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News: Performance / Tour

Urb Alt Goes to College and Feeds the Hungry Through the CMJ Music Marathon

October 20, 2008

URB ALT opens Friday, 10/24 at Crash Mansion NYC in junction with the world renowned CMJ Music Marathon. CMJ or the College Music Journal has been hosting it's marathon in multiple venues in NYC for well over a decade. URB ALT is the popular showcase and festival that the Village Voice claims is a “unique" music/film ...

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News: Recording

Ruby Flower Records Releases 2008

October 20, 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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News: Event

Consilience and Altruism: Of the Other Way of Thinking and Stephanie Stone

October 20, 2008

WHAT: A Bio-Musical Imaginative Theoretical Tribute written and created by Ana Isabel Ordonez Improvisational patterns and concepts by Herb Robertson Design created by Claude Marc Bourget WHO: The Herb Robertson Sextet with Marty Erhlich, David Taylor, Terry McManus, Mark Helias & Jay Rosen WHEN: Sunday November ...

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News: Performance / Tour

A Touch of Noir & Shades of Jazz on Noir Film-Concert Series

October 20, 2008

A Touch of Noir brings about a new music approach to classic film noir history correcting the disembodiment that existed in the original scores, making a dark and ominous dramatic effect. The improvisers will combine blues and swing and some written excerpts with the film “A Touch of Noir” simultaneously. The effect of this live performance ...

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News: Recording

Boz Scaggs to Release New Album "Speak Low"

October 20, 2008

Five years after his first volume of standards, But Beautiful, debuted at # 1 on the Billboard Jazz chart, GRAMMY award winning musician Boz Scaggs offers his second volume of standards and ballads, aptly titled Speak Low (out September 30 on vinyl and wide release on October 28th via Decca). The multi-dimensional singer, whose 1976 album ...

News: Performance / Tour

Sten Hostfalt with Calmer at Public Assembly in NYC

October 19, 2008

Jazz Guitarist/Bassist/Composer Sten Hostfalt appears Live in Concert with Calmer (aka Collin Palmer) at Moodgadget Records/Ghostly International's C M J Party at PUBLIC ASSEMBLY NYC (formerly Galapagos Artspace) on OCTOBER 23 at 11pm ($5) also performing are : (front room) The Little Death NYC feat. M O B Y, Laura Dawn, Daron Murphy, Aaron ...

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News: Recording

New Release Coming Soon from Impressus Records

October 18, 2008

Coming soon! Edus Tonus, a new CD release on Impressus Records. Featuring Edoardo Marraffa (tenor sax/sopranino), and Tonino Miano (piano). About Impressus Records A bold duo with a pungent, forward-pushing sound where familiar lines are often blurred into a tumultuous outpouring of dynamic gestures, creating an overall texture of unequivocal character. IMPRESSUS RECORDS [From Latin impressus, ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Steve Swallow: Swallow Songs & Dedicated to Steve

by Fred Bouchard
October 18, 2008

Mellow, majestic, mischievous--smooth mnemonics come to mind when listening (or even thinking) about bassist Steve Swallow's music. The estimable (nay, venerable) progenitor of jazz electric bass (or is it Monk Montgomery?) has more basslines up his sleeve than Svengali had pigeons, and his sinuous sleight-of-hand with chord progressions dazzles with its deceptive "ease" of ...

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News: Recording

Test of Time Reissues Duke 'N' Bird by al Haig

October 17, 2008

Test of Time Records is proud to announce the remastered reissue of Al Haig's Duke 'N' Bird. his unique solo piano album recorded on May 6th 1976 at New York’s Vanguard Studios. It is being released now on CD for the first time in the U.S. Al Haig was born in Newark, ...

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Article: Live Review

Jazz for Obama: A Concert for America's Future

by Greg Thomas
October 17, 2008

Jazz for Obama 92nd Street Y New York, NY October 1, 2008 Jazz, to some, is apolitical, a refuge of artistic purity in the midst of a cultural and commercial wasteland. To these persons, art is hermetically sealed from world affairs. Yet there comes a time in the affairs of men ...