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News: Performance / Tour

Grady Tate; Jammin' On The Hudson

Grady Tate; Jammin' On The Hudson

Riverbank State Park, in association with Brownstone Entertainment Complex, LLC, for our seventh consecutive year are pleased to present: “ Jammin' On The Hudson." 'Jammin'; The Summer Concert Series for the 'serious' Jazz Lover! The series features 'World-Class' Players, appearing one Sunday in July and one in August. What could be more inviting than listening to ...

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Article: Interview

Roberta Piket: Making a Difference

Read "Roberta Piket: Making a Difference" reviewed by Victor L. Schermer


Roberta Piket is a jazz pianist, composer, and arranger with an exceptional range of expression. In the same tune or performance, she moves fluidly between bebop, hard bop, blues, soft and mellow, up-tempo, contrapuntal, and advanced harmonic motifs, making it all come together in meaningful, coherent statements of ideas and emotions. She thinks hard when she ...

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Article: Album Review

The Ullmann/Swell 4: News? No News!

Read "News? No News!" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose


There is a marvelous gravitas that emanates from the musical waves that rush onward and beat the inner ear, spreading colors and textures like brilliant volatile smears on the music's canvas. The awesome density of Steve Swell's trombone carving the air in great circles of sound, swirling around the growling of Gebhard Ullmann's tenor saxophone brings ...

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Article: Album Review

The Ullmann / Swell 4: News? No News!

Read "News? No News!" reviewed by Troy Collins


The international partnership of German multi-instrumentalist Gebhard Ullmann and Downtown trombonist Steve Swell dates back to 2004, when they first recorded together as the co-leaders of a quartet on Desert Songs and Other Landscapes (CIMP, 2004)--the same year Swell joined Ullmann's renowned Basement Research ensemble. News? No News! is the sophomore follow-up to their CIMP debut, ...

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Article: Album Review

Ullmann-Swell 4: News? No News!

Read "News? No News!" reviewed by Mark Corroto


It is difficult to decide, when listening to The Ullmann-Swell 4 disc News? No News! whether the choicest parts are composed or purely improvised. With such talent heard here in this mini-supergroup of saxophonist/bass clarinetist Gebhard Ullmann, trombonist Steve Swell, bassist Hilliard Greene, and drummer Barry Altschul, maybe the extreme pleasure that results is allowing that ...

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Article: Album Review

Ullmann / Swell Quartet: News? No News!

Read "News? No News!" reviewed by John Sharpe


In these days of global jazz alliances, the partnership of downtown trombonist Steve Swell and German reedman Gebhard Ullmann won't raise too many eyebrows. More noteworthy is its endurance, spanning some six years since its auspicious inception with Desert Songs and Other Landscapes (CIMP, 2004). Swell is also a fixture in Ullmann's Basement Research band, another ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

Sunjump: Archaeology of the Present

Read "Sunjump: Archaeology of the Present" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard


In a time when the music business, as many other other branches of commerce, is in crisis, it has become increasingly relevant to ask what needs to be done in order to save record labels. While the major companies retreat to protective copyright thinking and unimaginative repacking of archive material, a new host of independent labels ...

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A Book Of Five Rings

Label: Sunjump Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: 1. Bwarat 2. Smitty 3. Two Worlds 4. You Get What You Want 5. ...and His Spirit Ascended/Trane's Church

Album

On The Road

Label: Wildflower Recordings
Released: 2005


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