NPPR Music - You Must Hear This

Tonight: Watch Real Estate Play 'Atlas' Live Real Estate's shimmering pop-rock seems to echo out of the past with melancholy beauty. Watch the band perform its third album, Atlas, in its entirety at New York's SubCulture on Feb. 27. Watch live, 8 p.m. ET

FIRST LISTEN First Listen: Calle 13, 'Multi_Viral' The controversial Puerto Rican rap duo returns with its most introspective album to date — and guests including WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Stream the album

HEAVY ROTATION Heavy Rotation: 10 Songs Public Radio Can't Stop Playing Download new music from British rock behemoths Elbow, folk prodigy Parker Millsap, intense indie-songwriter Angel Olsen, svelte Irish singer Hozier, Chilean rapper Ana Tijoux, and much more. Download the songs

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED Recommended Dose: The Best Dance Tracks Of The Month All Songs Considered's favorite electronic jams from February include a legit underground anthem, African field recordings, and yet another promising producer from Detroit. Stream the mix

Champion: An Opera in Jazz Sound Recording Campaign

Composer Terence Blanchard is seeking support for the recording and distribution of his first opera, Champion: An Opera in Jazz.

Champion debuted at Opera Theatre St. Louis in June 2013 to sold-out audiences and great national critical acclaim.  As a modern opera, Champion explored the human condition, its triumphs and tragedies through the life of famed boxer Emille Griffith, who died in a New York nursing two weeks after the operaclosed. Champion has been given life and a promising future with interest from the Washington National Opera, Opera Paralléle in San Francisco, and Opera Philadelphia. Additionally, the opera is now represented worldwide by Boosey & Hawkes (www.boosey.com). Most recently, Champion has been nominated by the 2014 International Opera Awards for best 'World Premiere,' and is the only modern American opera nominated.
Read more: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/terence-blanchard-s-champion-an-opera-in-jazz-sound-recording

Paco de Lucía - Antonia (Buleria Por Solea)

Chris Connor: Gershwin Almanac

Reprinted from http://jazzwax.com

The late Chris Connor remains one of my favorite singers. Unfairly likened to June Christy, Chris had a lower, huskier sound and greater vocal control. Both sang with Stan Kenton and, while Christy was West Coast and Chris was East Coast, both had a bruised, slick-chick sound—the ache of being jilted. Chris was a songsmith. She told me she often spent downtime at music stores leafing through sheet music in search of songs other singers had missed. Back then, you were hip when you sang great songs everyone else had missed. They called that taste.

When I interviewed Chris in 2008, she told me one of her favorite albums was Chris Connor Sings the George Gershwin Almanac of Song for Atlantic. Interestingly, her recording in February 1957 came two years before Ella Fitzgerald's own Gershwin album—though in all fairness Fitzgerald had already started her songbook series in '56 with Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart albums.

Yesterday I spent hours listening to the Gershwin album and fell in love again with Chris's voice and vocal savvy. On the album, Chris wound up with two different arrangers—always a challenge when such a switch occurs midway through a recording project. [Photo above of Chris Connor in St. Louis by Bernie Thrasher, c. 1957]

Said Chris in 2008...

"[Pianist] Ralph Sharon was with me for eight years, before I signed with Atlantic and while I was there. But he left suddenly for Tony Bennett, who offered him much more money. Ralph left me in the middle of my Sings the Gershwin Almanac album. Ray Ellis came in and arranged the rest of it. I love this album. Actually, I love all my Atlantic records. And they're still selling more than 50 years later."

These sessions were recorded with the very best East Coast jazz musicians—including Al Cohn, Herbie Mann, Peanuts Hucko, Jimmy Cleveland, Hank Jones, Barry Galbraith, Mundell Lowe and two dozen others on different dates. The Sharon-arranged tracks are mostly quartet and quintet sessions while the Ellis tracks are brassy, with an emphasis on trombones.

As you listen to Chris, dig how deftly she slides up and down the song's chord changes, how she lingers and how she takes risks, choosing unusual notes only to resolve them perfectly. All while pouring breath into that tenor sax of a voice of hers. Nearly six years after our chats, I still remember Chris as gracious, shy and fun.

JazzWax tracks: You'll find Chris Connor Sings the George Gershwin Almanac of Song here.

JazzWax clips: Here are four songs from the album to give you a sense of how gorgeous Chris's voice was in 1957...

For You, For Me, For Evermore

Little Jazzbird

I Was Doing All Right

They All Laughed

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Used with permission by Marc Myers

NPR Music - Jazz

Eddie Palmieri's Latin Jazz Septet On JazzSet Palmieri plays the whole piano, and he's not shy about throwing an elbow or forearm to get the effect he needs. Read this story

TINY DESK CONCERTS Sofia Rei: Tiny Desk Concert For about 20 minutes one sunny afternoon, the NPR Music offices were converted into a small Latin American folk club, where Rei and her band treated us to stellar musicianship and genre-bending music. Read this story

MUSIC INTERVIEWS A Man, A Plan, A Concept Album About Panama Danilo Pérez got his start playing piano with Dizzy Gillespie. The celebrated composer's latest project is an ambitious one: 500 years of trade, exploration and colonization represented in music. Read this story

A BLOG SUPREME Rail, Radio And Booze: A Look At Montreal Jazz History Thanks to prohibition and trains, the Canadian city became known as a nightlife capital. A web documentary traces how Oscar Peterson and others emerged from the black neighborhood of Little Burgundy. Read this story

MARIAN MCPARTLAND'S PIANO JAZZ John Dankworth On Piano Jazz Piano Jazz remembers the musician, composer, arranger and band leader with this 1998 session, recorded before an audience at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y. Read this story

Leter from Garret Baker ....

Hi Claudio,

Nistha Raj's debut 'Exit 1' is out today! Wanted to make sure you knew about this project featuring Classical Hindustani violin meets human beat box project. Below is a link with streams, downloads, and more info. Let me know if you would like anything specific. She will also have a cd release concert in DC on March 8th.

Nistha Raj - India Without Borders: Nistha Raj Takes Exit 1 - 02/26/2014 - Release 
The violin begins to play a raga. At the pause, just when the tabla should enter, a beatboxer begins a rhythm and worlds collide. The music takes on fresh colors and barriers crumble. This is the sound of Nistha Raj and what she’s created on her inventive solo debut album, Exit 1( releasing February 26th, 2014).

Thank you,
Garrett Baker
Garrett @ FlipSwitchPR.com
www.flipswitchpr.com 

The Heavyweights Brass Band to release their second CD

Parkdale Villager, By  Erin Hatfield
When he was 18 years old Christopher Butcher travelled to New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz music, on a family vacation and it set the course of his career.

“It totally changed my life, seeing kids my age playing on the street corner in a brass band with two drummers and 10 horn players,” said Butcher, who, inspired by that event, went on to form The Heavyweights Brass Band, which has toured across Canada and opened for The Roots, Trombone Shorty and Galactic.

The group has played Koerner Hall with Giovanni Hidalgo, a Grammy Award-winning percussionist who has played with the likes of Phish and Paul Simon.

Photo/EDUARDO LIMA

The Heavyweights Brass Band made an appearance on CBC with the children’s television character Mamma Yamma.

“This is music that will make you feel something,” Butcher said. “We put the emphasis on the horns and that is what sets us apart from every other group in Canada. We are just horns.”

Now 28 years old, Butcher, who lives at College Street and Lansdowne Avenue, started to play the trombone in middle school.

“My cousin played it and I just remember thinking it looked cool and it sounded cool,” Butcher said.

Originally from Winnipeg, Butcher come to Toronto to study music at Humber College and when he finished in 2009, he said he was compelled to put together a New Orleans-style jazz band of his own that would be accessible and inspiring to the masses.

This lead to the creation of The Heavyweights Brass Band, which is set to release its second album, Brasstronomical, next month.

The band is composed of Butcher on trombone, Rob Teehan on sousaphone, Paul Metcalfe on saxophones, Lowell Whitty on drums, Jon Challoner on trumpet, and John Pittman, a recent addition, also on trumpet.

“These are some of the most gigging young musicians in Toronto,” Butcher said. “Which is how we came up with the name The Heavyweights.”
Read more: http://www.insidetoronto.com/news-story/4379457-the-heavyweights-brass-band-to-release-their-second-cd/

NPR Music - You Must Hear This

FIRST LISTEN First Listen: Linda Perhacs, 'The Soul Of All Natural Things' With one cult LP to her name, the folksinger has a profound perspective on what it means to look forward knowing the past. Julia Holter and Nite Jewel contribute to Perhacs' first album in 44 years. Stream the album

TINY DESK CONCERTS Brass Bed: Tiny Desk Concert The four guys in the Louisiana band buck a long streak of bad luck on the road and make it to the NPR Music offices for a memorable performance. Watch the video

MUSIC INTERVIEWS Fred Armisen's Fake Bands (And Their Real Songs) The Saturday Night Live alum's sketches about fictional musicians strike a believable chord. Fitting, then, that the original songs he wrote for them are now getting a proper release. Read this story

Art Alert: Jazz with Cairo Symphony Orchestra

By Ahram Online | Ahram Online – Mon, Feb 24, 2014
Dubbed "The Jazz Concert," the upcoming weekly performance by the Cairo Symphony Orchestra will invite audiences to explorations of jazz music by American and French composers George Gershwin and Claude Bolling.

The evening programme will include Gershwin's Cuban Overture and An American in Paris along with Bolling's Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio.Gershwin and Bolling were already performed in Cairo, always attracting great interest from the audience. However, what makes the concert particularly interesting is the new take on the suite which is arranged for orchestra by the concert's conductor Mohamed Saad Basha. Originally, the suite is a collection of seven songs written for a trio: classical flute, piano and drums.

Basha himself is also a composer with orchestral, chamber, choral and vocal works in his repertoire. He has already garnered several remarkable achievements for his compositions, including a five-year contract with prestigious Schott-Mainz to publish Basha's music. In 2012, he was awarded the Egyptian State Prize for Music, for his work Entizar.

Basha also frequently conducts a variety of Egypt's ensembles, mainly chamber formations. One of his main commitments is with the El-Sakia String Orchestra, a chamber ensemble which he founded in 2010 and which performs principally in El Sawy Culturewheel, a location that attracts a large number of young audiences.
Read more: http://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/art-alert-jazz-cairo-symphony-orchestra-092117681.html

Pekin senior eager to go east to expand jazz horizons

Photo: RON JOHNSON/JOURNAL STAR

Nathan See, an 18-year old Pekin High School senior, belts out a jazz standard on his saxophone at the Speakeasy Art Center in Pekin last Friday evening.

PEKIN — Nathan See doesn’t feel overwhelmed playing his saxophone during performances. A level of comfort comes with the territory inherent in the jazz music that See performs with a fun and easy-going flourish.

The closest he ever got toward a feeling of anxiousness — and it was more appreciation on the part of the Pekin native than anything else — was in January 2013 at the Illinois Music Education Conference. Rehearsing with a small group considered the best of the best in the state, in a room for the All-State Jazz Honors Combo concert, See discovered he was the only one of the eight-person ensemble who wasn’t a high school senior and from the Chicago area.

“They were all seniors in high schools and all Chicago kids and all going to awesome, prestigious music schools,” said See, who was a junior at Pekin Community High School at the time. “It was a pretty good feeling for me.”

Now in his senior year, the 18-year-old has garnered another year’s worth of accolades for his musical prowess and has fixed his sights on college. He applied to a slew of schools before trying out for admission to Berklee College of Music, located in Boston. Only a few weeks later, he was admitted to Berklee on a four-year, full-tuition scholarship, worth more than $30,000 a year. See will fly out to Manhattan in March to audition for the Manhattan School of Music and will then narrow his college choices.

“I know New York has the better jazz scene,” See said. “That’s where most jazz musicians go to make it happen. But Boston has an incredible thing going on there, too.”

Karli McCann, director of bands at the Pekin high school, said See’s combination of skill and work ethic will keep him playing the saxophone well beyond his college years. When a tornado ripped through a part of Pekin on Nov. 17, See sent a picture to McCann of him practicing by candlelight.
“I started to think that this kid is something else,” McCann said.

Though his peers in Chicago attend art schools with music curriculums, See has been plying his trade in his high school jazz band and performing at the Speakeasy Art Center.

Read more: http://www.pjstar.com/article/20140224/News/140229484#ixzz2uNphkx9F

Débora Watts sings Água De Beber by Tom Jobim & Vinícius

This recording is the track # 11 of Débora Watts's CD tiled Débora, produced by Musician's Online Services, Inc. and released in New York City on December 2010. 
John Watts on piano,
Helio Schiavo, drums,
Itaiguara Brandão, bass,
Gustavo Saiani, guitar,
Zé Mauricio, percussion, and
Luis Bonilla, trombone.

Latest Album From Contemporary Folk Troubadour Available April 1, 2014

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Feb. 24, 2014) - Singer/songwriter Jeff Black is pleased to announce the release of his upcoming album, Folklore on April 1, 2014. Folklore is the eleventh album from Black, a respected and pioneering influence on modern folk and roots music for more than three decades.

Folklore closely follows the back to back critically acclaimed releases Plow Through The Mystic and last year’s B-Sides and Confessions, Volume Two. Black’s 2013 release was praised by Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange as “One of those wonderful seemingly unassuming riches that kind of sneaks its way into your consciousness and won't leave... an outstanding piece of work.” No Depression hailed, “His words and voice hold down center stage with a craft so deeply in the artistic pocket that it obscures anything outside.” His latest work Folklore delivers a new chapter of moving and soulful songs from this lauded storyteller.

Recorded at Black’s Arcana Studios and mixed by Dave Sinko (Chris Thile & the Punch Brothers, Sam Bush Band, Don Williams), Folklore resonates with Black’s consistently solid songwriting — where verse and melody inspire a movie in your mind, eliciting universal emotions that connect us all. The title and the title track, "Folklore" are both testaments to this connectedness. Folklore — as it's namesake suggests — is a true “bare bones” folk album, and by definition, is a collection of traditions and stories that highlight Black’s role as both a songwriter and performer.

Black wrote every song and recorded the studio performances with an intentional sparseness and urgency, without overdubs and time codes. A 5 string banjo, 6 and 12 string acoustic guitars and a harmonica create the soundtrack to the visuals evoked across the album’s 13 tracks. Folklore is Black’s most traditional folk album to date, a contemporary folk collection of songs that tell vivid stories full of narrative and history, where voice and instrumentation interplay seamlessly with the lyric content. The album cover features an archival family photo of Black’s father and uncle, further cementing the authenticity of the roots Black draws from on this project.
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Roman Holiday (scenes), by Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck

one of the most beautiful couple of the cinéma audrey hepburn and gregory peck in the movie thus i liked in roman holiday .Song joe longthorne you and me

NEWS Boxley's legacy: Danny and Robyn Kolke turn to foundation ....

Boxley's legacy: Danny and Robyn Kolke turn to foundation to preserve North Bend jazz club's music, education

Intergeneration jazz happens on a Wednesday night at Boxley’s. Front, from left, Danny and Robyn Kolke, at right, Chris Clark. Back row, Eric Thurston, Jared Byford, Max Cannella, Walker Byford, Brian Gmerek.— Image Credit: Seth Truscott/Staff Photo

by SETH TRUSCOTT,  Snoqualmie Valley Record Editor 

Feb 18, 2014 at 3:45PM
An up-and-comer in the world of jazz drumming, Walker Byford learns as he plays. Byford is just 10 years old. By rights, he should prefer the newest pop music. But there’s something about jazz.

“You’re able to play whatever you want,” says Byford, who listens as his teacher, local jazz drummer Brian Gmerek, improvises riffs to the sounds of Chris Clark’s bass.

The two adult musicians are jamming on the stage at Boxley’s, the jazz club and restaurant in downtown North Bend, as middle-school and high-school age jazz musicians arrive for their Wednesday night show.

“It’s easier to play jazz with a group,” says Byford. So, veteran musicians like Clark and Gmerek play alongside young people who are just beginning their journeys in jazz.

“It’s a great experience, for us and for them,” says Gmerek.

It’s that mixing of the old and new generations of players that’s one of the core facets of Boxleys

Keeping education and performance is a key reason why the club is changing from a business to a non-profit.

On January 1, owners Danny and Robyn Kolke turned their restuarant over to the Boxley Music Fund, the non-profit organization they founded in 2010.


It was part of a master plan to keep jazz flowing for many years to come.
Read more: http://www.valleyrecord.com/news/246062911.html

Michael Henderson/Norman Conners Unite for UK Concert

LaRita Shelby
February 18, 2014
*American Multi Grammy Award nominee Michael Henderson, and Iconic Jazz Drummer Norman Connors with their Starship Orchestra presents a world premiere show Sunday, March 2, 2014 at London’s Royal Hall.  Henderson and Conners will be joined by special guest vocalist Carleen Anderson.

The event will feature the best of their joint and individual music careers spanning four decades of soulful jazz in celebration of Norman Connor’s 40th year in the music industry. Michael Henderson is one of the first notable bass guitarists of the fusion era and one of the most influential jazz and soul musicians of the past 40 years.

He has played and recorded with many famous artists, notably Miles Davis, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, The Dramatics and Doctor John. He is considered to be one of the three greatest Motown bass guitarists, along with James Jameson and Bob Babbitt.  After almost seven years with Miles Davis, Henderson focused on songwriting and singing in a solo career that produced many hit songs and albums for Arista Records.  Although known primarily for ballads, vocalizing on the recording of “You Are My Starship” and “Valentine Love” performed with Jean Carn, he is an influential funk player whose riffs and songs have been widely covered.
source: Onyx Navaronne, BestComm
Read more: http://www.eurweb.com/2014/02/michael-hendersonnorman-conners-unite-for-uk-concert/

You must hear this .....

First Listen: Beck, 'Morning Phase' Beck's latest creation is more than a mere sequel to 2002's brooding masterpiece, Sea Change. It provides a glimpse of new frontiers in letting go and moving on, told by someone who wasn't thinking quite this way before. Stream the album

FIELD RECORDINGS On A Chilly Factory Floor, Yuja Wang's Piano Sizzles We took one of the world's most buzzed-about (and glam) pianists to the Steinway & Sons factory in Queens to play some fierce and fiery Prokofiev on a new instrument. Watch the video

MUSIC Latitudes: International Music You Must Hear Now Five must-hear songs, including a Belgian artist with more than 180 million YouTube views, a wry outsider's take on "sweet France" and an earworm from American Top 40 rooted in the Balkans. Read this story

THE RECORD Computer Love: Beats Music Wants To Be Your Everything Ann Powers says that for the music lover searching for an immersive streaming service, newcomer Beats Music comes close to offering the complete package. Read this story

FAVORITE SESSIONS KCRW Presents: Phantogram Fresh off the release of Voices, the New York electro-pop duo stops by Morning Becomes Eclectic to perform one of the album's standout songs, "Black Out Days." Watch the video

Jazz study shows link between music and language

Manila Bulletin – Thu, Feb 20, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jazz musicians are famous for their musical conversations — one improvises a few bars and another plays an answer. Now research shows some of the brain's language regions enable that musical back-and-forth much like a spoken conversation.
It gives new meaning to the idea of music as a universal language.

The finding, published Wednesday in the journal PLoS One, is the latest in the growing field of musical neuroscience: Researchers are using how we play and hear music to illuminate different ways that the brain works.

And to Dr. Charles Limb, a saxophonist-turned-hearing specialist at Johns Hopkins University, the spontaneity that is a hallmark of jazz offered a rare chance to compare music and language.

"They appear to be talking to one another through their instruments," Limb explained. "What happens when you have a musical conversation?"

Watching brains on jazz requires getting musicians to lie flat inside a cramped MRI scanner that measures changes in oxygen use by different parts of the brain as they play.

An MRI machine contains a giant magnet — meaning no trumpet or sax. So Limb had a special metal-free keyboard manufactured, and then recruited 11 experienced jazz pianists to play it inside the scanner. They watched their fingers through strategically placed mirrors during 10-minute music stretches.

Sometimes they played scales. Other times, they did what's called "trading fours," where the pianist made up four bars, and then Limb or another musician-scientist in the lab improvised four bars in return, and the pianist responded with still new notes.

That conversation-like improvisation activated brain areas that normally process the syntax of language, the way that words are put together into phrases and sentences. Even between their turns playing, the brain wasn't resting. The musicians were processing what they were hearing to come up with new sounds that were a good fit.
Read more: http://ph.news.yahoo.com/jazz-study-shows-between-music-language-091808637.html

Duquesne Jazz Ensemble takes a professional lesson from The Beatles

By Dan Majors / The Pittsburgh Press
February 20, 2014 4:14 PM
This is more than just a day in the life — especially for members of the Jazz Ensemble at Duquesne University.

It’s “The Music of the Beatles” in the Power Center Ballroom at Duquesne’s Chatham Square, a chance for the students to perform — and for you to enjoy — an evening of songs from the act you’ve known for all these years.

Fifty years, as you might know, since the iconic British pop group’s arrival in America.

But this evening’s concert is not just an opportunity to get back to yesterday. It’s a chance to come together for a learning experience.

“It’s not necessarily about The Beatles specifically,” said Steve Groves, manager of musical events at Duquesne’s Mary Pappert School of Music. “It’s about the commercial aspect of playing as a professional musician. Learning how to adapt music that’s a staple in the popular culture so much as The Beatles.

“This gives the students the opportunity to play that music in front of people. Music that people relate to, music that they know.”

The program of 22 Beatles songs has been put together by Mike Tomaro, director of Duquesne’s jazz department, who arranged all the music except “She’s Leaving Home” (arranged by Dave Budway) and “Norwegian Wood” (arranged by Herbie Hancock).

Mr. Groves said the Jazz Ensemble is made up of 18 students, ranging from freshmen to graduate students — five trumpets, four trombones, five saxophones, a piano, drums, a bass and a guitar. The guest vocalists include students and members of the faculty. (As well as members of the audience who take part in the sing-a-longs.)

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/music/2014/02/20/Duquesne-Jazz-Ensemble-takes-a-professional-lesson-from-The-Beatles/stories/201402200282#ixzz2u8ff5bZj

Sonny Rollins and Doxy Records sign Distribution Agreement with Sony Music Masterworks / Okeh

NEW YORK, Feb. 20, 2014 /Emag.co.uk/ – Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins has signed a distribution agreement with Sony Music Masterworks and its jazz imprint OKeh Records for the release of his new Doxy Records album, Road Shows, Vol. 3. A street date of May 6 is planned.

Over the span of his storied and still-unfolding 65-year career, Rollins has established himself as one of the giants of jazz – a towering influence, a trailblazer, a powerfully creative force in the music. From his earliest masterpieces, such as Saxophone Colossus and Freedom Suite, to his Road Shows archival series of live performances for his Doxy label in the 2000s, Rollins has presented his peerless music without compromise – and to consistent international acclaim.

The new CD contains six tracks recorded between 2001 and 2012 in Saitama, Japan; Toulouse, Marseille, and Marciac, France; and St. Louis. “Patanjali,” a striking new Rollins composition, is given its debut recording.

A Grammy winner for his CD This Is What I Do in 2000, Rollins received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences in 2004. In 2006 he was inducted into the Academy of Achievement at the International Achievement Summit in Los Angeles, and in May 2007 was a recipient of the Polar Music Prize, presented in Stockholm.

In 2009 he became the third American (after Frank Sinatra and Jessye Norman) to be awarded the Austrian Cross for Science and Art, First Class; and in 2010 he was named the Edward MacDowell Medalist, the first jazz composer to be so honored.
Read more: http://emag.co.uk/sonny-rollins-and-doxy-records-sign-distribution-agreement-with-sony-music-masterworksokeh/59260

Jean Jacques Milteau - Don't You Mess With Me

Jean Jacques Milteau (3) - Don't You Mess With Me (1992)
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Enregistré au Zénith de Paris en Décembre 1992.
Jean-Michel Kajdan à la guitare.

Sherborne Abbey Festival

FESTIVAL STAR: Stacey Kent
By Ruth Meech
2:00pm Friday 21st February 2014, in Live Music and Clubs
THE 2014 Sherborne Abbey Festival brings an internationally acclaimed jazz singer, one of classical music’s most enduring stars and a leading early music ensemble to Dorset for the early May bank holiday weekend, May 2-6.

Festival director John Baker, who founded the festival in 2000, is excited by this year’s line-up, which also includes a professional dance company for the first time.

He says: “We welcome you all to what we believe is a wonderful and varied selection of music for your delight.

“For the first time, at this year’s 15th annual festival, we will have professional dancers on stage with the Jiving Lindy Hoppers and Harry Strutters Hot Rhythm Orchestra, Swinging at the Cotton Club and from the USA we welcome the amazing jazz singer Stacey Kent.

“We invite you to enjoy the choral beauty of Byrd’s The Great Service and Elgar’s The Apostles, probably the biggest and most beautiful work that he wrote, sung for the first time in Sherborne Abbey.

“In case that is not enough to whet your appetite we are privileged to welcome the man with the golden flute, none other than the incredible Sir James Galway.

“These are just the headline acts in a wonderful five days packed with a further 18 concerts to tempt you, most of which are free.”

Read more: http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/leisure/music/livemusicandclubs/11027606.Sherborne_Abbey_Festival/?ref=rss

John Dankworth On Piano Jazz

Photo: Graham Turner/Hulton Archive

by GRANT JACKSON
February 21, 2014 1:30 PM
Piano Jazz remembers John Dankworth with a special session recorded before a live audience at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y. A saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, arranger and bandleader, Dankworth and his wife and longtime musical partner, singer Cleo Laine, appeared on the program in 1998, along with host Marian McPartland and bassist Jeff Campbell. Dankworth enjoyed a long career as one of England's most celebrated jazz musicians. He played with Charlie Parker in the 1940s, toured with Sidney Bechet and went on to work closely with Duke Ellington. He also worked as a film composer and wrote the theme to the British TV series The Avengers. Dankworth died earlier this year; he was 82.

In this session, the group gets things rolling with "I Can't Give You Anything but Love." Cleo Laine opens the tune with the verse before Dankworth takes a soaring bebop solo on alto sax; the couple gets into instant interplay as Laine's voice is complemented by Dankworth's horn.

"That's the result of painstaking rehearsal," Dankworth says. "Actually, about 20 minutes' worth!"

After a half-century working together, Dankworth and Laine have got it down as well as any husband-and-wife team in the business. Along with McPartland, these two musicians are among the limited coterie of English jazz musicians honored by the Order of the British Empire: Cleo Laine was made a Dame in 1997 (Lady Dankworth, to be exact), John Dankworth was knighted in 2006, and just this month, McPartland was made an Officer of the Order.

A McPartland original follows, "In the Days of Our Love," with a lyric penned by Peggy Lee. McPartland accompanies as Laine quaveringly delivers the smoldering lyric to this torch song. McPartland follows with a duet on "Like Someone in Love," with bassist Jeff Campbell.

As a thoughtful arranger and programmer, Dankworth carefully planned each set.
Read more: http://www.npr.org/2010/06/18/127929869/john-dankworth-on-piano-jazz?ft=1&f=10002

Di Fiore’s presence as a composer....

“Di Fiore’s presence as a composer and instrumentalist goes against every stereotype in the book for a drummer—and it’s sorely needed.”

~ All About Jazz ~

Made In France, Biréli Lagrène - Salque, Peirani

François Salque et Vincent Peirani en concert au Théâtre Du Gymnase à Marseille. Avril 2010

Erik Truffaz, trumpet, Marcello Giuliani, Bass, Marc Erbetta, Drums, Benoit Corboz: Fender Rhodes, accoustic Piano...

The Erik Truffaz Quartet is first and foremost a collective entity with its own sound and group dynamic. In 1997, the band, then featuring Marcello Giuliani on bass, Marc Erbetta, drums, and Patrick Muller, keyboards, released its debut “Out of a dream” on Blue Note. On the follow-ups, "The dawn” and “Bending new corner”, rapper Nya added a poetic, urban touch; the clip “Yuri’s choice” went a long way to developing the music’s popularity. The group drew inspiration from gigs at London’s Blue Note Club, a temple of drum & bass, and did its composing on tour during sound checks, from fragments of improvisation.

The music springs into life naturally, effortlessly, like painting in the mirror of inspiration. On the back of these two albums the group acquired an international dimension, touring regularly, developing a trademark feelgood sound.

The band made its first big change of direction in 2003 with the organic, bubbling rock-inspired “The walk of the giant turtle”. When sound engineers Corboz and Giuliani added distortion to his trumpet sound, Truffaz was initially infuriated, but then went on to espouse and develop the concept. With the “Arkhangelsk” album, the band came of age, in the company of Ed Harcourt and Christophe, two singers with two special voices and great tracks.

In June 2010 Benoît Corboz, the band’s studio sound engineer since “The Dawn” took over from Patrick Müller on keyboards. The new line-up wasted no time in going into the studio. The result was a new sound, kneaded energetically like a dough, then left to rest and ferment before being worked up into the album "In Between", a celebration of slow tempos, deliberate silence, elastic space and intimacy. Marcello Giuliani reverted to upright bass and recorded one track on banjo.

Read more: http://www.ronniescotts.co.uk/performances/view/1850-erik-truffaz-quartet?utm_source=newsletterDec&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20FEB2014

Trilok Gurtu - percussion, voice , Frederick Köster - trumpet, Tulug Tirpan – piano, keyboards , Achim Seifert – bass

A world class, virtuoso percussionist.  Trilok Gurtu has attracted a world class set of collaborators over his long career, beginning with John McLaughlin in whose trio Trilok flourished as the featured soloist for 4 years.  Other jazz greats continued this path – Joe Zawinul, Jan Garbarek, Don Cherry, Bill Evans, Pharoah Sanders, Dave Holland were all attracted to Trilok’s burning sense of rhythm.

Of course he is deeply rooted in the Indian tradition, so it is no surprise to see that collaborations also took place with the glitterati of Indian musical society – his mother, Shobha Gurtu, Zakir Hussain, L. Shankar, Shankar Mahadevan, Hariprasad Chaurasia, The Misra Brothers and Sultan Khan.

World music has become an established genre in which Trilok has further “ploughed his own furrow” with his own group to great effect, performing and recording with Salif Keita, Oumou Sangare, Angelique Kidjo, Neneh Cherry, Omara Portuondo, Tuvan throat singers, Huun Huur Tu, to such effect that Rita Ray of BBC Radio described him as “a serial collaborator”. He appears here with his new band featuring Trilok Gurtu – percussion and voice, Frederick Koster – trumpet, Tulug Tirpan - piano, keyboard and Jonathan Ihlenfeld Cuniado – bass.

Read more: http://www.ronniescotts.co.uk/performances/view/1913-trilok-gurtu-new-band?utm_source=newsletterDec&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20FEB2014

Lineup: Didier Lockwood (violin), Antonio Farao (pno), Dave Whitford (bs), Gene Calderazzo (drs).

At Ronnie Scott's

Flushing Town Hall Upcoming Music Events....

SPRING 2014 JAZZ @ Flushing Town Hall
 

Carnival Party - A TRIBUTE TO HARRY BELAFONTE
Friday, March 7, 2014, 8:00 PM
 

 Trumpeters of Queens Part 2
Friday, March 14, 2014, 8:00 PM 
 

Ron Carter Quartet
Friday, March 28, 2014, 8:00 PM

The Mark Wade Trio
Friday, April 11, 2014, 8:00 PM

QJOG Spring Jazz Festival
Saturday, April 26, 2014, 12:00 PM

Queens Jazz Orchestra - TO BIRD & DIZZY WITH LOVE
Friday, May 16, 2014, 7:30 PM

Helen Sung Trio - THE "(RE)CONCEPTION PROJECT
"Friday, May 23, 2014, 8:00 PM

South American Voices of NY - TANGOLANDУ & FESTEJATION
Saturday, May 24, 2014, 7:00 PM

Queens & Brooklyn Jazz Party
Friday, June 13, 2014, 8:00 PM

Kenny Brawner is Ray Charles
Friday, June 20, 2014, 7:00 PM

LGBT Immigrant Voices
Saturday, June 21, 2014, 7:00 PM

 

For a complete list of all events visit www.flushingtownhall.org, or for more information, photos or to interview facilitators and/or performers, please contact Shawn Choi (718) 463-7700 x260 schoi@flushingtownhall.org.
 
Flushing Town Hall is conveniently located on 137-35 Northern Boulevard Flushing, NY, 11354; a block and half east of Main Street, FTH is easily accessible by subway and bus; we offer limited, free parking for our patrons. For tickets and more information, visit:flushingtownhall.org, or call the Box Office: (718) 463-7700, ext. 222.

Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts (FCCA) was founded in 1979 to be a revitalizing force for its community, and a creative catalyst for developing and promoting the arts throughout the Borough of Queens, the most culturally diverse county in the United States. FCCA restored, operates and programs historic Flushing Town Hall (circa 1862) as a multi arts center (on behalf of New York City, which owns the building) and provides services to artists, arts organizations and educational institutions, borough- wide.

FCCA also receives major support from the National Endowment for the Arts; New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg; New York City Department of Education; Queens Borough President Hon. Helen Marshall; NYC Council Members Hon. Leroy Comrie, Hon. James Gennaro, and Hon. Peter Koo; Queens Delegation; and Bloomberg Philanthropies.
From: Jazz Promo Services
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