| Uptown Vocal Jazz Quartet New CD "Hustlin' for a Gig" NPR Interview Saturday, August 4th "Weekend Edition" 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM CD RELEASE PARTY! Tues., Oct. 30 BLUES ALLEY, Washington, DC |
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Uptown Vocal Jazz Quartet New CD/NPR/CD Release Show
World Jazz Education Day Documentary Film To Benefit Kids & Jazz
CYF's art campaign (Fund Raiser Page) in association with Marco Fine Art and PayPal.
To benefit the New animated software program for community education (children, youth and adults) and production of World Jazz Education Day Documentary Film. A Proclamation establishing World Jazz Day as a tribute to jazz improvisation by past and present artists has been established in concept and officially with the Revenue Service. It is CYF's intent to submit this draft Proclamation to the President, to the Congress, and to interested Government Agencies. We are hoping to establish April 23 (in all future years) as the World Jazz Education Day. To benefit youth in our jazz history as well as to educate them in instrumentation and in jazz performance. Miles Davis, "Autobiography, " (NY: Simon & Shuster/Touchstone; 1989, p405): "...I think the schools should teach kids about jazz or black music. Kids should know that America's only original cultural contribution is the music that our black forefathers brought from Africa, which was changed and developed here. African music should be as much as European ("classical") music. " CYF believe that this thought applies to all persons, equally, and both kids and adults. Original Jazz Prints For Sale:  Size:......Print:....Frame:..16X24" $76.50 $139.93 $64.85 20X30" $146.94 $183.84 $81.75  Size:......Print:....Frame:..18X24" $84.00 $105.36 $69.33 24X32" $136.54 $231.90 $125.80 |
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MUMFORD & SONS and MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD JOIN KID ROCK, SUGARLAND & STEVE MILLER FOR 72 HOTTEST HOURS OF SUMMER AT THE JAZZ ASPEN SNOWMASS LABOR DAY FESTIVAL
MUMFORD & SONS and MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD
JOIN KID ROCK, SUGARLAND & STEVE MILLER FOR
72 HOTTEST HOURS OF SUMMER AT THE
JAZZ ASPEN SNOWMASS LABOR DAY FESTIVAL
Jazz Aspen Snowmass has announced the final main stage acts in what is certainly the biggest line-up in the Festival's history: British Folk/Rock group MUMFORD & SONS; Colorado and JAS Favorite MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD; and the "pelvis-pushing juke music" of VINTAGE TROUBLE.
These artists have been added to the already impressive list of performers, including genre-hopper KID ROCK and his mix of rock, country and rap; country music superstarsSUGARLAND; classic rock icon STEVE MILLER BAND; and "supafunkrock" group TROMBONE SHORTY & ORLEANS AVENUE.
Scheduled appearance days for each artist are:
Friday, Aug. 31 - Sugarland & Steve Miller Band
Saturday, Sept. 1 - Mumford & Sons, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
Sunday, Sept. 2 - Kid Rock, Michael Franti & Spearhead & Vintage Trouble
"Three huge days!" added JAS President & CEO Jim Horowitz. "Summer's Hottest 72 Hours will come to pass at JAS Aug 31 - Sep 2. We are pleased to be able to add these three important and relevant artists, all awesome performers, to what was already a very strong concert bill."
There are currently a limited number of 3-day passes available at $175 plus service charges. Single day tickets, priced at $82.50/day plus applicable service charges, will go on-sale Friday, May 18 at 8am mst.
Steve Miller Band - 6:30pm, Aug. 31
The Steve Miller Band has become one of the centerpiece attractions of the summer rock concert season, playing sixty or more shows every year. He is the Gangster of Love. Some people call him Maurice, the Midnight Toker or the Space Cowboy. And with his latest release, "Let Your Hair Down," a masterpiece album by one of the greats, Steve Miller shows he still speaks of the pompitus of love.
"Let Your Hair Down," includes some of the finest guitar playing Miller has ever recorded, alongside the last recordings by harmonica virtuosa Norton Buffalo, Miller's "partner in harmony" for thirty-three years.
One of rock music's all-time greats, the Steve Miller Band has sold more than 30 million records in a career spanning more than 40 years. His trademark blues-rock sound made him one of the key artists in class rock radio. The Steve Miller Band is a brand name rock that millions have come to trust.
Sugarland - 9pm, Aug. 31
Despite winning multiple Grammy, CMA and ACM awards - and selling more than 8 million records - the country music duo of Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush is embracing a creative rebirth, a musical awakening that permeates their adventurous fourth album, "The Incredible Machine."
What they have created is a dynamic masterwork. Co-written and co-produced in full by Jennifer and Kristian, The Incredible Machine is a soaring album elevated by ski-high choruses, ringing guitars, and pulsing drums that recall the beating of the album's titular engine, the human heart. A country record, a pop record, an anthem record, a ballad record, but above all, an authentic record.
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Ave. - 3pm, Sept. 1
Since the release of their Grammy-nominated 2010 debut album, "Backatown," Trombone Shorty and Orleans Ave. have grown creatively while winning hordes of new fans performing nonstop on five continents. Their new album, "For True," offers substantive proof of their explosive growth, further refining the signature sound Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews has dubbed "Supafunkrock."
The band - Mike Ballard on bass, Pete Murano on guitar, Joey Peebles on drums, Dwayne Williams on percussion, Dan Oestreicher on baritone sax and Tim McFatter on tenor sax - stirs together old-school New Orleans jazz, funk and soul, laced with hard-rock power chords and hip-hop beats, and they've added some tangy new ingredients on "For True" as they keep pushing the envelope, exploring new musical territory.
Mumford & Sons - 7pm, Sept. 1
Since they formed in December 2007, the members of Mumford & Sons have shared a common purpose: to make music that matters, without taking themselves too seriously. Four young men from West London in their early twenties, they have fire in their bellies, romance in their hearts, and rapture in their masterful, melancholy voices. They create a gutsy, old-time sound that marries the magic of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young with the might of Kings Of Leon, and their incredible energy draws us in quickly to their circle of songs, to the warmth of their stories, and to their magical community of misty-eyed men.
As soon as they had their first rough cluster of songs, they hit the road. Straightaway, they won the hearts of their audiences with their harmonies, the way they engaged with their instruments, their bandmates and their crowds - and chased the friendly live reception they got all over the country. Word spread quickly, today their live reputation goes before them.
Vintage Trouble - 3pm, Sept. 2
Vintage Trouble formed in 2010 out of the ashes of a few other bands, and not by chance, Ty Taylor and Nalle Colt teamed up with Richard Danielson and Rick Barrio Dill. They entered The Bomb Shelter Studio, recorded an album's worth of material in three days, which was intended to be demos and ended up being pressed into CDs. The Bomb Shelter Sessions became Vintage Trouble's first album. Vintage Trouble is a quartet of sincere musicians whose combination of hard work, talent, and luck are undoubtedly going to take them right where they deserve to be. This is live-wired, straight-shootin, dirty-mouth'd, pelvis-pushing juke music.
Michael Franti & Spearhead - 5pm, Sept. 2
Michael Franti is one of the most positive and conscious artists in music today. He has crossed all sorts of musical and physical boundaries throughout his career in order to make music for everybody. In the mid-90's he first formed Spearhead, and increasingly in recent years, he's found his own voice musically and his own organic brand of popular success. Franti and Spearhead's 2008 All Rebel Rockers, became the biggest hit of Franti's career, hitting the Top 40 on the Billboard 200, and yielding his biggest hit, the Top 20 "Say Hey (I Love You)."
His latest album, The Sound of Sunshine, is a kind of musical sun shower, a bright, beautiful and often buoyant song cycle created to bring all kinds of listeners to a sense of hope during rough and rainy times for so many in our world. "Music is sunshine," says Franti. "Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood. Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose."
Kid Rock - 7pm, Sept. 2
Kid Rock has a unique ability to genre-hop, marking his territory everywhere. He hosted last years CMT Awards and performed at events ranging from the Grammy's to the VMA's, EMA's and CMA's to the Hip Hop Honors. He has performed for and visited troops overseas numerous times, and remains one of entertainments most vocal supporters of our soldiers abroad. His philanthropic efforts through his own Kid Rock Foundation, have expanded greatly over the last year as well.
His latest release, "Born Free," is in many ways a transformational album for Kid Rock.
While there is still the edge, wit and swagger of previous albums, he doesn't rap, there's no metal - there isn't even a parental warning sticker. Says Kid Rock, "The catalyst for this record was Detroit, and my thoughts on the world through the lens of Detroit. Watching everything go downhill over the past few years, the economy, the loss of jobs everywhere, I wanted to make a record that reflected the times but that still had soul."
Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased at 866-JAS-TIXX,
jazzaspensnowmass.org, or locally at the Belly Up Box Office, (970) 544-9800.
For information on VIP Packages please call (970) 920-4996.
For lodging and ticket packages: 800-SNOWMASS or snowmasstourism.com.
NEW THIS YEAR: JAS has partnered with Vivid Seats (vividseats.com) to offer a new festival experience for a limited group of guests each day. The Vivid Seats Lounge will be a Hospitality Tent and Patio located with an elevated private platform viewing area and cash bar. Avoid bar lines and the rush for the perfect spot by purchasing the 3-Day Vivid Seat Lounge pass available at a discounted rate of $570. Individual day passes will go on-sale with the general admission single day tickets on Friday May 18 at a rate of $199/per day. To purchase call 866-848-8499.
Thank you to this year's Festival sponsors include: Town of Snowmass Village, Casillas Petroleum Corp, Denver Post, XOJet, Comcast, Coors Light, Viceroy Hotel, Patron Tequila, Infinite Monkey Theorem, SkinCeuticals, Outside Magazine, KSPN, 5280, and Aspen Sojourner.
For more information on the JAS Labor Day Festival or the JAS June Festival please visit jazzaspensnowmass.org or call JAS at 970-920-4996.
For media information, please contact:
Andrea Beard · (970) 920-4996 Ext.12
DL Media · 610-667-0501
Don Lucoff · don@dlmediamusic.com
Russ Reinberg-Wistful (Westlake Records 2011)
EVERY ALBUM IS as unique as a human being. And, just as some people clearly distinguish themselves, so do some albums. Wistful offers such a distinguishing musical experience. Some of its nineteen original tunes are destined to become standards. And nobody but clarinetist Russ Reinberg, their composer and arranger, could have performed them with as much beauty, expression, and passion.
But why an album of originals?
“Eventually you get to a point,” says Russ, “where you realize you have been performing the same tunes as every other musician. You realize that, no matter how well you play them, you’re still going to be the ninety-seventh person to record, for example, Moonglow or Yardbird Suite or Unforgettable. And you realize a musician usually must introduce a tune to define it and, once he does, every other version seems like a tribute. Especially since I play what a lot of people today think of as an obsolete instrument, I just wanted to do something new.
“Thousands of people have written original tunes. Most are forgettable. Maybe mine will be, too. But if you listen to them a couple of times, you’ll probably remember a few and you might find yourself humming them in the car or in the shower because they are melodic. That’s something missing from a lot of today’s music and especially from jazz.
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Meredith d'Ambrosio - By Myself (Sunnyside 2012)
“I started with ‘By Myself,’” she said, “because after Haydn was gone, that’s exactly what happened to me. And I closed with ‘Haunted Heart’ because he loved that song. He played it often. It’s what he chose to call one of his albums. That song made me cry.” ”
Tracks:
1. By Myself
2. Through A Thousand Dreams
3. Once Upon A Long Ago
4. If There Is Someone Lovelier Than You
5. All Through The Night
6. High And Low
7. I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plan
8. You And The Night And The Music
9. Something To Remember You By
10. Dancing In The Dark
11. Then I'll Be Tired Of You
12. Why Go Anywhere At All?
13. I See Your Face Before Me
14. Haunted Heart
Sunnyside
JazzFest 2012 on August 4th and 5th at Hannah Nicole Vineyards and Winery to Feature a Wide-Range of Styles, From Smooth Jazz and R&B to Big Band Style Music
Winery Serves as the Backdrop for First Weekend-Long Jazz Festival, Sponsored By Diablo Magazine
Hannah Nicole Vineyards and Winery’s JazzFest Weekend 2012 on August 4th and 5th will feature a wide-variety of Jazz for the listening enjoyment of Bay Area music enthusiasts.
While this is the third year that wine lovers have enjoyed jazz music in the vineyard, this year marks Hannah Nicole’s first official JazzFest, which is being sponsored by Diablo Magazine, among other media and corporate sponsors. The event will feature a wide-range of Jazz, from Smooth Jazz and R&B to Big Band Style Music.
The Christian Tamburr Quintet, The Simon Rowe Quartet and seasoned jazz recording artist, songwriter and educator, Nicolas Bearde, The Kimodo Quintet, The Pan Handlers and The Big Burg Band will be among the 13 ensembles that will perform on three stages.
During the two-day, family friendly event, the winery will be open only to JazzFest attendees. Guests will be able to bring a picnic to enjoy while watching the music on the picturesque winery grounds with Hannah Nicole’s wines, including numerous 2012 medal winners from the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition. A bay area mobile restaurant will also be on-hand to satisfy a gourmet palate with an eclectic mix of tasty dishes.
“When we began planning our 2012 JazzFest, we received an overwhelming response from musicians across the world who were looking to come together with us to deliver a top notch event filled with the best of the best in Jazz,” said Neil Cohn, co-founder and CEO for Hannah Nicole Vineyards and Winery. “This event will rival other jazz festivals in cities from Monterey to San Francisco. We’re excited to bring such a talented line-up of world-class musicians to the East Bay.”
“We look forward to a groove-filled weekend, giving us the opportunity to engage music aficianados across all genres who will love the fresh, upbeat styles that will envelope the vineyard,” added Cohn.
Event Details, Ticket Availability and Pricing
The Hannah Nicole JazzFest Weekend will take place at the winery and run on Saturday, August 4th, from 12:00 pm until 9:30 pm and Sunday, August 5th from 12:00 pm until 4:30 pm. Tickets are now available for purchase at $45.00 per person for a two-day ticket or $25.00 for a single-day ticket from http://hnvjazzfest.eventbrite.com/ and The Hannah Nicole tasting room. To sign up for more information about JazzFest 2012 and other musical events, visit http://www.hnvwines.com and join the winery’s email list.
The Hannah Nicole JazzFest Weekend will take place at the winery and run on Saturday, August 4th, from 12:00 pm until 9:30 pm and Sunday, August 5th from 12:00 pm until 4:30 pm. Tickets are now available for purchase at $45.00 per person for a two-day ticket or $25.00 for a single-day ticket from http://hnvjazzfest.eventbrite.com/ and The Hannah Nicole tasting room. To sign up for more information about JazzFest 2012 and other musical events, visit http://www.hnvwines.com and join the winery’s email list.
Guests can also purchase tickets from the Hannah Nicole website at http://www.hnvwines.com. The price of admission includes a Hannah Nicole commemorative glass. The first pour is complementary. Wine will also be available for purchase.
About Hannah Nicole Vineyards
Founded in 2001 by Glenda and Neil Cohn, Hannah Nicole Vineyards and Winery is located on eighty acres of prime land in Brentwood. The winery produces over 15 different wines, including Bordeaux and Rhone varietals.
Founded in 2001 by Glenda and Neil Cohn, Hannah Nicole Vineyards and Winery is located on eighty acres of prime land in Brentwood. The winery produces over 15 different wines, including Bordeaux and Rhone varietals.
Customers can find Hannah Nicole wines at the Brentwood winery and more than 200 Bay Area restaurants and retailers. Hannah Nicole’s 18,000 square foot winery, tasting room and event center is a destination for enjoying fine wines while building lasting memories with friends and family. In addition to offering regular Hannah Nicole Wine Club Member events, the winery features live concerts, wine pairing dinners and other fun-filled events throughout the year.
Media Contact:
Andrea Corry
TopMind PR
(925) 640-5482
andrea(at)topmindpr(dot)com
Andrea Corry
TopMind PR
(925) 640-5482
andrea(at)topmindpr(dot)com
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Jazz Journal August 2012 Summary
Bob Mintzer The Yellowjackets reedman, former Buddy Rich and Jones/Lewis sideman and current occupant of Arnold Schoenberg's onetime Californian residence talks to Derek Ansell about life as a triple-threat jazzman
Decibel Records John Latham delves into the Decibel label, home in the early 50s to Kathy Stobart, the Merseysippi Jazz Band and others. Its amplifier, from the legendary Leak marque, ended up scaring birds at Manchester airport
Profiles Elliot Mason, Norwich trombone man now in the Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra; Mark Turner, US saxophonist keen to play down the early influence of Warne Marsh; Kurt Elling, possibly today's most individualist jazz voice, mixing a church background with modern sensibilities
Readers' Poll The votes are in: how do wins for Bobby Wellins, Louis Armstrong, Arbors and Avid labels square up with our critics' tastes as expressed in the February issue Critics' Poll?
Decibel Records John Latham delves into the Decibel label, home in the early 50s to Kathy Stobart, the Merseysippi Jazz Band and others. Its amplifier, from the legendary Leak marque, ended up scaring birds at Manchester airport
Profiles Elliot Mason, Norwich trombone man now in the Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra; Mark Turner, US saxophonist keen to play down the early influence of Warne Marsh; Kurt Elling, possibly today's most individualist jazz voice, mixing a church background with modern sensibilities
Readers' Poll The votes are in: how do wins for Bobby Wellins, Louis Armstrong, Arbors and Avid labels square up with our critics' tastes as expressed in the February issue Critics' Poll?
Books & DVDs Bunny Berigan;Africa Speaks; Kenny Dorham; Jazzpaths; The Trumpet; All Star Jazz Show; Max Roach; Joe Lovano
Remembered Lol Coxhill; Marjie Hyams; Graeme Bell; Andy Hamilton
Remembered Lol Coxhill; Marjie Hyams; Graeme Bell; Andy Hamilton
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