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Just Announced! The Dean Brown Band ROLAJAFUFU Fall Tour 2017
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Dean Brown
TOUR DATES Nov 02: Bemowskie Centrum Kultury Warsaw, Poland Nov 03: Jazz w muzeum Festival Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland Nov 04: Vier Peh Stuttgart, Germany Nov 05: Ronnie Scott’s London, United Kingdom Nov 07: Master Class. University of Music Mannheim Mannheim, Germany Nov 08 New Morning Paris, France Nov 10: Jazz Club Rorschach Rorschach, Switzerland Nov 11: Jazz Club Pod Filarami Gorzow Wielkopolski, Poland Nov ...
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Lee Morgan: The Rajah
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
On Nov. 19, 1966, Lee Morgan headed out to Englewood Cliffs, N.J., and Rudy Van Gelder's recording studio with tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley, pianist Cedar Walton, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Billy Higgins. When they arrived, the quintet recorded what I consider to be a perfect album. The songs were beautifully selected, the material was well rehearsed and the playing was pure bliss by all five musicians. And then Blue Note decided to shelve the album. Why the album wasn't ...
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For Your Grammy Consideration - Dean Brown's "ROLAJAFUFU"
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Dean Brown
Contemporary Instrumental Album: ROLAJAFUFU Best Improvised Jazz Solo: “PHILLY MAN" Best Instrumental Arrangement: “AND SO IT GOES" Best Instrumental Composition: “OLD SOLDIERS" Guitarist and composer Dean Brown has always done things his way. Nowhere is that in greater evidence than on ROLAJAFUFU, his fifth album as a leader. The title is a playful acronym that encompasses rock-Latin-jazz-funk-fusion, the universes Brown explores on this diverse, kinetic recording. Brown’s fiercely independent streak is also exemplified by ...
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Jazz-Rock Renegade Dean Brown Unleashes Expansive, All-Star Roller Coaster "ROLAJAFUFU"
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Dean Brown
Guitarist and composer Dean Brown has always done things his way. Nowhere is that in greater evidence than on ROLAJAFUFU, his fifth album as a leader. The title is a playful acronym that encompasses rock-latin- jazz-funk-fusion, the universes Brown explores on this diverse, kinetic recording. Brown’s fiercely independent streak is also exemplified by the fact that this album was funded by his denizens of fans worldwide via PledgeMusic. It’s Brown’s first self-released album, after four celebrated previous discs on the ...
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UK Bass Virtuoso Shez Raja Releasing All-Star Album On Dot Time Records with Mike Stern and Randy Brecker
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
UK Bass Virtuoso Shez Raja Releasing All-Star Album, Gurutopia Featuring Jazz Legends Randy Brecker and Mike Stern Dot Time Records is pleased to announce Shez Raja's highly anticipated all-star album “Gurutopia" will be released in April 2016. Featuring the cream of the British jazz scene as well as global jazz legends, Mike Stern and Randy Brecker, the recording captures the raw energy of the band's spectacular live show— a sonic kaleidoscope of Indo-jazz, thundering funk, tuneful ragas and euphoric grooves. ...
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Interview: Damjan Krajacic
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Eric Taylor
Q: When did you start playing the flute? Did your family already know you had an interest in music? A: I was a bit late coming to the flute, at 19. My main instrument was electric bass, and I dabbled into classical guitar and piano a bit prior to that. Once I entered college, I was part of the jazz ensemble (on bass). Flutist Danilo Lozano was teaching it, and I fell in love with the percussive qualities of the ...
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Cinema Documentary About Maja Ratkje Seeking Support
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IJ.Biermann
"Voice - Sculpting Sound with Maja S K Ratkje" is a cinematic feature documentary about the charismatic Norwegian composer, performer, innovator, multimedia artist and cult figure in various music genres, who also speaks up regularly about environmental issues. “Voice" is not only the portrait of a singular musician and artist, but the film will explore and pay homage to sound and to the nature of the human voice in all its facets, and will question deep-seated perceptions about our individual ...
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Jay Vonada Trio to release new CD "Red Pajamas"
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Jay T. Vonada
The Jay Vonada Trio, based in State College PA, will release their debut CD Red Pajamas on January 21, 2012. The group consists of Jay Vonada on Trombone, Alex Sell on Organ and Kevin Lowe on the drums. The album will feature nine original compositions, seven by Vonada and one each by Sell and Lowe. The group is featured monthly at Zola New World Bistro in State College which has hosted musicians such as Dan Yoder, Rich Hirsch, Greg Johnson, ...
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Aram Bajakian - Aram Bajakian's Kef (2011)
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Something Else!
Listening to the guitarist Aram Bajakian is lot like listening to Marc Ribot, and Aram follows much of Ribot's wildly divergent style that incorporates the vintage forms of swing, punk and rock and roll into a fresh and daring style. So it's fair to state that if you like Ribot, you're gonna like Bajakian, too. That's enough for me to like Bajakian, too, but Bajakian goes beyond being “just another" Ribot. He devoted a lot of study toward music halfway ...
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Aram Bajakian's Kef (Tzadik, 2011) ****a1/2
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Free Jazz by Stef Gijssels
By Paul Acquaro Picked by John Zorn for his new Spotlight series on Tzadic records, you know something interesting must be is going on with Aram Bajakian's Kef trio. Listening to the Brooklyn based guitarists debut recording, all suspicions are confirmed. The songs on this album seductively, destructively and quite entertainingly blend passion, reverence and sometimes a little self-immolation. Or in the words of Zorn himself, “The music here rocks hard with exciting rhythms, searing guitar work and beautiful world ...
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