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Punkt in Mannheim: Enjoy Jazz Festival: Days 11-12, October 30-31, 2009
by John Kelman
Days 1-2 | Day 3-6 | Days 7-10 | Days 11-12Since its inception in 2005, the Norwegian Punkt festival has been gaining an international reputation for innovation and creativity. With a founding premise of Live Remix--where individual concerts, crossing the breadth of jazz but also beyond, are remixed immediately following the performance with other ...
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey:One Day in Brooklyn
By: Dennis Cook The studio debut of the 2009 configuration of JFJO is perhaps the “jazziest" effort from them in some time. While often seen as the genre's wild child (a well earned tag), the Fred works in a smoother, slinkier vein on One Day In Brooklyn (released September 1 on Kinnara Records), fitting for what ...
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey Announce 34-City North American Tour
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey have announced a 34-city North American tour in September and October to support their new EP, One Day In Brooklyn. The band will begin the trek in their home state of Oklahoma before hitting Texas for two nights and then heading west where they'll work their way up the left coast to ...
Michael Bellar and the AS-IS Ensemble Release "Turned On Turned Up"
Touted “Generation Next” by Billboard Magazine during their first ever New York City performance, Michael Bellar and the AS-IS Ensemble seem to defy description as they take the stage. This ber-hip electro-acoustic group blends sounds from jazz, rock and world percussion into their own unique form of alt-jazz. As the former house band for the legendary ...
Jam Band's Playful Signature in Earnest Jazz Notes
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, from Tulsa, Okla., presents itself as a jam band, and over the last 15 years it has earned an avid following. Led by the pianist Brian Haas, it tours widely and often, recording some shows for official purposes and leaving others for the bootleg market. And like, say, Phish whose bassist, Mike ...
Icons Among Us: An Epic Jazz Documentary, Part 1
by Nick Catalano
Part 1 | Part 2 A host of visionary producers in Seattle have produced an extraordinary TV documentary on the state of contemporary jazz art and artists. Dubbed Icons Among Us: Jazz In the Present Tense, the four-part program features a virtual who's who of young jazz performers talking about their creative struggles and ...
The Making of Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense
by Eric Benson
On an August morning in 1958, a 33-year-old photographer named Art Kane gathered 57 jazz musicians together on the steps of a Harlem brownstone. The resulting picture, known as “A Great Day in Harlem," appeared in the January 1959 issue of Esquire and has become the most famous image in jazz history. The photograph lacks the ...
Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense - Episode Three: In the Spirit of Family
by John Kelman
Episode One | Episode Two | Episode Three | Episode Four --->Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present TenseEpisode Three: In the Spirit of Family The Documentary ChannelMay 4, 2009, 09:00-10:00PMParadigm Studio2009In a 2005 AAJ interview, guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel bemoaned the loss ...
Bill Frisell Sits in with Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey in Seattle
Bill Frisell sat in with Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey for about 20 minutes of improvisatory magic last night (2.22) at the Tractor Tavern in Seattle, WA. You can view Stebmo's opening set as well as the full JFJO set on the archived webcast at jfjo.com, JFJO's set starts at about the 1:15 mark. JFJO's tour pick ...
