Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Monday, June 22, 2020
JazzWorldQuest Showcase 2020:Krzysia Górniak(Poland)-Strawberry Kisses
Krzysia Górniak(Poland)-Strawberry Kisses
Composer: Krzysia Górniak
Album name: Memories
Krzysia Górniak rarely treats us with her music. But once this happens, we usually deal with a delicious and subtle dish. She made us wait for her new album over 4 years. But the time was worth waiting, because this dish made from the best ingredients.
On her latest album, Krzysia decided preserve memories in music. Each tune is a voyage taking us either to a beautiful and special place or tells us about someone, who can only be recalled in sounds. Each composition is a different recollection and there are seven voyages in all. From a dynamic spiced with a highlander note “Sea Salt on My Lips”, to a nostalgic “Touch of Your Soul”, dedicated to tragically deceased drummer Grzegorz Grzyb, who in recent years has been part of her quartet with which she played and toured. The first single promoting the album titled “Strawberry Kisses”.
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ROMANIA: Florin Raducanu-Symphonic Jazz Poem
The Symphonic jazz poem, the work of Romanian composer and jazz pianist Florin Raducanu marks an important landscape in the world of fusion of jazz and classical music. Includes the only jazz passacaglia for symphonic jazz orchestra.This unique jazz symphony combines with creativity classical and jazz themes allowing a generous space to innovative and virtuosic improvisations. Structured in seven parts, the concept encompasses the pianist-composer’s original vision, such an endeavor being one of a kind in the music world.
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released January 1, 2016
Belarusian State Philharmonic Orchestra – conductor Alexander Anisimov
Florin Raducanu – piano, composer & orchestrator
Special guest : Dalila Cernatescu -panflute
Andrei Kleșchev (saxophone ten.), Viaceslav Serghienko(bass) , Alexandr Mineț (drums)
Belarusian State Philharmonic Orchestra – conductor Alexander Anisimov
Florin Raducanu – piano, composer & orchestrator
Special guest : Dalila Cernatescu -panflute
Andrei Kleșchev (saxophone ten.), Viaceslav Serghienko(bass) , Alexandr Mineț (drums)
Sunday, June 21, 2020
USA: Ambrose Akinmusire-On The Tender Spot Of Every Calloused Moment (Blue Note 2020)
Ambrose Akinmusire follows his acclaimed, genre-busting best-of-2018 manifesto "Origami Harvest" with another visionary statement on his new album "on the tender spot of every calloused moment," which finds the trumpeter examining blackness on an uncompromising set of modern jazz laced with a heavy feeling of the blues. The album presents 11 new compositions by Akinmusire and features his quartet with pianist Sam Harris, bassist Harish Raghavan, and drummer Justin Brown with guest vocals from Genevieve Artadi and Jesus Diaz.
Friday, June 19, 2020
USA: Heistheartist is back on the scene with a brand new studio release: “Boom (Love Version)”
The release sports some incredible production aesthetics. The recording quality hits the mark, and each element in the mix is utterly balanced, going for a powerful and contemporary tone, that’s catchy and easy to relate to. Heistheartist combines Christian themes with modern sounds, inspired by smooth, easy-listening music with a sophisticated tone. Hailing from Central Islip, NY, this talented performer started out as a secular soul singer, but later he he discovered he had a calling for performing as a voice for the Lord, and to share a more positive message of faith, unity and hope through his songwriting.
Fans of artists as diverse as Miles Davis, Sade, and Erykah Badu are definitely going to enjoy Heistheartist and his groundbreaking music.
Find out more about Heistheartist, and listen to “Boom (Love Version)”, which is currently available on the web’s best streaming services.
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Wednesday, June 17, 2020
JazzWorldQuest World Music Mix: Ariana Vafadari(Iran/France) -Anahita
 Nouvel album Anahita Disponible le 19/06/2020 chez Quart de Lune With Anahita, Ariana Vafadari embraces a return to nature and brings us in a poetic musical journey capable of triggering a spiritual awakening. Discover a tapestry of melodies and incantations infused with the scents of the Orient. |
Ariana Vafadari revient le 19 juin 2020 avec l'album Anahita, à la frontière de la musique du monde, du jazz et du classique. Cet album d'une rare beauté témoigne du talent vocal et de la démarche philosophique d'Ariana Vafadari. Formée au chant classique et diplômée du Conservatoire national de Paris, Ariana Vafadari a débuté sa carrière dans un répertoire exclusivement lyrique et se produit en tant que soliste en Europe, aux Etats-Unis, au Japon et au Brésil. Imprégnée dans son enfance par la poésie et la philosophie zoroastrienne transmise par son père, la mezzo-soprano crée des passerelles entre musique traditionnelle iranienne, marocaine, jazz et musique classique occidentale. Elle s’inspire des gathas, poèmes écrits par le philosophe Zarathoustra il y a plus de 3700 ans. Avec Anahita, Ariana Vafadari prône un retour à la nature et nous entraine dans une musique poétique capable de provoquer un éveil spirituel. Découvrez un bouquet de mélopées et d'incantations aux parfums de l'Orient. Pour regarder et diffuser la vidéo d'Anahita :
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Tuesday, June 16, 2020
USA: Dave Douglas-Dizzy Atmosphere (2020)
When Dizzy Gillespie put his hat in the ring for President of the United States in 1964, he also offered to be the first African-American astronaut, just in case they couldn’t find anyone else. In making Dizzy Atmosphere, Dave Douglas’s tribute to the great trumpeter, composer and humanist, Douglas said he wanted to explore Dizzy’s experimental and wide open mind as well as the influence of his music.
This album shines a light on the whole legacy of Gillespie, one of America’s finest artists. The original music Douglas wrote swings and shimmers with a grace reminiscent of the great man. Dizzy Atmosphere also contains several imaginative arrangements of Gillespie compositions, including reinterpretations of two key Gillespie tunes “Manteca” and “Pickin’ the Cabbage.” Douglas’s band is also remarkable, featuring fellow trumpeter Dave Adewumi, recent winner of the Carmine Caruso Competition, along with pianist Fabian Almazan, guitarist Matt Stevens, bassist Carmen Rothwell, and drummer Joey Baron.
Like his previous explorations of the influential music of Mary Lou Williams, Wayne Shorter, and Booker Little, this album is sure to inspire listeners to hear the music of Dizzy Gillespie in a new and interesting ways.
This album shines a light on the whole legacy of Gillespie, one of America’s finest artists. The original music Douglas wrote swings and shimmers with a grace reminiscent of the great man. Dizzy Atmosphere also contains several imaginative arrangements of Gillespie compositions, including reinterpretations of two key Gillespie tunes “Manteca” and “Pickin’ the Cabbage.” Douglas’s band is also remarkable, featuring fellow trumpeter Dave Adewumi, recent winner of the Carmine Caruso Competition, along with pianist Fabian Almazan, guitarist Matt Stevens, bassist Carmen Rothwell, and drummer Joey Baron.
Like his previous explorations of the influential music of Mary Lou Williams, Wayne Shorter, and Booker Little, this album is sure to inspire listeners to hear the music of Dizzy Gillespie in a new and interesting ways.
credits
released May 1, 2020
Personnel:
Dave Douglas, Dave Adewumi, trumpets
Matt Stevens, guitar
Fabian Almazan, piano
Carmen Rothwell, bass
Joey Baron, drums
Personnel:
Dave Douglas, Dave Adewumi, trumpets
Matt Stevens, guitar
Fabian Almazan, piano
Carmen Rothwell, bass
Joey Baron, drums
Monday, June 15, 2020
USA: Mark Ruffin Celebrates 40th Anniversary in Radio Broadcasting with Sept 1st Publication of "Bebop Fairy Tales," His First Short Story Collection
Mark Ruffin Commemorates 40 Years In Radio Broadcasting SiriusXM "Real Jazz" Personality/Program Director Achieves a Landmark in His Storied Career As Disc Jockey, Music Programmer, & Interviewer Ruffin Celebrates Anniversary With the Publication of His Short Story Collection, "Bebop Fairy Tales," On September 1 June 10, 2020  Mark Ruffin, known coast-to-coast as the afternoon drivetime DJ for SiriusXM's Real Jazz channel, celebrates his 40th anniversary in jazz radio in on September 1, 2020. Ruffin, who is also the program director for Real Jazz, began his first professional job in the business -- at Chicago NPR affiliate WBEZ-FM -- on September 1, 1980. In the time since, he has amassed an odyssey's worth of jobs, accomplishments, relationships, and stories, both real and imagined. (Three of the latter will be published September 1, by his Rough In Creative Works imprint, in his debut story collection Bebop Fairy Tales: An Historical Fiction Trilogy on Jazz, Intolerance, and Baseball.)"I really have had a charmed life, man," says Ruffin, reflecting on his four decades in jazz and broadcasting. "I understood that the whole way, how fortunate I was -- but it's been amazing. I went 20 years at four jazz radio stations in one city! That's something that isn't even possible anymore -- but I did that." His career in broadcasting has brought him two local Emmys, Jazzweek's Duke Dubois Humanitarian Award, and the Jazz Journalists Association's Career Excellence in Broadcasting Award. Ruffin can say without exaggeration that he has spent his whole life steeped in jazz. One of his earliest memories is of a robbery at his parents' record store on the West Side of his hometown of Chicago, while a Miles Davis record played on the store's turntable. "[It was] 'If I Were a Bell' -- where he starts it by saying, 'I'll play it and tell you what it is later,'" Ruffin says. "At the end the needle would come back to the beginning. I was scared, but I also remember that every time that voice came back and said that, I was okay." It's only the first of the lifetime's worth of jazz stories and memories Ruffin has collected. Many more have come straight from the mouths of the musicians who he has interviewed over his four decades in radio: the interviews on which he's built his superlative reputation not only as a broadcaster and raconteur, but as an expert and historian of the music. What he didn't learn through his lived experience, personal and professional, he gained through his front-row seat to jazz history, soaking up the musicians' tales and lessons with the same ear for detail that he brings to programming the music. Mark Ruffin was born September 24, 1956 in Chicago, Illinois. His father, an electrician, set up a shop on Chicago's West Side that repaired TVs and radios on one side and sold records on the other. Ruffin's Records was also where Mark (and his five siblings) gained the technical and musical knowledge that would form the nucleus of his career in jazz radio. Ruffin's first experience in radio was at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, where he worked on the staff of campus radio stations WSIU and WIDB. His knowledge of electronics allowed him to earn his then-required FCC license; his love of the music gave him something to do when he was operating those electronics. Over the next 25 years, Ruffin worked at WDCB-FM, where he started his career as an interviewer; WBEE-AM, where he brought the station ratings success for the first time in twenty years; and WNUA-FM, where he produced the nationally syndicated Ramsey Lewis Show. He then returned to WBEZ, before transitioning in the 2000s to a nationally syndicated show of his own (co-hosted with Neil Tesser), Listen Here.  In 2006, Ruffin was hired by Harpo Productions -- Oprah Winfrey's shop -- as a producer on Winfrey's channel at what was then XM Satellite Radio. Rather than a gateway out of music radio, Oprah Radio proved to be a transition from jazz terrestrial radio to jazz satellite radio: By the fall of 2007 he had moved to New York to work at XM's Real Jazz, serving as program director even after the 2009 merger of XM and Sirius Satellite Radio and continuing until today.Photography: Nick Carter
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BRAZIL: Brazilian jazz pianist Ricardo Bacelar makes a "Live" statement with "Nothing Will Be As It Was"
Brazilian jazz pianist Ricardo Bacelar makes a “Live” statement with “Nothing Will Be As It Was”
His “Live in Rio” album drops August 21 preceded by the single that aptly reflects our times
FORTALEZA, BRAZIL (10 June 2020): Brazil is leading the world per capita in coronavirus cases making it unlikely that people will be cramming into a concert venue anytime soon to hear live music. Then there is the recent unrest that erupted in response to civil injustices in the US that bodes to spark meaningful change around the world. These are the events that inspired contemporary jazz pianist Ricardo Bacelar to release a new version of the Milton Nascimento classic “Nothing Will Be As It Was (Nada Sera Como Antes)” as a single ahead of the release of his “Live in Rio (Ao Vivo No Rio)” album, which drops August 21 from Bacelar Productions.
“‘Nothing Will Be As It Was’ summarizes the existential questions raised globally by the coronavirus pandemic. Add to it the civil injustice and unrest that has surfaced over the last couple of weeks with Black Lives Matter, which is an especially important movement. We’re talking about the subject here in Brazil, too. We have a lot of problems with racism here, but our people have not yet taken the streets to protest and have social demonstrations. The world is watching the United States and people are talking about these issues everywhere,” said Bacelar who produced the 11-song “Live in Rio” collection.
Bacelar’s 2018 album, “Sebastiana,” contains a very different version of “Nothing Will Be As It Was,” which was sung in English by American singer Maye Osorio and accompanied by an animated video that suited the pop-electronic rendition of the song. The new live version has a different arrangement and features Bacelar dueting with Brazilian vocalist-pianist Delia Fischer in Portuguese backed by a jazz band.
“I chose to release this single thinking about this moment and the lyrics of the song. The lyrics are like a photograph of the moment. It’s a very famous song in Brazil that was originally recorded in 1976 when we were under a military dictatorship. The lyrics say ‘I know that tomorrow nothing will be like before, What news of my friends will they give me? What news of you will they give me?’ People were disappearing at the hands of the dictatorial military regime. And now people are disappearing – dying – because of the virus. Everyone in Brazil, the United States and all over the world have lost friends due to the virus,” said Bacelar.
“Live in Rio” was recorded in May 2018 at The Blue Note in Rio while Bacelar was promoting “Sebastiana.” He trimmed the 17-song set to the eleven tunes that appear on the live record feeling that the selected song list on the disc represents a balanced sampling of his repertoire and body of work. The outing includes tunes penned by Brazilian icons Nascimento, Tom Jobim,Gilberto Gil and Flora Purim along with American greats Benny Golson, Horace Silver, Pat Metheny and Chick Corea. Also included is a composition that Bacelar wrote with producer Cesar Lemos (Ricky Martin, Paulina Rubio) titled “Sernambetiba, 1992” from “Sebastiana.”
“I love the sound of the album because you can hear the energy of the live performance and the sound of playing in a jazz club. The Blue Note isn’t a big place – about 300 people – so you can hear the ambiance of playing in a small club. The microphone on the piano picked up the other instruments like the drums and saxophone because it’s a small place. The sound is very different than what you get in the studio where the sound is more clean,” said Bacelar who was accompanied by guitarist João Castilho, saxophonist-flutist Danilo Sina, double bassist Alexandre Katatau, drummer Renato Endrigo and percussionistAndré Siqueira.
The idea of dropping the live album now began earlier in quarantine when Bacelar sat to record a solo piano piece for his social media. It made him think about the isolation people were feeling and the role live music plays and the unique energy it possesses.
“The time in isolation is accompanied by multiple experiences and music is a fundamental vehicle for perception, connection and the formation of perspectives that bring meaning to the events on personal, spiritual and emotional levels. I wanted to remind people of the sound of live music. People need the warm sound and feelings of live music as opposed to the electronic stuff we hear on studio recordings. By listening to this live album, you can embrace the warm sound from the safety and comfort of your home.”
As an artist, Bacelar wants “Live in Rio” to be viewed as more than just a live recording. He wants the album to have impact, to say something, which is clearly reflected in his choice of the first single.
“The album is not only about the songs. Without art and abstraction, life is meaningless. Artists have to have a position, make a statement about something and have a voice – not just sing and play piano. The album is a concept – with the arrangements, the cover, the lyrics. It’s important to me to send an important message.”
“Live in Rio (Ao Vivo No Rio)” contains the following songs:
“Killer Joe”
“Toda Menina Bahiana”
“Nothing Will Be As It Was”
“Senõr Blues”
“Partido Alto”
“So May It Secretly Begin”
“Caicó Cantiga”
“Água de Beber”
“Sernambetiba, 1992”
“Nanã”
“Blue Miles”
For more information, please visit http://ricardobacelar.com.br.
Sunday, June 14, 2020
USA: Brad Mehldau’s Suite: April 2020 Available on Nonesuch TODAY!
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Friday, June 12, 2020
USA: Dan Pugach Nonet - New Single and Video: "My Favorite Things"
I'm excited to announce the "My Favorite Things" premiers this Tuesday June 16!
You can Pre-save it on Spotify and watch the short video preview HERE
You can Pre-save it on Spotify and watch the short video preview HERE
Thursday, June 11, 2020
FRANCE/IRAN: Ariana Vafadari, nouvel album Anahita
Nouvel album Anahita Disponible le 19/06/2020 chez Quart de Lune |
Ariana Vafadari revient le 19 juin 2020 avec l'album Anahita, à la frontière de la musique du monde, du jazz et du classique. Cet album d'une rare beauté témoigne du talent vocal et de la démarche philosophique d'Ariana Vafadari. Formée au chant classique et diplômée du Conservatoire national de Paris, Ariana Vafadari a débuté sa carrière dans un répertoire exclusivement lyrique et se produit en tant que soliste en Europe, aux Etats-Unis, au Japon et au Brésil. Imprégnée dans son enfance par la poésie et la philosophie zoroastrienne transmise par son père, la mezzo-soprano crée des passerelles entre musique traditionnelle iranienne, marocaine, jazz et musique classique occidentale. Elle s’inspire des gathas, poèmes écrits par le philosophe Zarathoustra il y a plus de 3700 ans. Avec Anahita, Ariana Vafadari prône un retour à la nature et nous entraine dans une musique poétique capable de provoquer un éveil spirituel. Découvrez un bouquet de mélopées et d'incantations aux parfums de l'Orient. Pour regarder et diffuser la vidéo d'Anahita :
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