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Dna: DNA on DNA

Read "DNA on DNA" reviewed by Clifford Allen


There are certain strong alliances between the punk ethos and free music, for a do-it-yourself aesthetic pervades both, in medium as well as practice--self-produced albums and concerts, and collectivity (the Arkestra house as a punk house?) for example, as well as the fact that both have been strongly aligned with protest, both in America and in Europe. Among a coterie of musicians in New York in the early '80s, the merger of ethic and aesthetic fueled a small group of ...

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Video / DVD

Rob Madna: A Dutch Discovery

Rob Madna: A Dutch Discovery

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

For many JazzWax readers, this blog is a resource that happily turns them onto jazz musicians and recordings they didn't know previously. But every so often, that wow sensation happens to me. My own discovery happened a few weeks ago while posting about Joy Marshall (here and here). In the latter post, I featured a video of pianist Rob Madna playing solo on Yesterdays and then Marshall joining with the orchestra on It's Alright With Me. Madna was completely new ...

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Radio

Radio host and All About Jazz Contributor Ed Blanco celebrates 13 years of Jazz Café on WDNA 88.9FM

Radio host and All About Jazz Contributor Ed Blanco celebrates 13 years of Jazz Café on WDNA 88.9FM

Source: All About Jazz

Jazz radio host and All About Jazz contributor Ed Blanco, in May 2020 celebrates 13 years as producer and host of Jazz Café, an early Sunday morning jazz show on WDNA, 88.9FM in Miami, Florida. Beginning on Mother’s Day of 2007, Ed has been playing and promoting some of the best in straight ahead jazz presenting be bop, hard bop, vocals, big bands as well as different genres from Brazilian, fusion to the standards. Reviewing new music on “AAJ" helped ...

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Recording

JMood Records Releases Roberto Magris Sextet "Live" In Miami @ The WDNA Jazz Gallery

JMood Records Releases Roberto Magris Sextet "Live" In Miami @ The WDNA Jazz Gallery

Source: Paul Collins Artist Management International

JMood Records is pleased to announce the release of the CD Roberto Magris Sextet Live in Miami @ the WDNA Jazz Gallery. “Saturday, February 6, 2016 was a bright sunny beautiful day, but, a more exciting and electric evening in jny: Miami, Florida, one I won’t soon forget," recalls Paul Collins, jazz impresario from Kansas City, Missouri, “it was my first time in Miami! Hey, I expected to see Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine greeting me at the ...

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Recording

Vocalist Barbara Dane To Release "Throw It Away...," Her First New Recording In 14 Years, On Her Dreadnaught Music Label, August 19

Vocalist Barbara Dane To Release "Throw It Away...," Her First New Recording In 14 Years, On Her Dreadnaught Music Label, August 19

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity

Barbara Dane’s extraordinary life has been distinguished by decades’ worth of collaborations with major artists in jazz, blues, folk, and world music as well as by uncompromising public stands for social justice and civil rights. At 89, the indomitable Oakland-based singer is still active, still performing, and, on her new CD Throw It Away…, in inspired form. The disc, her first new recorded work in 14 years, will be released on August 19 by Dane’s Dreadnaught Music imprint. Dane points ...

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Radio

Pianist Norman Simmons Leads WDNA FM Jazz Encounter

Pianist Norman Simmons Leads WDNA FM Jazz Encounter

Source: JamaicaMusic Offbeat

Legendary pianist Norman Simmons leads the Jazz Encounters at WDNA 88.9 FM Jazz Gallery on Friday, January 21 and at the University of Miami Afro-Cuban Concert at UM Gusman Hall with special guest Ignacio Berroa on Thursday, February 3rd. Simmons is a consummate musician, best known for his ability to connect with jazz singers like Carmen McRae, Anita O'Day, and Joe Williams. Much more than just an accompanist, he is an extremely accomplished soloist, arranger, composer and educator. WDNA 88.9 ...

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Performance / Tour

Bobby Ramirez, Enrique Sendra Mix Jazz and Art This Saturday at WDNA Concert

Bobby Ramirez, Enrique Sendra Mix Jazz and Art This Saturday at WDNA Concert

Source: JamaicaMusic Offbeat

WDNA 88.9 FM Fine Arts Concert series celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month with live Latin jazz this Saturday, September 25 featuring renowned flutist, saxophonist and Bata drummer Bobby Ramirez and his group Pan con Bistec together with a vibrant and surreal exhibition by Cuban visual artist Enrique Sendra. The works of the talented Cuban-born visual artist, who at age eighteen unveiled his first solo exhibition at the Amelia Pélaez Gallery in Havana, Cuba, has been shown at Miami's Vincent Gallery ...

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WDNA 'Jazz Encounter' Uniting Generations of Jazz Musicians

WDNA 'Jazz Encounter' Uniting Generations of Jazz Musicians

Source: JamaicaMusic Offbeat

The 3rd Friday of each month, beginning August 20, WDNA presents Jazz Encounters—uniting generations of jazz musicians—where young musicians are invited to jam with some of the best musicians in South Florida. The venue WDNA Jazz Gallery, 2921 Coral Way, the sessions bring together musicians of varying ages and ethnic backgrounds, male and female, together in an informal setting with the common purpose of establishing a relationship around music and its history. Says the 'Serious Jazz' radio brief, Jazz Encounters ...

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Radio

Frank Consola: WDNA's Walking Encyclopedia of Jazz

Frank Consola: WDNA's Walking Encyclopedia of Jazz

Source: JamaicaMusic Offbeat

He hosts 88 Jazz Place Morning, Monday - Friday 6 - 11 am, on Miami's WDNA 88.9 FM, Frank Consola, known as “the walking encyclopedia of jazz", had transplanted to Philly and ingrained himself into serious R&B and Rock & Roll. Later, however, a romantic interest would play for him a record Herbie Man at the Village Gate it was a big turn on to jazz.Growing a jazz collection, Frank went to Miami in 1982 where he discovered ...

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Technology

The Fate of a Format: Will MusicDNA Catch On?

The Fate of a Format: Will MusicDNA Catch On?

Source: HypeBot

Kyle Bylin (@kbylin), Associate Editor

Twenty-seven and a half years ago, the manufacturing of the world's first compact disc took place at a Philips factory in Langenhagen, Germany. Upon its introduction, the CD was marketed to music fans with regards to its superior sound quality and scratch free durability. But, as time when on, those claims were both highly debated among audiophiles, and, in the case of durability, or “Perfect Sound Forever" as they called it, even refuted completely. ...

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Performance / Tour

Ariel & JC Jones at the Sadna in Jerusalem on Sunday, June 14, 8 P.M.

Ariel & JC Jones at the Sadna in Jerusalem on Sunday, June 14, 8 P.M.

Source: All About Jazz


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