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Dynamic saxophonist Antonio Parker headlines the DC Jazz Jam show Sunday Sept. 6 at The Brixton on U Street.

Novosel at JACS tonight, Waters at Westminster Fri,

Shipp, Parker, Jenkins, Jegna concert on the way

Hall of Fame bass man Steve Novosel plays at the Jazz & Cultural Society Wednesday night jam tonight, Mavis Waters is at Westminster Friday Sept. 4 and Matthew Shipp, Antonio Parker and Tarus Mateen are on the way this weekend as September jazz heats up.
Novosel will be featured at JACS with Bob Butta on piano, Craig Alston, sax, and Harold Summey, drums, from 6 pm to 9 pm. Donation is $5 at the door. Cash or check. All ages are welcome, according to JACS maestro DeAndrey Howard.
The Jazz & Cultural Society is located at 2813 12th street NE in D.C., close to the Rhode Island Avenue and Brookland Metro stations. 
Remember JACS now has Organ Sunday jams, with

Alex Jenkins featured this Sunday Sept. 6 for the 6 to 9 pm session.

See www.facebook.com/jazzandculturalsociety for more information.

Sunday also has Reginald Cyntje’s Jegna School of Music in Hyattsvile (www.jegnamusic.com) featuring all-star bassist Tarus Mateen in a duo setting with sax man Elijah Easton;  dynamic saxophonist Antonio Parker headlining the DC Jazz Jam at The Brixton from 6:30 to 9:30 pm; and  Matthew Shipp –“one of today’s most original and diverse piano voices” -- playing a duo with bassist Michael Bisio at Bohemian Caverns for 7 and 8:30 p.m. sets.

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Coming up Sept. 8 multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Brad Linde continues his September Tuesday Artist in Residence shows at Bohemian Caverns, on this date headlining groups ThreeWe and Strange City.

Coming up in the Transparent Productions series in September are: Bill Cole and his New Untempered Ensemble Sept. 13 at Bohemian CavernsEvan Parker & Ned Rothenberg Dup Sept. 26 at Union Arts and The Thing Sept. 27 at the Caverns. Shows later this fall include Matt Lucian & Matt Maneri Oct. 11; Stephan Crump and Mary Halvorson Nov. 8; The Mark Taylor Group Nov. 29 and Grass Roots Dec. 5.

 

 

 

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Other September highlights include EC3 and Friends Sept. 8 at Blues Alley; Bobby Muncy Sept. 9 at Twins Jazz; Jason Moran’s Skateboarding Music and Media show Sept. 11 at the Kennedy Center; Veronneau Sept. 12-13 at Twins jazz; Clifton Anderson, Sept. 16 at Blues Alley; the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Jazz Forum and Concert Sept. 17 at the Washington Convention Center; Christian Scott Sept. 18-19 at Bohemian Caverns; Brian Settles Sept. 20 at the DC Jazz Jam, at The Brixton; Marianne Solivan Sept. 30 at Blues Alley and the Chick Corea & Bela Fleck Duet Sept. 30 at The Music Center at Strathmore.

 

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Saxophonist Brian Settles is the featured

performer for the DC Jazz Jam Sept. 20

at The Brixton.
Other September highlights include EC3 and Friends Sept. 8 at Blues Alley; Bobby Muncy Sept. 9 at Twins Jazz; Jason Moran’s Skateboarding Music and Media show Sept. 11 at the Kennedy Center; Veronneau Sept. 12-13 at Twins jazz; Clifton Anderson, Sept. 16 at Blues Alley; the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Jazz Forum and Concert Sept. 17 at the Washington Convention Center; Christian Scott Sept. 18-19 at Bohemian Caverns; Brian Settles Sept. 20 at the DC Jazz Jam, at The Brixton; Marianne Solivan Sept. 30 at Blues Alley and the Chick Corea & Bela Fleck Duet Sept. 30 at The Music Center at Strathmore.

 

Grubbs’ Annual Coltrane Concert

Award-winning saxophonist, composer and educator Carl Grubbs performs with his ensemble at his Annual John Coltrane Celebration Concert at 5 p.m. Sept. 19 at St. Paul’s Schools in Brooklandville, outside of Baltimore.

 

 

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Saxophonist and composer Carl Grubbs

plays at his Annual John Coltrane Concert

Sept. 19 at St. Paul’s Schools.


The show by Contemporary Arts Inc. and St. Paul’s Schools is in the Ward Center for the Arts, and features The St. Paul’s School Jazz Band, under the direction of jazz studies director Grubbs, and the Carl Grubbs Ensemble, with Eric Byrd, keyboards, Blake Meister, bass and John Lamkin III, drums. Tickets can be purchased online at
http://www.instantseats.com/events/contemporaryarts; call 410-944-2909 or 410-821-3047 for more information.

 

Cuneiform Records launches The Music Outpost

Cuneiform Records in Silver Spring has announced the creation of a new, sister company, called The Music Outpost, devoted to licensing cutting-edge music to various media including film/movies, dance, theatre, advertising, fashion, technology, and more. The new company launched Aug. 16 with the website http://www.themusicoutpost.com goes live. Cuneiform says numerous licensing companies already exist, “but all focus on mainstream music; licensing avant-garde music is not a priority for them.”
In contrast, The Music Outpost – “licensing music on the Sonic Frontier” – focuses on ‘outside’ music and aims to ultimately be THE go-to place for creative media professionals to find music as adventurous as their projects. Cuneiform says it will have a “continually-expanding archive of music-available-for-licensing” that will not only feature music released by Cuneiform, but also music by other experimental, boundary-defying artists.
A selection from The Music Outpost’s music archive is currently displayed on its website.

InReview … Ben Williams’ “Coming of Age”

 

Homeboy bassist Ben Williams, the D.C. product who went on to Michigan State and the Juilliard School to further his craft, has produced a lively, noteworthy recording with “Coming of Age” for the Concord Music Group.

Millard Southern in the liner notes says “ … at the very least it should be noted that ‘Coming of Age’ represents an artist’s attempt to remain open to the spirit of the moment.”

Williams says himself “That’s the true beauty of all this music, especially with jazz. There’s no gate. You can stay at home if you want to but you can go as far out in any direction as well.”

Indeed, “Coming of Age” does not stay at home in the traditional jazz sense, with a soulful/R&B feel to most tracks and hip hop/rap getting its due especially on the “Toy Soldier” track. Williams’ bass work stands out throughout with his vintage throbbing always lyrical driving grooves, and his bandmates are first rate, including Marcus Strickland, tenor and soprano sax, Matthew Stevens, guitar, Christian Sands and Masayuki Hirano, keyboards, John Davis, drums and Etienne Charles, percussion.

Special guests include Christian Scott with fine work on trumpet on “Lost and Found,” Stefon Harris on vibes on “The Color of My Dreams” and vocalists W. Ellington Felton on “Toy Soldier” and Goapele with haunting vocals on “Voice of Freedom (for Mandela).”

High points include Williams originals “Strength and Beauty,” with Sands and Strickland trading melodies and riffs; the popping jam “Forecast,” with Davis and Charlies pulsatingly pushing the tune through a winding blend of Strickland’s soaring sounds over Sands’ piano ripples and dramatic chords and edgy riffs of his own over Williams’ rumbling bass work; and the title tune with its lilting, waltzing opening quickly ripping into a frenetic chase, Williams, Sands and Strickland matching each other with vibrant flights of lyricism and charm.

See www.benwilliamsmusic.net.

InReview … Charlie Haden/Gonzalo Rubalcaba

Charlie Haden’s legacy as a bass man of virtuosity, known for excelling at traditional, bebop, contemporary and avant garde, and treats from that legacy are still coming for delighted listeners despite his passing last year. Witness the recent recording “Charlie Haden, Gonzalo Rubalcaba – Tokyo Adagio.” From the publicity material: “Tokyo, March 16-19, 2005: an audience in evening clothes, ordering drinks in Japanese whispers and inadvertently clinking their silverware, listened raptly as [pianist] Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Charlie Haden connected with an almost Zen sense of stillness in a nocturnal musicspace. It’s the paradox of recording: the moment is gone, but the moment is forever, encapsulating who the two men were when they played together.”

 

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That empathy between two sterling musicians can be heard vividly on “When Will The Blues Leave,” a tune Haden played on the Ornette Coleman 1958 release “Something Else.” With the Cuban keyboard master Rubalcaba Haden is at his walking blues best, with the pianist comping with subtle but distinct lyrical melodicism, the two players then complimenting each other’s flights through the lilting blues, almost as one, building tension, easing it, building it again.
“Sandino,” a Haden original, features the players jamming effortlessly and elegantly, Rubalcaba an efficient notemaker, with fleeting rhythms echoing through Haden’s supple bass notes. Other moments of stellar duo music-making can be heard on “Transparence.”
See http://www.crossovermeida.com for more information.

InReview … Lara Downes

An acclaimed classical pianist, Lara Downes has nonetheless been a jazz fan since childhood thanks to her father’s jazz albums, in particular those of Billie Holiday. When Downes was eight years old, “she wrote in her diary that her favorite song was Billie Holiday’s I Cover the Waterfront. Ever since, says Downes, she has been enthralled with the “distinctive qualities of mood and phrasing, line and color” heard in Holiday’s singing.
Downes says in her publicity material, “As a musician, I learned from Billie Holiday to make something completely personal when you make music … something that is completely your own – maybe something unexpected, something indefinable, perhaps complicated, but beautiful.”

 

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Downes, who has appeared on the world’s “greatest” concert stages, from Queen Elizabeth Hall London and the Vienna Konzerthaus to Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center and Lincoln Center, took a departure from the rigid world of classical structure to make a recording honoring holiday as her influence with “A Billy Holiday Songbook” on the Steinway & Sons label.
The result is a pleasantly lyrical album, featuring Downes’ elegant touch on tunes associated with Holiday. In most of the tracks Downes succeeds in capturing the drama, if not the singularity of emotional range of the Holiday performances we have come to love.
One certain highlight is the Ralph Rainger/Dorothy Parker tune “I Wished On The Moon.” Here Downes seems to capture the longing and melancholy of a Holiday delivery, as well as the lilting, loving pacing and phrasing she was known for. Another highlight is “I’ll Be Around,” with Downes exhibiting “the complicated but beautiful” quality she says she admired about Holiday.
Downes does a decent job on the other familiar Holiday tunes, such as “What a Little Moonlight Can Do,” “Good Morning Heartache,” and “I Cover the Waterfront,” and in sum has made a worthy first try at tackling a jazz recording.
See http://www.laradownes.com for more information.

InReview … Eli and The Hot Six Live

“We’re inventing music in real time; listening and building one another’s ideas; tuning into what the original compowers had in mind even as we’re treating their songs as platforms for improvisation.”
That’s Eli Newberger, accomplished physician and tuba virtuoso, on his “Eli & The Hot Six Live” recording of contemporary classic jazz, released a few months ago, from live performances at the Sherborn Inn in Sherborn, Mass., in 2013 and 2014.
In the New Orleans tradition, as well displayed on “Tiger Rag,” of snappy, crisply played jazz, Newberger is ably assisted by Bob Winter of the Boston Pops on piano, Herb Gardner, trombone, Ted Casher, clarinet, saxophones and vocals, Bo Winiker, trumpet, Jimmy Mazzy, banjo and vocals, Jeff Guthery, drums, Rebecca Sullivan, vocals and special guest Randy Reinhart, cornet.

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Owen McNally of WNPR in New England put Newberger’s contributions to the music this way: Going far above and beyond the Hippocratic oath to do no harm, Newberger [a pediatrician and Juilliard trained tuba and keyboard player] does great good with his agile tuba, which functions as a rock-steady, double bass-like timekeeper, as well as with his infrequent but fluent, succinct solo lines that are never less than seamless and surgically correct.”

Winter’s sprightly piano work is a highlight throughout, and noteworthy tunes include “Perdido,” which shows off Sullivan’s breezy-sweet melodies and scatting on vocals, “Body and Soul” with Casher’s solid saxophone lines winding above Winter’s lyrical piano; and “I Can’t Give You anything but Love,” Sullivan again stepping to the fore with impishly wry delivery on vocals, as she also does on “Them There Eyes” and “Just Squeeze Me.”
See http://www.sueauclairpromostions.com for more information.

 

Coming in October — More Nomadic Jazz

Debbie Hodnett and Nomadic Jazz welcomes The Bullettes and Friends on Oct. 10 at the Durant Arts Center in Alexandria, Va. “Come witness Washington, D.C.’s premiere all-female jazz ensemble, for a night of new and powerful music,” says the Nomadic Jazz information.   ‘This is a CD release event and will feature large and small ensemble works written or arranged by members of the Bullettes,” led by trombonist Shannon Gunn. See http://www.nomadicjazz.com for complete information.

 

Steve Monroe, a freelance writer based in Washington, D.C., can be reached at steve@jazzavenues.com

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Wishing ALL of our friends and loved ones a very happy holiday season as we prepare for a brand new year.

..we love each and…

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Illuminating the Way with Enchanting and Soulful Jazz Music- Steven B Strikes All the Right Chords with “It’s Time”

Posted by ArtistPR on October 18, 2023 at 8:00am 0 Comments

A heartfelt and moving portrait of emotions, Steven Bundick’s latest release cements his place as an extraordinary saxophonist and vocalist

Landover, MD —October 11th, 2023 – Saxophonist and vocalist Steven B’s soul-striking latest venture is his stunning EP- “It’s Time” which forms a testament to his incomparable musical prowess. The striking EP, comprising four original tunes, offers a look into the raw and deep chasms…

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A Special Tribute Opportunity: Join Us In Honoring Tony Bennett’s Legacy

Posted by ArtistPR on October 4, 2023 at 8:00am 0 Comments

New York City, NY — New York City, NY – In the wake of the recent passing of the legendary Tony Bennett, musician Marc Eliot is embarking on a heartfelt endeavor to pay tribute to the iconic singer’s legacy. Eliot has composed a poignant song titled “New York Blue,” and he is seeking renowned artists like to cover this emotionally charged composition.

“New York Blue” is a musical embodiment of the essence of New York City, capturing the bittersweet…

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