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FESTIVAL May 22, 2017

1st Annual LuluFest, Presented By Peggy Stern In Austin, TX June 3, Features Women-Led Bands

Pianist/composer Peggy Stern is passionate about creating opportunities for women bandleaders to present their music. In 2004, she founded the Wall Street Jazz Festival, which was held for 12 consecutive years in Kingston, New York, for exactly that purpose. After relocating to Austin, Texas in the spring of 2013, Stern was inspired to continue the festival’s ...
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WEBSITE May 20, 2017

Support All About Jazz's Future and We'll Hide Our Google Ads In Return

All About Jazz has big plans for 2017, but we need your help and we have a deal. With a contribution of $20 (or more), we'll hide the six Google banner ads that appear on our website pages for a full year (365 days). In addition to a Google ad-free experience, we'll also present convenient access ...
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PERFORMANCE / TOUR May 19, 2017

Studio Senakwami Presents: The Spotlight at The Appel Room on June 4 At 7:30pm

Following its sold out premier, The Spotlight, an acclaimed Studio Senakwami production, returns to the majestic Appel Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center with a new array of performers on June 4 at 7:30pm. The Spotlight offers a performance opportunity for professional, established and up and coming aspiring artists and musicians with a mission to encourage ...
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RECORDING May 18, 2017

Vintage David S. Ware Trio Album To Be Released June 23 On AUM Fidelity

Live in New York, 2010 presents a tremendous one-night engagement by saxophone colossus David S. Ware and his latter day Trio in an intimate club setting – at Blue Note on October 4, 2010. This double- album features the complete night of music – one set per CD. Featuring his perennially steadfast musical partner William Parker ...
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EVENT May 17, 2017

The Göz/Kurtág Jr./Lukács Trio & Lukas Ligeti at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) on May 20, 2017 at 7:30 pm

A double bill featuring THE LÁSZLÓ GŐZ / GYÖRGY KURTÁG Jr. / MIKLÓS LUKÁCS TRIO—an opto-acoustic experimental music performance & THE WORLD OF COMPOSER LUKAS LIGETI With Ariadne Greif (soprano), Ji Hye Jung (marimba), Members of wild Up and Ligeti’s ensemble Notebook Bing Theater at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Saturday, May ...
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RECORDING May 16, 2017

William Parker Quartet & In Order To Survive Double-Album To Be Released June 23 On AUM Fidelity

Meditation / Resurrection is a double-album presenting a bounty of beautiful new William Parker compositions performed by two of his flagship ensembles, the Quartet-&- In Order To Survive. It was recorded & mixed live during a one-day studio session in late 2016. This is Parker & the groups’ followup release to 2013’s epic Wood Flute Songs ...
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PERFORMANCE / TOUR May 16, 2017

Studio Senakwami Presents: The Gustavo Casenave Quartet Featuring John Patitucci on June 9 at The Appel Room

Gustavo Casenave is a three time Latin Grammy Award nominee, a Steinway Artist and a 2015 ACE Awardee. Mr. Casenave is a Uruguayan pianist and composer who has collaborated and recorded with artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Bette Midler, Eddie Gomez, Robert Duvall, Neil Sedaca among many others. The Quartet features the acclaimed, Grammy nominated jazz ...
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EVENT May 15, 2017

Cuban Drummer Francisco Mela Returns To New York's Cornelia Street Café To Lead The Crash + One

Cuban drummer Francisco Mela (Joe Lovano, McCoy Tyner, Chucho Valdés) will return to Greenwich Village's Cornelia Street Café to lead his ensemble, The Crash Trio + One, for a one-night performance on May 20, 2017. Joining him that evening will be Tony Malaby (tenor sax), Leo Genovese (piano), and Gerald Cannon (bass). 2017 has been a busy year for ...
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PERFORMANCE / TOUR May 14, 2017

Friends, Colleagues And Students To Celebrate Janet Lawson In NYC on May 15th

Friends, current and former students, and many of the incredible musicians she has collaborated with over the years will gather on Monday, May 15th 2017 from 7 to 10pm at the extraordinary Minnie Petrie Synagogue at Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion, 1 West 4th St. (near Broadway) in jny: New York City, to offer ...
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MUSIC INDUSTRY May 14, 2017

King Crimson Guitar Legend Trey Gunn's 7d Media Label To Merge With DiN Records

Trey Gunn (King Crimson, KTU, Security Project, solo artist) started 7d Media 15 years ago. The label began mainly as a vehicle for his own releases/projects and those of his closest colleagues (Tony Levin, Pat Mastelotto etc…) The label has steadily grown and now encompasses a variety of releases connecting both progressive rock (Stick Men, Markus ...
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It’s often said that good music is the music you think is good, but I don’t buy that. Sure, we all have leanings, from artists to genres, even periods, too, but good music exists as a superset, not a subset
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It’s often said that good music is the music you think is good, but I don’t buy that. Sure, we all have leanings, from artists to genres, even periods, too, but good music exists as a superset, not a subset. Otherwise, how could new genres rise to existence? Too often, people confuse “It’s not for me” for “It’s not good,” letting genre preference or peer acceptance set the bounds on their definition of “good.” Genres facilitate discussions, but classification negatively influences progress and feeds biases, thus, it imposes limitations. Listening: honestly, intently, receptively; good music can only reveal itself then. Its incorporeal, living in the now, to be heard and felt and gone, never to be touched, transferring its full value when auditory input creates new connections between brain and gut. For this, the music must communicate something primal, entirely human; this can only occur if those interfaces between musician and instrument, instruments and results (i.e. music) can successfully capture, process, and render individuality, from musician to listener, so that what is shared is honest self-expression. Technology should introduce new schemes to express one’s humanity in new musical ways—as electricity did to the guitar— not eliminate the human factor, or reduce self-expression to adept clicking on specialized software, or the order in which one pushes a button. Sad to see how much of today’s music is synthetic. Empty. Proof that too many aren’t really listening. But, then again, how many “music lovers” only listen to music in their cars or while walking to work or cleaning the house or… People who listen, really, will argue about what and who’s the best, even on what qualifies as good, but there’s one universal criterion all will give: musicianship. When it’s there and felt, good musicianship doesn't need to be defined among listeners willing to hear. Hence why, when asked what I listen to, genres are useless; I usually reply with, “I listen to good music.”
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By Pascal-Denis Lussier
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