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News: Award / Grant

New Date Announced for ASMAC Golden Score Awards

NEW DATE ANNOUNCED: COMPOSER MARC SHAIMAN AND ARRANGER SAMMY NESTICO TO RECEIVE GOLDEN SCORE AWARDS; ROB REINER TO HOST JULY 22nd TRIBUTE Los Angeles, CA: On Thursday evening, July 22, 2010, The American Society of Music Arrangers & Composers will host the Annual Golden Score Awards, hosted by actor/producer Rob Reiner, at the Universal Hilton Hotel ...

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News: Video / DVD

Moses Oakland: Bluesman DVD

MINNEAPOLIS--Big Notes Productions and Winterland Studios have teamed up to produce a performance DVD featuring the music of blues musician Moses Oakland. The video was shot at Famous Dave's BBQ & Blues Club in Uptown Minneapolis, where Oakland has played every Sunday night for the past 10 years, and continues this tradition. He has become a ...

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News: Recording

Brass Menazeri: Songs in 7/8, Fat Bass Lines & High Speed Horn Antics

Sousaphones, Super Fly, and 7/8: Brass Menazeri's Bumping Brass Party Grooves from Bosnia to Bollywood Bosnian gems mingle with Bollywood bangles, while Rromani (Gypsy) hits mix with super-fly funk. Thanks to dreamed melodies and down-and-dirty bass lines, Brass Menazeri has been packing Mission bars with a heady mix of Balkan perfection and Bay Area eccentricity, of ...

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News: Event

Juilliard Jazz, Celebrating its 10th Year, Announces its 2010-2011 Season

Season Opens with its Faculty Ensemble, Juilliard Jazz Quintet, on September 21 Guest Artists During 2010-2011 Season Include: Trumpeter Jon Faddis as Soloist with the Juilliard Jazz Orchestra in the Miles Davis/Gil Evans Arrangement of Porgy and Bess on February 25, Plus Bassist John Clayton Performing with the Juilliard Jazz Orchestra on October 19, and Trombonist ...

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News: Recording

Tribute to a Reggae Legend: Global Celebration of Bob Marley, July 13

Tribute to a Reggae Legend: A global celebration of the music of Bob Marley, featuring five new, exclusive recordings by exceptional international artists Release Date: July 13, 2010 (International release dates vary) Few people have made the kind of lasting, universal impact that Bob Marley has made with his music. In his short 36 years, Marley ...

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News: Festival

Experience Euphoria in Greenville, South Carolina

While there are countless food and wine festivals across the country, few are incorporating music to the extent that Euphoria, a food, wine and music festival in Greenville, South Carolina, has done in it's first four years. One of the reasons may just be that Edwin McCain, platinum selling singer/songwriter and local legend, is co-founder of ...

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News: Recording

Michele Choiniere Gives New Voice to Long-lost Franco-American Songs

The Lone Songbird in the Woods: Michele Choiniere Gives New Voice to Long-Lost Franco-American Songs on La Violette Along the borderlands between the US and Canada, a lone songbird sings with a voice clear, rich, and distinctly French. Her name is Michele Choiniere, and nestled in the northwestern Vermont woods, she continues a once thriving Franco-American ...

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News: Recording

10 Ft. Ganja Plant Deliver The Roots on "10 Deadly Shots, Vol 1"

10 Ft. Ganja Plant brings the sound of roots, rocksteady and dub from the smokey hills and rough streets of Jamaica to the ears of their rabid fans around the globe. On 10 Deadly Shots, the mysterious reggae collective captures the vibe of classic reggae and distills it down to it's essence--without vocals. The tracks were ...

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Article: Album Review

Mushroom: Naked, Stoned & Stabbed

Read "Naked, Stoned & Stabbed" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki

Mushroom's first new set in three years, twelve new originals culminating in a cover of “Singing a Song in the Morning," co-written by Kevin Ayers of the Soft Machine and Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd in heady 1969, is an acoustic guitarist's dream--every song strums and hums with its psychedelic, folksy sound. Mushroom's careening, psychedelic collective ...

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Article: Album Review

Slavic Soul Party: Taketron

Read "Taketron" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki

The massive Baltic brass band Slavic Soul Party (SSP) has played in Istanbul and Carnegie Hall, Macedonia and the Kennedy Center, Serbia and the Knitting Factory, and currently resides Tuesday nights at Club Barbes in Brooklyn, which released this fifth SSP album on its own label. “I think Taketron really shows our original style, more so ...


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