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Interview: Carol P. Chamberland
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Back on December 2, I posted a 2.5-minute YouTube clip from a documentary unfamiliar to me called The Legend of Bop City. This particular Bop City wasn't the famous one in New York on the second floor of the Brill Building on 49th Street and Broadway. This one was in San Francisco and had been a hotbed of modern jazz in the 1950s and early '60s. After a little research, I discovered that the documentary's director was Carol P. Chamberland. ...
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Joe Chambers: Dance Kobina
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Drummer Joe Chambers is best known for playing on a long list of critically acclaimed Blue Note jazz albums in the 1960s. These include Joe Henderson's Mode for Joe; Freddie Hubbard's Breaking Point; Dialogue, Components, Happenings and Total Eclipse by Bobby Hutcherson; Tender Moments by McCoy Tyner; Andrew!!! and Compulsion!!! by Andrew Hill as well as All Seeing Eye, Adam's Apple and Schizophrenia by Wayne Shorter. He also played on Chick Corea's Tones For Joan's Bones, Woody Shaw's In the ...
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Contemporary Chamber Trio 9 Horses Releases Its Second Full-length Album Omegah
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AMT Public Relations
Known for its virtuosity and wide-ranging stylistic flexibility, the post-genre band 9 Horses today announced the release of its double album Omegah (Adhyâropa Records). Featuring three of today’s leading instrumentalists, Joe Brent (mandolin), Sara Caswell (violin), and Andrew Ryan (bass), the band’s performance on this album gives listeners the opportunity to experience its organic evolution from its acoustic original duo to today’s revered acoustic/electric ensemble. What began as a remarkable jazz-meets-new music experiment has blossomed as, along the way, the ...
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'Flicker Down,' New Release From Modern Chamber Jazz Trio Waxwing, Available On May 21
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GoMedia PR
"Elegant and bittersweet…The original compositions, by each of the three band members, accommodate fluttery abstraction as well as glowing consonance. Everything—the shifting interplay, the shape of the tunes, the mood—communicates a sense of proportion." —Nate Chinen, New York Times Following their 2015 Songlines release, A Bowl of Sixty Taxidermists, Vancouver’s premier chamber jazz trio Waxwing (formed in 2006) returns with a flowing program of compositions and improvisations that again combines delicacy and strength, melodic beauty, and textural sophistication. Theirs is ...
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Joe Chambers: Samba de Maracatu
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Joe Chambers is one of the most prolific and intriguing jazz drummers and jazz songwriters working today. He's also a superb vibraphonist and percussionist, and he has recorded on piano. Chambers came up in the mid-1960s as an in-demand sideman for the Blue Note label. His first album date was on Freddie Hubbard's Breaking Point! in 1964. The list of Blue Note albums that followed is staggering—three with Andrew Hill, 10 with Bobby Hutcherson, two with Joe Henderson, four with ...
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Honolulu Orchestra's New Single 'Ambergris' Out Now
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Marco Rottoli
"Ambergris," Honolulu Orchestra's new single is out today on all platforms. Only for today you can get it with a 30% discount on Bandcamp. If you purchase music on Bandcamp on Friday the 4th of Dec, 100% of the revenue will go directly to the artists. It's the right time to support musicians! “Ambergris" (N. Ricci) Nicolò Ricci: saxophone Marcella Malacrida: vocals Marco Giongrandi-: guitar Andrea Di Biase: piano Marco Rottoli: double ...
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Matt Renzi To Release "Arm-Sized Legging" Featuring His Chamber Jazz Ensemble July 1st
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Matt Renzi
Three P’s Records is pleased to announce the July 1 release of Arm-Sized Legging, tenor saxophonist/clarinetist/ composer Matt Renzi’s perfectly crafted new album featuring his chamber-jazz project, the Cello Quartet. The recording showcases Renzi as both a soloist and composer and features Jessica Ivry/Daniela Petracchi on Cello, John Wiitala on Bass and Tim Bulkley on drums. Arm-Sized Legging covers a wide variety of sonorities and musical textures ranging from intimate, lyrical melodies to more abstract pieces taking the listener on ...
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Debut Recording 'The Poet Is In The House' By Michael Jefry Stevens And The Mountain Chamber Jazz Ensemble On The ARC Label
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Artists Recording Collective, LLC
The debut recording of The Mountain Chamber Jazz Ensemble is titled The Poet is in the House (ARC-0774) and features the following musicians: Christian Howes, Candace English, Anya Yarbrough Brigid Hopkins, Bill Berg, Jason DeCristofaro, Doran Heck, Frank Southecorvo, Jason Moore, Charles Elliot, Katie Cilluffo, Justice Mann, Michael Jefry Stevens, Bill Fouty, and Danny Iannucci. The Mountain Chamber Jazz Ensemble is a hybrid ensemble consisting of a string section (violin, viola, cello, contrabass), a percussion section (drums set, percussionist, vibraphone ...
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Susan Krebs Chamber Band Releases "Spring: Light Out Of Darkness" On Greengig Music
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Mouthpiece Music
Spring: Light Out of Darkness is Susan Krebs’ sixth album as a leader and the second CD project for the Susan Krebs Chamber Band. “Spring" is the follow-up to the Chamber Band’s 2015 acclaimed release, Simple Gifts, taking the chamber band concept even further on this new project. Chamber music is defined as “music composed for small instrumental ensembles and performed without a conductor. Traditionally intended for performance in a room or reception hall, often solely for the performers’ own ...
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National Chamber Music Month – Join The Celebration. Sign Up Today.
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CMA Communications
This May marks the sixth annual National Chamber Music Month. This nationwide campaign powered by Chamber Music America celebrates all styles of small ensemble music including jazz, classical, contemporary, and world music. With your help, this year’s celebration will be the most successful yet. Each year, performers and presenters from all fifty states designate concerts, talks, and residencies in May as NCMM events. This results in increased promotional opportunities, media attention, and broader and more diverse audiences. Signing up is ...
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