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- Jimmy Giuffre jazz clarinetist and composer dies at 86
- Music : Opuzz.Com Unveils Refreshed Website & Releases 67 new…
- The Bird and the Bee | Music Artist | Videos News Photos &…
- Yellowjackets create a buzz at the 34th annual Blue Ridge Jazz Festiva…
- Action plan could see jazz jumping
Jazz Listings
New York Times – Apr 25, 2008
Cornelia Street Café 29 Cornelia Street West Village (212) 989-9319 corneliastreetcafe. com; cover $10 to $12 with a one-drink minimum. (Chinen)SAMBA JAZZ AND THE MUSIC OF JOBIM (Tuesday through Thursday) This tribute to the great Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim features vocals by one of his former collaborators (Maucha Adnet) as well as a would-be inheritor (Chico Pinheiro). But the main draw is a cosmopolitan Brazilian-jazz ensemble consisting of the pianist Helio Alves the drummer Duduka da Fonseca the trumpeter Claudio Roditi and the bassist Eddie Gomez. ) At 7:30 and 9:30 p.
Jimmy Giuffre jazz clarinetist and composer dies at 86
International Herald Tribune – Apr 25, 2008
Though he prized his even smooth sound quality on clarinet he did not disdain players who had a more fractured sound. He never saw an irreconcilable split between American and European influences He admitted that the instrumentation for his late-50s trios had a European inspiration Claude Debussy's “Sonata for Flute Viola and Harp”; at the same time he used those trios to convey a sense of rustic bluesy Americana. From the mid-50s on Giuffre taught music initially at the Lenox School of Jazz the late-summer educational conference in Lenox Massachusetts which existed from 1957 to 1960. (A remark made the rounds at the time: when told that Giuffre would be there to teach clarinet among other things the writer André Hodeir quipped “Who will be teaching the upper register?”) It was at Lenox that Giuffre first encountered Ornette Coleman a scholarship student at the school in 1959. Giuffre was knocked sideways by Coleman's conviction and freedom and had a sort of ecstatic transformation. In short order Giuffre changed his music again. The result was the moody overlapping improvisations with no fixed key or tempo that characterize the playing of his trio with Paul Bley and Steve Swallow heard on the ECM reissue “1961″ and “Free Fall.
Music : Opuzz.Com Unveils Refreshed Website & Releases 67 new…
SkyNewswire.com – SkyNewswire.com (press release) – Apr 25, 2008
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The Bird and the Bee | Music Artist | Videos News Photos &…
MTV.com – Apr 25, 2008
The two musicians were introduced in 2004 by mutual friend Mike Andrews whom George had enlisted to produce her solo debut All Rise. Needing someone to contribute piano to several tracks Andrews called upon Kurstin who had studied under renowned jazz pianist Jaki Byard during his college years. George and Kurstin soon found themselves spending hours together in the studio where a shared interest in jazz-based music — something that George hadn’t explored much on All Rise — helped lay the foundation for the Bird and the Bee. Apart from Kurstin’s work with Byard neither musician had done much with jazz or tropicalia before. Kurstin had previously contributed keyboards to selections by.
Yellowjackets create a buzz at the 34th annual Blue Ridge Jazz Festiva…
Hagerstown Morning Herald – Apr 25, 2008
Students also were excited about the caliber of this year’s performers. “I’m really excited to see their bassist play because he’s magnificent” said Bret Marfut 18 who plays bass for the high school’s jazz band. He joined the jazz band because of all of the types of music programs offered by the school jazz is the most interactive and modern he said. Bradley Reynolds 16 who plays the tenor saxophone for Smithsburg’s jazz band likes jazz music because it’s more challenging than other genres and is America’s only indigenous music he said. An opportunity to play with the Yellowjackets was exciting said Erin Kittel a Smithsburg senior who has played with the jazz band for four years. Evan Dennis 16 listened to the Yellowjackets’ music after finding out they would be performing at this year’s festival. He likes their fusion style like funk and swing music combined.
Action plan could see jazz jumping
The Age – Apr 25, 2008
The energy of local performers he says highlights a need forgreater support and exposure of jazz to wider audiences. A national jazz plan would be one way of lifting the music stylein Australia out of its seemingly “permanent underground”. A national organisation could take on an advocacy andpromotional role Rechniewski told a jazz forum earlier thisweek. He was speaking at Melbourne’s Bennetts Lane Jazz Club at thelaunch of his essay The Permanent Underground: AustralianContemporary Jazz in the New Millennium. It is the latest quarterly essay on the performing arts in thePlatform Papers series published by Currency House. In his paper Rechniewski the president and artistic directorof the Sydney Improvised Music Association advances theproposition that in the new millennium the Australian jazz sectoris financially unstable with a weak infrastructure and a frailculture.