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Meet Dom Minasi
by AAJ Staff
I currently live in: New York, NY I joined All About Jazz in: 2012 What made you decide to contribute to All About Jazz? All About Jazz is the first thing I read in the morning, there is a wealth of information and I thought as a working musician I could offer ...
Thomas Chapin: New Jazz Film Goes to Kickstarter.com for Global Fundraising Campaign - Final Days!
FINAL DAYS OF KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN New jazz film is using kickstarter.com to raise money to shoot a music biography/ documentary in the NYC area, Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Europe EMMY-winning filmmaker Stephanie J. Castillo is running a 45-day global fundraising campaign at kickstarter.com to raise $50,000 to begin shooting her feature-length documentary film, NIGHT BIRD ...
Curtis Hasselbring: Number Stations
by Glenn Astarita
Many avant-garde composers, leaders or conductors employ various mechanisms to instruct the band for a specific composition. Here, longtime New York City alternative composer, trombonist Curtis Hasselbring integrates an all-star lineup for pieces inspired by a random series of numbers, based on shortwave radio stations. Hasslebring iterates that these pieces are hypothetically decoded and provide cryptic ...
Dave Douglas Quintet Celebrates The Release Of "Time Travel," 50th Birthday At Jazz Standard March 28-31
The year 2013 marks trumpeter Dave Douglas's 50th birthday year and he will celebrate it this week at the Jazz Standard March 28th-31st with his new quintet featuring saxophonist Jon Irabagon, the pianist Matt Mitchell, the bassist Linda Oh and the drummer Rudy Royston. “The strength of the quintet," Douglas argues, “is a testament to the ...
Ryan Keberle + Catharsis: Music Is Emotion
by Dan Bilawsky
Music can be defined, analyzed and categorized, but those formal processes do little to help demystify the effect it can have on people. That's because music's power isn't directly related to the science behind the sound; music truly makes its mark through emotional connectivity, and trombonist Ryan Keberle is keenly aware of this. ...
Kris Davis: Capricorn Climber
by Glenn Astarita
Relocating from her native Canada to New York City, pianist Kris Davis has infused her imposing talents into New York City's unconventional, downtown-like scene. She once again aligns her compositional and improvisation expertise with like-minded artists, who frequently transition the jazz idiom into a boundless vista. Hence, the album projects a topsy-turvy and rather oscillating aura, ...
Brian Groder / Tonino Miano: FluiDensity
by Eyal Hareuveni
The duo of trumpeter Brian Groder-- known for his collaborations with iconoclastic improvisers, saxophonist Sam Rivers (Torque, Latham, 2006) and pianist Burton Greene (Groder & Greene, Latham, 2009)-- and classically-trained pianist Tonino Miano attempts to bridge the 21st improvisational techniques with the innovations of 20th century contemporary music. These two like-minded musicians draw inspiration from diverse ...
Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival Announces Lineup For 12th Edition June 21-29 With Record Number Of Artists, Concerts And Venues
Rochester, NY: John Nugent and Marc Iacona, Producers of the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival (XRIJF) today announced the lineup for their biggest festival ever, to be held over nine days June 21-29, 2013. The XRIJF 12th Edition will feature Bob James & David Sanborn with Special Guest Steve Gadd, David Byrne and St. Vincent, Roger ...
Joe Hertenstein - Achim Tang - Jon Irabagon: Future Drone
by Glenn Astarita
Now residing in New York City, Germany-reared drummer Joe Hertenstein employs musicians from Europe or the US and to some extent, merges the avant-garde strata and stylistic tendencies into an opportunistic creative forum. This trio outing is a prime example. Featuring Viennese bassist Achim Tang and American tenor saxophonist Jon Irabagon, the album pronounces a shrewd ...
Usdan Center, W/expanded Jazz Program, Holds 4/21 Open House
Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, the nationally renowned summer arts day camp on Long Island whose Jazz Dept. was created more in 1986 by Dr. Billy Taylor, announces an Open House on Sunday April 21 from 11 AM to 2 PM. The Center's Jazz Dept. has now expanded to have Ensembles for Beginning, ...
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