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Thursday, September 26, 2013
Trumpeter Scotty Barnhart Appointed New Director of The Count Basie Orchestra
Press Contact: Jim Eigo, jim@jazzpromoservices.com
The Count Basie Orchestra and All That Music Productions, LLC, is pleased to announce the appointment of Scotty Barnhart as the new Director of The Legendary Count Basie Orchestra. He follows Thad Jones, Frank Foster, Grover Mitchell, Bill Hughes, and Dennis Mackrel in leading one of the greatest and most important jazz orchestras in history.
Founded in 1935 by pianist William James Basie (1904-1984), the orchestra still tours the world today and is presently ending a two-week tour in Japan. The orchestra has released hundreds of recordings, won every respected jazz poll in the world at least once, has appeared in movies, television shows and commercials, Presidential Inaugurals, and has won 18 Grammy Awards, the most for any jazz orchestra.
Many of its former members are some of the most important soloists, vocalists, composers, and arrangers in jazz history. That list includes Lester Young, Billie Holiday, Harry “Sweets” Edison, Jo Jones, Frank Foster, Frank Wess, Thad Jones, Joe Williams, Sonny Payne, Snooky Young, Al Grey, John Clayton, Dennis Mackrel and others.
Mr. Barnhart, born in 1964, is a native of Atlanta, Georgia. He discovered his passion for music at an early age while being raised in Atlanta's historic Ebenezer Baptist Church where he was christened by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
He has been a featured trumpet soloist with the Count Basie Orchestra for the last 20 years, and has also performed and recorded with such artists as Wynton Marsalis, Marcus Roberts, Frank Sinatra, Diana Krall, Clark Terry, Freddie Hubbard, The Duke Ellington Orchestra, Nat Adderley, Quincy Jones, Barbara Streisand, Natalie Cole, Joe Williams, and many others. Barnhart is a graduate of Gordon High School, Florida A&M University, a solo recording artist with Unity Music, the author of The World of Jazz Trumpet - A Comprehensive History and Practical Philosophy (published by Hal Leonard) and is Professor of Jazz Trumpet/Jazz Studies at Florida State University where two of his former students won First Place in the National Jazz Trumpet Competition.
His first concert as leader of the orchestra is September 25, 2013 in Atlanta, Georgia at the Cobb Energy Center in a tribute to Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, and Joe Williams. Barnhart resides in Los Angeles, California, and Tallahassee, Florida. - www.scottybarnhart.com
You Must Hear This ....
A BLOG SUPREMEIn New Afro-Cuban Music, Ancient Tradition Meets Future Shock
In the 1980s, pianist Michele Rosewoman and drummer Francisco Mora-Catlett started independently pursuing a mixture of Afro-Caribbean mysticism and avant-garde jazz. Thirty years later, they've finally recorded their otherworldly large ensembles.
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SHOTS - HEALTH NEWSSay What? French Horn Players Run Risk Of Hearing Loss
Nearly half the horn players in an Australian study noticed that they'd lost some of their hearing. Among the younger horn players, hearing tests found that up to one-third of them had noise-related hearing deficits.
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Kaz Simmons: a singer making her own way
Sebastian Scotney spoke to jazz singer Kaz Simmons about her fourth album Signs.
Singer Kaz Simmons Photo: kazsimmons.com/
By Sebastian Scotney
1:00PM BST 25 Sep 2013
Kaz Simmons grew up in Hove, did undergraduate music studies at Goldsmiths. She was christened Karen, and hated it. “Then someone in a group of freshers in my first week at Goldsmith's decided I was Kaz, and it stuck”. And then? “I basically stayed in south-east London. I worked for two years at Mick Fleetwood's memorabilia and film props auction house Fleetwood Owen."
She then signed up for the jazz postgraduate course at Trinity. Who was there at the same time as her? “There was Kevin Jones of Bear's Den, who was the co-founder of the Communion label with Mumford's Ben Lovett, there was Adam Waldmann – and the Puppini Sisters formed there in my time."
And has she always written songs? "No. People had always told me I ought to write songs. but I only started in my mid twenties. I discovered Rufus Wainwright, it was the first time in years I'd been moved quite like that and it inspired me to write songs. It was the bluntness of the lyrics. I'm not really flowery, poetic. I related to what was personal."
Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/worldfolkandjazz/10330766/Kaz-Simmons-a-singer-making-her-own-way.html
Peru band keeps the Dixieland jazz beat going
By CARSON GERBER, Kokomo Tribune
Updated 8:51 am, Wednesday, September 25, 2013
PERU, Ind. (AP) — Before there was rap, rock, punk or folk music, before swing and big band tunes made their appearance on the American musical landscape, there was jazz.
Old-time, toe-tapping, loose, swanky Dixieland jazz.
It's been more than a century since one of America's most iconic music styles boiled up from the hot, humid bayou of New Orleans, but since then it's slowly faded away and nearly disappeared.
But not in Peru, thanks to a band called the Swampwater Stompers.
For the last 20 years, a group of local musicians has kept traditional Dixieland jazz alive, and they have made a name for themselves in the process.
"There are very, very few groups who are dedicated to this kind of music," Jason Gornto, who plays piano in the band, told the Kokomo Tribune (http://bit.ly/19EMfZp ). "People play it, but there are very few actual Dixieland bands anymore. We're preserving traditional jazz and sharing it with as many people as we can."
That was the case earlier this month when the group played a three-hour show in Peru to celebrate its 20th anniversary. Friends, family and old band members packed into a local club to swing along with classic Dixieland tunes like "Basin Street Blues" and "When the Saints Go Marching In."
Different band members playing trumpets, trombones and clarinets slipped, slid and wailed, passing around the melody of the tunes. Banjo players clunked out rhythmic chords along with the drums. A large, silver tuba thumped out the bass like a swaggering elephant.
During most of the show, the group stuck with the traditional seven-piece band setup of Dixieland jazz ensembles, but here and there past band members would double up on an instrument for a double dose of swing.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Peru-band-keeps-the-Dixieland-jazz-beat-going-4841936.php
You must hear this....
FIRST LISTENFirst Listen: Moby, 'Innocents'
More than 30 years into a try-it-all career that began in punk and has since worked its way through countless iterations of dance music —Innocents feels like the work of an artist who's been liberated to pursue beauty and emotion in as many forms as he can muster.
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MUSIC INTERVIEWS?uestlove And Elvis Costello On Writing Together
Costello has teamed with hip-hop legends The Roots for one of the more unusual, invigorating musical partnerships of the year. NPR's Arun Rath speaks with Costello and Roots bandleader Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson about the new album Wise Up Ghost.
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FAVORITE SESSIONSThe Current Presents: Chvrches
The Scottish synth-pop trio just released its heavily hyped debut album, The Bones of What You Believe. Watch the group perform a stripped-down version of the record's most rousing anthem, "Recover."
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MUSIC NEWSWalking The Sunset Strip, A Fading Beacon Of Cool
West Hollywood's Sunset Strip used to be the home of the city's hottest music venues — places that launched the careers of everyone from The Doors to Jane's Addiction — but has lost a lot of its influence over the years. NPR's Arun Rath visits the Strip with L.A. Times writer August Brown.
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Natixis Global Asset Management Announces ....
Natixis Global Asset Management Announces Scholarship Award for High-School Student to Attend Berklee’s Five-Week Summer Performance Program.
Natixis Global Asset Management (NGAM), one of the world’s leading asset managers, and Berklee College of Music announced today that Readville resident Samuel Joseph will receive this year’s $5,000 Natixis-Berklee City Music Scholarship Award on Saturday, September 28 during the Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival. The scholarship will cover the cost to attend Berklee’s Five-Week Summer Performance Program.
“We’re looking forward to another fun BeanTown Jazz Festival and the great memories created at this landmark event,” said John Hailer, president and chief executive officer, Natixis Global Asset Management – The Americas & Asia. “The festival is free and provides terrific opportunities for families to come together to hear exceptional music.”
As part of NGAM’s broad efforts to expose students to the benefits of music, the firm has engaged in multi-year sponsorship agreements with Berklee College of Music for their Summer in the City Concert Series and BeanTown Jazz Festival, and with the Newport Festivals Foundation for the world-renowned Newport Jazz Festival. The firm also expanded its music scholarship program this year to include three $5,000 scholarships for talented high school students to further their musical and college pursuits. Two scholarships were awarded at the Newport Jazz Festival last month to selected student musicians from the Rhode Island Music Educators Association Jazz Band and the Massachusetts Music Educators Association All-State Jazz Band.
“This year’s theme at BeanTown – Jazz: The Next Generation – ties in nicely with the Natixis-Berklee City Music Scholarship,” Hailer added. “Samuel is a smart, wonderfully determined young person who is committed to his music and this scholarship will help achieve his dreams of a music education.”
“Natixis Global Asset Management is a great partner for Berklee College of Music because the firm understands the power of music to build a better world,” said Berklee College of Music President Roger Brown. “We’re grateful for their continued support of young musicians and look forward to another successful festival.”
The Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival – Boston’s biggest block party – takes place on Saturday, September 28, from noon to 6 p.m. on Columbus Avenue between Massachusetts Avenue and Burke Street in Boston’s South End. The outdoor performances are open to the public free of charge. Highlights include Meshell Ndegeocello; Will Calhoun Trio, led by the Grammy Award-winning alumnus and drummer of the band Living Colour; and Robin McKelle & the Flytones.
Read more: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/natixis-global-asset-management-announces-192500891.html
Pete McGuinnes ....
"A musical multi-threat...McGuinness lays out music
that is modern-minded yet swinging" - Zan Stewart, The Newark Star-Ledger
"Exceptional writing, playing, and singing talent..." - Trombonist/composer-arranger/bandleader John Fedchock
"Pete sings as well as Chet Baker or Mel Torme...simply magnificent." - Vocalist Roseanna Vitro
"McGuinness really catches the ear...a strong but airy player who delivers
a lot of atmosphere and clever harmonic ideas." - The Penguin Guide To Jazz On CD 7th Edition
With Jazz Night, WBGO and NPR Music will take fans into venues to listen, watch and chat
When Dave King, drummer for the experimental jazz ensemble The Bad Plus, brought his modern jazz trio to New York this month, NPR Music and WBGO produced a live video and audio stream of their Sept. 11 performance. The Live at the Village Vanguard session is a model for the forthcoming web-original series Jazz Night in America. (Photo: John Rogers/WBGO) - See more at: http://www.current.org/2013/09/with-jazz-night-wbgo-and-npr-music-will-take-fans-into-venues-to-listen-watch-and-chat/#sthash.w12zqJlS.dpuf
Published on Current.org, September 23, 2013
By Mike Janssen
NPR and WBGO-FM in Newark, N.J., are teaming up to produce Jazz Night in America, a series of radio broadcasts paired with live, high-quality video webcasts of jazz performances from venues across the country.
The series will debut in April 2014, said Anya Grundmann, e.p. of NPR Music, who discussed the project with jazz programmers during a Sept. 18 conference session at the PRPD conference. Videos will stream on NPR’s and WBGO’s websites, and stations will be able to install a video player platform on their own sites to present the webcasts with their stations’ brands prominently displayed.
The series will mark the most prominent visual presentation of live jazz performance in U.S. broadcasting since CBS presented concerts in the 1950s, said Josh Jackson, v.p. of content at WBGO. It would also be public radio’s first regular video series, Grundmann said.
- See more at: http://www.current.org/2013/09/with-jazz-night-wbgo-and-npr-music-will-take-fans-into-venues-to-listen-watch-and-chat/#sthash.w12zqJlS.dpuf
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