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Herbert: Bodily Functions

Read "Bodily Functions" reviewed by David Adler


Matthew Herbert, the London-based music visionary, has recorded under the monikers Wishmountain, Radio Boy, and Doctor Rockit. Here, as “Herbert," he offers the remarkable Bodily Functions, an album that at once exemplifies the new trend called “electro-acoustic" music and yet seems to occupy a genre all its own. Blending piano, woodwinds, strings, house-music beats, musique-concrete samples, and the sultry vocals of Dani Siciliano, Herbert doggedly observes Article One of his Personal Contract for the Composition of Music (PCCOM): “The use ...

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Remember Gregory Herbert?

Remember Gregory Herbert?

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey

Gregory Herbert, one of the most talented saxophonists of his generation, was born in jny: Philadelphia 67 years ago this month. After a brief engagement with Duke Ellington when he was 17, Herbert spent four years as a music major at Temple University in his hometown, concentrating on alto saxophone, clarinet and flute. In 1971 he joined Woody Herman’s Herd, that perpetual incubator of young talent, and began to specialize as a tenor saxophonist. Based on his work with Herman, ...

Recording

18x Platinum Selling Artist Herbert Grönemeyer Makes US Debut On Feb 26th With I Walk Featuring Bono, Antony Hegarty And James Dean Bradfield

18x Platinum Selling Artist Herbert Grönemeyer Makes US Debut On Feb 26th With I Walk Featuring Bono, Antony Hegarty And James Dean Bradfield

Source: 1888 Media

German superstar Herbert Grönemeyer makes his U.S. recording debut on Tuesday, February 26th with the release of his new album entitled I WALK. This 13- song album, features for the first time in English, some of the most impressive songs from the award-winning songwriter’s vast catalog alongside two new songs. With the album’s lead- off track, “Mensch,” Grönemeyer is joined on vocals by U2’s Bono, one of the special guests on the record, along with Antony Hegarty of Antony and ...

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German Superstar Herbert Groenemeyer To Release English Language Debut Album, I Walk

German Superstar Herbert Groenemeyer To Release English Language Debut Album, I Walk

Source: 1888 Media

Public Television Concert Special Airs in December 2012 and January 2013. February 19, 2013 Album Release to Coincide with Select American Tour Dates Over the course of the past three decades, Herbert Groenemeyer has established himself as Germany’s most successful recording artist of all time, with album sales surpassing 18 million copies, and two of his albums, 1984’s 4630 Bochum and 2002’s Mensch, becoming the biggest German- language releases in history. But for audiences in the United States — and, ...

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Herbert L. Clarke on Jazz

Herbert L. Clarke on Jazz

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey

In 1921, 16-year-old trumpet student Elden E. Benge of Winterset, Iowa, wrote a letter to Herbert L. Clarke (pictured, right), asking advice. Clarke (1867-1945) was the most celebrated cornet soloist of his day, a veteran of John Phillip Sousa’s band and leader of his own concert bands. His recordings of marches and adaptations of classical pieces rang out in living rooms in the days when Victrolas were the iPods of the early twentieth century. Clarke’s method books of technical and ...

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Performance / Tour

Stan Tracey, Get the Blessing, Ronnie Scott's and Gwyneth Herbert for Made in the UK in NYC

Stan Tracey, Get the Blessing, Ronnie Scott's and Gwyneth Herbert for Made in the UK in NYC

Source: Michael Ricci

This week sees the Made in the UK concert series return to New York at venues throughout Manhattan. Legendary jazz pianist, Stan Tracey, kicks off proceedings with two shows at Dizzy's tonight in his first appearance in New York since touring with the Ted Heath Orchestra in 1959. Tracey's 1965 recording 'Under Milk Wood' is widely heralded as one of the greatest albums in European jazz. At 83, he is playing as well as ever with ...

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Gwyneth Herbert Rescores 'The Patsy'

Gwyneth Herbert Rescores 'The Patsy'

Source: Michael Ricci

"The jazz folk-diva with an awesome voice. Expect beguiling, powerful and often witty songs that strike an emotional chord!" --Time Out Gwyneth first broke onto the scene five years ago, when she was signed up by the Universal conglomerate as a jazz crossover artist. She soon struck out on her own, as a singer-songwriter and has garnered much success and acclaim. As part of the Birds Eye View Film Festival, we are teaming up with Gwyneth to bring you an ...

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Matthew Herbert Returns with His Big Band on "There's Me and There's You"

Matthew Herbert Returns with His Big Band on "There's Me and There's You"

Source: Pitch Perfect PR

MATTHEW HERBERT, ELECTRONIC INNOVATOR & SONIC EXPLORER, RETURNS WITH HIS BIG BAND ON THERE'S ME AND THERE'S YOU Matthew Herbert’s dazzling new album, There’s Me and There’s You will be released October 28, 2008 on !K7. There's Me and There's You is the most seductive, sophisticated and subversive collection of protest songs ever recorded. Blending lush jazz instrumentation, soulful vocals, fascinating rhythms and a secret underground arsenal of outlandish samples, as well as featuring the cream of British jazz musicians, ...

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Metropolitan Records CD Release Celebration at the Iridium Linda Presgrave Quartet 8PM & Todd Herbert Quartet 10PM

Metropolitan Records CD Release Celebration at the Iridium  Linda Presgrave Quartet 8PM & Todd Herbert Quartet 10PM

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services

July 12 Metropolitan Records CD Release Celebration 8:O0PM - The Linda Presgrave Quartet Linda Presgrave - piano, Wei-Sheng Lin - bass, Seiji Ochiai - drums, Stan Chovnick - soprano sax 10:00PM - The Todd Herbert Quartet Todd Herbert - tenor sax, Jeremy Manasia - piano, Joel Forbes - bass, Jason Brown - drums At The IRIDIUM JAZZ CLUB 1650 BROADWAY (Corner of 51st) NEW YORK, NY 10023 RESERVATIONS: ...

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Gwyneth Herbert Live at Blackheath Halls, May 11, 2007

Gwyneth Herbert Live at Blackheath Halls, May 11, 2007

Source: All About Jazz

Gwyneth Herbert - Friday 11 May at 8:00 PM TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE! A voice that's a knowing mix of honey, steel and gravel..... Her voice vibrating over the lyrics in a way that makes your toes curl'. The Observer In anticipation of the release of her new album 'Between Me & The Wardrobe' Gwyneth returns to Blackheath Halls with long time musical partners pianist Steve Holness, bassist Sam Burgess and percussionist Dave Price. 'Between Me and the Wardrobe' ...

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Herbert Plays Jazz at Cleopatra's Needle, Marie's

Herbert Plays Jazz at Cleopatra's Needle, Marie's

Source: All About Jazz

For further information: Marian Kurz 847-491-1938 [email protected] electronic photo available HERBERT PLAYS JAZZ AT CLEOPATRA’S NEEDLE, MARIE’S Jazz tenor sax man Todd Herbert is marking his seventh year at Cleopatra’s Needle with several late spring and summer dates. Herbert and his quartet will be playing jazz standards for the audiences. Jazz greats Von Freeman and Willie Pickens have praised Herbert’s style. Herbert toured internationally with Freddy Hubbard and has played with Willie Pickens, Jimmy Cobb and Tom Harrell. Friday, May ...

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