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Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Tuesday, August 14, 2018
Alana Macpherson Nonet - All or Nothing At All (August 15, 2018)
Join powerhouse saxophonist Alana Macpherson and her Nonet ensemble for the launch of their debut album “All or Nothing At All” on August 15th. Since 2014, the Alana Macpherson Nonet has been performing regularly around Perth, delivering their unique blend of intricate composition, and high energy improvisation. Influenced by modern big band music, free jazz and post-rock, Macpherson’s music features dense textures, floating melodies and hard hitting grooves. Don’t miss your chance to see this ensemble in full flight before Macpherson moves to Graz, Austria to commence further study in jazz composition.
Alana Macpherson
Alana Macpherson: alto saxophone
Dylan Hooper: tenor saxophone
Jessica Beahan: bass clarinet
Ricki Malet: trumpet
Blake Philips: trombone
Jacob Mitchell: guitar
Austin Salisbury: piano
Kate Pass: bass
Alex Reid: drums
Priscilla Gardner: voice tracks 2,6
1. Blind Eye 08:55
2. All or Nothing At All 07:54
3. Collision of Clouds 08:29
4. Oikos 08:13
5. Swan 08:37
6. Solitude 05:44
FAB1 - FAB1.4 (2018)
In June 2017, two old acquaintances decided to play together.
Since none of the pair could afford renting a rehearsal studio, they gathered an audience on the go, and improvised on Vietinghoff's standards.
It went toward free improvisation later on, and unveiled what's kept in the both musicians' subconsciousness.
This improv gig took place on 5 May 2018 at Sound Museum
Araik Vietinghoff – piano
Alexander Belkov – drums
Recorded by Boris Shershenkov
Artwork by Ta Tatiana
1. Don't Be Pathetic 11:20
2. The Wet Shine of Our Eyes 07:23
3. You Keep Me in Suspense 07:13
4. Suicide Commited with Toy Cutlery 07:44
5. Infinity 08:15
6. Hyperballad 05:30
7. I Suck in Pursuing 11:49
8. Now, We Are Back to Concord 06:28
Sam Dillon - Out In The Open (CELLAR LIVE September 7, 2018)
Sam Dillon (tenor sax)
Billy Drummond (drums)
Yoshi Waki (bass)
Peter Zak (piano)
1 I Hear A Rhapsody
2 Peace
3 Out In The Open
4 Triste
5 Night And Day
6 Everything Happens To Me
7 Untitled
8 New Blues
9 Third Stone From The Sun
Recorded at Trading 8s Recording Studio in Paramus, New Jersey on January 13, 2018 by Chris Sulit
Trinom3 - Just A Bit Further (CELLAR LIVE 2018)
"Just a Bit Further", Trinom3's second release, brings together the various music styles that have inspired the band throughout their formative years. Masters of progressive rock, jazz, r&b/pop and film scores, Mike Clinco, John Van Tongeren and Kendall Kay are most certainly the musically eclectic gentlemen.
John Van Tongeren - organ & keyboards
Mike Clinco - guitars
Kendall Kay - drums & percussions
plus guests
Bob Sheppard - tenor saxophone
Walt Fowler - trumpet & flugelhorn
Danny Pelfrey - saxophones
1 Peter Lorre 5:33
2 Just A Bit Further 7:02
3 Jag 6:09
4 Daub And Wattle 6:25
5 Into The Dream We Go 8:51
6 Kashmir 7:49
7 Majorly 4:44
8 Feedin' The Meter 5:16
9 Anyway 6:20
10 Truth Be Told 6:14
11 Slice 4:45
Joani Taylor - In A Sentimental Mood (CELLAR LIVE 2018)
Vocallist Joani Taylor returns with a wonderfully melancholy set of songs.
After a series of serious life setbacks, Joani Taylor really didn't think nor was in the frame of mind to think about singing any of the beloved standard songs that were rooted deeply in her long music career. The prodding of Canadian legend, alto saxophonist PJ Perry paid off and the resulting album is a as honest a statement from a vocalist as you'll ever hear.
Features an all-star Canadian band including PJ Perry, Neil Swainson and Miles Black.
A beautiful collection of some Great American Songbook songs.
Some of the most honest, heartfelt jazz singing on record in many years.
Joani Taylor - Voice
PJ Perry - Alto & Tenor Saxophones
Miles Black - Piano
Neil Swainson - Bass
Executive Producer: Cory Weeds
Produced by Cory Weeds
Recorded at Warehouse Studios, Vancouver, BC, November 15, 2017
Engineered, mixed, and mastered by Sheldon Zharko
Photography by Ashley Gesner
Design and layout by Perry Chua
1. This Can't Be Love 06:27
2. In A Sentimental Mood 04:57
3. Embraceable You 04:19
4. Alfie 05:24
5. Undecided 03:46
6. Sentimental Journey 03:14
7. Lover Man 07:01
8. Love Walked In 05:23
9. A Ghost Of A Chance / I Can't Get Started 03:57
10. More Than You Know 06:43
11. Be My Love 06:41
12. I Just Had To Hear Your Voice 05:19
Ben Paterson - Live at Van Gelder's (CELLAR LIVE 2018)
Recorded at the iconic studio of Rudy Van Gelder, Ben Paterson, Ed Cherry and Jason Tiemann get greasy! Live At Van Gelder's has a decidedly relaxed feel to it. The tunes were carefully selected, including some that are associated heavily with the organ and others that you may not expect to hear in this context. The band is clearly inspired by recording in the iconic Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey studio of the iconic Rudy Van Gelder.
Ben Paterson - Hammond B-3 Organ
Ed Cherry - Guitar
Jason Tiemann - Drums
Executive Producer - Cory Weeds
Produced by Ben Paterson and Cory Weeds
Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's in Englewood Cliffs, NJ
March 22, 2018
Engineered by Maureen Sickler, assisted by Don Sickler
Mixed and mastered by Dave Darlington
Photography by Aslam Husain
Design and layout by Perry Chua
1. F.S.R
4. Green Jeans
5. Enchantment
6. The Vibrator
7. I Remember Clifford
8. Hustler
9. Easy Time
10. Sweatin'
Ken Vandermark / Klaus Kugel / Mark Tokar - No-Exit Corner (CATALYTIC SOUND 2018)
No-Exit Corner, the second CD by the trio featuring the tenor saxophonist and clarinetist Ken Vandermark, the drummer Klaus Kugel, and the bassist Mark Tokar, recorded during a 2016 Krakow club date, is a brilliant example of what I suppose might still be best categorized as free jazz—if only because no one has yet come up with a better name after almost sixty years of trying.
But free jazz of what specific variety? Following the mid-1960s, when free was taking shape in New York City and was sometimes also pegged “the new black music” (it was a musical analogue to that era’s black anger—at least to hear the most militant of its players and literary proponents), we’ve tended to classify its various offshoots more by point of origin than by race or ethnicity.
But despite the recording location, the label, and what it says on Kugel and Tokar’s passports (Germany and [Ukraine?], respectively), No-Exit Corner can hardly be tagged “Eastern European” or even the hopelessly amorphous “European.”
For one thing, Vandermark—the trio’s only horn, to whom one’s ears turn first, sheerly out of habit, because that’s how we’ve been taught to listen to jazz—is a Chicagoan, the prime mover in that midwestern American city’s post-AACM ferment. But notwithstanding a few delayed thematic delineations and the frequent chime of Kugel’s cymbals, this music in no way resembles that of the AACM’s first and second waves.
It’s not marked by discontinuity, like the music of Evan Parker, the late Derek Bailey, and other early British from-scratch improvisers. Nor does it call to mind Han Bennink or other Dutch dadaists. Peter Brôtzmann might be closer to it, especially on the fast and furious “Left Sided Driver” and the convulsive final few minutes of “Message to the Past,” but not quite. You’ll hear echoes of all these approaches, but only because they’re all part of a common vernacular by this point, and these three musicians are serious students of the jazz past, able to draw from it whatever and whenever they feel need to.
Ken Vandermark
Tokar has played in Vandermark’s Resonance ensemble, and his and Kugel’s combined discographies include dates with Bobby Few, Roberta Piket, and Charles Gayle, as well as a good number of Eastern Europe’s leading improvisers.
Can there be such a thing as straight-ahead free? If so, this disk’s five as-it-happens improvisations would be it. Each achieves something remarkable, a seldom-realized free jazz ideal: the more these players achieve something remarkable, the more these players sacrifice themselves in support of one another, the more our attention is drawn to each’s individual merits.
Teasing his solos to climax on the album’s two longest performances, Vandermark shows he knows the difference between repetition and repetitiveness. This might be some of his best playing on records; it’s definitely among his lustiest. Tokar’s “extended” bass technique is astonishing, and worthy of special notice is the way he matches tones with Vandermark when the latter explores the lower reaches of his horn. Kugel is a model drummer, supplying both motion and combustion without so much as implying a steady beat. Only one modifier will do in further categorizing this free jazz: classic. - Francis Davis
1. Left Sided Driver 19:22
2. Everyday Fabric 13:59
3. Objective 49 04:51
4. Split Hinge 03:43
5. Message To The Past 14:42
All Compositions by Ken Vandermark [Twenty First Mobile Music/ASCAP-Cien Fuegos], Mark Tokar, Klaus Kugel [GEMA].
Recorded at The Alchemia Club in Krakow on December 12th, 2016.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Rafał Drewinany [dts studio]
Design by Małgorzata Linińska
Monday, August 13, 2018
Donny McCaslin - Blow. (MOTEMA MUSIC October 5, 2018)
As the bandleader on David Bowie's final album Blackstar, saxophonist Donny McCaslin collaborated with the Starman to carry forward his penchant for reinvention. With his upcoming studio album — a daring fusion of vibrant electronica, and bombastic art-rock due this fall — McCaslin applied that mindset to his own work, pushing his music in a bold new direction. Propulsive and improvisational alternative music combines with a heady blend of vocals, saxophone and flute, pianos and Wurlitzer, electric bass and pummeling drums that captures McCaslin's core roots while also bringing in more recent influences such as Radiohead and Bon Iver.
Digital Album
1. What About the Body
2. Club Kidd
3. Break the Bond
4. New Kindness
5. Exactlyfourminutesofimprovisedmusic
6. Tiny Kingdom
7. Great Destroyer
8. The Opener (feat. Sun Kil Moon)
9. Beast
10. Tempest
11. Eye of the Beholder
BLOW. - LIMITED EDITION CLEAR VINYL LP
10/5/18 Release Date - available now for preorder
Limited Edition Clear Vinyl version, (being released simultaneously with CD and Digital versions,) includes full lyrics plus a collectible art-poster featuring cover art designed by David Calderley of Graphic Therapy (Beck, Tall Heights, Imagine Dragons, V2 Music Group…)
Neyland | Attiche | Beeche - Neyland | Attiche | Beeche (August 13, 2018)
After moving from Berlin to Australia at the beginning of the year, guitarist Benjamin Attiche connected with Oscar Neyland on double bass and Jack Beeche on alto saxophone. It quickly evolved into a flourishing and inspiring group that aims to break stereotypical musical roles.
With an emphasis on interaction and transparency, the three musicians switch fluidly and spontaneously between improvisation and accompaniment.
The band awards a personal and modern approach to composers such as Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn and Wayne Shorter.
1. Isfahan 05:53
2. I Should Care 04:53
3. Chelsea Bridge 04:59
4. My Little Brown Book 05:10
5. When Sunny Gets Blue 06:05
6. Round Midnight 03:58
Recorded May 5th 2018 at Pughouse Studios,
Engineered, mixed and mastered by Niko Schauble
Artwork and design by Jenny Atwood
Oscar Neyland plays a Benedict G Puglisis "Da Salo" double bass
Benjamin Attiche plays a Frans Elferink "Tonemaster" guitar
Phronesis - We Are All (EDITION RECORDS September 14, 2018)
WE ARE ALL - THE NEW STUDIO ALBUM
LP, CD & DOWNLOAD AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW
We Are All, the band’s eighth and newest studio album, offers plenty of emotional range and musical richness for committed Phronesis fans and new listeners alike. But in its title and scope, it also seeks to focus attention on an important message of togetherness and balance beyond the one the trio demonstrate on the bandstand.
Worldwide Release: 14th Sept 2018
ONE ALBUM. MULTIPLE COVERS. ONE MESSAGE OF INTERCONNECTEDNESS
FORMATS AVAILABLE:
- Limited Edition LP with Yellow Vinyl and double sided cover.
- Two Collector Edition CDs with different covers.
- Download & Streaming Album with three single releases all with different covers.
Each format - the LP, two CD versions, the digital album and 3 digital singles will be produced as part of a Collectors Edition with each edition having a different cover image that communicates a sense of unity on a shared planet and shines a light on the interconnectedness of all living species.
Please Note: The music is exactly the same on all formats, the only difference is the front cover image.
OUT.FEST 2018 - New Batch of Names Confirmed
15th edition
October 5 + 6 in Barreiro
Co-curated by OUT.RA - Associação Cultural and Filho Único - Associação Cultural
CLOTHILDE *Alias of Sofia Mestre, Lisbon-based modular synthesis musician, still hot on the heels of her debut 'Twitcher’ published a couple of months ago on local label Labareda*
NÍDIA *A teenage phenomenon seemed like yesterday, is now a young woman who has indelibly shaped the landscape of contemporary electronic music; she has chosen OUT.FEST - as her beloved bairro Vale da Amoreira is part of Barreiro municipality - to present her first ever live show, following an artistic residency devoted to edify it*
RAFAEL TORAL SPACE COLLECTIVE 3 plays ‘MOON FIELD’ *Portuguese pioneer of exploratory music, amidst a wave of new work being published and reissues of iconic past records reissued on Drag City, is set to perform once again at OUT.FEST this time leading the band to play the record that Room 40 has brought forth internationally*
CÂNDIDO LIMA presents ‘OCEANOS’ *Born in 1939 in Viana do Castelo, Mr Lima is a composer who has broken ground in various fields in the Portuguese history of contemporary composition, though its appreciation may never quite met the merits of his feats. He will present his 1979 piece ‘Oceanos’, combining lighting, projections and sound spatialization.*
KEROX *Fundamental kid in the Xita Records family (collective of musicians, label, promoter), Kerox is a young producer of post-genre beatz in the ever expanding and cross-pollinating territory of the Greater Lisbon area*
Previous confirmed names:
FRET (aka MICK HARRIS)
GROUP A
HHY & THE MACUMBAS
JOÃO PAIS FILIPE
LEA BERTUCCI
LINN DA QUEBRADA
LOTIC
RICARDO ROCHA
Global passes now at 20€ available at TICKETS
BLUJAZZ New Releases - Joey Morant "Forever Sanctified", Ernest McCarty Jr and Theresa Davis "I Remember Love", Western Michigan Univ Jazz Orchestra "Turkish Delight", Two Quintets - Roger Neumann and Doug MacDonald
Joey Morant “Forever Sanctified”
with
Joey Morant, Horns & Congos/ Mike LeDonne, Organ/ Mark Whitfield, Guitar/ Amadeus Morant, Drums
“Where Have You Been All My Life” Frank Foster
One of the most exciting and dynamic trumpeters on the current New York City scene Joey Morant has worked at every major venue. Joey has had a regular spot at both the Blue Note and BB King’s Lucille’s with his packed house brunch gigs as well as being featured at the Blue Note Jazz Festival. Joey Morant works as a soloist, in duet and trio settings, and as a part of larger bands and orchestras. He electrifies audiences with his dazzling horn technique, skillful scat singing, and humorous dialogue. His Louis Armstrong interpretations, both playing and singing, are perfect, and his admiration for Louis is deep and genuine.
Ernest McCarty Jr and Theresa Davis “I Remember Love”
Ernest McCarty, piano and composer & Theresa Davis, vocals
Theresa Davis, “Tee” to all in the business – is a former member of the Emotions. Her other recordings on Stax show her diversity of style, as does her last CD, “Love Take A Walk”, commercial jingles, and vocals on motion picture tracks. Tee sang the theme song of NBC-TV’s Chicago talk show Black Life. It has been said Tee is the quintessential singer’s singer and a songwriter’s dream. Smooth and tender, Tee’s voice has been likened to “water, for its purity, clarity, and tranquilizing effect”. Tee’s extensive performance experience includes touring the US, Canada, Europe, and Japan with Otis Clay, Ramsey Lewis, Percy Sledge, Dennis Edwards (Temptations). She also toured Sue Conway and the famed gospel group, The Victory Singers. Tee is also currently performing with the West Coast group “Tour de 4Force”.
Western Michigan University Jazz Orchestra “Turkish Delight”
Western Michigan University’s award-winning Jazz Orchestra is directed by Scott Cowan. This ensemble has received international acclaim for its high performance standards and creative approach to big band jazz. Recognitions include four-time winners in the college big band category of the Down Beat Magazine annual DB student music awards, a heralded performance in New York City’s Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center-Allen Room, Midwest Clinic in Chicago, The Detroit International Jazz Festival, Over 30 Outstanding Band recognitions at the Notre Dame Collegiate Jazz Festival, featured performances for the International Association for Jazz Education Conferences in Los Angeles and Atlanta and the JEN Conference in St. Louis, Missouri.
The ensemble’s CDs, Spritely Overdue, Disposable Income, Blue Miles, Sweet Tango, Cosmosis, Boogaloo Land, and Travel Notes have received rave reviews in DownBeat magazine, JazzTimes Magazine, the IAJE Journal, Cadence Magazine and numerous other noted publications. There recordings are found on Sea Breeze Vista Recordings and Blujazz Records and are available online and through the jazz studies program. The band has performed with Joe Lovano, Tim Hagans, New York Voices, Tom Harrell, Bob Brookmeyer, Bob Berg, Rob McConnell, Billy Hart, John Clayton, Randy Brecker, Kenny Werner, Conrad Herwig, Bob Mintzer, Miguel Zenon, Michael Philip Mossman, George Garzone, Billy Drewes, Peter Erskine, John Fedchock, Stefon Harris, Kurt Elling and many others.
Jazz Marathon 3 - Two Quintets
The Roger Neumann Quintet and The Doug MacDonald Quintet
Produced by Doug MacDonald Co-Produced by Don Thompson
Jazz Marathon 3 changes the concept a bit in that it puts the spotlight on two separate and equally exciting all-star groups that alternated sets at Upstairs at Vitello's in Studio City.
@ ZINC BAR! ROMAN DÍAZ & RUMBA HABANERA / SEPT 6 & OCT 4
ZINC BAR & JAZZ AT THE CROSSROADS
present
ROMAN DÍAZ & RUMBA HABANERA
..
September 6th • October 4th
one set @ 8 pm
ZINC BAR
82 W 3rd Street, NYC 10012
"AfroCuban master drummer Román Díaz and his nine piece ensemble perform the potent magic of the AfroCaribbean experience: the ritual drumming, dance and call-and-response singing handed down from generation to generation in secret societies in Cuba; a living repository of the Yoruba, Congo and Abakuá cultures." - Jazz at the Crossroads
"If you’ve never experienced real Cuban rumba, you’ve missed something that is singularly and at once both reverent and sensual, wild and yet deeply ordered, hard-hitting while also full of subtle cues and charms, and potent with the visceral sensations that can only come from repeated cycles of rhythms working as one." - Larry Blumenfeld, Blu Notes/Wall Street Journal
Though Román Díaz came to fame as a member of the world-renown folkloric ensemble Yoruba Andabo, the Rumba he brings to Zinc Bar is a departure from the rehearsed, choreographed presentations of Cuba's official touring groups. His Rumba Habanera is the authentic, spontaneous Rumba of the back alleys and inner courtyards of the tenements of Havana. Often played on handmade instruments and wooden boxes, this Rumba, rarely seen by outsiders, is the Rumba of ambiente: an atmosphere building toward ecstatic fervor at the threshold of possession.
That seductive, mysterious ambiente might explain why the Rumba attracts visitors from la crème de la crème of musicians from every genre, from famous percussionists (Francisco Mela, Nicky Marrero, Mark Quinones and Samuel Torres) to jazz pianists (George Burton, Aruan Ortiz, David Virelles and Axel Laugart) and the celebrated New Orleans jazz saxophonist Donald Harrison, who sits in - and fits in - on almost every trip he makes to New York. Sometimes a superstar of Latin pop will show up - Ruben Blades came by recently - and there are frequent visits from a Hollywood movie star (going under the radar in baseball cap & sweats).
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