Saturday, August 26, 2017

R.I.P.: Wilson das Neves (1936-2017)

(born on June 14, 1936 in Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil;
died on August 26, 2017 in Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil)

R.I.P.: Wilson das Neves (1936-2017), one of Brazil's greatest drummers ever. Also a singer and composer, he released many albums as a leader ("O Som Quente É O Das Neves" among them), was a member of the groups Os Catedráticos, Os Gatos, Os Ipanemas, Grupo Batuque and Orquestra Imperial, and recorded over 800 albums with such artists as Chico Buarque, Elis Regina, Toots Thielemans, Elza Soares, Sarah Vaughan, Elizeth Cardoso, Marcos Valle, João Donato, Gaya, Stellinha Egg, Moacir Santos, Maria Bethania, Caetano Veloso, Gal Costa, Gilberto Gil, Fabio Fonseca, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Miucha, Eumir Deodato, Jorge Ben, Paul Simon, Cartola, Walter Alfaiate, Nelson Angelo, Clementina de Jesus, Emicida, Arlindo Cruz, Sergio Ricardo, Ivan Lins, Sergio Sampaio, Paulo Diniz, Emilio Santiago, Candeia, Roberto Ribeiro, Doris Monteiro, José Mauro, Marcia, Maria Creuza, Pery Ribeiro, Clara Nunes, João Bosco, Joel Nascimento, Quarteto Em Cy, Paulo César Pinheiro, Jorginho do Império, Mestre Marçal, Beth Carvalho, Erlon Chaves, Wilson Simonal, Moreira da Silva, the list goes on and on...
Interrompemos nossa programação para comunicar o falecimento neste sábado à noite, aos 81 anos, de Wilson das Neves, um dos maiores bateristas da história da música brasileira. Gravou com Deus e o mundo: de Cartola a Chico Buarque, passando por Eumir Deodato, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Maria Bethania, Elza Soares, Elis Regina, Toots Thielemans, Clementina de Jesus, Marcos Valle, Nelson Angelo, Sarah Vaughan, Gaya, Stellinha Egg, Moacir Santos, Jorge Ben, Elizeth Cardoso, João Donato, Paul Simon, Clara Nunes, Miucha, Maria Creuza, João Nogueira, Walter Alfaiate, Emicida, Roberto Ribeiro, Emilio Santiago, Ivan Lins, Arlindo Cruz, Sergio Ricardo, Doris Monteiro, Marcia, Quarteto Em Cy, Joel Nascimento, Paulo Cesar Pinheiro, Mestre Marçal, Jorginho do Império, Moreira da Silva, Candeia, Sergio Sampaio e dezenas de outros. Difícil é dizer com quem ele não tocou... Vai na paz. A família agradece as condolências e em breve informará sobre o funeral.

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

R.I.P.: John Abercrombie (1944-2017)

(born on December 16, 1944 in Port Chester, NY;
died on August 22, 2017 in Cortland, NY)

John Abercrombie just passed away. Thanks for all the great music, my friend.

I know people talk often about "Timeless" and all the brilliant albums for ECM, but I also recommend some other lesser-known gems like "All Strings Attached" (a fantastic concert with Tal Farlow, Larry Coryell, John Scofield and Larry Carlton released on CD and LaserDisc), "That's For Sure" (with another dear friend of mine, Marc Copland, and Kenny Wheeler), "Speak To Me" (a gorgeous duo with Copland, an album I listen to almost every week) and Charles Mingus' bigger-than-life "Epitaph."

Rest In Peace.

Anna Mjöll All-Star Sextet @ The Baked Potato

LA-based Icelandic Jazz Princess Anna Mjöll leads an all-star sextet this next Friday, August 25, at the Baked Potato. Featuring Mitch Forman (keyboards), Reggie Hamilton (bass), Gary Novak (drums), Dean Parks (guitar) and Luis Conte (percussion).

Bill O'Connell and The Latin Jazz Allstars at Dizzy's Coca Cola, Aug 28th

Bill O'Connell and The Latin Jazz Allstars appearing @ Dizzy's Coca Cola
Monday, August 28th - Shows 7:30 & 9:30pm

Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola
Broadway and 60th Street, 5th Floor
Set Times: 7:30 & 9:30pm nightly
Reserve by phone: (212) 258-9595
In person after 6pm daily at the club

Cover: $30, Student: $20

With saxophonist and flutist Steve Slagle, trombonist Conrad Herwig, pianist Bill O’Connell, bassist Yunior Terry, drummer Robby Ameen, and conga player Roman Diaz.

“From its surging beginning to its aspirational finale, pianist Bill O’Connell’s [and The Latin Jazz All-Stars’]Heart Beatdelivers rich, layered work… it starts hot and gets hotter.” –DownBeat

Bill O’Connell is an award-winning pianist, keyboardist, composer, and arranger celebrated in both Latin and contemporary jazz. Since becoming Mongo Santamaría’s keyboardist in 1977, O’Connell has performed with, led, and arranged for such heavyweights as Astrud Gilberto, Sonny Rollins, Paquito D’Rivera, and Chet Baker, and he recorded over a dozen albums with the Grammy Award-winning flutist Dave Valentín.

Creed Taylor introduced me to Bill O’Connell, who was signed to CTI in 1993 (after Creed heard him playing on a studio session with the late bassist Charles Fambrough, "The Charmer") and released the acclaimed solo album "Lost Voices," recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio. He is also featured on Fambrough's "Blues At Bradley's," released by CTI on CD, VHS and LaserDisc formats.

Bill is one of the modern greats as both a player and writer, and The Latin Jazz All-Stars, his primary band, truly lives up to its name. What better way to spend a hot Monday night?

www.billoconnell.net

Saturday, August 19, 2017

Jesse Cook's Concert, Aug 26

Sat. - Aug. 26, 2017 - 6:00pm
DiMenna Center - NYC - Jesse Cook Debut NYC Solo Piano Concert - 
450 West 37th St. (between 9th & 10th Aves.) - Benzaquen Hall - 
doors open 5:30p. - Concert Donation $20.00 General Admission /
 $15.00 Students & Seniors (at door - cash please) 

Thursday, August 17, 2017

Arnaldo DeSouteiro - Bio / JSR

Arnaldo DeSouteiro – Biografia ultra-resumida 

Produtor de discos, com cerca de 530 álbuns em sua discografia (incluindo novos CDs, reedições, coletâneas, trilhas sonoras, projetos especiais), conforme consta no All Music Guide, principal e mais acessado website sobre música no mundo. Jornalista e publicitário (formado em Comunicação pela PUC-RJ), tendo escrito para os jornais Tribuna da Imprensa (de 1979 até sua extinção em 2009, com 3.200 artigos publicados), Última Hora, O Globo e O Estado do Paraná, revistas Billboard, Keyboard (USA), Cuadernos de Jazz (Espanha), Swing Journal (Japão), Revista do CD (Brasil) etc. 

Roteirista de shows (João Gilberto, Diana Krall, Ithamara Koorax, Marcos Valle, Eumir Deodato, Bjork etc) e de especiais de TV para as emissoras Globo (Antonio Carlos Jobim & João Gilberto) e Manchete (Dizzy Gillespie, Tony Bennett, Chuck Mangione, Airto Moreira & Flora Purim etc) no Brasil, BET e PBS nos EUA, NHK no Japão (Diana Krall, João Gilberto, CTI All Stars, Dave Brubeck etc).

Nascido no Rio de Janeiro (Brasil) em 1963, radicado em Los Angeles (EUA) desde 1999. Estudou piano clássico e harmonia com sua mãe, a pianista e maestrina Delza Agricola. É membro da Associação Brasileira de Imprensa (ABI) e da Ordem dos Músicos do Brasil (OMB) desde 1979, membro catedrático titular efetivo da Academia Internacional de Música desde 1985, membro votante do Grammy-Naras (National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences) desde 2006, membro votante da Los Angeles Jazz Society (único brasileiro) desde 2007, e também único brasileiro que é membro votante da Jazz Journalists Association (sediada em Nova Iorque) desde 2002. Atua como consultor e parecerista para diversas empresas, centros culturais e festivais de música no Brasil e no exterior.

Também foi membro honorário e primeiro membro brasileiro da Associação Internacional de Educadores de Jazz (IAJE – International Association of Jazz Educators) durante 12 anos, até sua extinção em 2008, tendo realizado palestras e "panel sessions" nas convenções anuais realizadas nos EUA. 

Fundador e Presidente da gravadora JSR (Jazz Station Records), sediada em Los Angeles – EUA desde 2001, uma divisão da Jazz Station Marketing & Consulting. Dirige também a JSR Casting e a LaCalifUSA Pictures, empresa de cinema que produz conteúdo e trilhas sonoras (composição, produção, seleção) para filmes e séries de TV. 

Produziu discos e sessões de gravação com artistas como Luiz Bonfá, João Gilberto, Dom Um Romão, João Donato, Palmyra & Levita, Mario Castro-Neves, Claudio Roditi, Gaudencio Thiago de Mello, Dexter Payne, Bjork, Rodrigo Lima, Don Sebesky, Hubert Laws, Fabio Fonseca, Marcos Ozzellin, Herbie Hancock, Jorge Pescara, Paula Faour, Anna Ly, Pascoal Meirelles, Yana Purim, Carlos Pingarilho, Nelson Angelo, Marcelo Salazar, Ithamara Koorax, Ron Carter, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Steve Swallow, Herbie Hancock, Hugo Fattoruso, Larry Coryell, Sadao Watanabe, Jurgen Friedrich, Claus Ogerman, Gazzara, Eumir Deodato, Azymuth, Marcio Montarroyos, Sivuca, Laudir de Oliveira, Marcos Valle, David Matthews, Gene Bertoncini, John McLaughlin, Raul de Souza, Hermeto Pascoal, Jadir de Castro, Lew Soloff, George Young, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Alphonso Johnson e muitos outros. 

Como compositor e letrista, tem parcerias com Dave Brubeck (“Broadway Bossa Nova”), Francesco Gazzara (“O Passarinho”), Mamoru Morishita (“Hotaru”) e Fabio Fonseca (“Samba da Copa”, executado na cerimônia de abertura da Copa do Mundo de 2006). 

Produziu reedições de discos de Sergio Mendes, Flora Purim, Tamba Trio, Ivan Lins, Carlos Lyra, Miucha, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Ron Carter, Idris Muhammad, Hank Crawford, Lonnie Smith, Johnny Hammond, Luiz Bonfá, Phil Upchurch, Tennyson Stephens, Eumir Deodato, Grant Green, Mario Castro-Neves, João Donato, Claus Ogerman, David Matthews, Esther Phillips, Joe Beck, Eric Gale e muitos outros.

Produziu as séries “A Trip To Brazil” (cujo Volume 1 chegou ao primeiro-lugar na parada de world-music na Europa em 1998, superando “Buena Vista Social Club”), “Brazilian Horizons”, “CTI: Acid Jazz Grooves”, “Jazz Club”, e retrospectivas - lançadas mundialmente entre 2006 e 2010 pelo selo Verve – das carreiras de Quincy Jones (“Summer In The City: The Soul-Jazz Groves of Quincy Jones”), Eumir Deodato (“Do It Again: The Fantastic Jazz Funk of Eumir Deodato”) e Chick Corea (“Electric Chick”).

Desde 1981, tem realizado, como free lancer, produção musical para diversas gravadoras, como RCA/BMG, Sony, Verve/PolyGram/Universal, CTI, King, Paddle Wheel, Pausa, Milestone/Fantasy, Warner/WEA, Motor Music, JVC/Victor, Sanyo, Movieplay, Imagem, Eldorado, CID, Alfa, RGE, Mr. Bongo, Terra Música, Blue Moon, Bomba, Cedar Tree, Treasure Trove, Irma, Vivid Sound, Motéma, e Huks Music, no Brasil, Europa, Estados Unidos, Japão, China, Taiwan e Coréia. 

Entre 1982 e 1984, atuou como assessor cultural do Serviço de Comunicação Social da Petrobras. Em 1983, criou, produziu e apresentou o programa "Jazz espetacular", transmitido pela Rádio Tupi FM. Em 1984, assumiu a responsabilidade da programação de bordo (musical e audiovisual) transmitida nos vôos internacionais da Varig, função que exerceu durante 14 anos. Também nesse período (1985 a 1987), participou da comissão de seleção do Free Jazz Festival. 

Escreveu textos de contracapa para discos de diversos artistas, como Toots Thielemans, Ella Fitzgerald, Eliane Elias, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Jeff Kinsky, Paulo Bellinati e Carlos Barbosa Lima, entre outros. Assinou textos para divulgação ("press releases") de artistas como João Gilberto, Stan Getz, Oscar Peterson, Pat Metheny, Bill Evans, Jimmy Smith, Elvin Jones, Stanley Turrentine e Tony Bennett.

Atuou como entrevistador em depoimentos prestados para o Museu da Imagem e do Som (Rio de Janeiro e São Paulo) por João Donato, Stellinha Egg, Maestro Gaya, Eumir Deodato, Airto Moreira, Flora Purim e Carlos Barbosa Lima. Em 2001, recebeu o prêmio de International Man of The Year, concedido pelo International Biographical Centre, de Londres. Foi o primeiro brasileiro a receber essa premiação, oferecida anteriormente a apenas quatro outros produtores: Arif Mardin, Tommy LiPuma, Quincy Jones e Phil Ramone. Ainda nesse ano, a JSR (Jazz Station Records), de sua propriedade, foi considerada uma das cinco melhores gravadoras de jazz do mundo, em relação publicada na edição de dezembro da revista especializada norte-americana "Down Beat", premiação que se repetiu por quatro anos (7º lugar em 2003, 9º lugar em 2004, 5º lugar em 2005 e 6º lugar em 2006).  

Foi entrevistado em vários programas de TV, seriados (incluindo o documentário "Laurindo Almeida, Muito Prazer" exibido pelo canal GNT) e filmes como o premiado documentário "Beyond Ipanema", no qual foi entrevistado ao lado de Creed Taylor, Lalo Schifrin, Wayne Shorter, Gene Lees e Norman Gimbel. Depois de apresentado em diversos festivais de cinema nos Estados Unidos e Europa, "Beyond Ipanema" foi transformado em série de televisão transmitida em território brasileiro pela emissora Canal Brasil em 2014.
Jazz Station Records (JSR), a division of Jazz Station Enterprises
CEO & Founder · Los Angeles 

            (Arnaldo DeSouteiro during a recording session in 2014)


"People are going to talk about you, especially when they envy you and the life you live. Let them. You affected their lives, they didn't affect yours... you will eventually lose someone you love & love someone you never thought you'd find..."
Arnaldo DeSouteiro - Short Bio

Music Producer (with over 530 albums to his credit according to the All Music Guide), Voting Member of NARAS-GRAMMY and Jazz Journalists Association (NY), Member of LAJS (Los Angeles Jazz Society), Musical Philosopher, Journalist, Jazz & Brazilian Music Historian, Publicist, Public Relations, Composer (having written successful jazz & pop songs, some dance hits like "O Passarinho" for the Italian TV reality show "La Pupa e Il Secchione", and "Samba da Copa" for the "2006 World Cup" in Germany, plus many other soundtracks for movies, soap operas & TV series in the USA -- PBS, BET, Universal Cable etc --, Europe and Asia), Lyricist (he wrote lyrics to Dave Brubeck's "Broadway Bossa Nova" at the invitation of Brubeck himself, among other songs), Arranger, Percussionist, Keyboardist, Programmer, Educator (conducting clinics and panel sessions worldwide as the first Brazilian member of IAJE-International Association of Jazz Educators during its existence). He has also acted as consultant for several companies and jazz festivals all over the world.

Founder and CEO of JSR (Jazz Station Records), a Division of Jazz Station Marketing & Consulting - LA, Calif. Most recently, founded LaCalifUSA Pictures and JSR Casting in 2007 for movie & TV productions featuring music & fashion.

Produced the acclaimed CD compilation series "A Trip To Brazil," "CTI Acid Jazz Grooves," "Brazilian Horizons," "Focus on Bossa Nova," "Focus on Brazilian Music Grooves", "Bossa Nova Singers," "Bossa Nova Guitar","Jazz Rock" etc.

Produced special compilations for Quincy Jones ("Summer in the City - The Soul Jazz Grooves of Quincy Jones"), Chick Corea ("Electric Chick") and Deodato ("Do It Again - The Fantastic Jazz-Funk of Eumir Deodato"), all released by Verve/Universal. His latest CD for Verve is "Bossa Nova USA," released last May, featuring Dave Brubeck's title track performed by Quincy Jones.

Supervised and/or Directed TV specials featuring João Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Dizzy Gillespie, Chuck Mangione, Flora Purim & Airto Moreira, Miles Davis, Dom Um Romão, Eliane Elias, Diana Krall, Eumir Deodato, Bjork et al. Worked with producers Creed Taylor, Yoichi Nakao, Susumu Morikawa, Matthias Kunnecke, and photographers Pete Turner, Victor Skrebneski, Robert Mappelthorpe, Duane Michals.

Mr. DeSouteiro has also worked in his native Brazil for TUPI-FM radio station (as musical programmer-DJ as well as hosting his own show, "Jazz Espetacular"), Manchete TV network (anchoring & supervising the "Terça Especial" series for which he interviewed such jazz giants as Dizzy Gillespie, Tony Bennett, Chuck Mangione, Airto Moreira, Flora Purim etc), Globo TV network (screenplay, coordination and mix for the TV special "João Gilberto & Antonio Carlos Jobim - O Grande Encontro" in 1992, the last time these 2 geniuses performed together, plus the texts and screenplay for the "Minuto da Bossa" series), and as the jazz columnist for the "Tribuna da Imprensa" (Press Tribune) daily newspaper during 29 years (from 1979 to 2008). Before moving to the USA, he also worked as Brazilian correspondent of "Keyboard" magazine (from 1985 to 1994), as a free-lancer to Billboard, Cuadernos de Jazz, Swing Journal and International Music Magazine, and as entertainment-in-flight programmer for several airline companies like Varig Brazilian Airlines (from 1983 to 1998).

Produced over 530 albums and sessions featuring: Luiz Bonfa, João Gilberto, Dom Um Romão, Thiago de Mello, Dexter Payne, João Donato, Palmyra & Levita, Mario Castro-Neves, Jorge Pescara, Paula Faour, Fabio Fonseca, Claudio Roditi, Rodrigo Lima, Hermeto Pascoal, Ithamara Koorax, Don Sebesky, Sammy Figueroa, Bjork, Anna Ly, Carlos Barbosa-Lima, Pascoal Meirelles, Yana Purim, Pingarilho, Nelson Angelo, Marcelo Salazar, Ron Carter, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Steve Swallow, Herbie Hancock, Hugo Fattoruso, Larry Coryell, Sadao Watanabe, Jurgen Friedrich, Eloir de Moraes, Gazzara, Deodato, Jadir de Castro, Azymuth, Marcio Montarroyos, Sivuca, Laudir de Oliveira, Marcos Valle, Jay Berliner, George Young, David Matthews, Lew Soloff, Alphonso Johnson, Gene Bertoncini, John McLaughlin, Claus Ogerman, Raul de Souza, Gonzalo Rubalcaba and many others.

Produced and supervised CD reissues of albums by Ron Carter, Hank Crawford, Johnny Hammond, Sergio Mendes, Hubert Laws, Grant Green, Idris Muhammad, Joe Beck, Esther Phillips, Lonnie Smith, David Matthews & Whirlwind, Phil Upchurch, Tennyson Stephens, Miucha, Flora Purim, Carlos Lyra, Tamba Trio, Ivan Lins, Raul de Souza, Trio 3-D and many others. As annotator, he wrote liner notes and press releases for albums by Toots Thielemans, Hank Crawford, Stan Getz, Ella Fitzgerald, Pat Metheny, Eliane Elias, Carlos Barbosa-Lima, Jeff Linsky and dozens of others for labels like RCA, CTI, Kudu, Milestone, Fantasy, Verve, Columbia, Irma, Alfa, JVC, Caju, Sonet, Paddle Wheel, JHO, Mercury, Imagem etc.

Mr. DeSouteiro also had the honor to be associated with some of the world's greatest photographers like Pete Turner (who did the cover photos for Rodrigo Lima's "Saga" and Jorge Pescara's "Grooves in the Temple," released on his own JSR label and featured on Turner's new book "The Color of Jazz"), Victor Skrebneski (the CD reissue of "Upchurch/Tennyson"), Bruce Weber (Esther Phillips' "For All We Know"), Robert Mappelthorpe ("Brazilian Horizons"), Alen MacWeeney, William Cadge, and Duane Michals (many of the CTI CDs) and so on. He has appeared in several movies and TV series such as the Award Winning documentary movie "Beyond Ipanema," for which he was interviewed alongside Creed Taylor, Lalo Schifrin, Wayne Shorter, Gene Lees and Norman Gimbel.
Jazz Station Marketing & Consulting, JSR Casting, LaCalifUSA Pictures
CEO & Founder: Arnaldo DeSouteiro
Jazz Station Records (JSR), a division of Jazz Station Enterprises
CEO & Founder · Los Angeles ·

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People are going to talk about you, especially when they envy you and the life you live. Let them. You affected their lives, they didn't affect yours... you will eventually lose someone you love & love someone you never thought you'd find... 

The Liberation Music Collective delivers jazz poetry celebrating heroes of global struggle

The Liberation Music Collective - a socially-conscious jazz orchestra born in Bloomington, Indiana under the direction of bassist/vocalist Hannah Fidler and trumpeter Matt Riggen - releases its sophomore effort "Rebel Portraiture" TODAY (August 17, 2017) via AD Astrum Records. 

The band celebrates the release at 9:30 p.m. tonight at the Jazz Record Art Collective series at the Fulton Street Collective, Chicago.
   
In the history of civilization, no generation has managed to avoid injustice, hardship, and peril - and every generation suspects that the coming crises are the worst thus far. Nonetheless, those taking the reins in the early 21st century have more reason for concern than most of those who preceded them. Environmental change, expanding income inequality, the rise of nationalism, the collapse of diplomacy - these issues are more than enough to make the bold blanch and the squeamish retreat.

But in the activist musical tradition of such jazz composers as Charles Mingus, Max Roach, and Charlie Haden - whose pioneering Liberation Music Orchestra provides the model as well as the namesake for their efforts - the Liberation Music Collective seeks to do what artists have always done, and what they should always do. They distill the anger and despair to create works that teach and inspire. With words as well as music, they gather up the emotions that attend history's victims and turn them into beacons, focusing listeners' remembrance and galvanizing their resolve. They transform sorrow into hope.

This dynamic undergirds "Rebel Portraiture," the eagerly awaited sophomore effort from the Liberation Music Collective, a contemporary jazz orchestra born in Bloomington, Indiana - under the direction of bassist/vocalist Hannah Fidler and trumpeter Matt Riggen - who interrupted the jazz conversation two years ago with their startling Siglo XXI. That album that fulfilled their mission to form "a socially-conscious big band dedicated to performing original compositions about contemporary issues." Now, on "Rebel Portraiture," they go behind the issues to honor the individuals whose courage and commitment call attention to oppression and injustice the world over.

As author and GRAMMY®-winning producer Kabir Sehgal states in his informative liner notes, "These tracks are tasteful and elegant portraits of those who defied fear and spoke truth to power. Now their stories become 'music to power.'"

In the tradition of the greatest artists in any genre, the LMC achieves this consciousness-raising with grace and grit, creating pieces that can stand on their own regardless of the events that inspired them. Reading about the fallen heroes to whom these performances are dedicated will certainly deepen one's appreciation for the goals and accomplishments of the LMC. But even without the historical overview, "Rebel Portraiture" overflows with musical wonder. The music employs a wide range of influences and resources: African and Arabic music, rap poetry, a 19th-century American hymn, early 20th century classical music, pan-national folk songs - all within the context of the modern jazz orchestra, with sophisticated arrangements by the LMC co-founders Fidler and Riggen.

In "Rebel Portraiture," contemporary heroes rub shoulders with martyrs of history. They include Berta Cáceres - an indigenous environmental activist in Honduras, assassinated in her home in 2016 for her opposition to the Agua Zarca Dam project - all the way back to Giles Corey, put to an agonizingly slow death during the Salem Witch Trials in 17th-century Massachusetts. The LMC reminds us of the fallen we may have forgotten - such as the four students killed while protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University in 1970 - and introduces us to more recent profiles in courage, whose names have already become rallying cries for the causes they championed.

One such woman is Noxolo Nogwaza, a South African LGBTQ+ organizer who was raped, murdered, and left on the side of the road in 2011, by perpetrators who remain unknown. Her death led more than 170,000 people to sign a petition demanding more protection for victims of sexual hate crimes, and trained the world's attention on human rights in that country. Riggen's homage, titled "Ditchside Monument," uses the hint of South African harmonies to craft a memorial that moves from mournful to momentous. Another dedication honors Syrian journalist Ruqia Hassan, whose blog posts reported on deteriorating conditions around the city of Raqqa under the influence of ISIS. She was murdered by the terrorist group in 2015, at the age of 20. In the composition "Iqra," the value of independent reporting like Hassan's is tied to a famous verse from the Quran in spoken word written and recited by Fidler.

The musicians of the LMC live what they believe. For the last two years, a small group drawn from the orchestra has traveled to Ferguson, Missouri - a touchstone of the Black Lives Matter movement - at the invitation of the Center for Social Empowerment and Justice. There they conducted daylong workshops to exchange ideas and share experiences (musical and otherwise) with local residents focused on racial justice. Members of the LMC have travelled together to be part of history in the making - from protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline in Standing Rock, North Dakota to the streets of our nation's capital for the Women's March on Washington. These musicians strive to "show up" for the turning points of our era, both musically and personally.

In the two years since their debut, the musicians of the LMC have undergone a dramatic shift in the musical and personal relationships within the band. "I see this as a far more intimate album, in several ways," Fidler says. "The subject matter is much more personal. We're touching very deeply on intimate aspects of people's lives, involving their final actions and the decisions they made." In addition, the musicians have grown closer since Siglo XXI, making the LMC a collective in the truest sense. "That album was literally our first project as a group," Fidler explains. "But now you can really hear the result of two years working together; you can hear the trust these musicians have in each other, and in the music."

This has certainly been the case among the core members of the band, who have continued to create new projects in smaller groupings between public performances by the entire orchestra. Although various members have moved on since 2015, long-term musical relationships in the band have begun to bear fruit-especially because Fidler and Riggen have tailored many of the compositions for the individuals playing it. "So, when we know that our lead trumpet player will be available, we write certain parts that only she can play," Fidler points out - a practice that came to fruition in the music of Duke Ellington, whose 1941 suite Black, Brown and Beige was one of the first jazz works driven by concepts of social justice and racism.

Indiana natives Hannah Fidler and Matt Riggen are both scientist-musicians: Riggen graduated with degrees in jazz and biology, and Fidler completed a double major in jazz bass and neuroscience. They met and bonded over music in the classes and performance groups led by GRAMMY-nominated trombonist Wayne Wallace, who is renowned for his exploration of Latin American musical traditions. Fidler and Riggen formed the Liberation Music Collective in 2015 as a way to channel their sociopolitical concerns into meaningful music. Since graduating from IU, both have moved to Chicago to pursue their careers and to introduce new musicians to their engaging brand of jazz activism.

Dica da noite do Rio: Fosfobox "Lost Frequency"

"Hight Tech Soul…
The House Music of Detroit...
The Techno Music of Detroit...
Simply is … "TECHNO" ... said, the innovator "Derrick May" !

"Desde os distúrbios raciais de 1967, até a cultura das festas underground no final de 1980, a crise econômica de Detroit não impediu o surgimento de um novo tipo de música que trouxe a atenção internacional, totalmente voltada para os seus produtores em sua cidade natal".

A cultura techno assim como a maioria dos gêneros musicais, chegou dentro de uma revolução para reivindicar e que neste caso, Detroit passava por momentos difíceis nesta década citada acima.

A "alma techno" além de ser um comportamento e uma revolução "socio-politico", engajou toda uma geração ao estilo musical e mudou o genero house music com seus timbres mais densos, uma estrutura mais ácida com o uso de sintetizadores e baterias eletrônicas famosas como, TR 303 e 808, chegando nestas soluçoes hoje ouvidas. As batidas 4x4 também ficaram com características "metálicas" que sugerem com colisões em suas máquinas industriais criando assim uma nova textura musical, o "techno music".

"Lost Frequency" vem para resgatar toda essa essência do "high tech soul" de Detroit, escolheu o mais seleto dia da semana e o club mais apropriado para definir sua sonoridade, a Fosfobox Bar Club, convidando artistas que trilham seu caminho seguindo a sua bandeira house music e suas veias latentes que pulsam dentro do techno underground, vertentes de minimal tech, acid e micro house.

Segue o line up cpmpleto para a nossa promeira edição !

Fosfobar :

♦️ Pedro Fragoso b2b Lucas Freitas (Great DJs)
https://soundcloud.com/lucas-freitas-62

♦️ Fernanda Witis
https://soundcloud.com/fernandawitis

♦️ Marie-Anne Dayeh Fragozo (RIO ME @MAM #Contest)
https://soundcloud.com/marrifragozo

♦️ Gabriel Najhar (Me Gusta #Contest)
https://soundcloud.com/gnajhar

♦️ Arthur RoughArt (Conception)

Subsolo MAIN :

♠️ Angelo Fracalanza ( Noir Music Official | OFF Recordings)
https://soundcloud.com/angelofracalanza

♠️ District 21 (Feeling Agency)
https://soundcloud.com/district-21

♠️ Rod B. (Ultra Music Festival | Resistance - Miami)
https://soundcloud.com/rodb

♠️ Saulo Ferraro (Feeling Agency | relva | Me Gusta)
https://soundcloud.com/sauloferraro

ENTRADA:
LISTA = NOMES NO MURAL
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Quando se trata de tecnologia em áudio, produção musical e estrutura do techno americano, Rod B. tem muita propriedade para nos apresentar. Formou se em 'Engenharia de Áudio' na #SAE que é a maior faculdade americana especializada em áudio e muito conceituada em todo mundo.

Sua história se resume a parcerias com artistas brilhantes como 'Carl Cox' e em labels importantíssimas da cultura underground como a 'Global Underground' lançando faixas de gênero techno respeitado em todo mundo e nos Top 10 nos maiores sites de download como Beatport.

Para termos uma noção maior e sentirmos o conceito deste artista, há 10 anos se apresenta no Ultra Music Festival em Miami no palco #Resistence.

E com seu projeto MUR Music - Miami Underground Records e Miami Sessions circula o mundo se apresentando nos clubs e festivais mais orientados a cultura eletrônica possível.

Dos países quentes aos países frios, de Ibiza a Slovênia, do México a Amsterdã, da Croácia a Berlin, diretamente de Miami chega ao Rio de Janeiro com sua mão cheia de bagagem e background para se apresentar em nossa Lost Frequency ❉ High Tech Soul ❉ Fosfobox.

Com nomes no mural até 1h é entrada colaborativa.
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Blue Note At The Sea w/ Miller & Corea

Blue Note at Sea, which sails from Ft. Lauderdale, Jan 27Feb 3, 2018 on Celebrity Summit. is the joint production of two iconic jazz organizations Blue Note Records and Blue Note Jazz Clubs along with the world leader in music cruises, Entertainment Cruise Productions. The cruise features winners of 50+ Grammys, 2 Tonys and includes 4 NEA Jazz Masters.
Join Chick Corea, Marcus Miller, Robert Glasper, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Lalah Hathaway, David Sanborn and many more as we sail to amazing ports of call including Labadee, St. Thomas, San Juan and Cococay. Blue Note at Sea is the ultimate jazz experience for todays jazz fan seeking the best music presented in a luxurious and intimate setting.

For more details, go to www.bluenoteatsea.com/jazzthing

City Parks Foundation announces 25th Anniversary Charlie Parker Jazz Festival

City Parks Foundation announces 25th Anniversary Charlie Parker Jazz Festival Presented by Capital One Bank
August 23 – August 27
Featuring Anat Cohen, Lee Konitz Quartet, Joshua Redman Quartet and more in Marcus Garvey Park and Tompkins Square Park

City Parks Foundation is proud to announce the 25th Anniversary celebration of the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival. The festival is New York City's annual salute to the legendary late saxophonist, featuring storied veteran players as well as young jazz musicians who continue to shape and drive the art form. This year’s festival runs August 23 through August 27 at parks and venues around Manhattan and will include free concerts, artist discussions, a film screening, and for the first time in the festival’s history, a dedicated evening of dance.

"We are thrilled to celebrate 25 years of the beloved Charlie Parker Jazz Festival," said Heather Lubov, Executive Director of City Parks Foundation. "In honor of this milestone we have expanded the program to 5 days, partnered with local institutions on family jazz events and open jam sessions, and are presenting a full evening of dance on the lineup for the first time. We hope all New Yorkers, young and old, jazz aficionados and new fans alike will join us in honoring the legacy of Charlie Parker and jazz in New York City."

The festival kicks off on Wednesday, August 23 at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music with “Bird With Strings,” a tribute performance featuring an ensemble of students and veteran jazz players honoring Parker’s 1950 recording, Charlie Parker With Strings.

On Thursday, August 24, the festival heads uptown to Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem for Jason Samuels Smith’s Chasin’ The Bird Remixed, an added evening of programming in honor of the 25th Anniversary, and the first full evening of dance in the festival’s history. Emmy award-winning tap dance virtuoso, Jason Samuels Smith, and Broadway veterans, Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards and Derick K. Grant, bring Parker’s music to life through dance in this special performance featuring live music.

The festival continues in Marcus Garvey Park on Friday, August 25 with world-renowned clarinet player & saxophonist Anat Cohen, who will lead a consortium of strings, horns, percussion, and keyboardswith her jazz-folk troupe, and Camille Thurman, a multi-talented saxophonist, flutist and vocalist.

On Saturday afternoon, veteran alto-saxophonist player Lee Konitz, a contemporary of Charlie Parker when bebop came on the scene, will perform with his quartet in Marcus Garvey Park joined by drumming prodigy and pioneering female percussionist Terri Lyne Carrington, one of the most recorded jazz drummers of all time Louis Hayes (who has played with the likes of John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk and Cannonball Adderley), and rising vocalist Charenee Wade, a brave new voice on the modern jazz frontier intent on using her gift to address social change.

On Sunday, August 27, the festival travels back downtown to the place where it all began, Tompkins Square Park, home to the inaugural Charlie Parker Jazz Festival in 1993, and located just blocks away from Charlie Parker’s home in the East Village. Joshua Redman, one of the most important contemporary horn players and widely considered to be the top sax man of his generation, will make his Charlie Parker Jazz Festival debut. NEA Jazz Master Lou Donaldson, revered by many as one the greatest alto saxophonists of all time; saxophone virtuosa Tia Fuller, one of the world’s best jazz multi-instrumentalists, full-time professor and one-time member of the all-female band that toured with Beyoncé; and vocalist Alicia Olatuja, who performed with the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir at President Obama’s second inauguration and has been in high demand ever since, will also perform to close out the final day of the festival.

In honor of the 25th Anniversary, City Parks Foundation has also partnered with local institutions to present free and open-to-the-public jazz events around the city. Events include an all ages Family Jazz Party with Festival performer Charenee Wade and a “Harlem Speaks” interview with Lee Konitz at The National Jazz Museum in Harlem, a screening at The New School of the 2016 film, I Called Him Morgan, about the life and tragic death of jazz musician Lee Morgan, live jazz in the gardens at The Harlem Rose Garden and 6BC Botanical Garden, and jam sessions at Gin Fizz Harlem and Ginny’s Supper Club.
The complete Charlie Parker Jazz Festival schedule follows or can be found on the City Parks Foundation website here: Charlie Parker Jazz Festival
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City Parks Foundation (CPF) is the only independent, nonprofit organization whose mission is to offer programs in public parks throughout the five boroughs of New York City. At CPF, we are dedicated to invigorating and transforming parks into dynamic, vibrant centers of urban life through sports, arts, community development and education programs for all New Yorkers. Our programs and community building initiatives — located in more than 350 parks, recreation centers and public schools across New York City — reach 425,000 people each year. Our ethos is simple: we believe thriving parks mean thriving communities.

Charlie Parker Jazz Festival 2017 Schedule
Event Information

Wednesday, August 23
Family Jazz Party with Charenee Wade
The National Jazz Museum in Harlem, MN
2:00 PM 
Join Charenee Wade and her band for an afternoon of singing, dancing and music making.
Free w/ RSVP at www.jmih.org, ages 5+

Wednesday, August 23
Harlem Speaks Interview Series with Lee Konitz
The National Jazz Museum in Harlem
7:00 PM
Join 90-year-old Lee Konitz for Harlem Speaks, the Museum’s signature oral history interview program. Free w/ RSVP at www.jmih.org

Wednesday, August 23
“Bird With Strings,” in association with The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music
The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, Auditorium
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Ensemble of students and veteran jazz players to perform a Charlie “Bird” Parker tribute to the 1950 recording of Charlie Parker with Strings. RSVP required at www.SummerStage.org.

Wednesday, August 23
The Shed Open Jam Charlie Parker Jazz Festival Edition
Gin Fizz Harlem
9:00 PM - 1:00 AM
A special edition of New York’s “Top 5 Jam Sessions” for emerging musical talent & musicians. Free, no reservations required.

Thursday, August 24
Jazz in the Garden: Art Baron, in association with Jazz Foundation of America and Ariana’s List
6BC Botanical Garden, MN 
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Live neighborhood jazz performances in the East Village where Charlie Parker lived. Free, no reservations required.

Thursday, August 24
Screening: I Called Him Morgan
The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, Theresa Lang Student & Community Center/Arnhold Hall
6:00 PM - 7:30PM
Acclaimed documentary on the life and untimely death of celebrated jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan. Free w/ RSVP to charlieparker@cityparksfoundation.org.

Thursday, August 24
Jason Samuels Smith’s Chasin’ The Bird Remixed
Marcus Garvey Park, MN
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Jason Samuels Smith
Jason is New York City’s very own Emmy-winning, tap dance authority. A highly commended choreographer, performer and humanitarian, Smith has been dancing and spreading joy his whole life. He has accumulated a long list of honors and dance distinctions, including awards from Dance Magazine, American Choreography, and the highly respected Gregory Hines Humanitarian Award. He’s choreographed for television and other media outlets, such as Outkast’s Idlewild, and the hugely popular shows So You Think You Can Dance and Dancing with the Stars. Smith has razzle-dazzled Broadway audiences with his rapid-fire footwork in Bring in Da’ Noise, Bring in Da’ Funk, and starred in another major all-tap revue, Imagine Tap!, as well as played the leading role in Debbie Allen’s breathtaking film Soul Possessed and Dean Hargrove’s award-winning short Tap Heat. JSS continues to astound and amaze spectators all over the world with his solo performances, as well as those with his skilled company. A truly altruistic individual, Smith uses his tap talent and celebrity to actively support many charitable organizations, including Dancers Responding to Aids, Tied to Greatness, Career Transitions for Dancers, Tap Into A Cure, Groove with Me, Move the World and more.

Thursday, August 24
In Bird We Trust
Ginny’s Supper Club
9:00 PM
Jam session celebrating the festival’s anniversary featuring Harlem Jazz musicians & guest DJs. Free - bar, standing / $15 - dinner reservation (call 212.421.3821 or visit www.ginnyssupperclub.com).

Friday, August 25
Jazz in the Garden: Bill Saxton, in association with Jazz Foundation of America and Ariana’s List
Harlem Rose Garden, MN 
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Live neighborhood jazz performances in Harlem near where Charlie Parker performed. Free, no reservations required.

Friday, August 25
Anat Cohen Tentet / Camille Thurman, in association with Jazzmobile
Marcus Garvey Park, MN
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Anat Cohen
There are very few connoisseurs of the clarinet in this world, and Anat Cohen surely reigns supreme amongst these select woodwindists. With a wonderful outpouring of vigorously harmonious tunes, the Tel-Aviv born Cohen leads her gifted team of ten on a jazzy voyage through multiple forms (with tinges of Brazilian, Eastern European, New York and New Orleans traditions). Her band’s blend of jazz and folk truly melds musical rituals from all over the world. Unanimously proclaimed as clarinet queen (the New York Times unequivocally states that she is a “Master”), top Jazz critics and publications rave about her sound. “With the clarinet she becomes a singer, a dancer, a poet, a mad scientist, laughing — musically — with the sheer delight of reaching that new place, that new feeling, with each chorus,” according to JazzTimes. Time and again, she is awarded the “Clarinetist of the Year” distinction from DownBeat, JazzTimes and the Jazz Journalists Association. With six solo albums so far, and eight collaborative records, Cohen simply loves to create and play. And one more thing, she’s also an expert saxophonist.
with Musical Director Oded Lev-Ari

Musicians:
Anat Cohen CLARINET
Oded Lev-Ari MUSICAL DIRECTOR
Christopher Hoffman CELLO
Stuart Mack TRUMPET
Nick Finzer TROMBONE
Owen Broder BARITONE SAX & BASS CLARINET
James Shipp VIBRAPHONE & PERCUSSION
Vitor Gonçalves  PIANO & ACCORDION
Idan Morim GUITAR
Joe Martin BASS
Anthony Pinciotti DRUMS

Saturday, August 26
Lee Konitz Quartet / Terri Lyne Carrington and Social Science / Louis Hayes / Charenee Wade
Marcus Garvey Park, MN
3:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Lee Konitz Quartet
The Lee Konitz Quartet is comprised of four of the most skillful jazz veterans working today. Under the leadership of Lee Konitz, the group has been thrilling audiences for quite a long time. Konitz, a premiere alto saxophonist, started out in Chicago, where he put a lot of hours into learning his craft. His early work saw him playing with Claude Thornhill Orchestra (arranged by Gil Evans), Stan Kenton’s Orchestra, pianist Lennie Tristano, and the Miles Davis Capitol Orchestra. He would then break out on his own, amassing a staggering list of essential jazz credentials. Adding a touch of international flare to the group is Dan Tepfer, their Paris-born pianist/composer. An improviser at heart, this talented musician has tickled the ivories alongside jazz behemoths of all natures, and has released several hit solo albums. With a keen interest in astrophysics, Tepfer has utilized his computer-science knowledge in conjunction with improvisational techniques to formulate a revolutionary jazz-centric algorithm. The Lee Konitz Quartet’s bassist is Jeremy Stratton, a local jazz hero from New York, who has played over the decades with a multitude of famed ensembles. Rounding out this colossal crew is George Schuller on drums. Schuller is well known in the jazz milieu, with numerous side bands under his belt, including the hit big band from the ‘80s, Orange Than Blue.

Terri Lyne Carrington and Social Science
For Terri Lyne Carrington, it’s not just about sounding sweet. Along with her band Social Science, the princess of percussion has been melding her uncannily sophisticated drumming and composing abilities with impactful, relevant statements on the pressing social issues of today. With a lush composition of jazz, indie rock, contemporary classical and R&B, all reconfigured under the sweeping swath of freeform improvisation, Carrington is not afraid to mix things up. A revered mainstay in the business, she has a four-decade long career and three Grammy wins to her credit, but is not even remotely content to just coast on by. An activist, educator and warrior for freedom and racial & sex equality, Carrington is nothing shy of remarkable. She began in music as an undeniable drumming prodigy, receiving accolades from People magazine, EBONY and Modern Drummer, at just ten years of age. With oodles of television performances and alliances with humongous names in music, she has wowed audiences all over the world. With eight full length albums out, Carrington perennially brings her passion to the studio as well. Her latest release is a can’t-miss collaboration with a star-studded cadre of top female artists, The Mosaic Project: LOVE and SOUL.

Louis Hayes
Born in Motown, Louis Sedell Hayes came up virtually ensconced in authentic Detroit music stylings. At a young age he discovered the piano, but when his father presented him with a set of drums, his true passion was ignited. Coming up in 1950’s Detroit, surrounded by jazz giants Yusef Lateef, Kenny Burrell and Doug Watkins (to name a few), Hayes was mentored by the legendary Papa Joe Jones. At only eighteen years old, he moved to NYC and joined the Horace Silver Quintet, skyrocketing him into the critical public eye, with his full drumming talents on display. In the 60’s Hayes became a part of the Cannonball Adderley Quintet, further cementing his name into the catalogue of storied jazz percussionists. He would later be asked to play alongside star piano man Oscar Peterson, in a group where Hayes and bassist Sam Jones would become known as the “dynamic duo” of rhythm. As Hayes’ career progressed, he would lead several incarnations of bands under his own name, playing with jazz greats Freddie Hubbard, Kenny Barron, Junior Cooke, Woody Shaw, Dexter Gordon and eventually McCoy Tyner. His shows still explode with energy, as Hayes bangs away with perfect precision.

Charenee Wade
The wonderfully outspoken Charenee Wade is a brave new voice on the modern jazz frontier, intent on using her art form to exact social change. This exquisite improvisational jazz vocalist, composer and arranger is just getting started, too. Her numerous accolades include being named the First Runner-Up in the 2010 Thelonious Monk International Vocal Competition and being invited to perform her original songs with Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead Program at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Her debut album Offering: The Music of Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson is a stirring tribute to socially-conscious musician/poet Scott-Heron, which also forecasts Wade’s own desire to rise up against the many forms of injustice still plaguing the world of today. Notable tracks include “Song of the Wind,” a heartfelt appreciation of the peace-seeking efforts of her mentors, “A Toast to the People,” a nuanced example of Wade’s deftness at storytelling through vocal dexterity, and “Home Is Where the Hatred Is,” a rousingly powerful jazz number where her dynamic talents are on full display. In addition to providing the gift of her voice to the world, Charenee passes along her love of music as a professor at the Aaron Copland School of Music, City College.

Sunday, August 27
Joshua Redman Quartet / Lou Donaldson / Tia Fuller / Alicia Olatuja
Tompkins Square Park, MN
3:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Joshua Redman
“Unparalleled among horn players today,” is the way JazzTimes (and a host of other noteworthy publications and critics, in so many words) describe longtime jazz legend Joshua Redman. Often referred to as one of the top sax men of his generation, Redman has worked with some of the most treasured jazz artists of all time, counting McCoy Tyner, Brad Mehldau, The Bad Plus, and Brooklyn Rider. While he has the ability to seamlessly blend into an ensemble and flawlessly synergize with the group, he can just as easily break out into a solo that drops the jaws of jazz fans of all ages. While his globally-successful recorded albums are a delight, many posit that his live shows are simply the stuff of legend. Aside from his stellar saxophone majesty, Redman is a stupendous composer and bandleader. With longstanding friends and collaborators at his side (Aaron Goldberg, Reuben Rogers, and Gregory Hutchinson), Redman leads The Joshua Redman Quartet to unprecedented heights of musical innovation. With stylistic motifs that date back to the ‘50s, the Joshua Redman Quartet is still a cutting-edge, thoroughly modern enterprise in jazz celebration.

Lou Donaldson
When someone mentions the greatest alto saxophonists of all time, only one name truly stands out: that of “Sweet Poppa Lou” Donaldson. With origins as the bandleader of Blue Note Records in the 1950s, Donaldson had already established himself as a new voice in jazz at only 25 years of age. As he directed many albums at this time, Sweet Poppa Lou was proud to collaborate with the biggest jazz instrumentalists of the day. With numerous recordings in the bag, Donaldson broke out with 1967’s Alligator Bogaloo, a revolution in the form, as he boisterously showcased his virtuoso status. His long and storied career has garnered him too many achievements to list; but his induction into the International Jazz Hall of Fame and the his naming as a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master (the absolute zenith of awards in the jazz realm) can not be left unmentioned. His bluesy, unmatched style is still on full display, as he dazzles and amazes crowds with his nimble fingers and crystal clear sound.

Tia Fuller
Tia Fuller is a saxophone virtuosa, a touring artist and full-time professor (at the Berklee School of Music). Having been featured on the cover Saxophone Today, Jazz Education Journal, and JazzTimes Magazine, she is a one of the world’s best jazz multi-instrumentalists. Tia was selected to be a member of the all-female band touring with Beyoncé, as part of the I AM..Sasha Fierce and Beyoncé Experience World Tour promoting the superstar’s CD’s, where Tia has played in various venues throughout the US, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. She is a featured soloist on the Beyoncé Experience DVD (Me, Myself and I), I AM Yours I DVD (Wynn Theatre) and also appeared on number of major television shows, such as The Oprah Winfrey Show, Today Show, Good Morning America, BET Awards, American Music Awards and Total Request Live, and the 2010 Grammy Awards. She has also performed as the featured soloist with Beyoncé for President Obama at the White House. Tia has recorded four albums with her quartet. The first was 2005’s Pillar of Strength, followed by 2007’s Healing Space, an offering of “melodic medicine.” Her third album, 2010’s Decisive Steps, took the #1 JazzWeek rating for two weeks straight, and nominated for their Best Jazz album. In 2012, she released her 4th album, Angelic Warrior, which received praise from Wall Street Journal, New York Times and numerous jazz publications. Tia’s quartet has performed all over the world at many prestigious venues and she’s received numerous awards, winning Downbeat Critic’s Poll-‘Rising Star’ two years in a row for Soprano Sax (2014), Alto Sax and Flute (2013). Between balancing her teaching and tour life, Tia feels that she is fulfilling her purpose here on this earth, that is to “serve as a light for others.”

Alicia Olatuja
Ever since Alicia Olatuja took center stage at President Obama’s 2nd inauguration, as the featured soloist with the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir, this luminous songstress has been in exceedingly high demand. It wasn’t long before she put together her very own backing jazz ensemble and released 2014’s aptly named Timeless, a testimony to her ageless voice. Reared in St. Louis, with the echoes of venerated blues and jazz artists past coursing through her veins, Olatuja emigrated to New York to complete her Master’s degree in Classical Voice & Opera at the prestigious Manhattan School of Music. Migrating from strictly opera and musical theater performance, she began feeling her gospel and soul roots, as she shared the stage with legends Chaka Khan, BeBe Winans and Christian McBride. Shortly thereafter, famed composer Billy Childs tapped Olatuja (praised by the New York Times for her “luscious tone”) for a nationwide tour of original works honoring Laura Nyro. Performing with her own band at virtually every jazz festival under the sun, this velvet voiced woman, with soul to spare, has only just begun to shine.
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The 2017 SummerStage festival is presented by Capital One Bank. Lagunitas Brewing Company, Brewery Ommegang, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, Austin Eastciders, Disney, Sprint, Boost Mobile, New York Presbyterian, Electric Sky Wine, Hint Water, Deep River Snacks, and Whole Foods are all official SummerStage sponsors. Generous private support is provided by the Howard Gilman Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, The Horace Silver Foundation, Dalio Foundation, The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, The Shubert Organization, The J.E.and Z.B. Butler Foundation, the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, and the NYU Community Fund.

Public support is provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, and New York City Council.
Presenting Radio Sponsor: iHeart Media featuring Lite FM, Power 105.1, 103.5 KTU, Q104.3, and Z100. Media partners include: Big Screen Plaza, Brooklyn Magazine, doNYC, New York City Jazz Record, Time Out New York, WBGO, WFUV, WNYC, and Zoom Media & Marketing.
In all of its programming and activities, City Parks Foundation partners with the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation to improve neighborhood parks and the communities they serve.

Media Contacts:
Teresa Holmes / Teresa.Holmes@uwgny.com
Kate Nemetz / KNemetz@CityParksFoundation.org / 212-360-8281

www.cityparksfoundation.org/charlieparker/

Badi Assad no... SESC!

Próximos shows da talentosíssima Badi Assad. No SESC, claro.

Dia 25 - Sexta, 20h - Show '25 anos Carreira' no Teatro Sesc Porto Alegre
Dia 26 - Sábado, 10h - Workshop na Biblioteca Pública do Estado do RS
Dia 26 - Sábado - 17h30 - Workshop - UCS - Caxias do Sul
Dia 27 - Domingo - 19h - Teatro do Sesc Caxias do Sul (Projeto Tum Tum Instrumental)

"E já aproveito para avisar que no dia 1 de Setembro estarei com minha sobrinha Clarice no palco do Sesc Pinheiros ao lado da incrível OCAM (Orquestra de Câmara da USP) com regência de Gil Jardim. Imperdível! Anote aí..."
http://www.ocam.usp.br

Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Marcelo Boccato @ Costellation, in Chicago

This week at Constellation!
3111 N Western Ave - Chicago, Illinois

Thu 8/17 - THE BRIDGE TRIO | MARCELO BOCCATO QUINTET 
Joe Dyson (drums), Max Moran (upright/electric bass), and Conan Pappas (keys) from NOLA /
Marcelo Boccato (piano), Tito Carrillo (trumpet), Geof Bradfield (tenor sax), Clark Sommers (bass), and Dana Hall (drums)

Sat 8/19 - TEPHRA SOUND
Nikki Glaspie (drums), Jessica Lurie (reeds, flute, toys, electronics, vocals), Brian Haas (keys), and Helen Gillet (cello, electronics, vocals)

Sun 8/20 - Frequency Series presents COPPICE
Noé Cuéllar and Joseph Kramer present music for physical modeling and modular syntheses projected as a multichannel sound design with fake air and images.

RECENTLY ANNOUNCED
Wed 9/13 Cooper-Moore
Fri 9/22 Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Xambuca
Sun 9/24 Michael Vincent Waller with R. Andrew Lee & Seth Parker Woods
Fri 9/29 Dave Burrell & Harrison Bankhead
Fri 10/27 Mara Rosenbloom Chicago Ensemble
Sat 11/4 Barry Gifford & Jason Adasiewicz

Friday, August 11, 2017

Ray Obiedo @ San Jose Jazz Summer Fest, tomorrow night!


Anna Mjöll @ Vibrato, this Sunday

If you are in the LA area, don't miss the LAST CHANCE (!!!) to see Anna Mjöll at VIBRATO till end of November!!! Show starts at 8 - call 310.474.9400 for reservations - hope to see you there ... 

Sunday, August 6, 2017

Kate Baker/Vic Juris stellar quartet live @ The Deer Head Inn, Aug 11

The great singer Kate Baker and guitar master Vic Juris will be performing with legendary bassist Harvie S (aka Harvie Swartz) and one of Brazil's top drummers, Mauricio Zotterelli, at The Deer Head Inn, Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvannia. This next Friday, Aug 11, from 7-11 pm. 

"Chill Out For A Summer Day" to be released tomorrow, featuring Dom Um Romão!

Coming out tomorrow: "Chill Out For A Summer Day (Irma ‎– IRM1628)", including Dom Um Romão's "The Fisherman's Dream," a track produced by Arnaldo DeSouteiro.

Complete data:
Release Date: August 07, 2017
Genre: Electronic, Jazz, Funk / Soul
Style: Lounge, Acid House, Deep House, Acid Jazz

Tracklist
01. Belladonna: Chilly Love
02. Irwin: What I Feel feat. Alan Scaffardi & Marina Santelli
03. Bomba Titinka: Hot Air Ballon
04. Papik & Alessandro Pitoni: Any Day Now
05. Giuseppe Milici: Isn't She Lovely
06. The Shiffers: Lotus Eaters
07. Animarea: I Will Never Tire Of Fighting
08. Gazzara: Portuguese Soul
09. Emanuela Campana: Vorrei Che Fosse Amore
10. Duran Y Garcia: Arabiancient
11. Neja: The Role Of Love
12. Dom Um Romao: The Fisherman's Dream
13. Jazz 2 More: Jump
14. JBx Project: Looking For Stardust
15. D'Andy: Feeling This Bass
16. Brisa: Release feat. Arcoiris
17. Papik: Only Promises feat. Ely Bruna
18. Ramilson Maia: Meu Amor
19. DN3: La Tecnologia
20. Abjure & Illuminum: Miami Heat

Credits
Engineer – Alberto Callegari, Arnaldo DeSouteiro, Guido Nemola, Phil Cohan, Renato Podesta
Producer, Arranged By – Aaron Tesser, Arnaldo DeSouteiro, Francesco Gazzara, Marcelo Salazar, Maurizio Belladonna, Nerio Poggi
Vocals – Alan Scaffardi, Ely Bruna, Marina Santelli

Thursday, August 3, 2017

Oaktown Funk @ Empress Theater, Aug 5

This next Saturday night, Aug 5th, don't miss Oaktown Funk with Linda Tillery, Mike Clark, Will Blades, Melecio Magdaluyo & Ray Obiedo appearing @ Vallejo's Empress Theatre at 8pm.
www.empresstheatre.org/events

Tuesday, August 1, 2017

The Marotta Brothers Band live @ Lola's every Wednesday in August

Legendary drummers Jerry Marotta (Peter Gabriel, Hall & Oates, Tony Levin, Cher, Paul McCartney) and Rick Marotta (Steely Dan, John Lennon, Eumir Deodato, Eric Gale, Aretha Franklin, Carly Simon, Michael Franks, Herbie Mann) have joined forces to create The Marotta Brothers Band!!!

Don't miss this intimate evening of music every Wednesday in August only at Lola's Martha's Vineyard (15 Island Inn Rd, Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts.)

For tickets: (508) 693-6093

Featuring: Joanne Cassidy, Wes Naggy, John Zeeman & Zoe Zeeman

Fusion CD of the Month - "Matt Cappy: Church And State"

Fusion CD of the Month
Matt Cappy: "Church And State" (Ropeadope RAD-366)
Rating: **** (music performance & sonic quality)

Produced by Matt Cappy
Engineers: Steve McKie, Tim Sonnefeld, David Ivory, Doug Raus, Ryan Moys, Kenyatta "Kelo" Saunders, Randy Bowland, John Anthony and Jim Bottari
Mixing: Steve McKie, Phil Nicolo, David Ivory, Tim Sonnefeld, John Anthony and Reid Shippen
Mastered by Andrew Mendelson @ Georgetown Masters (Nashville, TN)
Photos & Art Direction: Gene Bradford
Design: Niko Marks

Featuring: Matt Cappy (trumpet & flugelhorn), Eric Wortham, Junius Bervine and Monty Reynolds (Fender Rhodes), James Poyser (Farfisa and clavinet), Corey Bernhard (synths), Yuki Hirano (keyboards & synths), Omar Edwards (synth and organ), Anthony Tidd, Dwayne Moore (electric bass), Adam Blackstone (acoustic bass), Mario Crew, Steve McKie and Dan Monahan (drums), Leonard Doc Gibbs, Paulo Stagnaro and Pablo Batista (percussion), Clay Sears (guitar), Mike Burton (alto sax), Lamont Caldwell (tenor sax), Aaron Goode (trombone), Damon Bryson (tuba), Stephen Costello and Marsha Ambrosius (vocals), Chill Moody (rap), Anja Wood (cello), Jonathan Dinklage (violin & viola), Pete Donovan (arco bass), Lars Halle (string arrangements)
If you're anywhere near East Philly you know the name Matt Cappy. If you've seen Jill Scott, Dave Chappelle's Block Party, The Mavericks - you've probably seen Matt Cappy. If you've heard Michael Jackson's "Invincible," you've heard Matt Cappy. And that's just a few of the credits. 

Now the world gets to hear Matt's debut album, "Church And State," an impressive beginning for a solo career, with a diverse range of experiences and styles that tell the story of the man. Cappy loves CTI and Freddie Hubbard (specially his "Straight Life" album), so you'll identify traces of Creed Taylor's best fusion productions (with lots of Rhodes!) as well as Hubbard's passion for musical adventure. [The list of his favorite trumpeters also include Randy Brecker, Arturo Sandoval and Wallace Roney.]

Cappy smartly avoids prejudice and transcends all boundaries in a joyful album full of funkyfied tunes, with intoxicating grooves and perfectly articulated trumpet solos that also display a flawless technique and a gorgeously clear tone that reminds me of my much missed friend Lew Soloff.

The title track "Church and State" is a smashing hip-hop featuring rapper Chill Moody with muted trumpet, tuba and scratch. Other highlights: "East Philly" (that evokes memories of the Brecker Brothers in the "Detente" era, with Justin Gilbert on organ), the latin-tinged "Phoenix" (featuring drummer Mario Crew), the "marching-dance" opus "Rose Lane" with solos by tenor player Lamont Caldwell and trombonist Aaron Goode, and the smooth melody "Eight Five Six" where Bob James meets Chuck Mangione.

And the unveiling continues with appearances from Marsha Ambrosius, Stephen Costello, Steve Mckie, and many more. Along with jazz funk tracks, we hear intriguing performances of such classical pieces as Gounod's "Ave Maria" in a quasi-samba tempo (other jazz fusion artists as Deodato and Phil Upchurch have recorded Schubert's "Ave Maria"), Puccini's "Nessun Dorma" (the haunting aria from the final act of his Turandot opera) and "Amazing Grace," the Christian hymn originally published in 1779 (!) with words by the English poet and Anglican clergyman John Newton to which Edwin Othello Excell added the most famous melody, popularized by Mahalia Jackson in the 1940's.

Cappy's talent has taken him around the world, into network TV studios, concert halls and clubs, performing and recording with musical giants like Michael Jackson, Aretha Franklin and Earth, Wind and Fire. The recognition now comes in the form of a very busy schedule.

When he’s not on the road, the hard-working New Jersey native stays busy with gigs and recording sessions in NYC and Philadelphia, particularly in the “Neo-Soul” R&B scene centered out of Larry Gold’s The Studio. Matt’s reputation as a soulful trumpet player has led to touring, performing and cutting tracks with Grammy-winning acts such as Jill Scott, the Roots and gospel superstar Kirk Franklin as well as other recording sessions with Musiq Soulchild, Wyclef Jean, Floetry, Jaheim, Faith Evans, Kindred, Vikter Duplaix, Fred Hammond, Marvin Sapp, Gerald Veasley, Bubba Sparxx, Marah, K’Naan, Slo-Mo, John-Train and many more. But now it's time for Matt Cappy, the leader!