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NAM: Song of Time
by Rex Butters
From Clean Feed Records (“The Crazy Jazz Label”) comes NAM, meaning peace. Led by longtime Sun Ra trumpet player Ahmed Abdullah, it represents only one of many projects Abdullah oversees. During this live performance from New York's Vision Festival, NAM adeptly moves through genre walls like a penetrating vapor. Straight-ahead, funk, or holy noise, NAM acquits itself in whatever style it plays.
Abdullah suggests Don Cherry in the opening play of Ornette Coleman’s “Chippie,” but even muted Abdullah plays Abdullah. ...
read moreThe first names for jazzahead! 2024 are announced: Maite Hontelé (and mambo!) at the Gala Concert
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Michael Ricci
Let there be joy... and energy... and mambo! The 2024 jazz trade fair and festival will take place from April 11 to 13. jazzahead! goes mambo- and presents the first names for its next edition in 2024. Dutch trumpet star Maite Hontelé and the internationally renowned Dutch youth jazz orchestra NJJO (Nationaal Jeugd Jazz Orkest) – and more guests still to be announced – are booked for the Gala Concert, which will take place on Saturday, 13 April 2024 at ...
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Jazz Bridge Project Named A 'Hometown Hero' By Channel 6 ABC (Philadelphia)
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All About Jazz
From the desk at Jazz Bridge: We’re excited to let you know that Jazz Bridge was the subject of a very nice piece that aired on July 12 on WPVI TV 6 ABC, recognizing us as a “Hometown Hero.” How great is that!! We at Jazz Bridge are so proud to have our good work and our musicians’ assistance programs publicized. We want to thank musician Neil Podgurski, who honored us by publicly sharing how Jazz Bridge helped him ...
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Stanford Jazz Workshop Names Cory Combs Executive Director
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Marshall Lamm Promotions & Public Relations
Stanford Jazz Workshop names Cory Combs as its new Executive Director. Combs will work with Stanford Jazz Workshop Founder and Artistic Director Jim Nadel to provide the strategic vision and operational leadership as the non-profit organization embarks on a period of growth and transition. Combs succeeds longtime Executive Director David Miller, who is retiring. For more information, visit StanfordJazz.org. Founded in 1972 by Stanford University graduate and saxophonist Nadel, who has served as the Artistic Director for its over 50-year-history, ...
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Before the Music Had a Name
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
When music genres wind up with a name, it's usually because the style became so commercially viable that someone in the media decided to label it with a clever word or phrase. To illustrate my point, let's look at three demarcation points in 20th century music, each 10 years apart: Swing existed years before Benny Goodman's Palomar Ballroom appearance in 1935, bebop was around before Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie made their first Guild records together in 1945 and rock ...
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Walt Namuth: Lost Guitarist
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
All of the jazz musicians you know are familiar because they recorded and toured. Underneath these high-profile artists were thousands who never bothered to record because they weren't asked, couldn't cut it or weren't willing to tour to promote LPs. Each city had these undocumented jazz legends who today are known only by name and reputation by those who remember. Occasionally, if we're lucky, a tape is found or an acetate disc surfaces and we suddenly have an example of ...
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Pianist Lisa Hilton Debuts New Dynamic Quartet on 'Paradise Cove'
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All About Jazz
“I think we all need jazz in our lives these days,” composer, pianist, bandleader and producer Lisa K. Hilton writes in the liner notes for her 26th release, Paradise Cove (Ruby Slipper Productions). “From its inception ragtime, jazz and blues were created to boost moods or morale by America’s earliest composers, such as Scott Joplin, Ferdinand “Jelly Rolly” Morton or Nick La Rocca in the early 1900’s. Our world today desires and deserves a lift after the last couple years, ...
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Bandai Namco Entertainment America Inc. To Present Very Special 'Elden Ring' Jazz Music Streaming Event
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Asbury PR Agency
Bandai Namco Entertainment America Inc. will present a very special Jazz music streaming event – broadcast live from Hollywood and featuring Grammy Award-winning musician Kenny Garrett in collaboration with up-and-coming talent Takuya Kurodaon December 3, 2022. The “Elden Ring: A Night in the Lands Between” music event will be held at Hollywood, California’s famed Bourbon Room and available via livestream to viewers in the US. Select songs from Elden Ring, including recognizable melodies from the game’s soundtrack, will be performed ...
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Jazz Bridge Project Names Kim E. Tucker As New Executive Director
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All About Jazz
Jazz Bridge Project, the non-profit organization devoted to assisting Philadelphia-area jazz and blues artists with their crisis needs, has named Kim E. Tucker as its new Executive Director. Ms. Tucker is the fourth person to hold this position in the organization’s 17 years of existence. “We believe Kim is the perfect choice to lead the organization,” said Rhenda Fearrington, a jazz vocalist who is President of the Jazz Bridge Board of Directors. “As the daughter of the late Sue Ford, ...
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Jazz in the name of love - and loving it
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
With co-leader Dan Miller out of town, tenor saxophonist Lew Del Gatto brought in guitarist Frank Portolese to join the fun for the weekly quartet gig at The Barrel Room in downtown Fort Myers on Thursday, December 9. Trumpeter Miller was busy with jazz faculty duties at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. So the band this night included Saturday Night Live Band alumnus Del Gatto, Portolese, bassist Brandon Robertson and drummer Tony Vigilante. The highlight of the first ...
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Tony Adamo Receives Permission To Rename And Write Lyrics To A Future Sun Ra Song
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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
Tony Adamo wrote about and released music on Eddie Harris, B.B. King, Eddie Henderson, Art Blakey, James Brown, Mark Murphy, Eddie Gale, Jack Kerouac, and Sun Ra, the song entitled “Sun Ra Goes to Mars.” The Eddie Harris estate gave Adamo permission to write spoken word to his “Listen Here.” Adamo renamed it “Listen Here Listen Up.” Dave Davis and Michael Ray of the Sun Ra Arkestra have recorded music on Adamo's new soon to be released CD. Members of ...
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