Friday, April 27, 2012

Adam Bałdych & The Baltic Gang - IMAGINARY ROOM(ACT 2012)

On "Imaginary Room" one forgets every violin stereotype and gains an impression of why Bałdych is nicknamed "Evil" - because of his "devilish" virtuosity, expressiveness and variability. His all-star Band dedicates itself to Bałdych's latest compositions and provides amazingly inspirational energy for both, breath-taking solos as well as compelling melodies.
Line Up:
Adam Bałdych / violin
Jacob Karlzon / piano
Lars Danielsson / bass, cello
Morten Lund / drums
Verneri Pohjola / trumpet
Marius Neset / saxophone
Nils Landgren / trombone (on 05 & 08)
ACT RECORDS

Napa Valley’s St. Supéry Estate Vineyards and Winery Hosts Special Outdoor Concert

St. Supéry Estate Vineyards and Winery, a Napa Valley family-owned winery, is announcing a special outdoor jazz concert for April 29.

St. Supéry Estate Vineyards and Winery, Napa Valley's premier vineyard that is well known for its Sauvignon Blanc, Cabernet Sauvignon and Bordeaux blends, will be hosting a special outdoor concert honoring the winery’s French heritage. On April 29 from 1 to 4 p.m., St. Supéry invites the community to an afternoon filled with French jazz, French food and wine tastings of its estate-grown Bordeaux wine varietals.

“Come to the winery in Rutherford for an afternoon of world-class jazz featuring the French group, ‘The Ronchin Jazz Band,’ a tasting of our Estate Sauvignon Blanc and truffle popcorn,” Jenna Bergna of St. Supéry Estate Vineyards and Winery said. “Our gift to you for joining us that Sunday afternoon at the winery.”

St. Supéry worked with the Napa Valley Opera House and the Napa Valley Jazz Society to bring The Ronchin Jazz Band to St. Supéry for the event and to produce the concert. The band was first assembled in 1999 at the music school in Ronchin, France, a tradition that continues today. The school assembles a band of 20 musicians, including students, teachers and a few “external” musicians who are not associated with the school. The concert at St. Supéry is free. Tickets for wine tastings and food can be purchased at the event for $10 per four tickets.

“We’re pouring additional selected tastings from St. Supéry’s portfolio for our guests to enjoy alongside delicious French small bites like croque monsieurs, gougéres, and warm ham and brie baguettes,” Bergna said.

To attend the event, visithttp://wwwstsuperyronchinjazzgp.eventbrite.com/. For more information about the event or St. Supéry Estate Vineyards and Winery, call 707-963-4533, view the winery on the web at http://www.stsupery.com or visit 8440 St. Helena Highway in Rutherford.

About St. Supéry Estate Vineyards and Winery

Step into St. Supéry’s family-owned winery in the heart of Napa Valley and experience the best Sauvignon Blanc of the wine country. Surrounded by an estate vineyard, St. Supéry is recognized for its Bordeaux varietals and blends. Visit the vineyard to enjoy delicious wine tastings, learn about its wine club, experience a birds-eye view of a working winery or stroll through its fine art gallery. St. Supéry Estate Vineyards and Winery is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., except on a few major holidays.

Rutherford, CA (PRWEB) April 25, 2012

International Jazz Day to be Celebrated with All-Star Concerts in Paris, New Orleans and New York

International Jazz Day to be Celebrated with All-Star Concerts in Paris, New Orleans and New York
Video Streams of all 3 Concerts Live on Jazz Day and Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz

On Friday, April 27, UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Herbie Hancock will kick-off the first annual International Jazz Day with a full day of events including live performances, Master Classes, and discussions featuring Marcus Miller, Barbara Hendricks, Hugh Masekela, Dee Dee Bridgewater, plus much more. Please visit http://unesco.org for complete details.

The day will conclude in a concert of jazz luminaries including: Herbie Hancock, George Benson, Swan Berger, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Igor Butman, Terri Lyne Carrington, Gerald Clayton, Klaus Doldinger, Dominique Fillon, Antonio Hart, Barbara Hendricks, Nicole Slack Jones, Manu Katché, Eric Lagnini, Bireli Lagrene, Jean Felix Lalanne, Nguyen Le, Lionel Loueke, Michel El Malem, Tania Maria, Hugh Masekela, Marcus Miller, China Moses, Michael Rodriguez, Isphar Sarabski, Ben Williams, and many others. John Beasley will serve as Musical Director.

The concert will be streamed live at jazzday.com and monkinstitute.org

The inaugural International Jazz Day will be celebrated by millions worldwide on Monday, April 30, and will begin with an all-star sunrise concert in New Orleans' Congo Square, the birthplace of jazz and culiminate with a sunset concert at the United Nations. Presented by UNESCO in partnership with the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, International Jazz Day will encourage and highlight intercultural dialogue and understanding through jazz, America's greatest contribution to the world of music.

Herbie Hancock will be joined in New Orleans by jazz luminaries Terence Blanchard, Ellis Marsalis, Dianne Reeves, Kermit Ruffins, Treme Brass Band, and Jeff 'Tain' Watts and many more.

The sunrise concert from Congo Square is open to the public and begins at 7am (8am EDT), and will be video streamed live at Jazz Day and Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz.

We invite students and schools from around the world to join in the celebration of International Jazz Day and play "Watermelon Man" along with Herbie Hancock live from Congo Square, New Orleans at 8:15am EDT on April 30, 2012. Sheet music and an MP3 is available to download on JazzDay.com. Please video your performances of "Watermelon Man" and upload them to youtube.com and title them:International Jazz Day - Watermelon Man. Please include tags: JazzDay, April30, IntlJazzDay, HerbieHancock. Let us know the link and the musicians and where you performed and for how many people on this form. We'll post your videos and your photos on JazzDay.com.

International Jazz Day culminates at the United Nations with an all-star sunset concert. Joining Herbie Hancock are: Tony Bennett, Terence Blanchard, Richard Bona (Cameroon), Dee Dee Bridgewater, Candido, Robert Cray, Eli Degibri (Israel), Jack DeJohnette, Sheila E., Herbie Hancock, Jimmy Heath, Zakir Hussain (India), Chaka Khan, Angelique Kidjo (Benin), Lang Lang (China), Romero Lubambo (Brazil), Shankar Mahadevan (India), Wynton Marsalis, Hugh Masekela (South Africa), Christian McBride, Danilo Pérez, Dianne Reeves, Bobby Sanabria, Wayne Shorter, Esperanza Spalding, Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks, Hiromi (Japan), and others. George Duke will serve as Musical Director. Confirmed Co-Hosts include Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman and Quincy Jones.

The concert at the United Nations General Assembly Hall begins at 7:30pm EDT and will be video streamed live at Jazz Dayand Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz.

In addition to viewing the concerts from Paris, New Orleans and New York at JazzDay.com, JazzCorner.com created JazzDay.com as an informational portal for jazz education resources and the site where you too can inform and show the world your jazz events and educational activities on April 30th. There are instructions and forms located on the site. After April 30th, hundreds of videos will be on display on JazzDay.com

To stay up to date: follow us on twitter @intljazzday with hash tag #jazzday;
Facebook: http://facebook.com/intljazzday

Thanks for being part of this history making event!

"Upper West Side Story," New CD by Guitarist Bobby Broom's Trio With Dennis Carroll & Kobie Watkins, To Be Released by Origin Records May 15

The Trio's Fifth CD, & Their First New Recording Since 2009,
Features All Broom Originals

April 26, 2012

Bobby Broom's new CD, Upper West Side Story, is the guitarist's tenth album in as many years -- the culmination of a golden period of prolific creativity and steady artistic growth. Five of those recordings have featured his jazz trio with bassist Dennis Carroll and drummerKobie Watkins, who've worked as a unit since 1997. Origin Records, Broom's longtime label, will release the CD on May 15.
Providing an intimate look at Broom's musical personality and the trio's fully developed group chemistry, the original compositions on Upper West Side Storyare described by Broom as "an ode to where I'm from." They reflect a wide range of influences across a spectrum of genres while always remaining deep in the tradition of the modern jazz guitarist. Included is the first studio recording of Broom's "D's Blues," a live video of which has been a fan favorite online for several years.

"I purposely waited to make a record of all originals," says Broom. "I feel that can be sort of a run-of-the-mill thing to do -- that everyone is doing it. But, you know, I've been out here 30 years now and people need to know who I am beyond my guitar sound and style. This album reveals more of me."

"In my twenty years of playing with Bobby," says bassist Carroll, "I've always felt that his style of playing melds the feelings of all-American blues with an urban hip soulfulness that really speaks to the progression of jazz."

"B is one of the great guitarists and musicians of this generation," adds drummer Watkins. "Playing with him and this trio has meant so much for my development and prepared me to have intelligent musical conversations."

Dennis Carroll, Kobie Watkins, Bobby Broom

For the last two years, Broom has also been working with the young drummer Makaya McCraven, who is heard on three tracks of the new CD. "Playing with Bobby," says McCraven, "you always have to dig deeper. His depth in vocabulary allows the music to go anywhere with ease."

The CD cover photo was shot on 95th Street and West End Avenue, a very short walk from Broom's childhood home at 95th and Columbus. Though Broom, 51, has now lived over half his life as a Chicagoan, he was born in Harlem and raised on the Upper West Side. He attended the High School of Music and Art, made his Carnegie Hall debut at 16 with Sonny Rollins, and debuted as a leader on record at 21 with Clean Sweep (GRP). Broom remains a New Yorker at heart.

The move to Chicago came in 1984, after which he continued to tour with Rollins (1982-1987, 2005-2010), joined forces with Kenny Burrell & the Jazz Guitar Band, played briefly with Miles Davis, and performed and recorded with local leading lights such as Charles Earland.

"Broom has one of the few truly recognizable styles among modern guitarists, and one of the most satisfying solo concepts in mainstream jazz," critic Neil Tesser has written in the Chicago Examiner.

Bobby Broom

After recording the all-star blowing sessionModern Man in 2001, Broom commenced his series of trio albums with Stand followed bySong and Dance (which Pat Metheny called "one of the best jazz guitar trio records I've ever heard"), The Way I Play, and 2009's Plays for Monk. He also remained busy with the Deep Blue Organ Trio, the group he has co-led with Chris Foreman and Greg Rockingham since 2000. Their fourth album Wonderful!, a Stevie Wonder tribute, was a #1 JazzWeek album shortly after its summer 2011 release. Deep Blue has toured as Steely Dan's opening act on several occasions in recent years.

As jazz finds itself in a more academic period ushered in by programming and institutions,Bobby Broom and his trio(s) continue to operate from jazz's natural standpoint -- the black music aesthetic in rhythm and the blues, and the distinctly urban-American-influenced jazz strain that continues to thrive and evolve from each generation to the next via recordings and tutelage on the stage. Broom and his bandmates have come by their perspective having worked with many of jazz's Golden Era legends, who taught that listeners will respond to music they can understand and feel.

Web Sites:
www.bobbybroom.com
www.deepblueorgantrio.com

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YouTube: D's Blues

AllAboutJazz.com interview

Media Contact:Terri Hinte
510-234-8781
hudba@sbcglobal.net
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BOOKING NOW: Eple Trio - contemporary jazz from Norway - festival offer

In the Cavern,’ Eple trio shows how they are in complete control of their format. Since their last release in 2008 they have grown both in form and expression, and appear as confident musicians and representatives for modern contemporary jazz.

The album was recorded deep within the Swedish forests by Sjur Miljeteig and Peder Kjellsby. This is heard in both the sonic qualities of the recording, as well as in the qualities dwelling in the performances and the music stretching just beyond 60 minutes in total.

In the liner notes, written by Jonas H. Sjøvaag, it says that ‘this is in many ways program me music […] a sonic description of a part of the Northern hemisphere.’ This can be heard in the subtle references to Norwegian folk music, in passages resembling the Swedish pianist Jan Johansson, and you can sense them in the images created in us when listening. The music is all original, written by Jonas H. Sjøvaag and Andreas Ulvo, or by Eple Trio. It has been arrange by Eple Trio, and mixed by Peder Kjellsby, Jonas H. Sjøvaag and Andreas Ulvo. Sjøvaag also made the artwork, and took the cover and booklet photos.

  Upcoming tour of Japan: May 22nd - June 4rth
  May 23rd: Rakuya,Tokyo
  May 24th: Nardis , Chiba
  May 26th: Kirakira-Hikaru, Kyoto
  May 27th: Guggenheim House, Kobe
  May 28th or 29th (tab): Mokkiriya ,Kanazawa
  May 31st: In F , Tokyo
  June 1st: Candy, Chiba
  June 2nd: Airgin , Yokohama
  June 3rd: U-3chi, Saitama

www.epletrio.no
www.mattisogjonas.com
www.supremeconnection.no

Thursday, April 26, 2012

USA, TX: Alex Coke Upcoming shows

Saturday, April 28, 2012
TENOR MADNESS
The Elephant Room
315 Congress Avenue
Austin, Tx
512.473.2279

9:30pm-1:30am

Tough Texas Tenor Men
Alex Coke & John Mills
bring it sax wise (and then some)
while Tough Texas Piano Man
Rich Harney fans the fire...

with Sam Pankey (Bass) & Aaron Easley (Drums)

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Mente Clara w/ Alex Coke

Spider House 29th Street Ballroom
2908 Fruth
Austin, Tx 78705
10:00pm until 2:00am

Mente Clara returns to the stage on May 1 at 29th Street
Ballroom with some new tunes, as well as our usual fare from Hermeto, Egberto, and others.
Saxophonist/flautist Alex Coke is visiting from Amsterdam
and was kind enough to join us for this date, so this set should be especially fun.

Mike St. Clair will perform a solo show of his original
material to close out the night.

With Glenn Fukunaga
CD Release: NOT A WORD
http://www.notawordmusic.com/fr_home.cfm

Monday, April 30

2pm
LIVE from Studio 1A @ KUT
KUT Radio website
2504 Whitis Street
Austin, Texas 78712
512.471.1631

From Studio 1-A at KUT Radio, Jay Trachtenberg hosts a live set featuring bassist/composer Glenn Fukunaga, Alex Coke (woodwinds), Joel Guzman (keys), Kevin Flatt(brass) & Dony Wynn (drums).

Celebrating the release of Fukunaga's CD NOT A WORD, The Austin Jazz Alliance will be filming this taping for an archived video on their website.

Wed, May 2, 2012

4:30pm
Waterloo Records
600A N. Lamar
Austin, TX 78703
512-474-2500
&
Thu May 3, 2012
Continental Gallery
1313A S Congress
Austin, TX 78704
(512) 441-2444

May 4
9:30-1:30
The Elephant Room
Alex Coke Rich Harney/WORTHY CONSTITUENTS
Alex Coke, Rich Harney, Pat Harris, Masumi Jones
http://www.elephantroom.com

Saturday May 5, 2012
6:30 PM

Jazz in Bastrop
Benefitting Boys and Girls Club of Bastrop County

On the Patio of Lakeside Professional Building
3101 Highway 71 East
(next to the new St. David's Emergency Center)
Bastrop, Tx 78602
map

Featuring:
Eric Johnson,
Rick McRae,
Alex Coke
and many more....

Cost: Minimum donation of $50 per person (includes dinner)
Tickets will be sold by advance purchase only.

For Tickets, directions, and for more information contact:
Anthony at the Boys and Girls Club
512.988.9077
or email roblesant@hotmail.com

Rolando Luna- Alucinaciones (Colibri 2010)

Rolando Luna is an amazing musician and on the short list of the most creative tumbao players in Cuba today. Whether playing Timba or Jazz, he plays with incredible spontanaeity. If asked to play the same Timba track several times in succession, each version will be considerably different from the last, and each will contain spur of the moment musical gems.

He looks like a cat when he plays, sitting back calmly until, in a split second, his eyes come alive and his fingers pounce on the keys to execute some fantastic new idea that's popped into his mind. He played with Paulito for about two years before switching places with Roberto "Cucurucho" Carlos to join Issac Delgado, for whom he now serves as musical director, while continuing his Latin Jazz career when Issac isn't on tour

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