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News: Career

Musicians: Find the One Key Metric That Matters for Your Career

February 14, 2013

This blog post originally appeared on the music/technology blog Hypebot (@Hypebot) and is written by Hypebot Senior Contributor Clyde Smith (Twitter/App.net), who also maintains a writing hub at Flux Research. From time to time concepts and approaches from the world of tech startups have relevance to indie and DIY musicians. Recently the concept of “One Key ...

News: Performance / Tour

Mark Berman Power Trio Valentine Tonight At 78 Below New York 10 PM

February 14, 2013

Mark Berman, whose iconic montuno piano playing on the theme to “Sex and the City" assured his place in the pop culture pantheon, brings his hard- hitting power trio to 78 Below, 380 Columbus Avenue at 78th Street, tonight in a special Valentine's Day celebration from 10 pm 'til 1 am. Berman, whom Oscar host and ...

News: Event

Jazz Arts Group Of Columbus & MojoFlo Join Forces For "Motor City Soul Revue," March 2 At Lincoln

February 14, 2013

Columbus, OH – The Jazz Arts Group's Inside Track series continues its 2012-13 season at the historic Lincoln Theatre with a tribute to the famed “Hitsville U.S.A." label and the artists and songs that exemplified “The Motown Sound." On Saturday, March 2, Columbus' favorite neo-funk band MojoFlo joins forces with members of the Columbus Jazz Orchestra ...

Article: Album Review

NYConnection: Party Of Four

Read "Party Of Four" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
February 13, 2013

The genesis of Party Of Four can be traced back to 2007, when a friendship of two was solidified. Finnish drummer Jaska Lukkarinen and Israeli pianist Roy Assaf found each other at that fateful point in their respective careers and, shortly thereafter, NYConnection was born. While the band took its maiden voyage as a piano trio ...

Article: Album Review

North America Jazz Alliance: The Montreal Sessions

Read "The Montreal Sessions" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
February 13, 2013

The North America Jazz Alliance brings together two American and four Canadian musicians to perform the music heard in the nightclubs of the 60s and 70s on The Montreal Sessions. Producer Peter Maxymych further wanted to focus on the accordion-led bands of the era of which, the most famous was that of the late Art Van ...

Article: Album Review

Hristo Vitchev Quartet: Familiar Fields

Read "Familiar Fields" reviewed by Chris Mosey

by Chris Mosey
February 13, 2013

New Age jazz from a guitarist very much in the Pat Metheny tradition. Hristo Vitchev was born in Bulgaria but now lives--as do a great many other New Agers--in San Francisco. He wrote the music on this album some time ago but says the songs “were constantly searching for their own voice, their own identity, and ...

News: Event

Jazz Duets Featuring Carmen Lundy & Harpist Carol Robbins

February 13, 2013

Experience world-class jazz at the Mayme A. Clayton Library & Museum during Black History Month! Jazz @ the Clayton presents Jazz Duets, an incredible series of four (4) unique jazz concerts. The series begins on Thursday, February 7, 2013 and ends on Feb. 28, 2013 with the final concert featuring celebrated Jazz composer and vocalist Carmen ...

News: Recording

Willie Nile's "American Ride" Shifts Into High Gear

February 13, 2013

New fan-financed album by veteran rocker and “songwriter’s songwriter” coming on April 30 — with or without a label! NEW YORK, N.Y. — When Willie Nile recently sought help in underwriting his new album American Ride — out on April 30, 2013 on his own River House Records — with a fundraising campaign on pledgemusic.com, ...

News: Recording

BJURecords Proudly Releases: "When Flooded" From Trumpeter/composer Matt Holman

February 13, 2013

CD Release Celebrations: March 20 @ The Cornelia Street Cafe May 1st @ Barbes “Trumpeter Matt Holman is a creative and thoughtful improviser with a world-class sound. I expect big things from him in the years to come." —Fred Hersch, pianist/composer “There are many prodigiously talented young instrumentalists out there. The ones with something ...

News: Music Industry

Police Shoot Jazz Band Members In Dorner Manhunt

February 13, 2013

SOURCE: The Daily Current Three members of a jazz band were shot by Los Angeles police Monday afternoon in relation to a massive hunt for an avenging ex-cop, police and witnesses said. Police were reportedly acting on a tip in their search for Christopher Jordan Dorner when they stopped a van at an Arco station on ...