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Monday, May 6, 2019
NORWAY: FREEDOMS TRIO Updates
ITALY: Keith & Julie Tippett, Lino Capra Vaccina, Paolo Tofani – A Mid Autumn's Night Dream(2019) #jazz
A mid Autumn Night's Dream (trailer) by Keith & Julie Tippett, Lino Capra Vaccina, Paolo Tofani recorded live on October 1, 2016 at Conservatorio Nicolini, Piacenza, Italy out 11th January 2019 for Dark Companion Records © Dark Companion Records 2019 * the audio of the video is audience recording quality *
Keith Tippett: piano, musical box, woodblocks, pebbles, maraca Julie Tippetts: voice, small bells, struck thumb piano, swivel drum, miniature xylophone Lino Capra Vaccina: vibraphone, cymbals, percussions, gongs, tam-tam, timpani, chimes, bells Paolo Tofani: madhura, santoor, electronics & devices Composed By – Julie Tippetts, Keith Tippett, Lino Capra Vaccina, Paolo Tofani
Sunday, May 5, 2019
CANADA: Flute Bits - May 2019 - Bill McBirnie
Flute Bits - May 2019 - Bill McBirnie
Hi, Everyone:
Here are a few items (each of which is set out in a little more detail, just below my signature).
(1) IMPROVISING ALONG TO "SHOTGUN" - BY POMPLAMOOSE(2) ERROLL GARNER - "SHE'S FUNNY THAT WAY" - LIVE(3) SOME FORTHCOMING GIGS
As always, thank you for reading…and/or listening!… :-)
Sincerely,
Bill McBirnie - Extreme Flute
Phone: (416) 652-1541
Web Site: www.extremeflute.com
CDs & MP3s: https://store.cdbaby.com/
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is." (Yogi Berra)
(1) IMPROVISING ALONG TO "SHOTGUN" - BY POMPLAMOOSE:
Here is a Pomplamoose cover of a George Erza tune, "Shotgun", with me doing a quick and casual improvisation over it.
[NOTE: For the gear nerds, I played this using a 1960s-vintage Wm. S. Haynes flute equipped with a Robert Bigio crown and stopper (the blackwood and delrin combination). The flute also has Jim Schmidt gold pads now, installed by my excellent flute tech, Mike Filice!]
(2) ERROLL GARNER - "SHE'S FUNNY THAT WAY" - LIVE:
You simply can NOT beat an old dog…like Erroll Garner!… :-)
(3) SOME FORTHCOMING GIGS:
If you need - or want - any flute, alto flute and/or piccolo work (or perhaps just some flute/improvisation coaching), then drop me a line at: extremeflute@look.ca(because, as of now, there is NOT much happening in June and beyond! :-)
You can always find a current/updated gig listing at the following link:
(The following list is in DESCENDING order.)
Sun., Nov. 3, 2019 at 7:00 p.m.House Concert150 Winona Ave.Toronto, OntarioWith BERNIE SENENSKY & NEIL SWAINSONMon., Aug. 5, 2019 at 7:00 p.m.Camp Manitou10 Camp RoadParry Sound, Ontario"The Rescue" - A Live Film/Concerto by ALVARO & BORIS COSTELLANOSSun., June 16, 2019 at 2:00 p.m.Hugh's Room - Live!2261 Dundas St. W.Toronto, OntarioFather's Day Brunch with Jaymz Bee and THE TIKI COLLECTIVE(Always a "happening" with Musical Director, ERIC ST. LAURENT...and a host of great singers...)Thurs., May 30, 2019 at 7:00 p.m.Bloom Restaurant2315 Bloor Street West (Bloor West Village)Toronto, OntarioWith BERNIE SENENSKY & NEIL SWAINSONFor reservations, please call (416) 767-1315Sat., May 25, 2019 at 7:30 p.m.Church of the Ascension266 North St.Port Perry, OntarioWith BERNIE SENENSKYThurs., May 16, 2019 at 7:30 p.m.The Home Smith Bar at The Old Mill21 Old Mill Rd.Toronto, OntarioWith Canada's "King of Swing", BOB DE ANGELIS!Sun., May 12, 2019 at 11:00 a.m.Relish Bar & Grill2152 Danforth Ave.Toronto, Ontario...Mother's Day!...with LIANE FAINSINGER & CHRIS ("BUCKY") BANKSFri., May 10, 2019 at 8:30 p.m.Hirut Restaurant2050 Danforth Ave.Toronto, OntarioWith the DON NADURIAK E= Band (including PAUL TARUSSOV, SARAH THAWER & LOU MELE)
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Saturday, May 4, 2019
USA: #Jazz guitarist Reza Khan’s “Next Train Home” arrives
Jazz guitarist Reza Khan’s “Next Train Home” arrives
“Drop of Faith” featuring Nils and other tracks from the album that dropped Friday are receiving airplay, hitting the charts on multiple formats
NEW YORK CITY (5 April 2019): Globetrotting guitarist Reza Khan dropped his fifth album, “Next Train Home,” on Friday. The twelve songs that he wrote and produced for the collection symbolize the discovery of his musical home, a multi-genre and multicultural mélange of straight-ahead and contemporary jazz enriched with world music and Brazilian jazz nuances. The album has already climbed into the top 100 on the Jazz Week chart based on radio spins from jazz radio stations while the smooth/contemporary jazz single, “Drop of Faith,” featuring guitarist Nils, has earned most added honors on the Billboard chart.
The Bangladesh-born Khan “daylights” as a program manager for the United Nations, playing a role in peace and conflict operations throughout Europe, Africa and the Middle East. He composed the album during a six-week trek abroad, a trip that included a hospitalization and a forced recovery period after collapsing and suffering from severe dehydration. While traveling, Khan totes in his backpack a folding guitar, a primitive keyboard and a laptop that were used to write and record the material. When he returned to his New York City home, he fully fleshed out his concepts and ideas in the studio where he was joined by an array of first-call session players and prominent soloists. In addition to Nils, Khan called upon saxophonists Jeff Kashiwa and Andy Snitzer, keyboardist Philippe Saisse, pianist Matt King, bassist Mark Egan, horn man David Mann (sax and flute), percussionist Gumbi Ortiz, and drummers Mauricio Zottarelli and Graham Hawthorne to meticulously craft the lush tracks heard on “Next Train Home.” At the core is Khan’s deft nylon and electric guitars plucking lofty melodic statements and strumming harmonic passages with verve. When soloing, he astutely bends notes, indulging his imaginative wanderlust and impulse to riff evocative etchings.
While Khan gears up for an album release concert at the City Winery in New York City on May 9, he’s begun making the media rounds in support of “Next Train Home.” Recently he was interviewed on internet radio show Hybrid Jazz and for the summer issue of national jazz magazine Jazziz.
For more information, please visit http://www.rezakhanmusic.com.
Friday, May 3, 2019
FINLAND: #jazz Alexi Tuomarila Trio-Sphere (2019) @alexituomarila #alexituomarila
Alexi Tuomarila piano Mats Eilertsen double bass Olavi Louhivuori drums Verneri Pohjola trumpet (tracks 2, 5 and 7) Sphere is the 3rd album from the brilliant Finnish pianist, Alexi Tuomarila and his trio with bassist Mats Eilertsen and drummer Olavi Louhivuori. They are joined by guest trumpeter Verneri Pohjola on Sphere, a simply brilliant album that brings together powerfully melodic, driving, rhythmical soloing, Finnish melancholy to create some of the finest musicianship to emerge from any currant Nordic ensemble.
All music by Alexi Tuomarila Produced by Dave Stapleton
1 Shapeshifter (Alexi Tuomarila) 2 Jord (Olavi Louhivuori) 3 Origins (Alexi Tuomarila) 4 Sirius (Olavi Louhivuori) 5 Boekloev (Mats Eilertsen) 6 Unfold (Mats Eilertsen)
Thursday, May 2, 2019
USA/GERMANY DAVID TORN, TIM BERNE, CHES SMITH -SUN OF GOLDFINGER (ECM 2019)
Guitarist-composer David Torn, a longstanding ECM artist, has enjoyed a particularly fruitful 21st-century with the label, releasing two albums under his own name – the solo only sky and quartet disc prezens – in addition to producing records by Tim Berne and Michael Formanek.
With Sun of Goldfinger, Torn returns in a trio alongside the alto saxophonist Berne and percussionist Ches Smith (a member of Berne’s Snakeoil band who made his ECM leader debut in 2016 with The Bell).
The Torn/Berne/Smith trio, also dubbed Sun of Goldfinger, features alone on two of this album’s three intense tracks of 20-plus minutes; the vast sonic tapestries of “Eye Muddle” and “Soften the Blow” – each spontaneous group compositions – belie the fact that only a trio is weaving them, with live electronics by Torn and Smith expanding the aural envelope.
The third track, the Torn composition “Spartan, Before It Hit,” showcases an extended ensemble with two extra guitars, keyboards and a string quartet; it’s an otherworldly creation, ranging from hovering atmospherics to dark-hued lyricism to storming, sky-rending grandeur.
The words of LondonJazz, reviewing Sun of Goldfinger live, also suit the band’s debut on record: “This is dangerous music – at times angry, at others blissed-out and illuminating – with its thunderous rumblings… delivering not so much a wash of sound, more a tidal wave.” ECM
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
USA: PRESS RELEASE: Ancient Future Performs at the SF International Arts Festival May 26, 2019
Contact: Ancient-Future.Com Records
1-415-459-1892
info@ancient-future.com
View Press Release Online with Photos and Video:
http://www.ancient-future.com/
Celebrating 40 Years of World Fusion
Ancient Future 'World Without Walls' Reunion Concert
World Jazz Featuring Matthew Montfort (scalloped fretboard guitar), Jim Hurley (violin), Doug McKeehan (keyboards, piano), and Ian Dogole (percussion)
Sunday, May 26, 2019, 5 PM
San Francisco International Arts Festival
Gallery 308, Fort Mason
San Francisco, CA 94109
Tix: $25 general. $30 reserved table, $35 reserved front table, $15 youth 17 and under. $15 general admission early bird tickets available through March 31 while supplies last.
Ticket URL: https://fortmasonsfiaf.vbotick
Box office: 415-345-7575
Facebook Event URL: https://www.facebook.com/event
Poster URL (1.1 MB .pdf): http://www.ancient-future.com/
Sepia Photo for Print (14.7" x 9.7" sepia jpg, 7.2 MB): http://www.ancient-future.com/
Sepia Photo for Web (864 x 570 sepia jpg, 176 k): http://www.ancient-future.com/
Photo Caption: Ancient Future circa 1990 photo by Irene Young. Pictured: Matthew Montfort (guitars), Jim Hurley (violin), Doug McKeehan (keys), Ian Dogole (percussion).
YouTube Video URL: http://youtu.be/IlYfQ50MGDw
Video Caption: YouTube Video of Ancient Future Performing Bookenka at 'World Without Walls' Reunion. Shown: Matthew Montfort (scalloped fretboard guitar), Jim Hurley (violin), Doug McKeehan (keyboards, piano), Ian Dogole (percussion), Kash Killion (bass), and Mariah Parker (santur).
In celebratrion of Ancient Future's 40th season of world fusion music, the exact lineup of Ancient Future that performed on the band's influential World Without Walls and Asian Fusion recordings will reunite to perform at the San Francisco International Arts Festival. The reunion show features the original lineup of Matthew Montfort on scalloped fretboard guitar, Jim Hurley on violin, Doug McKeehan on keyboards, Ian Dogole on percussion. Their uptempo virtuoso world fusion music is an exhilarating mix of jazz improvisation with the exciting rhythms, exotic sounds, and enchanting melodies of world music.
This lineup of Ancient Future played over a hundred concerts together from 1988 to 1995. In 2011, they reunited for the first time in 15 years to perform concerts at Todos Santos Plaza in Concord and Yoshi's in San Francisco. In honor of the reunion concerts, World Without Walls was released digitally by Capitol Records for the first time ever at major digital retailers such as iTunes. Twenty two years after its initial release in 1990, broadcasters worldwide voted the record as one of the top 5 world music releases of 2012. In September 2012 they performed at the Frick Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and then at the Freight and Salvage in October 2013. This show at the San Francisco International Arts Festival will be their fifth reunion concert.
They have headlined such venues as San Francisco's Great American Music Hall and Eugene's Hult Center for the Performing Arts, appeared at numerous jazz festivals such as the Sacramento River Jazz Festival, Cotati Jazz Festival, Valhalla Jazz Festival, and Sand Harbor, and shared bills with other leading jazz and contemporary music artists including Fourth World with Flora Purim and Airto, Tower of Power, Craig Chaquico, Acoustic Alchemy, and Ottmar Liebert. Ancient Future was the subject of numerous features in publications such as JAZZIZ and MÚSICA GLOBAL. A selection of these articles have been uploaded to the archives of Ancient Future history, providing an interesting perspective on a period of growth in the world music movement.
Band Bio
"Ancient Future is a rare kind of band that might simultaneously aggravate purists, confound New Age dilettantes, seduce skeptics, and dazzle just about everybody else. Delicious compositions, intricate arrangements, crisp playing and impeccable production put these ambitious voyagers in a league of their own." -Derk Richardson, SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN
Formed in late 1978, Ancient Future is the first and longest running musical organization dedicated exclusively to the mission of creating world fusion music. The term was coined by bandleader Matthew Montfort to describe Ancient Future’s unusual blend of musical traditions from around the world. BILLBOARD calls the group "trendsetters" for their early contributions to the movement, which seeks to show how people from different cultures can grow by learning from each other.
Ancient Future has released seven full length studio CDs selling over 150,000 units: Visions of a Peaceful Planet, Natural Rhythms, Quiet Fire, Dreamchaser, World Without Walls, Asian Fusion, and Planet Passion. Over one million legal mp3 files from three of these releases on Ancient-Future.Com Records have been distributed commercially. Ancient Future is also featured on samplers selling millions of units on labels such as Putumayo and Narada. They are currently working on recordings for their fan funded Archive of Future Ancient Recordings. Over an hour of music in the archive is already available exclusively to supporters, with more to come as funds are raised.
Over the years, Ancient Future has expanded its musical vision through collaborations with master musicians from more than two dozen countries, cultures, and musical traditions who are now an integral part of what is today more than just a band. Ancient Future has grown to become a large multinational music ensemble with many smaller ensembles within it, enabling Ancient Future to realize its core mission of creating world fusion music. Through cross cultural exchange, Ancient Future has created a musical world without borders.
Matthew Montfort (bandleader, scalloped fretboard guitar)
Matthew Montfort is the leader of the world fusion music ensemble Ancient Future. He is a pioneer of the scalloped fretboard guitar (an instrument combining qualities of the South Indian vina and the steel string guitar). Montfort spent three months in intensive study with vina master K.S. Subramanian in order to fully apply the South Indian gamaka (note-bending) techniques to the guitar. In 2009, he released his first solo guitar recording, Seven Serenades for Scalloped Fretboard Guitar, which debuted at #8 on Zone Music Reporter's Top 100 February 2009 World Radio Chart, and held the #34 spot on the Top 100 of 2009. He has performed concerts worldwide, including at the Festival Internacional de la Guitarra on the golden coast of Spain near Barcelona and the Mumbai Festival at the Gateway of India in Bombay. He has performed live on national radio and TV shows such as the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC. Montfort wrote the book Ancient Traditions - Future Possibilities: Rhythmic Training Through the Traditions of Africa, Bali, and India, which has been used by many musicians to improve their rhythm skills.
Jim Hurley (violin)
Jim Hurley has been playing violin since 1969. He holds a B.A. in Music from Humboldt State University. Influenced profoundly by South Indian violinist L. Shankar, he incorporates styles from bebop to zydeco, European classical to Zairean soukous. He is well known for his performances with Ritchie Blackmore and Blackmore's Night (rock legend turned Celtic and Renaissance musician), American roots music leaders such as Grammy winners Queen Ida and Al Rapone, and swing legend Dan Hicks' Acoustic Warriors. He has toured Europe and Japan and performed at numerous major music festivals, including the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, the Philadelphia Folk Festival, and the Monterey Jazz Festival. Jim Hurley has released two solo recordings, Primary Colors, and Finger Painting.
Doug McKeehan (keys)
Doug McKeehan started his piano studies at age five, and began his first professional work at the age of twelve. He studied music at the Oberlin Conservatory, Kent State University, and the University of Otago (New Zealand). He has toured Europe twice and spent considerable time in India studying with notable Indian music teachers such as Pandit Ram Narayan, Ustad Kursheed Khan and Pandit A.G. Bhattacharya. He has composed original music for stage and T.V. productions in San Francisco and Los Angeles and has been musical director of two original musical comedy productions. He cofounded Air Craft with violinist Bruce Bowers, which released a highly acclaimed progressive jazz album, So Near, So Far (Crafted Air CA 30100). He is a first call jazz pianist in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Ian Dogole (percussion)
Ian Dogole holds a B.A. in Ethnomusicology from Brown University and an M.A. in Classics from Villanova University. He began his musical studies with the piano at the age of five, later switching to jazz guitar which was to be his primary focus until taking up percussion during his ethnomusicology studies. He has released numerous albums as a bandleader, including Along the Route (Dr. Unit), Dangerous Ground (Café), Ionospherses (C.E.I.), Night Harvest (Global Fusion Music), Convergence (Jazzheads), and Outside the Box – Jazz Journeys & Worlds Beyond (Global Fusion Music), all pioneering works in the field of world fusion music. He has received numerous prestigious grants and fellowships, including a Jazz Performance Fellowship from the N.E.A in 1991; Marin Arts Council grants in 1994, 1995, and 2008; San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music performance grants in 2009, 2011, and 2015; and an InterMusic SF grant in 2018 to present the music of saxophone giant Pharoah Sanders.
Recordings Featuring Reunion Lineup
World Without Walls by Ancient Future
(Sona Gaia/MCA 163): CD - $24.98 (collectable signed copy): Buy Link: http://www.ancient-future.com/
Press Audio Downloads: Lakshmi Rocks Me (Jim Hurley) MP3 (excerpt, 976 K): http://www.ancient-future.com/
14 Steps (Matthew Montfort) MP3 (excerpt, 1 MB): http://www.ancient-future.com/
As its name suggests, World Without Walls depicts a musical world without borders. Released in 1990, it features performances by such world music luminaries as Zakir Hussain, the master of the North Indian tabla. The inviting melodies and ingenious use of ethnic textures make this recording one of Ancient Future's most accessible and broadly appealing releases ever.
World Without Walls Media Report (6.4 MB .pdf): http://www.ancient-future.com/
"World Without Walls speaks to a cultural enrichment, a melding of world culture with Ancient Future's own lush sense of melody and rhythmic drive." - John Diliberto, JAZZIZ
Asian Fusion by Ancient Future
(Narada Equinox ND-63023): CD - $24.98 (collectable signed copy): Buy Link: http://www.ancient-future.com/
Press Audio Download: Mezgoof (Ian Dogole) MP3 (excerpt, 800K): http://www.ancient-future.com/
Asian Fusion is a musical travelogue spanning the vast geographic and cultural expanse of Asia showcasing some of the top performers in the Asian music field, including Zhao Hui, China's preeminent master of the gu zheng (Chinese zither) and Bui Huu Nhut, a leading performer of the Vietnamese dan bau (a one-string Vietnamese instrument with an indigenous version of a whammy bar). Asian Fusion received much critical acclaim. It made the Tower Pulse! Top 10 Best Contemporary Instrumental Releases of 1993 List (#4) and was Guitar Player magazine's "Pick" for April 1994.
Asian Fusion Media Report (11.4 MB .pdf): http://www.ancient-future.com/
"This compilation of 12 songs influenced by the Far East has all the sweeping impact of epic movies such as 'The Last Emperor.'" - CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Planet Passion by Ancient Future
(Ancient-Future.Com AF 2010): CD - $17.98: Buy Link: http://www.ancient-future.com/
Press Audio Download: Socha Socha (Khan/Montfort) MP3 (short version, 3.6 MB): http://www.ancient-future.com/
The classic lineup of Ancient Future performing these special reunion concerts also was featured on one cut on the Planet Passion CD: the song Socha Socha on which they accompanied sitar master Pandit Habib Khan. Originally released in 2002, it was remastered and re-issued in 2009 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the first Ancient Future concert.
Planet Passion Media Report (3 MB .pdf): http://www.ancient-future.com/
"If the members of the United Nations formed a world-fusion band, it might look and sound a little something like Ancient Future’s re-issue of their seventh recording. At its best, Planet Passion strives to preserve the world's vast musical heritage via international collaboration: the idea that one protects the old by creating something new. This is at the heart of fusion music and the heart of Ancient Future's global aesthetics, too: a diverse, unified world without borders, a multicultural community, a new, reconstituted sonic reality." - Ryan Allen, LEO WEEKLY, Louisville, Kentucky
115 Word Radio Announcement
The exact lineup of the pioneering world music group Ancient Future that performed on their influential World Without Walls and Asian Fusion recordings is reuniting to perform at the 2019 San Francisco International Arts Festival on Sunday, May 26, at 5 PM at
Gallery 308 in Fort Mason in San Francisco. The reunion show features Matthew Montfort on scalloped fretboard guitar, Jim Hurley on violin, Doug McKeehan on keyboards, Ian Dogole on percussion. For more information, visit sfiaf.org or call the box office at 415-345-7575. Tickets are $25 general, $12.50 under 18, $30 reserved table, and $35 reserved front table. Discounted early bird tickets are on sale through March 31 for $15 online at sfiaf.org.
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