Vocalist HAILE LOREN Celebrates a
#1 Record on Billboard in Japan
Justin Time Records and Whitemoon Productions are proud to congratulate internationally known singer/songwriter Halie Loren on hitting the top of the Billboard charts in Japan once again with her latest release Butterfly Blue.
This is the third time she has topped the Billboard Jazz Chart there
and the timing could not be better. Beginning February 5 and running through February 15, Loren will commence her biggest tour in Japan to date: 13 shows in 4 cities.
In Loren's words: "I'm thrilled beyond words that Butterfly Blue
is already 'finding its wings,' so to speak, by debuting at #1... I
never dreamed I would see three consecutive albums of mine reach that
esteemed position! It just goes to show that I have the most awesome and
supportive fans a musician could ask for, as they are the ones who took
the album to the top, and I owe them such immense gratitude! I'm so
blessed to work with a label that believes in my music so wholeheartedly
and work so hard on its behalf... Thank you, JVC Kenwood, for bringing
this album to light in Japan!"
Butterfly Blue features: Halie Loren - Vocals, Percussion; Matt Treder - Piano, Fender Rhodes, Hammond Organ, Percussion, Vocals; Mark Schneider - Bass, Drums; Brian West - Drums; Daniel Gallo - Guitar; William Seiji Marsh - Guitar; Joe Freuen - Trombone; Dana Heitman - Trumpet; David Larsen - Tenor, Alto & Baritone Saxophone, Clarinet
Butterfly Blue
will be released through Justin Time Records in North America on June
9. Concert dates in the United States and Canada will follow that
release.
Upcoming Halie Loren Performances:
Feb 6 / La Saison / Hamamatsu, Japan (sold out!)
Feb 7 / Blue Note / Nagoya, Japan
Feb 8 / Billboard Live / Osaka, Japan
Feb 11-14 / Cotton Club / Tokyo, Japan
For more information on Halie Loren, please visit: HalieLoren.com
For more information on Justin Time Records, please visit: Justin-Time.com
Visit Halie on Facebook and Twitter:
 
For additional information, please contact:
Wild West Artist Management, Inc. · (514) 738-9533
Jim West · info@
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DL Media · 610-667-0501
Greg Angiolillo · greg@dlmediamusic.com
Serving the Finest in Jazz Since 1988
Information and press materials (including album covers, promotional photos
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Sunday, February 15, 2015
Vocalist HAILE LOREN Celebrates a #1 Record on Billboard in Japan
KoSA Cuba Camp & FESTIVAL
The 13th
edition of the KoSA CUBA Workshop :one week study program (and “Havana Rhythm
and Dance Festival” )-Fiesta del tambor )
March 1-8, 2015
KoSA Music is proud to present its 13th edition
of the KoSA Cuba Workshop and Fiesta
del Tambor( Havana Rhythm and Dance Festival) taking place in Havana. US legal travel possible . College credit available ( up to
3 from US college). Daily Hands-on classes, seminars, playing , excursions and
attending evening concerts of “la Fiesta del Tambor “
Course of Study:
The
KoSA Cuba
Workshop is a one-week immersion of Cuban rhythms, music, and culture.
Daily classes are given on conga,
bongo, timbales, drumset and other instruments by some of Cuba’s top
artists. All instruments are supplied on site. Included in the daily
schedule are
sessions by Cuban ethnomusicologists, visits to museums, religious
ceremonies,
local interaction with Cuban
musicians, and nightly concerts which feature artists such as Chucho
Valdes,
Klimax, Los Papines, Los Munequitos de Matanzas and many more.
KoSA Cuba Faculty:
Faculty includes such renowned artists as
Giraldo Piloto (Klimax), Yaroldy Abreu (Chucho Valdes), Adel Gonzales (Afro-Cuban All-Stars), Amadito Valdez(Buena Vista Social
Club),Oliver Valdes (Sylvio
Rodriguez), Enrique Pla (Irakere), Panga and others
Contact: Aldo
Mazza, Director
to register :
3 new releases from Rune Grammofon
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SWITCHBACK - the high octane quartet from Chicago, Warsaw, NYC and Cologne
APRIL 15th till 26th, 2015
AVAILABLE ON REQUEST
SWITCHBACK - the high octane quartet from Chicago, Warsaw, NYC and Cologne
Mars Williams - tenor, alto, soprano, sopranino -saxophones
Waclaw Zimpel - bass, alto, b -clarinets, tarogato
Hilliard Greene - double bass
Klaus Kugel - drums
For more information: http://www.switchback.inemu.
Soundsample: http://www.inemu.com/
MARS WILLIAMS - tenor, alto, soprano, sopranino saxophones (Chicago)
"one of the true saxophone players--someone who takes pleasure in the sheer act of blowing the horn. This tremendous enthusiasm is an essential part of his sound, and it comes through each note every time he plays. Whatever the situation, Mars plays exciting music. In many ways he has succeeded in redefining what versatility means to the modern saxophone player." - John Zorn, USA
WACLAW ZIMPEL - bass & alto clarinet, Bb clarinet, tarogato (Warsaw)
"Zimpel’s name goes straight into the list of European jazzmen that gave new life to clarinet and bass clarinet, continuing Dolphy’s example: Surman, Sclavis, Trovesi, and the like." - Francesco Martinelli, pointofdeparture, USA, 2010
"Polish composer/clarinetist Waclaw Zimpel is one of the most promising musicians from the European continent." - Eyal Hareuveni, allaboutjazz, USA, 2012
HILLIARD GREENE - double bass (NYC)
"His fabulous arco bass mixes lyricism with a burning, literally ferocious desire of opening the listener's mind." - Massimo Ricci, Touching Extremes, Italy, 2007
"I found his composition to be extraordinary in its depth of emotion. Hill’s remarkable virtuosity and passion on his instrument and spiritual awareness was ever present throughout." - Margot Elizabeth Meyers, Jazzimprov, NY, USA, 2006
KLAUS KUGEL - drums (Cologne)
"Drummer Klaus Kugel is one of Central Europe's busiest and most articulate modern jazz drummers ... he treads the boundary between inside and outside playing in a particularly incisive way; always listening and never getting caught up in his own considerable chops." - Dave Wayne, AllAboutJazz, USA, 2013
"These three discs ... show Kugel as a drummer whose nearly boundless energy and imagination cannot be confined by neat categories." - Ed Hazel, Signal To Noise, USA, 2006
April 15th, - available !!
April 16th, Leer (D)
April 17th, Bochum (D)
April 18th, Dachau (D)
April 19th, Novara (I)
April 20th till 24th - available !!
April 25th, St. Johann (A)
April 26th, - available !!
BOOK NOW!!!
AVAILABLE ON REQUEST
SWITCHBACK - the high octane quartet from Chicago, Warsaw, NYC and Cologne
Mars Williams - tenor, alto, soprano, sopranino -saxophones
Waclaw Zimpel - bass, alto, b -clarinets, tarogato
Hilliard Greene - double bass
Klaus Kugel - drums
For more information: http://www.switchback.inemu.
Soundsample: http://www.inemu.com/
MARS WILLIAMS - tenor, alto, soprano, sopranino saxophones (Chicago)
"one of the true saxophone players--someone who takes pleasure in the sheer act of blowing the horn. This tremendous enthusiasm is an essential part of his sound, and it comes through each note every time he plays. Whatever the situation, Mars plays exciting music. In many ways he has succeeded in redefining what versatility means to the modern saxophone player." - John Zorn, USA
WACLAW ZIMPEL - bass & alto clarinet, Bb clarinet, tarogato (Warsaw)
"Zimpel’s name goes straight into the list of European jazzmen that gave new life to clarinet and bass clarinet, continuing Dolphy’s example: Surman, Sclavis, Trovesi, and the like." - Francesco Martinelli, pointofdeparture, USA, 2010
"Polish composer/clarinetist Waclaw Zimpel is one of the most promising musicians from the European continent." - Eyal Hareuveni, allaboutjazz, USA, 2012
HILLIARD GREENE - double bass (NYC)
"His fabulous arco bass mixes lyricism with a burning, literally ferocious desire of opening the listener's mind." - Massimo Ricci, Touching Extremes, Italy, 2007
"I found his composition to be extraordinary in its depth of emotion. Hill’s remarkable virtuosity and passion on his instrument and spiritual awareness was ever present throughout." - Margot Elizabeth Meyers, Jazzimprov, NY, USA, 2006
KLAUS KUGEL - drums (Cologne)
"Drummer Klaus Kugel is one of Central Europe's busiest and most articulate modern jazz drummers ... he treads the boundary between inside and outside playing in a particularly incisive way; always listening and never getting caught up in his own considerable chops." - Dave Wayne, AllAboutJazz, USA, 2013
"These three discs ... show Kugel as a drummer whose nearly boundless energy and imagination cannot be confined by neat categories." - Ed Hazel, Signal To Noise, USA, 2006
April 15th, - available !!
April 16th, Leer (D)
April 17th, Bochum (D)
April 18th, Dachau (D)
April 19th, Novara (I)
April 20th till 24th - available !!
April 25th, St. Johann (A)
April 26th, - available !!
BOOK NOW!!!
Sunday, January 25, 2015
JazzWorldQuest Showcase 2014
Following the release of the JazzWorldQuest Showcase 2013 this year edition features a free for download compilation of songs released in 2014 by independent musicians from Italy, Greece, USA, Romania, France, Canada, Netherlands and Brazil.
Travel the world and cross cultures and genres listening to: Aara’s Circle, Alekos Vretos, Beverly Taft, Capitão Corisco, Dan Baraszu and Dave Ellington, Florin Raducanu, G’s Way, Herb Geller & The Roberto Magris Trio, Kenn Smith, Lea Longo, Natalie Jean, Northeastern AllStars, Roberto Magris Septet, Roberto Magris Trio, Rocktronix, Saskia Laroo, The Bill McBirnie Trio, Yonrico Scott.
The archive contains mp3 tracks and a booklet with links to musicians websites you are invited to visit.
Encourage these fine musicians by buying their music, going to their concerts and showing your appreciation with a simple “like” on Facebook.
Klezmokum: “Klez-Evergreens Project Extended” 2015
This year Klezmokum celebrates 26
years of performances and 8 recordings!
By popular demand, “Klez-Evergreens” project has been
extended with many new pieces added for the next concert season: the first half
of 2015.
Klezmokum and Klez-Edge
(a quartet instrumental version of the band) have a wealth of material from
many years of existence which deserve greater listening and performances for
the public..
Some of these pieces were only performed
a few times and have been re-arranged in a new format for this tour. In addition there is some great music by
composers that use Jewish modes (scales), also arranged for this new project
including the poignant film piece Theme
from Schindler’s List by John Williams, a new composition entitled Judaic-Indian
Song based on a lovely theme by jazz composer Wayne Shorter, the new
Jews & Gypsies Suite II, (a follow up from the first Jews &
Gypsies Suite--from our Le Dor Va Dor CD recording in 2000), modern
arrangements of songs from Fiddler On the Roof , and great song
standards from Harold Arlen (Hyman Arluk). Added to the program will be modern version
of the classic klezmer pieces Yikhes (Ancestors-1911) Yiddish
Blues (1919), Flatbush (Brooklyn)
Waltz by klezmer composer Andy Statman, and classic klezmer dance
pieces like Araber Tanz, Bolter Bulgar, and Bay a Glezele
Mashke. Included will be the Klezmokum classics In the Footsteps of the
Bratslav, and Burton Greene's
composition Moldavian Blues and another recent composition: The Struggle Can Be Enobling. Held over most likely from the first project
will be Ketsad M’rakdin and the Chassidic piece Zhuritze Chlopotzi. This promises to be a program of broad
spectrum, with a wide variety of musical colors, contrasts, and rhythms
inspired by many cultures with links to Judaism.
As the great Dr. Martin Luther King once
stated: “It’s either one world or no world.”
Announcing the latest member of Klez-Edge and
Klezmokum:
Saxophonist Alex Coke.
Alex has an extensive history in jazz and
klezmer and fits right into our group with some great energy!
He has performed with the Austin
Klezmorim, David Krakauer, and in Holland for years with the Willem
Breuker Kollektief.
Klez-Edge is :
Alex Coke (Austin Texas /
Amsterdam)—Saxophones and Flutes
Larry Fishkind (New York /
Amsterdam)—Tuba
Roberto Haliffi (Tripoli Libya
/Amsterdam)—Drums
Burton Greene (Chicago /
Amsterdam)—Piano, Composition and Arrangements
Concerts Scheduled in 2015:
7
March Festival: Days of Jewish Culture in Chemnitz,
Germany
26 April Apeldoorn Synagoge, 15:00, Paslaan 18, 7311AL
Apeldoorn
Further info:
New Jazz papers: Jeffrey Agrell - Creative Pedagogy for Piano Teachers/ Jeff Warren - Music and Ethical Responsibility
Creative Pedagogy for Piano Teachers - Table of Contents
by Jeffrey Agrell
Overview of contents of this book of musical improvisation games for piano teachers.
Music and Ethical Responsibility
by Jeff Warren
Discussions surrounding music and ethical responsibility bring to mind arguments about legal ownership and purchase. Yet the many ways in which we experience music with others are usually overlooked. Musical experience and practice always involve relationships with other people, which can place limitations on how we listen to and act upon music. In Music and Ethical Responsibility Jeff Warren challenges current approaches to music and ethics, drawing upon philosopher Emmanuel Levinas’s theory that ethics is the responsibilities that arise from our encounters with other people. Warren...
by Jeffrey Agrell
Overview of contents of this book of musical improvisation games for piano teachers.
Music and Ethical Responsibility
by Jeff Warren
Discussions surrounding music and ethical responsibility bring to mind arguments about legal ownership and purchase. Yet the many ways in which we experience music with others are usually overlooked. Musical experience and practice always involve relationships with other people, which can place limitations on how we listen to and act upon music. In Music and Ethical Responsibility Jeff Warren challenges current approaches to music and ethics, drawing upon philosopher Emmanuel Levinas’s theory that ethics is the responsibilities that arise from our encounters with other people. Warren...
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