Monday, January 1, 2018

New year finds new jazz (VERVE RECORDS)


New Year calls for new jazz!
This year we’re bringing you Ella at Zardi’s!

This never-before-released archival recording finds the incomparable Ella Fitzgerald singing and swinging in front of an animated, adoring crowd at Zardi’s Jazzland on Hollywood Boulevard in 1956.


"We can hear a fluid and joyous singer who operates with almost giddy authority. Ella manages to find a way of swinging almost every number, no matter the tempo. She anticipates her studio songbook albums with Duke Ellington's 'In A Mellow Tone,' Cole Porter's 'My Heart Belongs To Daddy,' the Gershwins' 'S'Wonderful' and 'I've Got a Crush On You,' and Jerome Kern's 'A Fine Romance'... Ella uses her intelligent phrasing and rhythmic sense in inventive and exhilarating ways…"  – Journalist Kirk Silsbee

Cuneiform Artists on Tour - January 2018

January 2018

Fall 2017 Releases:

Art Zoyd — 44 ½ : Live & Unreleased Works Box Set
(12 CDs, 2 DVDs, 2 Books, 2 Posters)

Raoul Björkenheim / Ecstasy — Doors of Perception (CD + Digital Download)
Schnellertollermeier — Rights (LP, CD + Digital Download)
The Ed Palermo Big Band — The Adventures of Zodd Zundgren (CD + Digital Download)

UPCOMING 2018 SHOWS

with Bearstonaut and Roz & the Ricecakes

Listen to Say So:

Celebrating their new Cuneiform album,
A Night Walking Through Mirrors, released 2017!

May 11-19, 2018: European Tour
May 12 - Area Sismica - Forli, Italy
May 18 - Jazz Cerkno 2018 - Cerkno, Slovenia
May 19 - tba - Padova, Italy

Listen to A Night Walking Through Mirrors:

THE GREAT HARRY HILLMAN
Celebrating their 2017 album on Cuneiform:  Tilt!

January 26 - The True Harry Nulz [The Great Harry Hillman w/ Edi Nulz] - Les Murs du Son – La Chaux-de-Fonds CH
January 27 - The True Harry Nulz [The Great Harry Hillman w/ Edi Nulz] - BeJazz Winterfestival - Vidmarhallen Bern-Liebefeld – Bern, Switzerland
January 29 - IsebähnliBaden, Switzerland
January 30 - Stadkirche - Darmstadt, Germany
January 31 - Elbphilharmonie Kulturcafe  - Hamburg, Germany
February 2 - Donau 115 - Berlin, Germany
February 3 - Tangobrücke - Einbeck, Germany
February 4 - Hot Club - Gent, Belgium
February 5 - Kunstwekstatt am Hellweg - Bochum, Germany
February 7 - Wadin Jazz - Theater Ticino - Wädenswill, Switzerland
February 22 - Schatten Des Irrlichts - Humboldthain Club - Berlin, Bermany
March 6 - Weekly Jazz – Chur, Switzerland
March 9 - Literaturcafé – Biel, Switzerland CH
May 4 - Jazz Station – Sierre, Switzerland CH
May 5 - Salon Hombis – Zürich, Switzerland

Listen to Tilt:

THE KANDINSKY EFFECT

USA TOUR: February 9-21, 2018
February 9 - Cliff Bell's - Detroit, Michigan
February 10 - Cliff Bell's - Detroit, Michigan
February 11 - Live at Third Man Series Recording - Detroit, Michigan
February 13 - Blue Whale - Los Angeles, CA
February 20 - Willamette University - Salem, OR
February 21 - Jack London Revue - Portland, OR

EUROPEAN TOUR: Feb. 28 - March 13, 2018
February 28 - The Vortex - London, England
March 2 - Ramsgate Music Hall - Ramsgate, England
March 5 - Jazz Cerkno - Cerkno, Slovenia
March 6 - Jazz Rijeka - Rijeka, Croatia
March 7 - KSET (Klub Studenata Elektrotehnike) - Zagreb, Croatia
March 8 - Satchmo Jazz Club - Maribor, Slovenia
March 9 - Stockwerk Jazz - Graz, Austria
March 10 - MIKK - Murska Sobota, Slovenia
March 13 - Soiree Jazz Pulse - Les Trois Baudets - Paris, France

Listen to Somnabulist & Synesthesia:

Celebrating their new album, The Adventures of Zodd Zundgren, released October 6, 2017

February 10 - The Falcon - 1348 Route 9W - Marlboro, NY 12542
April 21 - The Falcon - 1348 Route 9W - Marlboro, NY 12542
June 23 - The Falcon - 1348 Route 9W - Marlboro, NY 12542
August 25 - The Falcon - 1348 Route 9W - Marlboro, NY 12542
October 27 - The Falcon - 1348 Route 9W - Marlboro, NY 12542
December 31 - The Falcon - 1348 Route 9W - Marlboro, NY 12542

Listen to two EPBB 2017 releases:

Celebrating their new album on Cuneiform - RIGHTS - released October 6, 2017!


January 6 - Gasswerk - Winterthur, Switzerland
January 19 - Eurosonic Noorderslag Festival - Groningen, The Netherlands
February 4 - One Of A Million Festival - Baden, Switzerland
February 9 - Palace - St Gallen, Switzerland
February 16 - Cinema Sil Plaz - Ilanz, Switzerland
March 1 - Le Singe - Biel, Switzerland
April 5 - Schüür - Luzern, Switzerland
April 12 - ISC - Bern, Switzerland

Listen to RIGHTS & X:


Winner of  Jazz Journalist Association's
DownBeat 2017 Critics Poll Awards for Trumpeter of the Year, Jazz Artist of the Year, & Jazz Album of the Year-America's National Parks

2018
January 25, 2018 - Public Talk with Wadada Leo Smith & Jesse Gilbert - UVA Impulse Festival - 153 Campbell Hall - University of Virginia - Charlottesville, VA
January 27, 2018 - Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet performs from America's National Parks - UVA Impulse Festival - Old Cabell Hall - University of Virginia - Charlottesville, VA
April 7-8, 2018  - Wadada Leo Smith curates CREATE Festival 2-A  - Firehouse 12 5 Crown St - New Haven, CT 

2019
January 26, 2019 - Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet performs the Complete America's National Parks - Jazz At Lincoln Center – The Appel Room, 10 Columbus Circle, New York City


Thumbscrew is the collaborative trio of:
Michael Formanek / Tomas Fujiwara / Mary Halvorson

May 3 - The Stone at the New School - 55 W. 13th St - NYC (Thumbscrew and special guest)
June 14-24 - West Coast USA and Canada Tour - dates tba
July 17-22 - residency at The Village Vanguard - 178 Seventh Avenue South - NYC, NY 
August 10-20 - TBA - Argentina and Brazil tour

Listen to Convallaria & Thumbscrew:

Happy 2018 !



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