Craig Newman - Bass
Will Kennedy - Drums
Gary Meek – Sax
Simon Patterson - Guitar
Ric Fierabracci – Bass
ALFI RECORDS
Thursday, December 31, 2015
AUSTRALIA: Phil Turcio — Signals(ALFI Records 2015)
Craig Newman - Bass
Will Kennedy - Drums
Gary Meek – Sax
Simon Patterson - Guitar
Ric Fierabracci – Bass
ALFI RECORDS
USA: Sanctuary Concerts Presents Frank and Friends: Reuniting the Les Paul Trio Sat., Jan. 2, 8pm
Sanctuary Concerts Presents
Frank and Friends: Reuniting the Les Paul Trio Sat., Jan. 2, 8pm The Sanctuary Concerts At the Presbyterian Church 240 Southern Boulevard Chatham, NJ 07928 973.376.4946 www.sanctuaryconcerts.org Tickets: $25 Lou Pallo-Guitar Frank Vignola-Guitar Vinny Raniolo-Guitar Nicki Parrott-Bass And Special Guests  Tickets & Info |
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for more than a decade, three musicians made magic on Broadway creating
the sound behind legendary guitar wizard Les Paul at the Iridium Jazz
Club. Sanctuary friend Frank Vignola was a member of that trio, and he
and his bandmates Lou Pallo on rhythm guitar and bassist Nicki Parrott
are coming to The Sanctuary.
In 2015 Les Paul turned 100, and this show is the first time that the Trio has played together to honor Les Paul since passing in 2009. In the tradition of the Les Paul shows at the Iridium, we will have some surprise musicians joining Frank on stage. Les dipped into all kinds of music at his shows, so we'll hear everything from folk to rock, jazz to Django while having a lot of laughs along the way. Frank Vignola has a funny and dynamic personality on stage, and each of his performances is a show to remember. Last year his concert with us filled the room with great guitar chops. The Les Paul shows were the best kept secret in New York City for more than a decade. In Chatham on New Years' weekend, the secret is out. |
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Jim Eigo Jazz Promo Services
Ph: 845-986-1677 / jim@jazzpromoservices.com www.jazzpromoservices.com "Specializing in Media Campaigns for the music community, artists, labels, venues and events.”
FRANCE Didier Ithursarry Quartet - Kantuz ( LagunArte 2015)
Jean-Charles Richard – saxophone soprano
Matyas Szandai – contrebasse
Joe Quitzke – batterie
01. Kantuz
02. Leho Song
03. L'antichambre
04. Elle
05. La porte
06. Oihan Song
07. Là
08. Choro
09. Grand-mère
10. Habanera pour François Béranger
11. Hangok
12. Sonne
http://www.didierithursarry.com
POLAND Bartlomiej Oles & Tomasz Dabrowski - Chapters (2015)
01.Remote Horizon
02.Thing & Nothing
03.One Hundred Fourteen
04.Displacement
05.Prologue
06.Chapters - part one
07.Chapters - part two
08.Rainstorm
09.Overtune
10.We See
Bartlomiej Oles – Drums
Tomasz Dabrowski – Trumpet
http://www.bartlomiejoles.com
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
BELGIUM: Joachim Badenhorst, Dan Peck – The Salt Of Deformation ( Klein 2015)
Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Tubes, Flemish Chanting – Joachim Badenhorst
Tuba, Tubes – Dan Peck
UK Julian Argüelles - Tetra ( Whirlwind Recordings 2015)
01. Hugger Mugger 01:43
02. Yada Yada 06:13
03. Hurley Burley 07:38
04. Hocus Pocus 07:00
05. Nitty Gritty 10:36
06. Asturias 08:16
07. Fugue 05:40
08. Iron Pyrite 10:23
Musicians:
Julian Argьelles - saxophones
Kit Downes - piano
Sam Lasserson - bass
James Maddren - drums
Whirlwind Recordings
http://www.julianarguelles.com/
USA/BRAZIL: The Brazilian Trio Appearing January 8 & 9 Jazz At Kitano 8 and 10PM
Appearing
January 8 & 9
2 sets, 8 and 10PM
Jazz At Kitano - New York
66 Park Ave. at East 38th St.
New York, NY
For reservations call: (212) 885-7119
Shows at 8 pm and 10 pm
http://kitano.com/
Many people think Maucha Adnet is the most soulful Brazilian vocalist performing today; certainly her voice is warm, textured, and sexy, and her delivery is passionate, classy, and informed by a keen musical intelligence. The great Antonio Carlos Jobimknew all this, choosing to perform and record with Adnet for the last decade of his life.
By DR. JUDITH SCHLESINGER, AllAboutJazz
Brazilian Trio is a masterful amalgamation of musician/composer/arranger friends dedicated to perpetuating the artful blend of Brazilian classical music and jazz. The trio consists of pianist Helio Alves, bassist Nilson Matta and drummer Duduka Da Fonseca. Their 2009 debut CD, Forests, netted them a coveted Grammy nomination for Best Latin Jazz Album right off the bat, validating their musical mission with passion and appreciation.
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Tuesday, December 29, 2015
USA: SECOND ANNUAL HSL PROPERTIES TUCSON JAZZ FESTIVALTO BE HELD IN JANUARY 2016
SECOND ANNUAL
TO BE HELD IN JANUARY 2016
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The second annual HSL Properties Tucson Jazz Festival featuring
dozens of performances by local and national stars, including NEA Jazz
Master Jimmy Heath, Lizz Wright and Grammy-Award winners Snarky Puppy
and Poncho Sanchez, will be held from Jan. 14 to 24, 2016.
The
only major jazz festival in the U.S. in January, it is designed to
attract new winter visitors and local residents to a destination event
featuring world-class jazz in historic downtown Tucson.
Last year, the festival created $1.1 million in economic impact and 28%
of the 10,000 festival attendees were from outside of the Tucson area. The average daytime high temperature during the 2015 festival was 71.5 degrees.
The guest of honor is saxophonist Jimmy Heath who will perform his arrangements with the Tucson Jazz Institute’s award-winning Ellington Band at the opening concert at the Fox Tucson Theatre on January 14.
Other acts at the festival include: The Rad Trads, Kermit Ruffins,
King Solomon Hicks, pianist Jon Weber, Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour
and Byron Stripling with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra. Former
Tucsonans, now living in New York City will serve as opening acts or
play in the clubs. Those include Arthur Vint, Mike Eckroth and Arthur
Migliazza.
A free daylong festival, the Downtown Jazz Fiesta, will be held on Jan. 18 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
Martin Luther King Day, with jazz on two stages: local Latin jazz bands
including Orkesta Mendoza and local jazz stars. Violinist Jenny
Scheinman and guitarist Tony Scherr will be one of many ensembles
playing in indoor venues throughout the day. Also on the opening
weekend, more than 100 jazz students from across the southwest will be
in town for a High School Jazz Band Invitational with workshops
sponsored by the festival.
Tickets are available at tucsonsymphony.com or call 520-882-8585.
Jazz in January is the non-profit created in 2014 to organize and
present the festival. The title sponsor is HSL Properties, a locally
owned company founded in 1975, that acquires, owns, operates and
develops properties in Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, New
Mexico, and Texas. Gold sponsors are Visit Tucson and Madden Media.
The
festival will promote local jazz at restaurants and businesses in the
week leading up to the festival kick-off and an exhibit of the work of
noted jazz photographer Herman Leonard will be at The Etherton Gallery
in downtown Tucson.
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GERMANY: Oren Ambarchi – Live Knots (Pan 2015)
UK: Alex Burey - Family Stone & Inside World (2015)
Inspired by the production work of Charles Stepney and the magic of intimacy that you find in the work of Terry Callier, Scott Walker & Devendra Banhart, the ’Family Stone EP' was written & produced by Alex Burey in his tiny home studio in South London, UK. The four tracks are mixed by Neil Comber (MIA, Django Django).
Bringing the warmth of psychedelic soul together with the detail and instrumentation of 70s folk, ‘Family Stone’ weaves poignant tales of family life with Alex's never-ending search for moments of euphoria amidst the barren fringes of suburban London.
Bandcamp
New JazzWorldQuest Featured Musician: Steven Blane - singer/songwriter
Years later, when college was over, he plotted his escape to NYC. Once there, he auditioned around and miraculously got into a Broadway Show. He was a Gypsy who played guitar as sang a song. And he was a horse.
Steven Blane profile on JazzWorldQuest
Steven Blane is featured on the JazzWorldQuest Showcase 2015
Official website
www.stevenblane.com
UPCOMING SHOWS
Thu February 11, 2016 – 7:00 PM
Lake Worth, FL, 2016
Steven Blane at Rudy’s Pub in Lake Worth
Rudy’s Pub
9 North J Street
Lake Worth, FL
Wed March 23, 2016 – 7:00 PM
Lake Worth, FL, 2016
Steven Blane at Rudy’s
Rudys Pub
9 North J Street
Lake Worth, FL
Monday, December 28, 2015
GERMANY/ALBANIA: Elina Duni Quartet – Dallëndyshe (ecm 2015)
Elina Duni: vocals
Colin Vallon: piano
Patrice Moret: double bass
Norbert Pfammatter: drums
On Dallёndyshe (“The Swallow”), her second ECM album, Elina Duni sings songs of love and exile. The troubled history of the Balkan regions has inspired many such songs and the pieces here, primarily from Albanian traditional sources, are interpreted with intensity and insight by Elina and her band. The Tirana-born and Swiss-raised singer has become an exceptional musical storyteller embodying the songs’ narratives, in a way that transcends genre definitions and language limitations.
“This time there is a sense of lightness to the feeling and energy of the album,” says Duni. “Even though we are dealing with tragic themes of exile it is not as dark as [the ECM debut] Matanё Malit.” In its sense of drive, Dallёndyshe opens up “a different groove, a different momentum. It’s become more rhythmic. Sometimes it’s almost a trance-like propulsion.”
The programme of Dallёndyshe also looks to the Albanian diaspora. The last two songs on the album, “Ti ri ti ti klarinatё” and the title track are, respectively, from the Arvanitas and Arbёresh communities of Greece and Italy. In the wider world Elina still finds herself asked frequently to define her music. It has clearly become more than a hybrid of ‘jazz’ and ‘folk’.
Dallёndyshe was recorded in July 2014 at Studios La Buissonne in Pernes-les-Fontaines in the South of France, and produced by Manfred Eicher.
GERMANY: PLOT– Tightrope (WhyPlayJazz 2015)
Focused and with improvised casualness, PLOT (winner of »Junger Münchner Jazzpreis 2014«) venture into Beatles, Led Zeppelin and Credence Clearwater Revival territory and make the songs their own with great sensitivity. Philipp Scholz (dr), Robert Lucaciu (b) and Sebastian Wehle (ts) bow to and pay tribute to the late 1960s.
Track listing
Strawberry Fields Forever 3:37
Dazed and Confused 4:35
Fool On the Hill 3:48
I Am the Walrus 5:13
Long and Winding Road 5:07
I Put a Spell On You 7:05
Incident At Neshabur 4:46
Across the Universe 5:26
Run Through the Jungle 5:56
Line-up
Sebastian Wehle (ts), Robert Lucaciu (b), Philipp Scholz (dr)
PLOT
POLAND: 86 Dys Jörgensmann Marcus - Elements In Candor (FOR TUNE 2015)
Michael Marcus - Bb & A clarinets
Theo Jörgensmann - Bb clarinet
Krzysztof Dys - piano
Andrzej Święs - double bass
Krzysztof Szmańda - drums
01. sunsets falling in the mirrors
02. hr5171
03. short sellers' squeeze
04. leopard's ascent
05. lightfalls
06. vianden's viand
07. elements in candor
08. clarinet madness
09. the real clarinet madness
10. piano-bas duet
11. gazing at eternity
12. new world reality
13. sunflowers of the wall
The album Elements In Candor, by Jörgensmann, Marcus and Dys Trio is a result of international and intergenerational cooperation, the initiator of which is For Tune® Publishing House. Compositions by each one of the musicians went into the creation of this album, which is a highly sophisticated, avant-garde tale with tremendous emotional content. The musicians are successful in creating exceptionally colorful musical images (despite the solo instruments' consistent tone), where it's difficult to make the typical distinctions between soloists and rhythm section. They exchange roles and supplement one another with enormous ease. Though the music is improvised and at times ecstatic, there is a captivating quality to the form in which it's manifested.
For Tune
Sunday, December 27, 2015
USA: Perfect last second Holiday gift that supports the Coltrane legacy!
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USA:Joe Chambers Outlaw Band Appearing @ Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola February 23-24 Sets 7:30 and 9:30 pm
Joe Chambers Outlaw Band
Featuring Joe Chambers- vibraphone and drums
Rick Germanson-piano
Ira Coleman- bass Bobby Sanabria- drums, misc. percussion
Appearing At
Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, Frederick P. Rose Hall 60th & Broadway, NYC. February 23-24, 2016 |
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JOE CHAMBERS has
worked with some of the most influential jazz figures of the last
several decades and is a recognized perfomer and composer whose works
have been performed at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. As a sideman
and leader, Chambers has recorded more than 500 albums and CDs. He has
performed and recorded with Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter,
McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea, Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock, Dizzy
Gillespie, Andrew Hill and many more. Chamber’s credits include
Hubbard’s “Breaking Point,” Hutcherson’s “Components,” Shorter’s
“Schizophrenia.” and “Etcetera,” Hill’s “Compulsion,” and Tyner’s
“Tender Moments,” as well as Archie Shepp’s “New Thing at Newport,”
Charles Mingus’ “Like a Bird,” Chick Corea’s “Tones for Joan’s Bones,”
and many others. Chambers’ compositions have been covered by Hutcherson,
Hubbard and M’Boom; he has also contributed to soundtracks for several
Spike Lee films, including “Mo’ Better Blues.” Chambers is the first
Thomas S. Kenan Distinguished Professor of Jazz in Department of Music
at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. His most recent
recording is “Joe Chambers moving pictures orchestra live” of Dizzy’s
Club Coca-Cola in New York City, Savant 2120, released May 2012 and was
nominated for a Grammy in 2013. RICK GERMANSON is
a highly in-demand pianist on the New York City Jazz scene. A native of
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Rick relocated to New York in 1998 after winning
the Grand Prize at The American Pianists' Association Jazz Piano
Competition. In addition to having four recordings out as a leader, Rick
has also been documented on fifty recordings as a sideman with many of
the top musicians in jazz today. IRA COLEMAN
has performed with Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Jessye Norman, Milt
Jackson, Freddie Hubbard, Dizzy Gillespie, Grover Washington Jr.,
Barbara Hendricks, Branford Marsalis, Betty Carter, Kathleen Battle,
Tony Williams, Baaba Maal, Michel LeGrand, Billy Taylor, Cab Calloway,
Billy Cobham, The Carnegie Hall Jazz Ensemble, The Duke Ellington
Orchestra under the direction of Mercer Ellington and many other
artists. BOBBY SANABRIA
– drummer, percussionist, composer, arranger, recording artist,
producer, filmmaker, conductor, educator, activist, multi-cultural
warrior and 7X Grammy nominee as a leader–has performed with a veritable
Who’s Who in the world of jazz and Latin music, as well as with his own
critically acclaimed ensembles. His diverse recording and performing
experience includes work with such legendary figures as Dizzy Gillespie,
Tito Puente, Paquito D’Rivera, Charles McPherson, Mongo Santamaría, Ray
Barretto, Marco Rizo, Arturo Sandoval, Roswell Rudd, Chico O’Farrill,
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Joe Chambers Media Contact
Jim Eigo Jazz Promo Services
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Jim Eigo Jazz Promo Services
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Saturday, December 26, 2015
USA/ Puerto Rico: Nestor Torres A Holiday Jam Session Available Now
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For
quite a few years, every time the Holidays came around, my aunt Clara
would always ask me when I was going to do a record of Christmas Carols.
Finally, one Sunday
afternoon I called some of my musician friends and asked them to come
to the home studio of another friend for a Holiday Jam Session. I called
the tunes on the spot and recorded most of them in one take. No
arrangements, no overdubs, no pre-production; only a spontaneous
expression of love of family and friends through familiar, timeless
songs. After many year of sharing these songs only with family and
friends, I’ve decided to share this private recording with all of you.
Nestor Torres Available From iTunes Amazon.com |
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NESTOR TORRES UNPLUGGED: A HOLIDAY JAM SESSION
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Jim Eigo Jazz Promo Services T: 845-986-1677 E-Mail: jim@jazzpromoservices.com
http://www.jazzpromoservices.
USA: Chris Lightcap - Bigmouth(CLEAN FEED 2015)
“Lightcap is a smart composer of driving music; his tunes breathe, with plenty of room for horn interplay…It’s a brawny unit, but also at ease — a muscle car with an unconcerned foot on the gas”
– Patrick Jarenwattananon, NPR
“Brimmingly alive… from start to finish this music sings.” – Lloyd Sachs, DownBeat
When Chris Lightcap – a celebrated composer and bassist who has lent his huge sound, propulsive groove and creative vision to a wide-ranging array of artists including Marc Ribot, Regina Carter, Tomasz Stanko, Joe Morris and Matt Wilson – first assembled his own group over ten years ago, he had no idea it would develop into a viable entity. “I just put us all together to amuse myself and see what would happen,” he recollects. Four acclaimed CDs and countless sold-out shows later, Bigmouth has evolved into one of today’s most accomplished creative music ensembles.
Epicenter
Personnel:
Chris Cheek (ts), Chris Lightcap (b), Craig Taborn (p), Gerald Cleaver (d), Tony Malaby (ts),
USA: Charles Lloyd-Wild Man Dance(BLUE NOTE 2015)
Over 50 years into an already legendary career, 2015 is shaping up to be
a momentous year for Charles Lloyd. The esteemed saxophonist and
composer will be awarded the NEA Jazz Masters honor celebrating his
remarkable career as well as recognizing his creative brilliance in the
pantheon of such other living and vital jazz legends as Sonny Rollins
and Wayne Shorter. Another career landmark will arrive in April when
Lloyd returns to Blue Note Records 30 years after making his label debut
for the release of his magnificent new album, Wild Man Dance, a live
recording of a remarkable long-form suite commissioned by the Jazztopad
Festival in Wroclaw, Poland, to commemorate the festival's tenth
anniversary in 2013.For the past half-century Lloyd has loomed large over the music world with both his presence and his occasional absence. A musical mystic, Lloyd has apprenticed with jazz and blues legends from Phineas Newborn to Cannonball Adderley to Howlin' Wolf, helped launch the careers of jazz luminaries like Keith Jarrett and Jack DeJohnette, co-headlined rock events with Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, collaborated with fellow artistic explorers from Ken Kesey to Lawrence Ferlinghetti, pioneered the world music movement by teaming up with the Hungarian guitarist Gabor Szabo and Indian tabla master Zakir Hussain, and became one of the first million-selling jazz artists with the global success of his 1966 album Forest Flower.
The six-movement Wild Man Dance Suite was recorded in its premiere performance at the festival and features pianist Gerald Clayton, bassist Joe Sanders, and drummer Gerald Cleaver, as well as Greek lyra virtuoso Sokratis Sinopoulos and Hungarian cimbalom maestro Miklós Lukács, who color and texture and rhythmically charge the music. Lloyd's compositions are at turns elegant, graceful, turbulent, dynamic, meditative, pacific and emotive. The music evokes a sense of transcendence and mysterious journey from the opening ''Flying Over the Odra Valley'' that spotlights Lukács's cosmic hammered delivery as well as the leader's tenor saxophone brio, to the lyricism and dynamics of the epic ''Wild Man Dance'' finale where all the band members gracefully and gleefully converse
Friday, December 25, 2015
FRANCE/VIDEOCLIP: Camart Jazz-Is a symphony of colors
Is a Symphony of Colors, clip vidéo jazz-rock, court-métrage d'animation en volume, chorégraphie, musique Camart Jazz, réalisation-montage Art4Minds & More.
http://camart-jazz.wifeo.com/
USA: Jack DeJohnette-Made In Chicago (ECM 2015)
Henry Threadgill: alto saxophone, bass flute
Roscoe Mitchell: alto and soprano saxophones, bass recorder, wooden flute
Muhal Richard Abrams: piano
Larry Gray: double bass, cello
Jack DeJohnette: drums
With Made In Chicago, an exhilarating live album, Jack DeJohnette celebrates a reunion with old friends. In 1962, DeJohnette, Roscoe Mitchell and Henry Threadgill were all classmates at Wilson Junior College on Chicago s Southside, pooling energies and enthusiasms in jam sessions. Shortly thereafter Jack joined Muhal Richard Abrams Experimental Band, and Roscoe and Henry soon followed him. When Abrams cofounded the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians in 1965, DeJohnette, Mitchell and Threadgill were all deeply involved from the outset, presenting concerts and contributing to each other s work under the AACM umbrella. Jack brought them together again for a very special concert at Chicago s Millennium Park in August 2013, completing the group with the addition of bassist/cellist Larry Gray. The concert recording featuring compositions by Roscoe, Henry, Muhal and Jack, plus group improvising - was mixed by Manfred Eicher and Jack DeJohnette at New York s Avatar Studio. Made In Chicago is issued as the AACM begins its 50th anniversary year.
Roscoe Mitchell: alto and soprano saxophones, bass recorder, wooden flute
Muhal Richard Abrams: piano
Larry Gray: double bass, cello
Jack DeJohnette: drums
With Made In Chicago, an exhilarating live album, Jack DeJohnette celebrates a reunion with old friends. In 1962, DeJohnette, Roscoe Mitchell and Henry Threadgill were all classmates at Wilson Junior College on Chicago s Southside, pooling energies and enthusiasms in jam sessions. Shortly thereafter Jack joined Muhal Richard Abrams Experimental Band, and Roscoe and Henry soon followed him. When Abrams cofounded the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians in 1965, DeJohnette, Mitchell and Threadgill were all deeply involved from the outset, presenting concerts and contributing to each other s work under the AACM umbrella. Jack brought them together again for a very special concert at Chicago s Millennium Park in August 2013, completing the group with the addition of bassist/cellist Larry Gray. The concert recording featuring compositions by Roscoe, Henry, Muhal and Jack, plus group improvising - was mixed by Manfred Eicher and Jack DeJohnette at New York s Avatar Studio. Made In Chicago is issued as the AACM begins its 50th anniversary year.
USA: Pianist/Composer Renee Rosnes - "Written in the Rocks" - Available Feb. 5 on Smoke Sessions Records
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