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Paul Brady
An active producer, Brady co-organizes the Detroit Django Reinhardt Festival along with HCOD leader Evan Perri. The two continue to bring this festival into the mainstream by prompting sponsorship and bringing in nationally known guest artists, who have included Howard Alden, Frank Vignola, Anat Cohen, James Carter.
Brady made his debut as a record producer in 2008, working with the Chicago jazz trio Kaleidoscope whose release "Map to the Ocean" is available through jazzexchange.org. Brady finished producing the debut CD for the Chicago based flamenco trio, Idilio, which released in the spring of 2009.
As a writer, Brady has contributed to the to the encyclopedia of jazz musicians at jazz.com and is a columnist and blogger for the magazine Wine and Jazz. He is also the author of It's About That Time, a music, wine, and finer things blog. Most recently, Brady was a contributing editor to the online edition of Jazz: the first 100 Years, by Dr. Keith Waters and Dr. Henry Martin.
Brady attended Rutgers University at Newark, where he taught part time while completing his Master's thesis in Jazz History and Research on Django Reinhardt. Brady lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and continues to perform with the Hot Club of Detroit and as a free lance jazz/classical guitarist, while writing, producing and teaching.
Paul is currently playing the "14 Fret Orchestre" guitar made by Manouche Guitars.
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Dublin Rocker Paul Brady's 12th Album, 'Hooba Dooba,' Due on Proper American May 24th
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U.S. May 24th release features guest stints from Jerry Douglas and Sarah Siskind DUBLIN, IrelandThe career of Paul Bradywhose 12th solo album, the exuberantly titled Hooba Dooba, gets its U.S. release on May 24, 2011 via Proper Americanis not that of your usual singer/songwriter. And the new record is the most wildly eclectic this man for all seasons has yet recorded. I'm a marketing department's nightmare," he jokes, before discussing the confusion that has surrounded him for so long. I ...
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