Musician: Dino Fiumara (Jazzboy)
Track: I Will Wait For You Composer: Dino Fiumara (Jazzboy) Musician website Album: JAZZBOY Year: 2013 CD Store
New Pop Jazz Love Song by: New Artist Dino Fiumara (Jazzboy)
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Wednesday, March 6, 2013
LISTEN/DOWNLOAD : Dino Fiumara (Jazzboy) - I Will Wait For You
Hudson Valley Jazz Festival To Launch Education Program
Hudson Valley Jazz Festival
To Launch Education Program
The 2013 Hudson Valley Jazz Workshop Debuts this August
Hudson Valley Jazz Workshop Debuts this August This summer will mark the debut of the Hudson Valley Jazz Festival Workshop to be held in Warwick, New York during the week of August 5- 11 . The workshop will be directed by veteran musician and music educator, Bob Rosen. Rosen has been teaching at New York City's Friends School for the past 26 years, having brought a jazz program to the school in the mid-80's. He is the founder and artistic director of The Meetinghouse Jazz Orchestra, a 17 piece big band in New York in which he also plays saxophones and clarinet. In existence since 1994 the ensemble has performed at many venues in the New York area and in the Warwick Arts Festival.
Rosen was Asst. Conductor of New York City's All-City Jazz Ensemble, a program run by New York's Board of Education, from 1985-'96. "The model for this summer's workshop is a time-honored one that works," says Rosen. "It works for both the Western European classical tradition and for the historically more recent American jazz tradition. Offer a curriculum of instrumental instruction coupled with performance ensemble rehearsal with an emphasis on jazz improvisation.
At the end of the week integrate the students in performance with professional jazz musicians who will be performing at the various venues connected to the Hudson Valley Jazz Festival. This will be a win-win for aspiring jazz musicians and the professionals alike. The students will benefit from listening to and interacting with professionals in performance and the professionals will benefit from passing along their knowledge and passion for the music that they've devoted most of their lives to." "We anticipate putting in place an outstanding faculty from the area that will be based on the response we get from students in the area. Many musician/teachers are interested in sharing their expertise with aspiring musicians. Since our emphasis will be on improvisation we want every student to know what its like to play in a small ensemble and what its like to improvise over the structure of a tune. We want these students to get in touch with their own creative process and to feel relaxed enough and empowered enough to improvise in a group setting. Our day will consist of ensemble rehearsal, the basics of jazz theory, instrumental coaching and lectures on jazz history. That's what we plan on offering this summer in our first year of operation."
The workshop is open to aspiring improvising musicians of all ages. Says Rosen, "It would be fantastic if we could create two or three small ensembles with complete rhythm sections based on different levels of ability and experience - ensembles that will seize the moment and be part of the performance venues during the jazz festival. Nothing is quite so exciting for the aspiring musician than to play before an appreciative audience!"
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Kristen Cornwell – Duke Ellington's Sound Of Love (Prova Records 2012)
News Flash - in April 2013 I have the honour of singing with the Duke Ellington Orchestra under the leadership of the grandson of the Duke, Paul Mercer Ellington.
What a blast!! More details on the news and gigs pages.
As Duke said.... Good things come to those who wait!
The CD is available on pretty much all digital platforms and in shops in Benelux and Germany - but you have to ask!
On the CD’s page on this site you can find links to a couple of tracks from the album. Enjoy!
For the more of the latest news please click here.
CD ‘Distant Skies’ available digitally on iTunes, eMusic and Amazon. It is also available on order throughout Benelux and Germany in good CD stores (just ask them!).
In Australia available through 78 records.
You can also visit me on MySpace - www.myspace.com/cornwellkristen
Kicca & Intrigo - Senso Contrario (Cristal Records 2012)
1. My Show (Kicca/O. Marchioni) Listen
2. Move on (Kicca/O. Marchioni)
3. Seven day fool (Billy Davis) Listen
4. Senso Contrario (Kicca/O. Marchioni)
5. You're no good (Clint Ballard)
6. Diversity (Kicca/O. Marchioni)
7. Neve (Kicca/O. Marchioni)
8. Let the sunshine (Rado/Ragni/MacDermott)
9. Mary Lou (Kicca/O. Marchioni)
10. Space (Kicca/O. Marchioni) Listen
11. California soul (Ashford/Simpson)
The meeting between the two italians Kicca and Oscar Marchioni isn’t due to chance. With her talent and her amazing technique, Kicca sings just like she breathes. As for Oscar, he has started the piano at the early age of 11 and never stopped playing eversince. They both launched the “Intrigo” band in 2003. In 2005, they moved to Paris and started new collaboration with other artists from the Soul Funk scene.
Cristal Records
Beginners - Two years after (Prophone Records 2013)
The Beginners consists of five musicians and all of them are Swedish jazz icons and they're members of several group constellations that perform on stages worldwide. The group is based in Stockholm and the leaders are Erik Söderlind and Andreas Gidlund who have written the original tunes and made all arrangements on the CD. The repertoire is mostly original music but some American songbook gems are included as well. You can hear influences from Cannonball Adderley, George Benson etc and some of our Swedish jazz giants such as Lars Gullin and Rune Gustafsson. Everything is interweaved by the five musicians personal expression.
TRACK LIST
1. Skanstull Serenade
2. Waltz For Maggie
3. Fyra
4. Soda´s Dream
5. Södermalm Runt
6. The Beginners
7. As Usual
8. Blues For Keith
9. Deux Ans Après
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
USA, Austin, TX OLIVER RAJAMANI CONCERTS
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"Uppity," by Composer/Bandleader Anthony Branker, Due 3/19 from Origin
Origin Records to Release "Uppity,"
by Composer/Bandleader Anthony Branker
& His Sextet Word Play,
March 19
by Composer/Bandleader Anthony Branker
& His Sextet Word Play,
March 19
Word Play Features Tenor Saxophonist Ralph Bowen,
Trumpeter Eli Asher,
Trombonist/Keyboardist Andy Hunter,
Pianist Jim Ridl, Bassist Kenny Davis, &
Donald Edwards on Drums
Trumpeter Eli Asher,
Trombonist/Keyboardist Andy Hunter,
Pianist Jim Ridl, Bassist Kenny Davis, &
Donald Edwards on Drums
March 5, 2013
On the provocatively titled Uppity, Anthony Branker's second CD with his all-star sextetWord Play, the prolific composer and bandleader harnesses his vibrant jazz originals and his band's dynamic interplay to deliver a bracing social and spiritual message. Uppity will be released by Origin Records March 19.His "Ballad for Trayvon Martin," one of the album's emotional centerpieces, honors not only the 17-year-old who was slain in 2012 because of "what he looked like," but victims of racial violence who came before.
"While the music on Uppity addresses, out of necessity, such themes as intolerance, hate, and prejudice," writes Branker in his booklet notes, "it also serves to remind us of the power and resiliency of the human spirit when we keep the notions of 'hope' and 'healing' at the center of our lives."
Branker, the founder and director of the Program in Jazz Studies and associate director of the Program in Musical Performance, both at Princeton University, has in recent years been composing for and recording with two different although similar handpicked ensembles. With Ascent, he's recorded four albums, most recently Together (Origin, 2012). Prior to Uppity, he made the 2011 Origin CD Dialogic with Word Play.
Tenor saxophonist Ralph Bowen and bassist Kenny Davis, whom Branker first heard when they were with OTB (Out of the Blue) in the late 1980s, are members of both groups. Completing the Word Play lineup are trumpeter and flugelhornist Eli Asher (of the Respect Sextet); trombonist and keyboardist Andy Hunter, who also performs with Germany's WDR Big Band; "monster pianist" Jim Ridl; and Mingus big band drummer Donald Edwards, who "plays with such incredible commitment to groove."
Branker gets a remarkably fat sound from the six Word Play musicians through the way he voices the three horns and his use of layered repetition. "I'm always trying to give the impression that it is a bigger ensemble than the normal-sounding sextet," he says. "I like to give each voice a sense of independence, but there is still a real connection between each line."
Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1958 of then-recent immigrants from Trinidad, Anthony Branker grew up listening to records by calypso greats such as the Mighty Sparrow and Lord Kitchener as well as pop and R&B on the radio and "a little jazz." Hearing a concert by trumpeterMaynard Ferguson's big band at age 14 turned his head around. "They were swinging back then," he recalls. "Their power and precision and spirit and hearing the soloists made me really want to pursue music."Branker's own credits as a trumpet player include five years alongside Ted Curson, Eddie Henderson, and Valery Ponomarev in the trumpet section of the Spirit of Life Ensemble every Monday night at Sweet Basil in New York City's Greenwich Village. In 1999 he put the horn down after suffering a seizure and two brain aneurysms due to an Arteriovenous Malformation. After undergoing brain surgery in 2000, he now takes medication to control his condition.
"The three things I value more than anything else as a writer have to do with rhythm, a sense of lyricism, and trying to make a connection with the listener on some level," Branker states. "Sometimes we get into playing and writing all this complex stuff and things that we feel are hip and are gonna impress other musicians, but I don't necessarily think that that's the direction we should be thinking, especially if we want to have an audience and expand the audience. What's really important to me is trying to make a connection with the listener on an emotional level."
And on Uppity, the professor's philosophy is put brilliantly into practice.
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