Winifred Atwell and her 'other piano': 16 hit singles and a 'blanket of silence', sounding the limits of jazz by George McKay
From Tunapuna, Trinidad, Winifred Atwell (c. 1914-1983) was a classically trained ragtime and boogie-woogie style pianist who gained quite remarkable popularity in Britain, and later also Australia, in the 1950s, in live and recorded music, as well as in the developing television industry. In this chapter I outline her extraordinary international musical biography as a chart-topping pop and television star—innovative achievements for a black migrant female musician which are arguably thrown into more dramatic light by virtue of the fact that Atwell has been and remains a neglected figure in...
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Play Together, Think Alike: Shared Mental Models in Expert Music Improvisers
by Clement Canonne
When musicians improvise together, they tend to agree beforehand on a common structure (e.g., a jazz standard) which helps them coordinate. However, in the particular case of collective free improvisation (CFI), musicians deliberately avoid having such referent. How, then, can they coordinate? We propose that CFI musicians who have experience playing together come to share higher-level knowledge, which is not piece-specific but rather task-specific, i.e., an implicit mental model of what it is to improvise freely. We tested this hypothesis on a group of 19 expert improvisers from the...
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“Ethnicity and Musical Identity in the Lyric Landscape of Early Cyprus”, Greek and Roman Musical Studies 2 (2014), 146–76.
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Saturday, February 28, 2015
Jacky Terrasson New Album Released This Week « Take this » - Impulse! Concert at the Olympia Paris, June 9th 2015
Jacky Terrasson
New Album Released This Week
« Take this » - Impulse!
Concert at the Olympia Paris, June 9th 2015
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New Album Released This Week
« Take this » - Impulse!
Concert at the Olympia Paris, June 9th 2015
Newsletter en Français - Cliquez Ici
« Take This » is Jacky Terrasson’s first album under the prestigious Impulse! Label. In this recording, Jacky reveals every facet of his inspiration in a meandering conversation between post-bop, pop, hip-hop, African, Caribean, and even classical music. With an eclectic line-up featuring American bass player Burniss Travis (Ambrose Akinmusire, Robert Glasper, Q-Tip, Mos Def, Marc Cary), Cuban drummer Lukmil Perez (Tito Puente, Giovanni Mirabassi), Malian percussionist Adama Diarra (Dee Dee Bridgewater, Salif Keita, Tiken Jah Fakoly, Toumani Diabaté) and French human beat box virtuoso Sly Johnson (ex Saian Super Crew, Camille, Eric Truffaz), Jacky Terrasson has opted for a versatile, multifarious approach that exemplifies the protean nature of jazz while retaining its afro-american legacy. Under the artistic direction of Jean-Phillipe Allard, one of the best jazz producers of these last 3 decades (Charlie Haden, Randy Weston, Abbey Lincoln, Stan Getz, Ornette Coleman).
For this special launch concert of his new album « Take This », Jacky Terrasson has invited some close friends to join him on the stage of the Olympia: vocal sensation and, like Jacky, winner of the prestigious Monk Competition Cecile McLorin Salvant (first discovered on Jacky’s previous album « Gouache », in a very original rendition of John Lennon’s “Oh My Love”), his lifelong friend and musical accomplice trumpeter Stéphane Belmondo (Jacky’s regular duet partner), and fantastic Brasilian guitarist and singer Marcio Faraco.
Jacky Terrasson has been hailed by the New York Times magazine as « one of the 30 artists most likely to change American culture in the next 30 years ». French weekly Télérama described him as the most widely travelled of all jazz pianists, “a piano player of exhilarating happiness, one who can play his audiences straight to euphoria”. To learn more about Jacky Terrasson: http://
Line-Up:
Jacky Terrasson (Piano, Fender Rhodes)
Sly Johnson (Vocal, Beat Box)
Burniss Travis (Bass)
Lukmil Perez (Drums)
Adama (Percussion)
Special-Guests:
Cecile McLorin-Salvant (Vocal)
Marcio Faraco (Guitar, Vocal)
Stephane Belmondo (Trompette, Bugle)
CARE France
Established in 1945, CARE is one of the largest global humanitarian, apolitical and non denominational networks. In 2013, CARE provided assistance to 97 million people in 87 countries. In emergency situations or through long term aid programmes, CARE cuts poverty off at its roots. Women are at the heart of CARE’s efforts as they play an essential role in the fight against poverty. Women play a crucial part in their families’ wellbeing and can bring lasting change to their communities.
For more information on CARE: www.carefrance.org
The Impulse! label
2014 was a year of renaissance for the Impulse! label to which jazz music owes so much. Building on the legacy left by John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Oliver Nelson, Pharoah Sanders and Chico Hamilton, Impulse! is reaching out to discover new frontiers. In 2015, the legendary label will record albums with Jacky Terrasson (Take This), Indra Rios-Moore (Heartland) et Snarky Puppy with the Metropole Orkest (Sylva), as well as the D-STRINGZ trio (Jean-Luc Ponty/Stanley Clarke/Biréli Lagrène) and many more renowned or new artists. That’s the impulse! Renaissance ! For more information on Impulse!: http://www.impulse-
Booking Tickets at Olympia 9 Juin 2015
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Upcoming Jacky Terrasson Concerts :
02/05/15 Arlon - Festival les Aralunaires - Belgique - Jacky Terrasson & Stephane Belmond
13/03/15 Dizzy's - New York - Jacky Terrasson Take This
14/03/15 Dizzy's - New York - Jacky Terrasson Take This
15/03/15 Dizzy's - New York - Jacky Terrasson Take This
04/05/15 Prague - Suk Hall - Czech Republic - Jacky Terrasson Solo
06/05/15 Seville - Jazz Festival - Spain - Jacky Terrasson Trio
07/05/15 Argenton Sur Creuse - L'Avant Scene - France - Jacky Terrasson & Stephane Belmondo
08/05/15 Basel - Jazz in Church - Switzerland - Jacky Terrasson & Stephane Belmondo
09/05/15 Langres - Theatre - France - Jacky Terrasson & Stephane Belmondo
13/05/15 Coutances - Jazz sous les Pommiers - France - Jacky Terrasson Take This
29/05/15 Chauvigny - Salle Charles Trenet - France - Jacky Terrasson & Stephane Belmondo
30/05/15 Hamburg - Elb Jazz Festival - Germany - Jacky Terrasson Trio
04/06/15 London - Ronnie Scott's - UK - Jacky Terrasson - Take This
05/06/15 London - Ronnie Scott's - UK -Jacky Terrasson - Take This
09/06/15 Paris Olympia France Jacky Terrasson - Take This
21/06/15 Worms - Festival Jazz & Joy - Germany - Jacky Terrasson & Stephane Belmondo
27/06/15 Blet - Festival de Jazz -France - Jacky Terrasson & Stephane Belmondo
01/07/15 Bologna - Italy - Jacky Terrasson Solo
03/07/15 Thionville - Festival Jazz Pote - France - Jacky Terrasson & Stephane Belmondo
11/07/15 Porquerolles - Festival - France - Jacky Terrasson Trio
26/07/15 Andernos - Festival de Jazz - France - Jacky Terrasson Trio
20/08/15 Ramatuelle - Festival de Jazz - France - Jacky Terrasson - Take This
25/03/16 Aurillac - Théâtre - France - Jacky Terrasson Solo
Contact Booking: My Buzz Productions - Christophe Deghelt - +33 676 08 54 30
jazzColours -- email-zine di musica jazz (Anno VIII, numero 2 -- Febbraio/2015
SOMMARIO Febbraio 2015 (Anno VIII, n.2)4 - Highlights
8 - Avishai Cohen, squarci di tromba nel buio
16 - Adam Bałdych, il violino dall'animo baltico
21 - Stefano Senni, jciakz: si gira!
25 - jazz&arts: Brunella Marinelli, sinestesie jazzistiche
28 - Recensioni Cd
Focus on: Battaglia-Rabbia Aarset "In Memoriam"
I 5 dischi imprescindibili di Laurent Dehors
35 - Black&White: Bill Frisell "Guitar in the Space Age"
(e inoltre: Tim Daisy, Francesco Bearzatti & The Bears, Airelle Besson & Nelson Veras, Dino Rubino, Brass Danse Orchestra, Pharoah & The Underground, Wadada Leo Smith, Peter Evans, Guillaume Perret & Electric Epic, Paragon, Swallow-Talmor-Nussbaum, Neil Cowley Trio)
36 - Eventuali
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American Pianists Association's Jazz Fellowship Awards: Semi-Finals on Friday, March 27 // Finals on Saturday, March 28
American Pianists Association's Jazz Fellowship Awards -
Semi-Finals on Friday, March 27
Finals on Saturday, March 28
Competition to be Judged by Amina Figarova,
Bill Charlap, Edward Simon, Billy Childs and Al Pryor
with Emcee Christian McBride & Guest Vocalist Dianne Reeves
Bill Charlap, Edward Simon, Billy Childs and Al Pryor
with Emcee Christian McBride & Guest Vocalist Dianne Reeves
NBC News Anchor Lester Holt Named Honorary Chair
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| (from left to right): Christian Sands, Zach Lapidus, Emmet Cohen, Kris Bowers, and Sullivan Fortner |
On Friday, March 27, the American Pianists Association's Jazz Fellowship Awards presented by REI Real Estate Services Semi-Finals presented by Barnes & Thornburg will take place at The Jazz Kitchen in Indianapolis, IN featuring each of the 5 Finalists over two sets. The five Finalists, in no particular order, are: Christian Sands, Zach Lapidus, Emmet Cohen, Kris Bowers, and Sullivan Fortner.
On Saturday, March 28 the Finals presented by Ice Miller will take place at Hilbert Circle Theatre with each Finalist performing with five-time Grammy® Award-winning vocalist Dianne Reeves and the Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra. The Finals will be judged by pianists Amina Figarova, Bill Charlap, Edward Simon, and Billy Childs as well as Mack Avenue Records Executive VP of A&R Al Pryor. The Finals will be streamed live featuring webcast host Christian McBride at www.americanpianists.org/live. The winner will be named the American Pianists Association's Cole Porter Fellow in Jazz.
The
Cole Porter Fellowship, valued at $100,000, includes a $50,000 cash
prize (the largest prize in the world for a young jazz pianist), a
recording contract with Mack Avenue Records, and career assistance and
engagement for two years.
The
Mission of the American Pianists Association is to advance the careers
of American jazz and classical pianists between the ages of 18 - 30. The
Organization was founded in 1979 in New York City and has been in
Indianapolis since 1982. Past winners have included Aaron Diehl, Dan
Tepfer and Aaron Parks, among esteemed others.
For more information on the American Pianists Association, please visit: AmericanPianists.org
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Jazz Fellowship Awards? Please use the following hashtag: #apajazz2015
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National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency and in part by an
award from the National Endowment for the Arts, among others.
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"The Music Is the Magic," by Vocalist Lainie Cooke, Due March 17 from Onyx Music Label
"The Music Is the Magic,"
New CD by Vocalist Lainie Cooke,
To Be Released March 17
By Ralph Peterson's Onyx Music Label
Cooke's 3rd CD, Produced by Peterson,
Features Backing by Tedd Firth, Piano;
Luques Curtis, Bass; Myron Walden, Saxophones;
& Ralph Peterson, Drums & Trumpet
CD Release Shows at Vitello's, Los Angeles, March 31,
& The Zinc Bar, NYC, April 8
February 6, 2015
"The wisdom, clarity,
and nuances possessed by Lainie throughout the recording are most
refreshing," comments Peterson in his notes to the CD. "At 73 years
young, she has remained relevant as a songstress in the purest sense. I
am proud to have produced what I believe is her best work to date."
Peterson, who plays
drums and trumpet on the CD and served as its producer and arranger,
surrounded Cooke with a superb cast including pianist/arranger Tedd Firth, her accompanist of the last dozen years; soprano and tenor saxophonist Myron Walden; and bassist Luques Curtis. (Tabari Lake substitutes for Curtis on "Mañana.")
Cooke first met
Peterson, long one of the most in-demand drummers in jazz, in 1990, but
they didn't begin making music together until relatively recently.
"Ralph has the ability to lift you to a place musically and rhythmically
that you didn't know you knew how to do," she says. "He's always
demonstrating something that makes you want to do better." Cooke is the
first singer Peterson has produced for his Onyx Music Label.
The tunes on The Music Is the Magic spoke to the singer: "If the music is beautiful, wonderful, soars, and has feeling, I'm attracted to it," she says simply. "How I Wish" (aka "Ask Me Now") and "I Have the Feeling I've Been Here Before"
("one of the most beautiful songs in the world," according to Cooke)
were inspired by Carmen McRae, a favorite vocalist of hers. The title
tune and "Live for Life" both stem from Abbey Lincoln recordings.
Also included are Dave Frishberg's "Our Love Rolls On," Harold Arlen's "Out of This World," and a rollicking calypso treatment of Peggy Lee's "Mañana,"
long a staple of her in-person repertoire. "By the end of it, the whole
audience is singing," she says. "It becomes a joyful experience."
Lainie Cooke
broke into show business at age 6 by entering a Minneapolis radio
talent contest for young people and won with her rendition of the
then-popular tune "Cruising Down the River." At 11, she began appearing
two or three times a week as a hostess on a local television game show.
Then, at age 12, she won a talent contest and was awarded a trip to New
York City. She felt instantly at home.
Cooke has been a
resident of the city since she was 20, save for relatively brief periods
in Jamaica and California. "I went to New York to find out what I could
actually do with all of the stuff that was inside me," she reflects. "I
wasn't sure what I wanted to be -- a musical theater performer or a
nightclub singer."
After working an
office job for a period, she got fingerprinted for a cabaret card and
played a few New York clubs, but upon doing her first out-of-town gig in
Hartford, Connecticut, she developed an instant distaste for being on
the road. Voice-over work, which allowed her to stay home in New York
City, became her calling and kept her steadily employed for most of the
next 40 years.
Cooke moved to Los
Angeles in 1979 and began singing in clubs with such top jazz men as
pianist Dick Shreve and bassist Bob Maize but moved back to New York in
1983 and resumed doing voice-overs. She returned briefly to L.A. to
record half of her first CD, Here's to Life!(2002,
Harlemwood), with Shreve, Maize, and others. New York musicians,
including Firth, bassist Cameron Brown, and drummer Matt Wilson,
completed the album. Her second CD, It's Always You (2008, Harlemwood), also featured Firth, Brown, and Wilson, as well as saxophonist Joel Frahm.
For her CD release shows, Cooke has scheduled engagements in New York and Los Angeles: 3/31 at the E Spot Lounge Upstairs at Vitello's in Studio City, with pianist Karen Hammack and her trio; and 4/10 at the Zinc Bar in Greenwich Village, with the same musicians as the CD.
"Words alone cannot do justice to the way I feel about
making music with Tedd, Luques, Myron, and Ralph, or how proud I am of
this project," says Cooke. "The dictionary defines magic as producing
mysterious or extraordinary results. I hope The Music Is the Magic will inspire the same kind of feelings in listeners."
Photography: Janis Wilkins (top), Adger W. Cowans (bottom)
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Tony Levin & Pete Levin: MoonJune Booking announces LEVIN BROTHERS March 2015 Tour
LEVIN BROTHERS
Pete & Tony Levin on tour in March
with their jazz band
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Dear MoonJune Friends
It's
my personal privilege to work as a booking representative for two great
guys, two legendary musicians, two brothers, Pete and Tony Levin, and
their very special project LEVIN BROTHERS. Their self-titled album Levin Brothers was officially released in September 2014 (liner notes by one and only and unimitable Anil Prasad) by Seattle based Lazy Bones Recordings on CD and limited edition gold vinyl LP with smoky swirls. (The CD includes 14 tracks + 2 bonus cuts exclusive gto the CD)
Please visit Lazy Bones website for more info: www.lazybones.com/bands/
LEVIN BROTHERS
MARCH 2015 TOUR
PETE LEVIN - piano
TONY LEVIN - upright bass
ERIK LAWRENCE - sax
JEFF SIEGEL - drums
March 15, Sun - Piermont, NY (The Turning Point)
March 17, Tue - East Aurora, NY (Medici House) March 18, Wed - Rochester, NY (Lovin' Cup) March 20, Fri - Schenectady, NY (The Van Dyck) March 21, Sat - Dunellen, NJ (Roxy & Dukes) March 24, Tue - Northampton, MA (Iron Horse) March 25, Wed - Natick, MA (The Center For Arts Natick) March 26, Thu - Norfolk, CT (Infinity Hall) March 27, Fri - New York, NY (The Iridium) March 28, Sat - New York, NY (The Iridium) March 29, Sun - New Hope, PA (Havana New Hope)
* more dates to be added soon, stay tuned
For more info, please check Levin Brothers website: www.thelevinbrothers.
Leonardo MoonJune: noanoamusic at moonjune dot com
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Few reviews on Levin Brothers album
"... a hearty portion of tightly cohesive songs that merge the best of Bach with the pace of bop."
– Ira Kantor's, Elmore Magazine (USA)
"... every single cut qualifies as a standout!"
– Peter Thelen', Exposè (USA)
"... This is pure jazz, inspired by the music that the brothers heard in the fifties and came to love."
– Wolfgang Giese's, RockTimes (Germany)
"
... there is a remarkable purity and innocence to this music. THE LEVIN
BROTHERS manages to be both serious and playful without ever losing the
passion and edge that comes from pairing two masters of their
instruments playing a style of music they both love. A terrific album
not just for fans of classic jazz, but for fans of music, period."
– Jason Warburg, The Daily Vault (USA)
"...
a player from the Jazz league has teamed up with one from the
Progressive league and they both show just how they can swing. 'Cool'
doesn’t come close to fully describing this album."
– Travis Rogers, Jazz Times Magazine
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As a French Horn major, Pete Levin earned a master’s degree from the Juilliard School. In the early ‘70s he switched
to keyboards, becoming a synthesizer specialist in the New York City
recording studio scene. Over the years, he has graced hundreds of jazz
and pop recordings and performances by the likes of Miles Davis, Gil
Evans, Jimmy Giuffre, Dave Brubeck, David Sanborn, Joe Louis Walker, Don
Elliott, Freddie Hubbard, Annie Lennox, Paul Simon, Brian Ferry, Hiram
Bullock, Gerry Mulligan, Chuck Mangione, Charles Mingus, Jaco Pastorius,
John Scofield, Wayne Shorter, Dave Stryker, Lenny White, and man y
others. He currently leads The Monday Night Orchestra featuring
internationally known New York musicians, core alumni members of the
seminal freewheeling Grammy-winning Gil Evans Orchestra of the mid and
late '70s, reunited recently to celebrate the band's legendary "Monday
Night At Sweet Basil" era.
Since graduating from the Eastman School of music, Tony Levin
has become the bass and Chapman Stick voice for Peter Gabriel and King
Crimson. In addition, he has played on notable recordings for John
Lennon, Pink Floyd, Lou Reed, Alice Cooper, Tom Waits, Dire Straits,
Carly Simon, Judy Collins, Peter Frampton, James Taylor, Stevie Nicks,
Todd Rundgren, Warren Zevon, Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, Laurie
Anderson, Liquid Tension Experiment, Bruford Levin Upper Extremities,
Bozzio Holdsworth Levin Mastelotto and many others. Tony has major jazz
credentials, having worked with Buddy Rich, Steps Ahead, L'Image, Gary
Burton, Chuck Mangione, Herbie Mann, and many others. He currently
records and tours with Peter Gabriel, King Crimson, Stick Men, and The
Crimson ProjeKCt.
Recently Tony Levin has recorded two sessions for MoonJune Records for the upcoming albums of the Indonesian guitar icon Dewa Budjana, with Jack DeJohnette on drums and piano and Gary Husband on piano, keyboards and drums.
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STAY TUNED FOR SOME EXCITING STICK MEN NEWS !!!
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