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Sizeable Outfits, Enviable Outcomes: Large Ensembles In Pursuit Of Excellence
by Dan Bilawsky
Perhaps nothing better symbolizes dogged persistence than the proliferation of large ensembles in every corner of the jazz world. To take on this kind of work can and should be considered injudicious for the rationally-minded, as the investments--time-wise, organizationally, financially, mentally--are beyond compare. But just because the dollars and sense don't add up doesn't mean it's ...
About Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University
Instrument: Band / ensemble / orchestra
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Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University
The Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music strives to inspire musicians towards excellence that knows no boundaries. We are an ambitious school who recognise the value of music in the world, in both its heritage and future forms. Our teaching and research seeks to expand the value of music and its evolution in our communities. The school celebrates the rich diversity of music making in Australia and its association with the rest of the world. The Jazz and Improvisation program is based on the African American jazz idiom as a language for learning. While the focus remains on music in Australia, it also embraces a wide selection of musical styles including jazz, world music, Brazilian, Indian, free, electronic, popular, Latin and blues to name but a few styles
Garda Jazz 2020
by Giuseppe Segala
Riva del Garda, Arco, Nago, Torbole, Tenno 31.7-12.8.2020 La ventesima edizione del Garda Jazz Festival ha voluto giocare sulla parola venti, con un'oscillazione semantica tra il numero stesso e i flussi d'aria numerosi e birbanti che percorrono il lago più grande d'Italia, facendone la gioia di velisti e surfisti. In ...
Alan Braufman, Anteloper & Owl Xounds Exploding Galazy
by Maurice Hogue
It's baseball season—sort of—so I guess you could say this episode of OMJ touches a lot of bases. The NY underground scene gets explored a bit via 70's Loft pioneer Alan Braufman who has a new release, while more recent practitioners of the outside get sampled—Owl Xounds Exploding Galaxy and Scurvy. Today's Jaimie Branch is here ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Hermeto Pascoal
All About Jazz is celebrating Hermeto Pascoal's birthday today! Hermeto Pascoal is a prolific musician and composer who transcends category. Hermeto often uses unconventional instruments such as teapots, children's toys, found objects, and—sometimes, without harming them—live animals. He uses nature as a basis for his compositions, as in his Música da Lagoa, where the musicians burble ...
New Jazz From London: Top 20 Paradigm Shifting Albums
by Chris May
After a lifetime trying to get on an equal footing with its American parent, British jazz has finally come of age. Since around 2015, a community of young, London-based musicians has forged a style which, while anchored in the American tradition, reflects the Caribbean and African cultural heritages of many of its vanguard players. The scene ...
20 Seattle Jazz Musicians You Should Know: Jovino Santos Neto
by Paul Rauch
The city of Seattle has a jazz history that dates back to the very beginnings of the form. It was home to the first integrated club scene in America on Jackson St in the 1920's and '30s. It saw a young Ray Charles arrive as a teenager to escape the nightmare of Jim Crow in the ...
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Hermeto Pascoal
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Hermeto Pascoal is a prolific musician and composer whotranscends category. Hermeto often uses unconventionalinstruments such as teapots, children's toys, found objects,and—sometimes, without harming them—live animals. Heuses nature as a basis for his compositions, as in hisMúsica da Lagoa, where the musicians burblewater and play flutes while immersed in a lagoon. He is anenergetic and virtuosic soloist who can play proficiently onalmost any instrument: keyboards, button accordion,saxophone, guitar, flute, voice, various brass instruments,and various folkloric instruments. A Brazilian televisionbroadcast from 1999 showed him soloing at one point bysinging into a cup with his mouth partially submerged inwater.
Maria Mendes: Close To Me
by Dan Bilawsky
A great affection for fado music and its poetic lyrics, an appreciation for how a jazz palette can color the form, and a love of orchestral seasonings all influence this expansive outing from Maria Mendes. It's an effort that's far from the norm and right where the Portuguese vocalist lives and loves to be.
EFG London Jazz Festival 2019
by Luke Seabright
A truly great event that advocates for an art form like jazz will celebrate both its history and its younger incarnations. It can breathe life into the music's traditions while exposing new ways forward. The EFG London Jazz Festival, through its vast programme of concerts in venues across the city, succeeds in doing just that. This ...
