Live Out Loud Band - Organizing Chaos (2016)

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Original Release Date: April 8, 2016

Release Date: April 8, 2016

Label: The Live Out Loud Enterprise

Copyright: 2016 The Live Out Loud Enterprise

1. Poke-Her-Dots I (feat. DJ Fire)

2. Cali Groove

3. Beautiful Eyes (feat. Teri Gina)

4. We Use to Be (feat. Charlie B.)

5. Poke-Her-Dots II (feat. DJ Fire)

6. S.L.T.S (feat. Philippe Edison)

7. Inductive Reasoning

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Eco-Music Big Band - Colors of Resistance (2016)

ECO MUSIC BIG BAND

The Eco-Music Big Band is proud to present the Philadelphia premiere of its COLORS OF RESISTANCE program at the Painted Bride!  Equal parts radical big band music by living composers, theatrical performance art, and classical-turned-jazz, COLORS OF RESISTANCE features new works by up-and-coming composers Livio Almeida, Felix Del Tredici, Marie Incontrera, Albert Marques, Zack O’Farrill, and Stefan Zeniuk; celebrates the five-decade career of bass trombonist and composer David Taylor; and reimagines iconic works by the late Chinese-American composer and baritone saxophone virtuoso Fred Ho and late composer and activist Cal Massey.

COLORS OF RESISTANCE tells a joyful story of music that comes from the tradition of resistance to oppression: fusing virtuosic radical jazz with hip hop, heavy metal, Latin rhythms, and blues forms, the Eco-Music Big Band promises a one-of-a-kind experience that intends to propel the jazz idiom into the 21st century.  The title of the program was conceived during bandleader Marie Incontrera’s final conversation with band’s founder Fred Ho before his death, in which Ho said “all the colors of resistance… all the colors of life… hold them…”

The Eco-Music Big Band is a 16-piece, multigenerational and unique big band that includes some of the nation’s most acclaimed jazz musicians (such as bass trombonist David Taylor, drummer Zack O’Farrill, and trumpeter Adam O’Farrill).  Hailed as “…music and activism at its finest” (DooBeeDooBeeDoo), the Eco-Music Big Band regularly commissions works by younger and emerging composers, and performs music with a vision for a better world.  The band also performs the exclusive repertoire of the music of its late founder, Fred Ho, and the 1970s jazz composer and bandleader Cal Massey.  The Eco-Music Big Band has performed on respected stages throughout the New York area such as the Blue Note Jazz Club, Red Rooster’s Ginny’s Supper Club, Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater, Zinc Jazz club, BAMcafe, Roulette.

ABOUT MARIE INCONTRERA

Marie Incontrera is a composer, conductor, and band leader whose work spans queer opera, political big band, and music for the oppressed.

Marie has conducted as a bandleader as well as in classical and operatic settings at Brooklyn Academy of Music, WOW Cafe, Red Rooster Harlem, BarnArts Center for the Arts, and others. Marie conducted the Green Monster Big Band for Fred Ho’s final album, which has an international release date for later in 2014. Marie was Fred Ho’s last composition and conducting protege.

A fierce revolutionary warrior and Fred Ho’s last music student, Marie was tasked to take his music to the highest level of harmoniously merging music and ecology, or PONO — a Kanaka Maoli, indigenous Hawaiian concept, for elegant and exquisite equilibrium. Eco-Music strives for this equilibrium and beyond.

01. Action and Reaction (feat. Adam O'Farrill)

02. Rag House

03. Double Tier (feat. David Taylor)

04. Mission Accomplished

05. Foggy Conscience

06. Iron Man Meets the Black Dog Meets David Taylor (feat. David Taylor)

07. Seven Generations

08. The Channel (feat. Lauren Lee)

09. I.D.N (feat. Gabriel Globus-Hoenich)

10. Prayer

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Murray Allen & Carrington Power Trio - Perfection (2016)

Label: Motema

Source: Jazz Times

Recording artist and producer Terri Lyne Carrington has combined forces with David Murray and Geri Allen on a new CD project, Perfection. The newly formed Murray, Allen & Carrington Power Trio will release the CD on Motéma Music on April 15. The Carrington-produced album (co-produced by Murray and Allen) was recorded in June 2015.

Murray, Allen & Carrington Power Trio: Geri Allen, David Murray, Terri Lyne Carrington

“I wrote ‘Geri- Rigged’ for the amazingly talented Geri Allen," says Carrington. "She is one third of the Murray, Allen & Carrington Power Trio along with David Murray and myself. Geri and I have been playing together for over three decades. We have a strong synergy and a deep musical understanding that feels uncanny, due to having had similar reference points that helps us to know where each other are going. I tried to write something that reminded me of her and that was challenging for us as well. The Murray, Allen & Carrington Power Trio is a perfect outlet to play with two incredible musicians that push the envelope. David Murray’s credentials speak for themselves. He has accomplished more in his lifetime thus far than many people would ever dare to dream. He is a real force to reckon with and I am trying to keep up with the two of them."

JazzTimes is pleased to present this exclusive preview of "Geri-Rigged" from the Murray, Allen & Carrington Power Trio's Perfection.

1  Mirror of Youth
2  Barbara Allen
3  Geri-Rigged
4  The David, Geri & Terri Show
5  The Nurturer
6  Perfection
7  D Special (Interlude)
8  Samsara (For Wayne)
9  For Fr. Peter O'brien
10 Cycles and Seasons

David Murray
Geri Allen
Terry Lyne Carrington

David Murray, Geri Allen, Terri Lyne Carrington Power Trio

Wed, May 18, 2016

Doors: 7:30 pm / Show: 8:30 pm

Birdland

New York, NY

$40.00

There is a $10.00 food or drink minimum per person. Dinner is served between 5pm-1am

Birdland

315 West 44th St

New York, NY 10036

http://www.birdlandjazz.com

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Walt Weiskopf - The Way You Say It (2016)

Label: Posi-tone

Source: Allaboutjazz - Mark Corroto

Do jazz jukeboxes exist? I'm not referring to an online streaming service that tells you what to like. I'm talking about a mechanical box in a roadhouse you put money in, and everyone in the joint listens to your selections. If there are such establishments with said jukeboxes, I'm certain customers would select WW1, WW2, WW3, et cetera, for most of the tracks on Walt Weiskopf's The Way You Say It.

The saxophonist a veteran of the big bands of Buddy Rich and Toshiko Akiyoshi, plus a requested sideman with Steely Dan, has produced a dozen outings as a leader, first for Criss Cross, and three now for Positone Records. The latest follows Open Road (2015), a quartet and the sextet Overdrive (2014) both with pianist Peter Zak. With The Way You Say It, he swaps piano for the organ of Brian Charette, an instrument we haven't heard with the saxophonist since A World Away (Criss Cross, 1995).

Charette, the de facto house organist for Positone, comports himself quite well here, supporting Weisskopf and vibraphonist Behn Gillece, who we heard on Overdrive. With drummer Steve Fidyk, the quartet can negotiate a speedy burner like "Inntoene" and "Blues Combination" with jaw-dropping ease. Weiskopf has all the tools, a broad and deep sound with a very well balanced attack. In other words, a beautiful tone. That richness is showcased on the flavor-rich ballad "Candy" and "Invisible Sun." Weiskopf penned ten of the twelve pieces here. "Envisioned" allows for each musician to stretch out a bit as it burns with a hot blue flame.

The quartet picks through two contrasting covers, Charlie Parker's "Segment" and the Weather Report classic "Scarlet Woman." The quartet turns Joe Zawinul's fusion into a stormy blues romp with Bird's music sailing with a nonchalance befitting such a sprezzatura artist as Weiskopf.  

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Daniel Díaz - Swan Song (2015)

This album is called Swan Song. Here you will find the last chapter in the research I started with my very first album in 1993. In terms of style, Swan Song can be considered as the third and last part of a trilogy (started with The Years Alone and Segundo Ciclo in between) of solo "composer" albums where I can also show my skills as a multi-instrumentalist and arranger, and gather compositions written in different places and times, with varied styles and instrumentations. 

Here you’ll find simple and catchy instrumental compositions with strong, sensitive melodies, passionate and sophisticated harmonies and atmospheres, rather gentle rhythms and a variety of instruments and sounds. 

In Swan Song there are tracks with odd and irregular metric, unexplained modulations, dozens of time-signature changes, erroneous dissonances, tempo shifts, etc. But hopefully it all goes unnoticed (only visible to the musicians who read the sheet music and to those who try to transcribe this music). 

DD November 2014

Daniel DIAZ  is an Argentinean bass player and multi-instrumentalist, arranger, producer and composer. He recorded several  solo albums, from 1993 "The Years Alone" to 2015 "Swan Song", including his best sellers: 2010  "Musique Mécanique" and 1997 "LOW Vol. 1": an album fully performed on acoustic and electric basses. 

His production music (films-TV) is present on some of the most prestigious publishers and music libraries in the world.

In the above menu you'll find his Bio in three different languages, as well as full discography and links mp3 samples.

01. Otoño y Martes (love theme number 1) 02:25

02. Os Historicos 01:41

03. Romantica Cromatica 07:18

04. Antefinal 06:55

05. Ganimedes 04:31

06. Erik Satie’s Farewell 05:33

07. Alexis Luminoso 01:48

08. Tristesse Collateral 03:33

09. Same Old Song 03:35

10. Harold's Lake 05:04

11. Resumé (Swan Song) 04:59

Released October 15, 2015 

Composed by Daniel Díaz.

Performed by D.D. : basses, guitars, pianos, vibes, hang, harmonium, percussion, accordina, charango, ukelele, synths

These great musicians gave life to these songs and added musicality and talent to Swan Song. They managed to interpret the meaning I intend of all this: simplicity and beauty prevail over technique. 

Steve Arguelles (UK) Drums 

Patrick Bebey (Cameroun): Fender Rhodes 

Gustavo Bulgach (USA/Arg) Clarinet 

Javier Estrella (Argentina): Drums 

Leandro Guffanti (Argentina/FR): Soprano sax 

Damian Jarry (France) Cello 

Line Kruse (Danemark) Violin 

David Lewis (Australia) Flugel Horn 

Olivier Manoury (France) Bandoneon 

Daniel Miguez (Argentina) Drums 

Norberto Pedreira (Argentina): Guitar 

Bobby Rangell (USA): Sax & flute 

Luis Rigu (Argentina/FR): Quena, Sikus, Flutes 

Inor Sotolongo (Cuba): Congas 

Miguel Yanover (Argentina/FR): Tenor Sax 

Cover photo: Juan Hitters

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Thomas Florin 4tet - Weather Has Time (2016)

Intégrant l’impétuosité de notre époque à la tradition de la musique de Jazz, l’univers du quartet contribue à sa manière à l’infatigable avancement de cette musique intense. 

Avec sensibilité et conviction, ces quatre musiciens proposent des performances énergiques et fiévreuses, riches de développements improvisés. 

Ils suivent la tradition de formations emblématiques du Jazz Moderne, comme le Second Grand Quintet de Miles Davis, le quartet de John Coltrane, et d’autres musiciens chers à leur coeur. 

Ce projet est initié par Thomas Florin, qui, pour ce nouveau groupe, a souhaité travailler avec des musiciens d’exception dont il admirait la musicalité et avec lesquels il partage des affinités certaines. 

Le répertoire actuel du groupe a suivi une démarche compositionnelle originale. Depuis quelques années, Thomas Florin a développé une méthode personnelle de composition consistant en des « re-compositions » ou « re-arrangements » de pièces existantes. L’idée est de choisir un groupe ou un compositeur, et de prendre ses oeuvres comme base de création de nouvelles compositions. 

Cette méthode a su créer une étonnante cohérence de la musique et des surprises, amenant des pièces aux antipodes de leur atmosphère initiale. 

Après avoir choisi Bill Evans pour le répertoire du Thomas Florin Septet en 2013 et 2014, c’est Weather Report, groupe emblématique de Fusion, que Thomas Florin a choisi pour la musique du quartet. 

Si le nom du set actuel du quartet, Weather Has Time, a évidement été inspiré par Weather Report, la musique que propose le groupe n’a souvent plus grand chose à voir avec les pièces originales, du moins dans son esthétique. L’intérêt est également pour les connaisseurs de reconnaitre ça et là les éléments survivant à la « transformation ».

1. La Nuée 07:31

2. Weather Has Time 06:09

3. Pilum 06:56

4. Liar 03:56

5. Le Requin Baleine 06:13

6. Trois Secrets Pour Un Vieux 08:53

7. Xin Dao 03:12

Released April 8, 2016 

Thomas Florin p+compo

Manuel Gesseney as  

Ninn Langel cb

Francois Christe dms

Recorded and mixed by Antoine Estoppey, Blend Studio 

Mastering by Renaud Millet-Lacombe 

Cover by Antonio Vizcaino

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Arnito - Ekut (2016)

Arnaud FILLION-ROBIN « Arnito » is a french guitar player, versatile musician and composer. His style integrates various influences and techniques derived from flamenco, jazz, classical and folk. He travels around the world to share and feed his passion for music. His authenticity and artistic exchange’s quest took him from malian villages to indian ground, through andalucian gypsy’s community.

In addition to his large live and studio experience (more than a thousand of concerts, 13 self-products albums, and dozens of various styles recording sessions ), Arnito proposes diverses artistic, creation and teaching project, to transmit his particular vision of music.

​Arnito gives solo concerts on 7-string guitar. He's also performing with various bands formules (duet, trio, quartet...)

Musicien, compositeur et arrangeur français aux multiples facettes, Arnaud FILLION-ROBIN « Arnito » parcourt le monde pour partager et nourrir sa passion. Son style regroupe diverses influences et techniques dérivées du flamenco, du jazz, du classique et du folk. Sa quête d’authenticité et d’échanges artistiques l’a mené des villages maliens aux terres indiennes, en passant par  les communautés gitanes d’Andalousie. 

Outre les milliers de concerts et jam-sessions à son actif et son investissement en studio (13 albums autoproduits et participation à une douzaine d’autres en tant qu’invité, dans différents styles), Arnito propose différents projets de création ou pédagogiques pour transmettre sa vision de la musique et favoriser les échanges culturels et humains.

Arnito présente un programme de concert en solo sur une guitare à 7 cordes, ainsi que différentes formules de groupes (duo, trio, quartet...)

Arnito : guitares, percussions, violoncelle, saz, oud, basse, banjo, voix

Naz Aksoy-Fillion : voix (5,8)

1. Klejmaik

2. Eop

3. Esboço

4. Dulce Locura

5. Ciel Pourpre

6. Lucioles

7. Istanbul

8. Spirale

9. Ilham Perisi

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