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Slavic Soul Party: Live at Barbes: Slavic Soul Party Plays Duke Ellington's Far East Suite
by Chris M. Slawecki
In the late 1990s, visionary percussionist Matt Moran founded Slavic Soul Party, a brass band designed to stretch the boundaries between Eastern and Western European traditional music until those boundaries snap. More than two decades and twenty members later, New York's Official #1 Brass Band for BalkanSoulGypsyFunk" fully realizes this vision by performing one of Duke Ellington's most famous Billy Strayhorn collaborations: 1963's The Far East Suite, around which Ellington organized a global tour schedule through the Middle East, South ...
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by Angelo Leonardi
Nel jazz contemporaneo la reinterpretazione delle opere passate avviene in due modi diversi. Da un lato c'è chi privilegia la riproposizione fedele dell'originale, partendo da una prospettiva a grandi linee accademica (Wynton Marsalis) fino alla riproduzione letterale di ogni aspetto melodico, timbrico e ritmico (come ha fatto il gruppo Mostly Other People Do The Killing con Kind of Blue). Dall'altro abbiamo la reinterpretazione personale, che può conservare in tutto o in parte l'identità dell'originale oppure creare qualcosa di diverso.
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by Chris M. Slawecki
The massive Baltic brass band Slavic Soul Party (SSP) has played in Istanbul and Carnegie Hall, Macedonia and the Kennedy Center, Serbia and the Knitting Factory, and currently resides Tuesday nights at Club Barbes in Brooklyn, which released this fifth SSP album on its own label. I think Taketron really shows our original style, more so than any of our other records," says Taketron's leader, percussionist Matt Moran. We get something electrifying: it sounds kind of Balkan and kinda not; ...
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by Matthew Miller
Slavic Soul Party has the best steady gig in Brooklyn. Every Tuesday night at Barbé's belongs to the tight, Balkan ensemble: forever. It's a savvy business decision for the tiny bar-cum-performance space and a great opportunity for the ensemble to refine the potent mix of Balkan, gypsy, jazz and funk influences that make them utterly unique. Sets are routinely packed with a mix of dancers and onlookers and ten minutes in the air routinely takes on a sweaty, boozy thickness ...
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by Kurt Gottschalk
The music of the Roma--some of whom accept the gypsy moniker and some of whom reject it--is often joyful, necessarily so. Like the American blues, gypsy music isn't about complaining so much as surviving despite. For even the biggest Balkan stars, the money gigs are weddings, which involve a week of ceremony and parties. A successful Balkan band needs not only to know the popular songs of the day, but also be able to carry a week of gigs for ...
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Press Junkie PR
Slavic Soul Party! is more than a band, it's a promise. Anyone who has seen them live can attest to that. The massive brass band is a supercollider of Eastern European sounds from the Balkans and all the funk of American musical traditions like second-line, gospel, and jazz. Hybridity isn't just a buzzword with this New York City-based group - domestic and foreign, new and old - it's a fact of life. The fusion even carries over into the title ...
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TUBAPALOOZA with Slavic Soul Party and Beat Circus at Zebulon
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All About Jazz
Saturday Nov 19th, 9PM TUBAPALOOZA with Slavic Soul Party and Beat Circus ZEBULON 258 Wythe Ave Williamsburg Brooklyn NO COVER!!! Zebulon, one of Brooklyn's best kept secrets, has been host to many big events since its opening, including a Butch Morris residency with drummer Kenny Wollesen's big band, and most recently the Tubapalooza series organized by tubist Ron Caswell. This fourth installment ...
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