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News: Performance / Tour

3rd Annual Emmanuel Baptist Church Holiday Jazz Vespers Featuring Antonio Hart And The Queens College Jazz Ensemble

3rd Annual Emmanuel Baptist Church Holiday Jazz Vespers Featuring Antonio Hart And The Queens College Jazz Ensemble

Bring 2015 in on a high note with Antonio Hart at the Emmanuel Baptist Church Jazz Vespers On December 31st Emmanuel Baptist Church presents their 3rd Annual Holiday Jazz Vespers featuring the profound Antonio Hart and The Queens College Jazz Ensemble. Recognized as one of the most talented instrumentalists of his generation, members of Emmanuel Baptist ...

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News: Recording

Bassist/Composer Mark Wade Debuts With "Event Horizon," Feb. 17

Bassist/Composer Mark Wade Debuts With "Event Horizon," Feb. 17

Bassist Mark Wade takes the art of the trio to brilliant new heights with his debut recording Event Horizon, to be released February 17, 2015 by his Mark Wade Music imprint. Working with trio-mates Tim Harrison, piano, and Scott Neumann, drums, Wade shines as an instrumentalist, composer, and bandleader. “I always loved listening to great piano ...

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News: Festival

New Frequencies Fest: Jazz@YBCA In San Francisco February 4-7, 2015

New Frequencies Fest: Jazz@YBCA In San Francisco February 4-7, 2015

Yerba Buena Center for The Arts completes its Festival lineup for New Frequencies Fest: Jazz@YBCA running February 5-7, 2015 - “jazz in the present tense. Highlights include Angélique Kidjo, Henry Threadgill Double-Up, Matana Roberts, Ben Goldberg’s Orphic Machine, Jenny Scheinman solo, Satoko Fujii Duo, Rudy Royston’s 303, Myra Melford, Joëlle Léandre & Nicole Mitchell Trio, Lisa ...

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Article: Interview

Dave King: We do music, so we know music

Read "Dave King: We do music, so we know music" reviewed by Ben Scholz

by Ben Scholz

Ever the emphatic artist, drummer Dave King is most famous as a founding member of the contemporary trio The Bad Plus. Rooted in jazz, The Bad Plus has taken creative music to a new abstract height, examining reinterpretations of works by artists as diverse as Stravinsky, Nirvana and Tears for Fears. However, his re-definition of a ...

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News: Recording

Jazz Composer-Arranger, Trombonist, and Vocalist Pete McGuinness Earns Two Grammy Nominations for "Strength In Numbers"

Jazz Composer-Arranger, Trombonist, and Vocalist Pete McGuinness  Earns Two Grammy Nominations for "Strength In Numbers"

Pete McGuinness: Strength In Numbers (Summit Records) Grammy Nominated for “Best Arrangement Instrumental or A Cappella" and “Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals" Acclaimed jazz composer/arranger, trombonist and vocalist Pete McGuinness has earned two 2015 Grammy nominations for arrangements on his Summit Records CD Strength In Numbers. The nominations are for “Best Arrangement Instrumental or A Cappella” ...

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News: Radio

BreakThru Radio’s “the Jazz Hole” With Linus Wyrsch Ready For Season 7

BreakThru Radio’s “the Jazz Hole” With Linus Wyrsch Ready For Season 7

New York, NY - BreakThru Radio (BTR) is the world’s leading source for the best independent music on the internet using a unique on-demand programming approach. The station’s jazz show “The Jazz Hole” comes out every other Sunday, while the monthly special “BTR The Jazz Hole Live” features a recorded live set on the second Thursday ...

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Article: Album Review

Steve Lehman: Mise en Abîme

Read "Mise en Abîme" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian

Saxophonist Steve Lehman's 12th release as a leader/co-leader and his second one with an octet Mise en Abime is a cohesive work of intriguingly cerebral and dramatic nature. Like the title implies there are concepts that repeat, amplify and fade in the process of constructing and deconstructing the main themes of the album. On ...

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Article: Album Review

Mike Marshall & Chorro Famoso: Segunda Vez

Read "Segunda Vez" reviewed by Maurizio Zerbo

by Maurizio Zerbo

Questo è il CD giusto per chi volesse ascoltare qualcosa di diverso rispetto al solito Brasile da cartolina. Niente samba jazz o bossa nova, solo la grande quanto semisconosciuta tradizione del choro che affonda le sue gloriose radici alla fine dell'800. C'è tanta passione in questo recupero filologico di un ammaliante genere musicale, ...

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News: Performance / Tour

The Four Freshmen experience

The Four Freshmen experience

The Four Freshmen have been straddling the jazz and pop genres for 66 years nonstop, though the quartet hasn't had an original member in its ranks since 1992. But everywhere they go, they still pack in full houses. Sunday's matinee concert at Sarasota's was a case in point.Glenridge Performing Arts Center, sponsored by the South County ...

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News: Radio

The Inspiration Behind The Versions Of "Santa Baby" Remakes... Hint, Never Marilyn Monroe!

The Inspiration Behind The Versions Of "Santa Baby" Remakes... Hint, Never Marilyn Monroe!

Sultry Jazz Pop singer, actress, NOBEL Nominated CYNTHIA BASINET whose ICONIC version of SANTA BABY, that has often be mistaken for Marilyn Monroe all though Marilyn never sang the song, has been the inspiration behind the versions of Santa Baby recorded to date since 2000, whether well-known or not. Cynthia’s one off of Eartha Kitt’s renowned ...


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