The Richard Shulman Group Official NYC CD Release Concert “Turned into Lemonade” Club Bonafide Thursday, September 27th 9:00 PM

The Richard Shulman Group

Official NYC CD Release Concert For

“Turned into Lemonade”

Thursday, September 27th 9:00 pm

Club Bonafide

212 East 52nd Street 

New York, NY 10022 

646-918-6189 

www.clubbonafide.com

Admission $15 

Two drink minimum (food or drink) 

Tickets & Info

Richard Shulman - piano

Zack Page - bass

Rick Dilling - drums

Wendy Jones - vocals

Phillip Whack - Saxophones

This is the fourth album of original music from The Richard Shulman Group and I’m honored to be working with such skilled and intuitive musicians. Turned into Lemonade is melodic, harmonically inventive jazz influenced by Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek, John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Paul Winter, Oregon, Bill Evans, and Jay Beckenstein.

This collection of compositions/performances is a blend of melody, fire, water, groove, mutual exploration and beauty which I hope will uplift you the listener as much as creating it has uplifted me.” — Richard Shulman

“Richard Shulman is a gifted pianist/composer with a distinctive goal: creating music that’s joyful to the ear and uplifting to the spirit. Bothsophisticated and accessible, his work has the harmonic sense of Keith Jarrett and Bill Evans and is designed to inspire and soothe, even when it swings.” — All Music Guide Biography by Dr. Judith Schlesinger.

Hugh Wyatt of the New York Daily News calls Shulman “most enticing.. a new find... in the Keith Jarrett tradition who cleverly and interestingly weaves a number of different cultures into his music.”

“The playing throughout is consistently superb. The music is worth repeated listening and offers different dividends each time. Richard Shulman is a major composer and performer who deserves and will attain wider recognition.” — Frank Salamone, in reviewing Shulman’s recording “A Simple Gift.”

Richard Shulman - piano

Jacob Rodriguez - tenor & soprano saxophones

Zack Page - bass

Rick Dilling - drums

Wendy Jones - vocals on tracks 4, 7 & 9

1. Atmosphere - 7:03

2. I Claim my Day - 5:01

3. In Between the Blue and Green - 5:33

4. The Gifts You Gave to Me - 4:49

5. For Mom - 5:08

6. No Matter What They Say - 3:45

7. Homage to Pharoah - 11:44

8. It’s All Inside - 4:09

9. Finding Peace - 6:19

10. Buried Diamond - 4:57

11. Turned into Lemonade - 5:10

12. Sunny Samba - 5:44

13. Write Again - 5:34

14. Nostalgia - 2:53

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Playlist for Tom Ossana – The Thin Edge – September 12, 2018 MST 7:00 to 9:00p.m.

http://www.kzmu.org/listen.m3u ~ Use this link to access the show online.

Paul Jones with Leo Sherman and Jake Robinson (2018)

Paul Jones

Saxophonist, composer, type 1 diabetic, audio recording weekend warrior, 4 Star debut album, touring, bartender, person.

Paul Jones - tenor sax

Leo Sherman - bass and compositions

Jake Robinson - drums and compositions

All audio and artwork by Paul Jones

1. Isfahan 07:03

2. Open Ocean 07:13

3. Looking Back Again 07:35

4. The Eclipse 06:04

5. Half Nelson 05:48

6. Chagall 06:44

Big Heart Machine - Big Heart Machine (2018)

Big Heart Machine is 18 Brooklyn-based musicians dedicated to performing Brian Krock’s idiosyncratic, unclassifiable compositions. Their eponymous debut album- produced by multi-Grammy nominated composer and bandleader Darcy James Argue- features a vast range of music that explores the intersection of jazz improvisation, contemporary composition, and heavy metal aesthetics.

Miho Hazama- conducter

Charlotte Greve- soprano & alto saxophones, clarinet, flute, sopranino recorder

Brian Krock- alto saxophone, clarinet, piccolo, flute, alto flute, soprano recorder

Timo Vollbrecht- tenor & soprano saxophones, clarinet, soprano recorder

Paul Jones- tenor saxophone, clarinet, flute, alto recorder

Jay Ratmann- baritone saxophone, bass clarinet, clarinet, flute, tenor recorder

John Lake- trumpet & flugelhorn

Nolan Tsang- trumpet & flugelhorn

Cody Rowlands- trumpet & flugelhorn

Kenny Warren- trumpet & flugelhorn

Nick Grinder- trombone

Chris Misch-Bloxdorf- trombone

Isaac Kaplan- trombone

Jennifer Wharton- bass trombone

Yuhan Su- vibraphone

ArcoIris Sandoval- piano & synthesizer

Olli Hirvonen- electric guitar

Marty Kenney- electric and upright bass

Josh Bailey- drums and percussion

With invaluable assistance from Peter Lenz, Adam Neely, and Molly McAdoo

All compositions by Brian Krock, BMI

Produced by Darcy James Argue

Recorded at by Mike Marciano at Systems Two, Brooklyn on August 15 & 16, 2017

Mixed by Brian Montgomery

Mastered by Sangwook “Sunny” Nam at Jacob’s Well Mastering

1. Don't Analyze 07:18

2. Tamalpais- I. (stratus) 03:45

3. Tamalpais- II. Steep Ravine 08:53

4. Tamalpais- III. Stinson Beach 07:39

5. Tamalpais- IV. Dipsea Steps 08:02

6. Tamalpais- V. (cirrus) 04:48

7. Jelly Cat 09:04

8. Mighty Purty 10:28

Makaya McCraven - Universal Beings (INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM RECORDING October 26, 2018)

Paris-born, New England-raised, long-time Chicago-residing Makaya McCraven has been at the forefront of genre-redefining movements in jazz since 2015, when he introduced the world to his unique brand of ‘organic beat music’ on the breakout album In The Moment. Culled, cut, post-produced & re-composed by Makaya using recordings of free improvisation he collected over dozens of live sessions in Chicago, through incubation & experimentation In The Moment established a procedural blueprint that he has since been sharpening & developing. 

Honing this process on narrower sets of source material, Makaya followed up In The Moment with 2 mixtape releases – 2017’s Highly Rare, a lo-fi free-jazz-meets-hip-hop suite he made from a live 4-track recording, and June 2018’s Where We Come From (CHICAGOxLONDON Mixtape), which he produced using live recordings from London jazz hub Total Refreshment Centre (captured at a showcase called CHICAGOxLONDON). 

Now, after 4+ years of refining his approach, Makaya McCraven puts forth an ambitious new work – Universal Beings – a culmination of concepts conceived by In The Moment, and his most elegant & articulated work yet.

Spurred by a desire to connect with old friends & new collaborators in places where similar spirits & diasporic jazz innovations are thriving, Makaya worked with International Anthem across late 2017 & early 2018 to setup intimate live sessions in New York & Chicago, and pop-up “studio” sessions in London & Los Angeles. Though the contexts and logistics were D.I.Y. (as they almost always are with IARC), the friends & friends-of-friends that Makaya was able to enlist are top tier players across the board. Some might call them super groups of “new” jazz musicians from their respective cities, with Makaya as a common denominator. But more importantly, collectively they make an inspiring display of the organic global inter-connectedness of the Black American music tradition in 2018. 

Physically spanning national & international borders to create an album that musically spans deep spiritual jazz meditations, pulsing post-bop grooves & straight-ahead boom-bap, Makaya McCraven defies the simplifications of revisionism & regionalism while celebrating the sounds, settings & stories that define the provenance of his work. Universal Beings projects an all-encompassing message of unity, peace & power by embracing transcendence in all its expressions.

1. A Queen's Intro

2. Holy Lands (feat. Brandee Younger)

3. Young Genius (feat. Joel Ross)

4. Black Lion (feat. Dezron Douglas) 02:56

5. Tall Tales (feat. Tomeka Reid)

6. Mantra

7. Pharaoh's Intro

8. Atlantic Black 09:10

9. Inner Flight

10. Wise Man, Wiser Woman (feat. Shabaka Hutchings)

11. Prosperity's Fear (feat. Junius Paul)

12. Flipped OUT

13. Voila (feat. Daniel Casimir)

14. Suite Haus (feat. Nubya Garcia)

15. The Newbies Lift Off (feat. Ashley Henry)

16. The Royal Outro

17. The Count Off (feat. Carlos Niño)

18. Butterss's (feat. Anna Butterss)

19. Turtle Tricks (feat. Jeff Parker)

20. The Fifth Monk

21. Brighter Days Beginning (feat. Josh Johnson)

22. Universal Beings (feat. Miguel Atwood-Ferguson)

Tracks 1-6 (New York Side) recorded live @ H0L0,

Ridgewood, Queens, NY, August 29th, 2017.

Brandee Younger (harp)

Joel Ross (vibraphone)

Tomeka Reid (cello)

Dezron Douglas (double bass)

Makaya McCraven (drums)

Tracks 7-11 (Chicago Side) recorded live @ Co-Prosperity Sphere,

Bridgeport, Chicago, IL, September 2nd, 2017.

*Shabaka Hutchings (tenor saxophone)

Tomeka Reid (cello)

Junius Paul (double bass)

Makaya McCraven (drums)

Tracks 12-16 (London Side) recorded @ Total Refreshment Studios,

Stoke Newington, London, UK, October 19th, 2017.

Nubya Garcia (tenor saxophone)

**Ashley Henry (Rhodes piano)

Daniel Casimir (double bass)

Makaya McCraven (drums)

Tracks 17-22 (Los Angeles Side) recorded @ Jeff Parker's house,

Altadena, Los Angeles County, CA, January 30th, 2018.

Josh Johnson (alto saxophone)

Miguel Atwood-Ferguson (violin)

Jeff Parker (guitar)

Anna Butterss (double bass)

Carlos Niño (percussion)

Makaya McCraven (drums)

*Shabaka Hutchings appears courtesy of Verve Label Group

**Ashley Henry appears courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited

Recorded & Mixed by David Allen & Dave Vettraino

Artwork by Damon Locks

Insert Portrait by Fabrice Bourgelle

Insert Design by Craig Hansen

Produced by Makaya McCraven

Executive Production by Scott McNiece

Lefto presents Jazz Cats (SDBAN ULTRA October 5, 2018) CD / 2 LP

“Lefto continues to bridge the gap between the old school & new school... elements of traditional jazz meets modern day electronic influenced jazz”

Jamie Strong (Innovative Leisure, Los Angeles)

Growing up around jazz as a child, Lefto’s father would wake him up with the sounds of jazz flowing from the speakers and would often take him to dark and smoky bars around his home town of Brussels to hear the lastest Belgian jazz ensembles. Falling in love with jazz, he would later refine has knack for record digging while working at a record store in Brussels, immersing himself in hip hop and jazz.

Today, Lefto regularly blesses sound systems from Tokyo to Seoul and Singapore to New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles. He's not only a deejay and producer but also curates his own stage at the Dour Festival and his own nights in Gent in collaboration with Democrazy.

Other releases on SDBAN include ‘Jack Sels: Minor Works’, ‘Funky Chimes: Belgian Grooves From The 70’s’ and ‘Let's Get Swinging: Modern Jazz In Belgium 1950 – 1970’. SDBAN ULTRA releases include like ‘Steiger: Give Space’, ‘Black Flower: Artifacts’ and ‘STUFF. Old Dreams New Planets’.

1. SCHNTZL – ‘Lindbergh’

2. BRZZVLL – ‘De Vlijtige Kip’

3. 2 Times Nothing – ‘Fuckbox’

4. LABtrio – ‘Elevator’

5. Glass Museum – ‘Tribal Coffee’

6. Steiger – ‘Part One’

7. De Beren Gieren – ‘Oude Beren’

8. Black Flower – ‘Artifacts’

9. Commander Spoon – ‘Introducing - Part III’

10. Compro Oro – ‘Bombarda’

11. STUFF. – ‘strata’

12. Mazzle – ‘Hikari Park’

13. Madame Blavatsky – ‘Steak In The Neck’

14. Collective Conscience – ‘Takeoff’

15. BeraadGeslagen – ‘Suikerbeat’

16. Pudding oO – ‘Hiza Hiza Hey’

StringShot (Roy Rogers / Badi Assad & Carlos Reyes) - Blues & Latin (2018)

Virtuosic Artists Collide in Elegant Conversation of Latin + Blues on StringShot

Trio’s debut album and U.S. tour set to capture the hearts of roots, rock, world, and jazz fans

There’s a bedrock of sound that unites the music of the Americas, despite the remarkable variety of musical expression on the surface. And then there’s the unique, near-magical energy that comes alive when devoted musicians let their skill and artistry converse.

StringShot, the new trio collaboration between legendary blues slide guitarist & producer Roy Rogers, Brazilian guitar virtuoso and songwriter Badi Assad, and South American stringed harp master and violinist Carlos Reyes, harnesses both, bringing blues and Latin music into close dialog while demonstrating how well friendship translates into flawless performances and songwriting. Their beautifully produced debut album, StringShot, leaves ample room for the musical kindred spirits to strut their stuff and move with effortless tenderness.

“I’m always trying to push the envelope, ” laughs Rogers. “It’s conducive to great music. The Latin and blues conversation has always appealed to me, and I love the rhythms and the challenge of a different genre.This is the first time I’ve gotten to explore it outside of a strictly blues context, and it’s been wonderful.”

“Though our styles are totally different, we use them as a way to communicate our hearts out,” explains Assad. “In the lyrics process, we could feel that we take in life in similar way, with day-by-day discoveries, with a lot of simplicity coming from the soul, and a love for music with a lot of freedom. Roy has a very big heart and he embraced me as a sister, with that same kind of care and support. You can hear it in the music, our very special friendship.”

American audiences will get to hear the collaboration live for the first time, as StringShot embarks on its debut tour on the West Coast this autumn.

Roy Rogers

Badi Assad

Carlos Reyes

Back to Havana

Between Truth and Luck

Blues for Brazil

Still Livin' In A Memory

Back Along the Way

God Prayed It

Desires

Lost Again In You

Wounds Of Sight

Love Broken

Fay Claassen & WDR Big Band - Dutch Songbook (CHALLENGE RECORDS 2018)

"This album is a live recording of a very precious musical moment for me. What you hear is exactly as it happened at that special concert. Everything felt right, the great WDR Big Band conducted by Torsten Maass with its fantastic soloists, the gorgeous arrangements, the special guest soloists I could bring from the Netherlands: Peter Tiehuis, Cor Bakker and Theo de Jong, not to mention the enthusiastic audience of the club. A Dutch ‘Friendly Takeover’ in Cologne! "

In November 2015 Fay was asked by the management of the WDR Big Band to put together a programme with music from the Netherlands. Fay got carte blanche to choose all the music and have it arranged for her and the WDR Big Band. Although she had never sung in Dutch before, she loved the idea!

Fay was very happy that she could ask some of her favorite arrangers from the Netherlands, such as Rob Horsting, Ilja Reijngoud, Joan Reinders and Henk Meutgeert, to arrange the songs, but also Torsten Maass and legendary arranger Michael Abene made their fantastic contributions.

This project is recorded live at the ”Jazz-Schmiede“, Düsseldorf on November 28th 2015.

1 Find That Screw  07:36

2 Aan De Amsterdamse Grachten  06:53

3 Reach For The Rose  10:38

4 Is Dit Alles  08:35

5 Zonder Jou  05:47

6 Opzij, Opzij, Opzij  05:21

7 Dat Mistige Rooie Beest  07:42

8 Five Up High  07:21

9 Keep Me In Your Dreams  06:03

€ 19.95

Live tour by Fay Claassen and The Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw Fall 2018:

22 sep - Theater De Kom, Nieuwegein

29 sep - Veluvine, Nunspeet

01 okt - Het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam

05 okt - Chasse Theater, Breda

11 okt - Speelhuis, Helmond

12 okt - Theater De Stoep, Spijkenisse

13 okt - Isala Theater, Capelle aan den IJssel

19 okt - De Nieuwe Kolk, Assen

20 okt - Goudse Schouwburg, Gouda

21 okt - Schouwburg Cuijk

26 okt - De Vest, Alkmaar

www.fayclaassen.com

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