Arnan Raz - Next Show and a Song: Rockwood Music Hall Stage 1

Next Show and a Song From my last album

Hello friends, I hope you had a great summer and that you are still enjoying what's left of it.  I would love to invite you to my next show. It will be held in NYC on September 17th at Rockwood Music Hall Stage 1 (196 Allen St) at 11:00 PM. The photo for the poster was taken by Tuvia Ruebner, A poet and a photographer from my home town in Israel- Kibbutz Merhavia. I am also sharing another song from my last album which came out last February on Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit Records. It's called "Our Story". I hope you like that.

Love,

Arnan

Samy Thiébault, nouvel album Caribbean Stories (GAYA MUSIC September 21, 2018)

Samy Thiébault

Nouvel album « Caribbean Stories » à paraître le 21/09 chez Gaya Music

Concert au Café de la Danse le 15/11

Après un hommage inspiré aux Doors, puis un retour à ses racines sur l’album Rebirth, le saxophoniste Samy Thiébault nous dévoile ses aventures caribéennes avec l'album Caribbean Stories.

Avec son nouvel album prévu pour le 21 septembre, le musicien et compositeur Samy Thiébault propose cette fois de le suivre dans le voyage qu’il a entrepris aux sources du blues et du jazz, au cœur des musiques de la Caraïbe et de leur histoire.

Sur Caribbean Stories, Samy Thiébault a réuni une solide section rythmique avec le percussionniste cubain Inor Sotolongo, le batteur Arnaud Dolmen, originaire de la Guadeloupe et le contrebassiste Felipe Cabrera chargé aussi des fondements harmoniques. Les guitaristes Hugo Lippi et Ralph Lavital apportent leur contribution et des influences venues d’Angleterre ou de la Martinique. Le tromboniste Fidel Fourneyron, très attaché aux musiques cubaines, dialogue avec le saxophone ténor et la flûte de Samy Thiébault.

A travers les titres de l’album « Caribbean Stories », Samy Thiébault et ses compagnons content l’histoire d’un peuple déraciné et de ses musiques qui ont contribué à forger les fondement du blues et du jazz.

Samy Thiébault ne s’est pas aventuré dans la Caraïbe avec l’intention de chiffonner les lieux communs ou de mener croisade contre le simplisme géomusicologique. Non, il a simplement été pris de passion pour des musiques qui défient beaucoup de vieilles idées bien enracinées – « J’ai pris un camion dans la tronche », dit-il.

Caribbean Stories ne raconte que cela : un incroyable emmêlement de musiques qui révèle à quel point elles sont sœurs, imbriquées, intriquées. Jazz, calypso, merengue, valse, bolero, chachacha et cent genres encore, dans un tourbillon profond, hédoniste, dansant, poétique, politique.

Caribbean Stories nous raconte la survie d’esclaves africains, de déclassés d’Europe, d’Amérindiens suppliciés, de métis voyageurs. Des partages, des mutations instantanées, des hybridations instinctives. Autour de Samy Thiébault, un groupe venu de ce Tout-Monde cher au piète Édouard Glissant : le percussionniste Inor Sotolongo, le batteur Arnaud Dolmen, le bassiste Felipe Cabrera, les guitaristes Hugo Lippi et Ralph Lavital – deux Cubains, un Guadeloupéen, un Français, un Anglais…

Né en Côte d’Ivoire d’un père français et d’une mère marocaine, Samy a longtemps tourné autour de l’idée métisse de la Caraïbe, jusqu’à ce que la réalité musicale du monde créole le percute au Venezuela, le fasse rebondir à Puerto Rico, l’entraîne à Trinidad, lui remette à l’oreille toute la biguine des Antilles françaises et toutes les racines tambourinaires de Bob Marley…

Dans Caribbean Stories, il revient sur l’évidence du monde d’avant la critique de jazz et la simplification des cartographies culturelles : il rapprend le nomadisme, les musiques jetées sur la table d’un bouiboui des docks, le sourire radieux de qui invente soudain un carrefour. Son Pajarillo Verde, tiré d’une valse vénézuélienne poétique et rebelle, se transforme en collé-serré coltranien virtuose ; et Let the Freedom Reign convoque les mânes de Count Ossie en même temps que celles de Charlie Mingus ; et Calypsotopia empile des bribes de standards sans passeport dans une danse ensoleillée en plein soleil ; et Puerto Rican Folk Song transporte la jibara des montagnes îliennes dans un loft newyorkais des seventies ; et Poesia Sin Fin flotte entre blues, chachacha, jazz modal et syncrétisme métaphysique à la Jodorowsky ; et Aida fait miroiter Cuba dans une méditation romantique et exaltée ; et Tanger la Negra médite en créolité sur le détroit de Gibraltar…

Il semble parfois que Strayhorn marche pieds nus dans La Havane, que des gamins des rues de Port of Spain se sont emparés de la scène du New Morning, que le Conservatoire s’est installé dans un dancing… Ou alors que Samy Thiébault, saxophoniste et flûtiste, respecté depuis quelques lustres, a d’un seul coup voulu embrasser le vaste domaine des musiques du monde créole, sans décider de laquelle est la meilleure, ou la plus juste, ou la plus savante. Simplement en faisant entendre leur humanité. Un voyage dans la Caraïbe qui rend à ces musiques leur humble noblesse de consolation ultime. Et leur vérité. Bertrand Dicale

Simone Di Benedetto - Red&Blue (September 17, 2018)

Simone Di Benedetto, classe 1989, is a double bass palare and composer. He specialized in free jazz and avant garde music, working with musicians, actors, dancers and composing music. He is researching over the possibilities of writing for improvisors.

Achille Succi, sax&cl

Giulio Stermieri, pn

Simone Di Benedetto, cb

Andrea Burani, dr

All composition by Simone Di Benedetto except Vashkar by Carla Bley

1. Fiordi 06:00

2. The Big Wuedra in the Sky 06:47

3. Just say it 07:38

4. Bei Denti, Sto Demone 07:49

5. Ballata Scandinava 05:43

6. Red&Blue 05:40

7. Vashkar 07:20

8. Homage a Haydn 07:02

9. Shardik 07:03

Martin Joey Dine - Throwback To Childhood (DOHA RECORDS September 14, 2018)

Martin Joey Dine is a French jazz pianist and composer born in Montmorency February 1, 1992. He started playing piano at the age of 6, taking private lessons with several teachers.

At age of 16, he left high school, applied to the JAZZ À TOURS school where he studied piano lessons with Guillaume De Chassy. Following his studies, at 18 Martin came to Paris and studied an additional two years at the CRR DE PARIS with Emile Spanyi.

In 2012 at 20, he traveled to New York to plays a series of concerts, the same year he recorded his first album as a leader, titled «WARIO». During 2013, Martin has played with famous french rapper Taipan, then, he won the first prize and public prize of the Piano Forte international jazz piano competition. In 2014, at 22, Martin Joey Dine recorded his second album as a leader titled «COPPERFIELD» featuring a full classical orchestra.

Copperfield got a worldwide success and Martin appeared on the Jazz show VPRO broadcasted on the national Dutch TV. Summer 2017, he produced a new single, «UPPERGROUND» about the song Jordu written in 1953 by American be-bop pianist Duke Jordan. Martin is now studying a master degree at the prestigious TEMPLE UNIVERSITY in Philadelphia.

"THROWBACK TO CHILDHOOD" New Album will be OUT Sept 14, 2018 under the label Doha Records

Martin Joey Dine (petrof grand piano)

1. Well You Needn't (Intro)

2. Alone Together

3. Prelude To A Kiss

4. Lady Bird / Half Nelson

5. All The Things You Are

6. Naima

7. I Could Write A Book

8. Body And Soul

9. Anthropology

10. Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans

11. The Days of Wine and Roses 07:47

Produced by Martin Joey Dine

Under the label Doha Records

Recorded in Orléans, France in June 2014 by Laurent Desmurs on a grand petrof piano / Additional recording (Well You Needn't) made in Baule, France on a Erard upright piano

De Beren Gieren - Dug Out Skyscrapers (SDBAN RECORDS September 29, 2018)

In the space between expectation and surprise, you will find Dutch-Belgian acoustic-electronic piano trio de beren gieren (The Bear Vultures), providing robust evidence that gold can still be mined from the union of piano, bass and drums. Based on the compositions of pianist Fulco Ottervanger, the trio use the power of improvisation on the quest for a new form and create a multi-layered, kaleidoscopic work of art.

De Beren Gieren has been hailed as one of the hottest acts on the Belgian jazz scene and this September, the band will release their fourth studio album, the highly anticipated ‘dug out skyscrapers’, via Sdban Ultra. Raw energy, impressionist melodies and complex structures are generated via piano, bass and drums provoking polyrhythmic soundscapes with unexpected twists and sudden turns. With ‘dug out skyscrapers’, the trio trace back the essence of what characterizes their sound.

An electro-acoustic approach weaves a spherical world of sound with added dynamism, humour and more than a touch of melancholy, projecting us forward into the future.

de beren gieren hold the unique ability to change mood suddenly in a way that constantly holds the listener’s attention. This is a sound full of joy and vitality and confirms their reputation as one of the most adventurous jazz trios of the Benelux.

1. Broensgebuzze 9 01:07

2. Voorlopige Dagen 10:07

3. Weight Of An Image 03:53

4. Zeeland 04:47

5. De Belofte Treurwals 08:21

6. Oude Beren 02:39

7. Distrusters 09:21

8. Broensgebuzze 10 02:27

Steiger - Give Space (September 14, SDBAN RECORDS)

In the summer of 2017, Steiger won the young Jazz talent competition at Gent Jazz festival, which enabled them to realize the ‘Give Space’ project. Awareness of the moment in a place and time became the core of the musical storytelling, blurring the divisions of natural and industrial, inner and outer etc. The overall work is a blend of co-related atmosphere of the place, its properties, sounds, the moment and its traced records.

“The space can be both inside and outside. This new environment will thus act as the 4th instrument in other words. Hereby we want to research and play with letting the space influence our music and vice versa, letting our music influence the space. This process will include recording 7 numbers at 7 different locations.”

The three musicians that make up Steiger all have a jazz background. Moreover, their studies at different music schools across Belgium (Ghent, Antwerp) and Scandinavia (Göteborg, Copenhagen) have broadened their perspective on listening, practicing and playing different musical genres as well as helped them approach music more sensuously. All three musicians have been active for some time in different musical projects with different genres as well as the theatre. As a result, they are able to persue an artistic result that is as relevant as possible to them.

In September, Steiger will be one of twelve emerging jazz ensembles performing at the prestigious 12 Points Festival in Dublin. A unique networking opportunity for its participants, 12 Points is a valuable resource for festival bookers and jazz media.

Ghent's Steiger are a piano trio, but not in the classical sense. With their versatile style, influenced by different musical genres such as jazz, rock, pop, classical and electronic music, they try to find a balance between composition and improvisation through the use of experimentation and electronics. 

Considered pioneers of the Belgian jazz crossover scene, Steiger have been active for 6 years and have recently found themselves performing at major jazz venues in Flanders, picking up numerous accolades along the way. 

The trio's highly anticipated sophomore album 'Give Space', released 14th September on Sdban Ultra, was recorded at 7 different locations, with the music composed to fit and fight these locations within a dialogue of acoustics, atmospheres and appetition.

Field recordings, reverbs, ambient sounds, all collected within the search for the unpredictable, were given space within this dialogue as the essential part of the encounter. As a result, the locations emerge somewhat as a fourth member of the trio.

The music - sometimes fixed, sometimes completely free - takes on an ever-changing journey into their multi-faceted world. 

Steiger are

Gilles Vandecaveye (keys)

Kobe Boon (bass)

Simon Raman (drums)

LP TRACKLISTING:

A1. Steiger - And There They Stood

A2. Steiger - Captain Hooker

A3. Steiger - Female Pope

B1. Steiger - The Lady, the Llama and the Dog

B2. Steiger - Henri's Entropic Blimp Flight

B3. Steiger - Cripplewood

CD TRACKLISTING:

1. Steiger - And There They Stood

2. Steiger - Captain Hooker

3. Steiger - Chin-de-Dah

4. Steiger - Cripplewood

5. Steiger - Female Pope

6. Steiger - Deimos

7. Steiger - Henri's Entropic Blimp Flight

8. Steiger - The Lady, the Llama and the Dog

steigerband.com

XYQuartet - Next Concerts

XYQUARTET next concerts

Nicola Fazzini (alto sax)

Alessandro Fedrigo (acoustic bass guitar)

Saverio Tasca (vibes)

Luca Colussi (drums)

XYQuartet è uno dei gruppi più apprezzati della nuova scena del jazz italiano e calca da anni le scene di tutta Europa. Con alle spalle tre incisioni e numerosi prestigiosi concerti in Italia e all’estero è stato premiato nel 2014 e nel 2017 come secondo miglior gruppo italiano nel sondaggio della critica indetto dalla rivista Musica Jazz.

Il loro repertorio spazia tra jazz e ricerca con fluidità e leggerezza, elaborando il materiale musicale in modo mai banale, ricomponendo codici differenti in modo omogeneo: dal jazz alla contemporanea, dal prog al postminimalismo, dal pop alle ultime influenze newyorkesi.

Di seguito i prossimi appuntamenti dell'ensemble.

XYQuartet is one of the most appreciated groups of the new Italian jazz scene. With three albums and many concerts in Italy and abroad, it was twice awarded (2014 and 2017) “second best Italian group” by the magazine Musica Jazz.

The band’s musical language goes from jazz to contemporary music, from prog to post minimalism and from pop to the latest NY in influences. To do so, they research and develop this new language in a creative and influent way, putting together all these different musical codes in a very homogenous form.

Next concerts below.

September 7th h 21

Volandia, Museo del Volo, Somma Lombardo (VA)

Festival JAZZaltro 2018

September, 22nd h 21

Licciana Nardi (MS)

Mutamenti Jazz Festival

  

October, 25th h 21

Teatro Forma, Bari

“Nel Gioco del Jazz” Festival

October 27th h 13:30

Cormons (GO)

“Jazz & Wine of Peace” Festival

The South Florida Jazz Orchestra presents The Music of Gary Lindsay: Are We Still Dreaming from SUMMIT RECORDS 2018

GRAMMY-NOMINATED ARRANGER GARY LINDSAY RELEASES THE MUSIC OF GARY LINDSAY: ARE WE STILL DREAMING FEATURING THE SOUTH FLORIDA JAZZ ORCHESTRA

Although Grammy-nominated arranger GARY LINDSAY has written big band charts that have been performed by everyone from Maynard Ferguson and The Atlantean Driftwood Band to the Airmen of Note and the Florida Philharmonic, THE MUSIC OF GARY LINDSAY: ARE WE STILL DREAMING (Summit Records, July 20, 2018) is the first CD devoted entirely to his big band arrangements. Lindsay is an alto sax player and performs, records, and arranges for the Miami Saxophone Quartet. The group has recorded five critically acclaimed CDs and performs regularly around southern Florida. He garnered a Grammy-nomination for jazz arranging for Arturo Sandoval’s album, I REMEMBER CLIFFORD. 

ARE WE STILL DREAMING was recorded by THE SOUTH FLORIDA JAZZ ORCHESTRA. Created and directed by bassist CHUCK BERGERON, the orchestra includes some of the best jazz and studio musicians, as well as jazz educators, in the southeastern part of the United States. The members of the SFJO have performed and toured with many of the greatest artists in jazz and pop music. Lindsay and Bergeron are both educators. Lindsay is Director of Studio Jazz Writing and Jazz Composition at the Frost School of Music, which is part of The University of Miami, and Bergeron is Professor of Jazz Bass and Jazz History at the University of Miami. ARE WE STILL DREAMING, the orchestra’s third album, was produced by Grammy-winning trombonist JOHN FEDCHOCK. Lindsay has appeared on all of the orchestra’s CDs.  

Several guest artists joined the SFJO for this project, including acclaimed vocalist JULIA DOLLISON. A graduate of the Frost School and currently a member of the jazz studies faculty at The University of Northern Colorado, Dollison is featured on two tunes. The first is the medley “Spring Is Here / Up Jumped Spring.” According to Lindsay, “I like to write counterpoint, and when I arrange for vocalists, I don’t write arrangements where the vocalist sings the melody and the band plays the accompaniment. I prefer to write arrangements where the singer and the band are in a contrapuntal conversation with one another.” Dollison’s large vocal range and pure tone fit perfectly with the light-hearted, fluid, and swinging arrangement. The arrangements for either tune in the medley can stand on their own, and Lindsay actually created a standalone, radio mix for “Up Jumped Spring.” 

Dollison also sings a wordless vocal on “Are We Still Dreaming,” the title tune. Written by Lindsay, the composition was inspired by a guest appearance by trumpeter Kenny Wheeler at the Frost School a number of years ago. The tune also features solos by guitarist JOHN HART, who has performed with many jazz legends, including Jack McDuff, Jimmy Smith, Lou Donaldson, and James Moody.

The tune also features a solo by saxophonist GARY KELLER, who is not only a member of the Miami Saxophone Quartet but has also backed up legends like Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, and Johnny Mathis, as well as touring with many jazz luminaries.  NICOLE YARLING is another guest vocalist on this CD. A stalwart on the southern Florida jazz scene, she often appears with the South Florida Jazz Orchestra. She’s heard on the standard “Easy Living.” “When I wrote this arrangement, I had in mind a movie score for a hot, languid day down South,” says Lindsay. “Nicole is a true jazz singer who can scat with the best of them.” This tune also features trumpet player GREG GISBERT, a top New York City jazz and studio player.

Beside the title tune, Lindsay composed two other numbers for this project, including “Moment in Time,” which features a flugelhorn solo by ALEX NORRIS, another guest artist from New York who has extensive big band experience, which includes stints with the Village Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Toshiko Akiyoshi’s Jazz Orchestra, and Maria Schneider’s Orchestra. Lindsay also wrote “Toward Hope,” an exciting composition with a classical influence that features guest saxophonist Rick Margitza, now a resident of Paris.  

Lindsay has been a fan of Pat Metheny for many years and included his arrangement of Metheny’s “Better Days Ahead.” The band played this arrangement with Metheny when he performed at the University. Guitarist Hart is once again the featured soloist. 

Monk’s “Round Midnight” is the oldest arrangement on the CD. Lindsay wrote it in 1977 with Stan Kenton in mind, after completing a Master’s Degree. It features a solo by sax player ED CALLE, a member of the Miami Saxophone Quartet, who is a five-time Grammy-nominee who also won a Latin Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Album.

Lindsay closes the set with “UMMG” (Upper Manhattan Medical Group), the Billy Strayhorn tune. He gives this widely recorded number his own twist by introducing a distinctive opening groove that he inserts throughout the piece, creating a very different feel from the original or from any other recorded version. 

THE MUSIC OF GARY LINDSAY: ARE WE STILL DREAMING is a project that’s long overdue. The music is serious but very approachable. Lindsay’s arrangements and compositions are unique, beautiful, and satisfying on every level.

Woodwinds: GARY LINDSAY (alto sax, clarinet) 

GARY KELLER (alto & soprano sax, flute) 

ED CALLE (tenor sax, flute)

PHIL DOYLE (tenor sax, flute)

JASON KUSH (tenor sax, flute) 

MIKE BRIGNOLA (baritone sax, bass clarinet)

RICK MARGITZA (tenor sax)

Trumpets: AUGIE HASS, JEFF KIEVIT, JASON CARDER, 

ALEX NORRIS, GREG GISBERT, PETER FRANCIS

Trombones: DANA TEBOE, DANTE LUCIANI, JOHN KRICKER, 

MAJOR BAILEY, DEREK PYLE, ANDREW PEAL

Rhythm Section: MARTIN BEJERANO (electric & acoustic piano)

JOHN HART guitar

CHUCK BERGERON (acoustic & electric bass)

JOHN YARLING (drums)

BRIAN POTTS (shaker, pandeiro)

KSENIJA KOMLJENOVI (vibes & xylophone)

French Horn: (special guest) RICHARD TODD

Vocals: JULIA DOLLISON, NICOLE YARLING

All arrangements by GARY LINDSAY

Produced by JOHN FEDCHOCK

1 Moment in Time (feat. Alex Norris) 9:12

2 Spring is Here/Up Jumped Spring (feat. Julia Dollison) 8:43

3 Toward Hope (feat. Rick Margitza) 8:41

4 Easy Living (feat. Nicole Yarling) 7:16

5 Better Days Ahead (feat. John Hart & Chuck Bergeron) 8:25

6 Are We Still Dreaming (feat. Julia Dollison, John Hart & Gary Keller) 11:31

7 'Round Midnight (feat. Ed Calle) 8:22

8 Ummg (feat. Mike Brignola & Major Bailey) 6:25