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Commitment: The Complete Recordings 1981-1983
by John Sharpe
CommitmentThe Complete Recordings 1981-1983No Business Records 2010 Following on from the artistic success of their splendid Muntu Box Set (2010), No Business Records has restored the only release by the ground-breaking cooperative Commitment to availability. As one of first bands to unite Asian American with African American musicians, the quartet, comprising Jason Kao Hwang on violin and Zen Matsuura on drums with reedman Will Connell Jr. and bassist William Parker, was almost ...
read moreEnter Music Publishing Continues Its Commitment To Education With Drum! Night Benefit For Lincoln High School
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JCM Media
San Jose, Calif. – For a third consecutive year, the editorial staff of Enter Music Publishing, publishers of DRUM! Magazine, has joined a host of high-profile cosponsors to present DRUM! Night!. The biggest drumming event in Northern California, DRUM! Night is a benefit with two goals: raise money for Lincoln High School and to create greater awareness for the cause of music education in schools. DRUM! Night 2012 will transform the San Jose Repertory Theatre into a drummer’s playground on ...
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Honoring Its Steadfast Commitment To Building New Audiences For Jazz, National Nonprofit JazzReach Has Served Over A Quarter Million Young People Nationwide Since Inception
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Chris Schimpf
AIMS TO SERVE MORE THAN 30,000 THIS YEAR ALONE EXTENSIVE NATIONAL TOURING & OUTREACH CONTINUES THROUGHOUT THE SPRING, REACHING YOUNG PEOPLE IN OVER 17 AMERICAN COMMUNITIES LATEST ALBUM AND LIVE MULTIMEDIA PROGRAM BIG DRUM/SMALL WORLD CELEBRATES INCREASINGLY GLOBAL NATURE OF JAZZ WITH COMMISSIONED WORKS BY SOME OF TODAY'S MOST ACCLAIMED COMPOSERS “With music this compelling and performances this committed, [JazzReach house ensemble] Metta Quintet ought to have a much higher profile...[The organization's] commitment to raising jazz visibility has ensured it ...
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One Track Mind: Orrin Evans on "Captain Black," "Commitment," "Jena 6," Others
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Something Else!
On this special edition of Something Else! Reviews' One Track Mind, we hand the reins over to Orrin Evans, a former sideman with Bobby Watson who quickly established himself as one of jazz music's most fascinating new voices over the course of a solo career begun in 1994. Here, the pianist shares unique insights into some of his more memorable tracks. Find out just who Captain Black was. How his chance discovery of a 1970 Belafonte/Horne recording called Harry & ...
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Wynton Marsalis Spreads the Gospel of Commitment to Youth
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Greg Thomas
Practice. As in dedication. Also see: integrity. Every time he gets a chance, Wynton Marsalis lays a message on young people that requires no fancy instrument, just a solo commitment. The jazz and classical trumpeter and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer got that chance recently at a Passport to Manhood program in the gym of the Boys & Girls Club of New Rochelle. He shot some hoops—hitching up his suspenders and complaining that he hadn't worked on his game in the two ...
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Thelonious Monk Institute Announces Major Commitment to New Orleans
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All About Jazz
NEW ORLEANS, LA - Kicking off National Jazz Appreciation Month with a major call to action, the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz today announced its “Commitment to New Orleans" initiative which includes the relocation of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance to the campus of Loyola University New Orleans from Los Angeles.
The Institute's “Commitment to New Orleans" also includes ongoing school and community jazz education programs to help strengthen the school system, provide employment for New Orleans musicians, ...
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Justin Time Records Continues Its Commitment to Quality and Diversity With The Release of Three New CDs: Russell Gunn's Ethnomusicology, Vol.2; This is Carmen Lundy; and It's Wonderful by the Susie Arioli Swing Band featuring Jordan Officer
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All About Jazz
If one were attempting to design a prototype for the quintessential contemporary musician in the African-American tradition, trumpeter/composer Russell Gunn would be an ideal model. A certified member of the hip-hop generation by age 29 and geography (the hardcore ghetto of East St. Louis), Russell's early aspirations in the world of rap are fully evident in his musical vision.
Applying its energy, spirit and fiercely proud intellectual rage to the jazz idiom, he's created a synthesis that is truly singular ...
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