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October 30, 2012

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News: Contest

Win A Chance To Talk With Your Favorite Songlines Artist

October 30, 2012

Specializing in cutting-edge jazz (with new music/world music influences) from New York's downtown scene and other centers of creative music, Songlines' eclectic roster includes artists such as drummer Sean Noonan, guitarist/oudist Gordon Grdina,saxophonist Michael Blake, pianist Benoit Delbecq and clarinetist Francois Houle. For the next ten days, fans of the label are invited to visit its ...

Article: Interview

Alex Machacek: Fat Beyond Belief

by Ian Patterson
October 30, 2012

Alex Machacek is back with a tremendously exciting new record and a wonderful new trio. Well, not quite. Drummer Harold Pirker and bassist Raphael Preuschi have been playing with the Austria-born/California-based guitarist on and off for the guts of a decade and both contributed significantly to Machacek's [sic] (Abstract Logix, 2006). A trio recoding by FAT ...

Article: Album Review

Randy Klein's Two Duos: What's Next?

Read "What's Next?" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
October 30, 2012

Randy Klein launched his Two Duos series with Sunday Morning (Jazzheads, 2010), pairing the pianist up with trombonist Chris Washburne and tenor saxophonist Oleg Kireyev, but he leaves the horns behind for this follow-up. This time around, Klein turns to two different, but equally skilled string men. Guitarist Alex Skolnick, reborn as a jazz guitarist but ...

Article: Album Review

FAT: FAT

by John Kelman
October 30, 2012

Around for more than a decade, Alex Machacek's first record as a leader (renamed, with characteristically bone-dry wit, as Mc Hacek) was Featuring Ourselves (Next Generation, 1999), but it was when the Austrian-born/California-resident guitarist moved to Abstract Logix that more significant attention came, first with his stunning, year-besting [sic] (2006). Three more records followed, culminating in ...

Article: Album Review

Chad Smith's Bombastic Meatbats: Live Meat and Potatoes

Read "Live Meat and Potatoes" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
October 30, 2012

Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith spreads his wings on this Pristinely recorded, high-impact jazz fusion outing captured at the Baked Potato in North Hollywood, CA. From a technical perspective, the members of the Chili Peppers were always cited as serious-minded musicians, possessing the goods to delve into various musical formats or genres. Smith, nascent ...

Article: Album Review

Tomas Fujiwara & The Hook Up: The Air is Different

Read "The Air is Different" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
October 30, 2012

Drummer Tomas Fujiwara inhabits the fertile Brooklyn scene alongside guitarist Mary Halvorson, a frequent collaborator who is part of his band, The Hook Up; alongside cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum, both are also featured on collective The Thirteenth Assembly's outstanding Station Direct (Important, 2011). So it's not surprising that similarly smart multifaceted compositions, delivered through tight but ...

News: Event

Jazz @ The Elks

October 30, 2012

The Plymouth Elks Lodge #1780 in Plymouth MI has Jazz @ The Elks in a beautiful club setting on the last Tuesday of every month from 7 pm to 10 pm. On Tuesday, October 30th for the first time at Jazz @ The Elks, we are happy to welcome the Latin group, Nuevo Jazz Detroit. The ...

News: Education

Missouri Composer David Witter Wins 2013 Sinquefield Composition Prize

October 30, 2012

Columbia, MO - The University of Missouri School of Music and the Mizzou New Music Initiative are pleased to announce that David Witter is the winner of the 2013 Sinquefield Composition Prize. Witter, who holds both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in composition from Mizzou, submitted his piece “Garden Music" to the competition and was selected for ...

News: Recording

To Celebrate Record Store Day's Back To Black Friday Event, Omnivore Recordings Announces Ten-inch Vinyl Eps

October 30, 2012

Also from Omnivore, Jellyfish’s two-CD set Stack-a-Tracks offers rare glimpse of band in an instrumental mode LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Record Store Day comes but once a year, but its Back to Black Friday event in November brings the focus back to independent record stores during the biggest shopping day of the year. And for Omnivore ...