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Jazz Connect Conference at APAP|NYC 2013 Schedule
Jazz Connect 2013 is free to all attendees. Register here. LOCATION: Hilton New York 1335 Avenue of the Americas at 54th St. New York, NY 10019 THURSDAY, JANUARY 10 9:00 am Workshops 1. Full Stream Ahead: Music Streaming Rights & Issues As music makes continues to make its bumpy transition ...
Dick Dale, Joe Louis Walker, Bill Sims Jr. & The Harriet Tubman Double Trio
by Martin Longley
Dick Dale The Jewel October 23, 2011 What could be a more appropriate venue to witness the heady spectacle that is a Dick Dale show? The Jewel is one of the cruise boats operated by the Rocks Off promoters, here in collaboration with the B.B. King Blues ...
CrossCurrent 3: A Cry for Cultural Development
by Gian Paolo Galasi
CrossCurrent Festival 3: Press Conference Piazza Loggia, Café Aquarium Brescia, Italy June 21, 2011 This space may not be the most fitting for an extended cultural/sociological analysis of how artistic expression and economical acknowledgment feeds each other, but there are events that can be taken as a good starting point for ...
Harriet Tubman: Ascension
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The raison d'être for the band, Harriet Tubman, is an almost aching musical yearning for a complete freedom. It is a freedom from genre and certainly on Ascension, complete freedom from style as well as style. This what the 20th Century Spanish poet and playwright, Federico Garcia-Lorca described as the heart of duende, a holistic alternative ...
Harriet Tubman: Ascension
by Mark Corroto
It has been forty-six years since John Coltrane took his expanded ensemble into a studio to record Ascension (Impulse!, 1965), and many believe the jazz world has yet to come to grips with its significance and meaning. It has only been eleven years since the power trio Harriet Tubman, expanded into the Harriet Tubman Double Trio, ...
Melvin Gibbs' free download series enters 10th and final week with a John Medeski feature
Bassist/producer Melvin Gibbs' free music series “Phree-dem Downloads" reaches its final week with the track “John Knows The Deal" from his Bitches Brew derived “Melvin Runs The Hoodoo Down" sessions. “John Knows The Deal" features John Medeski on organ and electric piano. This track also includes Casey Benjamin on synth as well as the rhythm section ...
Melvin Gibbs' latest free download highlights Afro-Cuban song and rhythm
Melvin Gibbs' free music series Phree-dem Downloads enters its ninth and penultimate week with a composition based around the singing and rhythm of the Lukumi of Cuba. “Talkin' to the Queen" features John Medeski, Graham Haynes and Alex Harding performing live with Melvin Gibbs' Liberation Theology band. This track is built around a traditional song for ...
Melvin Gibbs' Phree-dem Downloads series reaches week 8
Bassist/Producer Melvin Gibbs' free music series Phree-dem Downloads enters week with the composition “SevenPlusNine." This song features Jeff Parker (Tortoise, Chicago Underground Duo) on guitar and Francisco Mora Catlett (Innerzone Orchestra, Sun Ra) on drums and percussion. This track was produced for the “JFM Trio" project, which bases its' music around the Voodoo-derived rhythms of Santiago, ...
Melvin Gibbs presents Phree-dem Download 7: Osétura
For week number seven of Melvin Gibbs' 10 week Monday free download series Mr.Gibbs releases a live track from his Liberation Theology band. Osétura features Alex Harding on baritone sax, John Medeski on keyboards and Graham Haynes on trumpet.This track is driven by a three person percussion group playing the bata drums of the Yoruba people ...
Legendary Keyboardist Bernie Worrell to Release New Collection of Jazz Standards
Legendary keyboardist and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Bernie Worrell will release a remarkable new album of jazz standards on March 15, 2011 on Scufflin' Records. The album, titled Bernie Worrell: Standards, features Worrell alongside an all star line up of renowned musicians including Smokey Hormel on guitar, Melvin Gibbs on bass, JT Lewis on ...
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