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News: Recording

Playscape to Release the Fonda/Stevens Group's "Memphis" September 29th

Playscape to Release the Fonda/Stevens Group's "Memphis" September 29th

Playscape Recordings will officially welcome The Fonda/Stevens Group to its roster with the September 29th release of Memphis (PSR#033108), the eminent ensemble's 11th recording. Only the fourth studio release in the band's two-decade existence, Memphis was recorded at the end of a week-long March 2008 U.S. tour. The Fonda/Stevens Group is co-led by bassist/composer Joe Fonda ...

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Article: Live Review

Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2009

Read "Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2009" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard


Copenhagen Jazz Festival Various Venues Copenhagen, Denmark July 3-12, 2009 In a survey conducted recently by the renowned Monocle Magazine (volume 03, issue 25), Copenhagen was selected as the second best city in the world due to its safety, atmosphere, welfare, infrastructure and--one could be tempted to add--its ...

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Article: Profile

Barry Guy: Ode to a Bassist

Read "Barry Guy: Ode to a Bassist" reviewed by Andrey Henkin


In 2007, just in time for bassist Barry Guy's 60th birthday, Intakt Records released Portrait, equal parts compilation, introduction, overview and mere glimpse into the musical world of this instrumentalist, composer and bandleader. There are tracks from several editions of Guy's colossal London Jazz Composers Orchestra (LJCO), pieces done with longstanding collaborators like Evan Parker and ...

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News: Interview

Trumpeter Herb Robertson Interviewed at AAJ

Trumpeter Herb Robertson Interviewed at AAJ

Amid a whorl of scraped cello, tenor sax squawks, and bass clarinet blats, trumpeter Herb Robertson paused, his eyes closed in concentration. With NSA-like hearing ability, he pierced the action with a bracing note that crystallized the unfurling improvisation. The intent listening and bold responses displayed during saxophonist Lotte Anker's January show at The Stone typify ...

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Article: Profile

Herb Robertson: Abandon in the Moment

Read "Herb Robertson: Abandon in the Moment" reviewed by Sean Patrick Fitzell


Amid a whorl of scraped cello, tenor sax squawks, and bass clarinet blats, trumpeter Herb Robertson paused, his eyes closed in concentration. With NSA-like hearing ability, he pierced the action with a bracing note that crystallized the unfurling improvisation. The intent listening and bold responses displayed during saxophonist Lotte Anker's January show at The Stone typify ...

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Article: Album Review

The MacroQuarktet: Each Part a Whole: Live at the Stone

Read "Each Part a Whole: Live at the Stone" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


The MacroQuarktet features a crème de la crème of New York's progressive jazz and improvisational contingent, although the respective instrumentalists know no bounds due to variable stints with like-minded artists across the globe. Recorded live at the Manhattan venue The Stone, the quartet--or, wittily cited as the Quarktet--casts an impressionistic aura into the rather expansive connotations ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Gnosis Featuring Herb Robertson at The Yippie Cafe (NYC) on February 21

Gnosis Featuring Herb Robertson at The Yippie Cafe (NYC) on February 21

7:30PM GNOSIS: Jim Yanda (guitar), Herb Robertson (trumpet), Tom Sayek (drums), Chris Lough (bass), & special guest Bob Hovey (trombone) 9:00PM ANDERSON MODERN MUSIC: Sean Anderson (reeds), Fred Anderson (drums), Lex Samu (trumpet), Chris Lough (bass) February 21, 2009 The Yippie Cafe 9 Bleecker St. New York, NY 10012 $10 ...

Album

The Perfume Comes Before the Flower

Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: 1. The Perfume Comes Before - Early News; 2. The Will - Nissarana; 3. The Flower - Aboio; 4. The Pure Experience - Sertão; 5. La réalité - Dancing Cosmologies. Tutte le composizioni sono di Alìpio C Neto.

Album

Passing The Torch

Label: Concord Jazz
Released: 2008

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News: Recording

Ruby Flower Records Releases 2008

Ruby Flower Records Releases 2008

Ruby Flower Records released three new CDs : “Passing The Torch" RF03CD Ruby Flower Records©2008 Herb Robertson - trumpet, cornet, soprano hunting horn, prepared trumpet, reed flute, whistles, vocals Jean-Luc Cappozzo - trumpet, flugelhorn, prepared trumpet, vocals Liner Notes : Bernard Prouteau (2007) Producers ...


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