual Satchmo Summerfest in New Orleans, and the August ...

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And The World Weeps

Featuring the music of Anat Cohen
Duration: 13:55

Filmed at the Sixth and I Synagogue, Washington D.C.- June, 2012 Anat Cohen: Clarinet;Paquito D'Rivera: clarinet;Jason Lindner: Piano; Joe Martin: Bass;Daniel Freedman. Drums
Album

Claroscuro

Label: Anzic Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: Anat's Dance; La Vie En Rose; All Brothers; As Rosas Nao Falam; Nightmare; Tudo O Que Voce Podia Ser; And The World Weeps; Olha Maria; Kickoff; Um X Zero; The Wedding.

Album

Silent Movie

Label: Anzic Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: 1.Smile; 2. Something in the Way She Moves; 3. Silent Movie; 4. Onde Ir; 5. Heart & Bones; 6. Today I Sing the Blues; 7. Hearing Your Voice; 8. I Still Miss Someone; 9. Folks Who Live on the Hill; 10. First Impressions; 11. Swansea; 12. Moon River.

Album

Family

Label: Anzic Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: 1. Shufla de Shufla; 02. Blues for Dandi's Orange Bull Chasing an Orange Sack ; 03. With the Soul of the Greatest of Them All (Dedicated to Charles Mingus); 04. The Mooch; 05. Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans; 06. Rhapsody in Blake; 07. On the Sunny Side of the Street; 08. 8. Tiger Rag; 09. Family; 10. Roll ‘Em Pete.


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