JAZZ

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Will Downing's new album "Soul Symphony" (cat ma calmeaza omul asta, la lucru e numai bun)

GRP Records will release Soul Symphony on 4th October 2005. Soul Symphony opens with the seductive beat of ??€?Put Me On??€? and winds through a range of grooves and emotions. The first single from the album is the hit-bound slow jam, "Crazy Love??€?. Other songs on the album include the emotive ??€?A Promise, ??€? ??€?Make Time for Love, ??€? a romantic ballad, and a rendition of Brian McKnight??€�s ??€?What??€�s It Gonna Be, ??€? from his album Superhero (Motown Records). Downing co-wrote several of the songs featured on Soul Symphony, including the beautiful ??€?Heart of Mine, ??€? ??€?Soul Steppin??€? with its danceable groove, and ??€?Will Still Loves You, ??€? a respectful dedication to hard-working women and mothers everywhere.

One of the album??€�s highlights is ??€?Superstar, ??€? a song originally made famous by The Carpenters and later closely associated with one of Downing??€�s idols, the incomparable Luther Vandross. In fact, Downing brought down the house when he performed this song at the ??€?Forever, For Always, For Luther??€? tribute and benefit concert held in New York at the Theater at Madison Square Garden in October 2004.

[sunrah]

Rachel Z at Nighttown ( )

After two world tours as the featured pianist and keyboard player in Peter Gabriel's group, Rachel Z has a solo career that is rapidly on the rise. On Saturday, September 24th Ms. Z brings her trio to Nighttown in Cleveland.

Rachel Z has just released her seventh solo recording "Grace," which features several original compositions and is the first CD where she sings. This CD is a combination of originals and unique interpretations of modern pop writers like John Lennon, Kate Bush, and Kurt Cobain. Her previous CD "Everlasting" presented instrumental jazz versions of pop songs by artists ranging from The Beatles and The Rolling Stones to Seal, Sade, Steely Dan, and Kurt Cobain. Prior to that Rachel Z recorded a tribute to Joni Mitchell. Rachel Z is among the vanguard of musicians who are finding the jazz in modern pop music, and realizing its lasting value.

Rachel recorded and toured with saxophonist Wayne Shorter extensively in the late 90's and collaborated with him on the Grammy-winning CD "High Life."
Rachel Z has also played a prominent role in several major groups including those of Al DiMeola, Steps Ahead, Wayne Shorter, Vertu with Lenny White and Stanley Clarke, and most recently as a featured artist with Peter Gabriel's band. Rachel Z is clearly among the elite group of jazz musicians working today. This Summer and Fall, Rachel will be touring again in Europe and North America. For her appearance at Night Town, Rachel will be supported by her current New York trio consisting of drummer Bobby Rae and bassist Chris Luard.

Manhattan-born and raised Rachel Nicolazzo (aka Rachel Z) had music practically ingrained in her genetic code. Groomed to follow in her mother's operatic footsteps, she began voice lessons at two, started classical piano lessons at seven and attended the opera by age nine. "My first dollhouse was a Metropolitan Opera House complete with the stage and dolls which were the performers," she recalls. "Then I heard Miles Smiles when I was 15, started rebelling against the classical by improvising, and played with a band that covered Joni Mitchell and Steely Dan songs."

Listening to Herbie Hancock's harmonies over Wayne Shorter's compositions helped her bridge the gap from her classical training to jazz."The way my jazz chops developed was twofold. I developed acoustic straight ahead and electronic fusion playing equally over time," she says. After launching a quintet called Nardis, she studied with Joanne Brackeen and Richie Beirach.

Don't miss the dynamic sounds of pianist Rachel Z and her Trio live at Nighttown on Saturday September 24th at 9 PM. Nighttown is located at 12387 Cedar Road in Cleveland Heights. For reservations call (216) 795-0550 or fax: (216) 795-0531.

"Rachel Z is a consistently adventurous player. Rachel occasionally reveals traces of influence from McCoy Tyner and Herbie Hancock, but more often she is her own player, voicing her harmonies with a dark, intimate quality." -Don Heckman, The Los Angeles Times

[Deena]

Bio: Dave Brubeck

Pianist, composer and bandleader, Dave Brubeck is more than a jazz artist. He has written and recorded several large-scale works, including at least two ballets, a musical, an oratorio, four cantatas, a mass and works for jazz group and orchestra. Still, Brubeck possesses one of the most distinctive piano styles in jazz, combining an acute and delicate lyrical sense with the power of block chords and a dramatic musical force that comes from years of playing in any number of time signatures. Add to this his clear connection to the history of jazz piano, including stride and honky tonk, and you find an iconoclast both popular and controversial.
Born in Concord, Calif., on Dec. 6. 1920, Brubeck received early training in classical music from his mother and was performing as a pro by the time he was 13. He studied classical composition with Darius Milhaud, and in 1949 recorded his Jazz Workshop Ensemble (aka the Dave Brubeck Octet), in addition to forming the Dave Brubeck Trio with Cal Tjader and Norman Bates. In 1951, Paul Desmond joined, making it a quartet along with Ron Crotty (having replaced Bates).



Brubeck's greatest achievements began with his successful jazz-on-campus years of the '50s. This was Brubeck's "classic" quartet, a band that would last until 1967 and which recorded some of jazz's timeless classics (e.g., "Take Five" and "Blue Rondo A La Turk"). In the '70s and beyond, Brubeck has concentrated on composing and formed various bands, including ones featuring, among others, Gerry Mulligan.

Significant recordings include Jazz At Oberlin (1953, Fantasy), Jazz Goes To College (1954, Columbia), Time Out (1959, Columbia), Time Further Out (1961, Columbia) and Just You, Just Me (1994, Telarc).
In 1994, Brubeck was elected into the D.B. Hall of Fame.

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Bob Brookmeyer Named 2006 Jazz Master

Bob Brookmeyer, composer, arranger, trombonist, pianist, and director of the New England Conservatory Jazz Composers Workshop Orchestra, has been named a 2006 Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts.

The award carries with it a $25, 000 fellowship and invitations to participate in outreach efforts, broadcasts, and NEA Jazz Masters On Tour. Brookmeyer joins other present and past NEC faculty and alumni on the Jazz Masters list including George Russell and Cecil Taylor. From 1982 through 2006, the National Endowment for the Arts has designated eighty-seven artists of American music as NEA Jazz Masters, based on nominations submitted by the public. The program is part of an ongoing NEA project to support jazz artists and organizations that since 1970 has distributed millions of dollars in grants and awards. In conjunction with Jazz Masters??€� designation, the NEA has also initiated a 50-state NEA Jazz Masters tour with performances and educational activities, television and radio programming and a compilation CD produced by Verve Music Group.

Born in Kansas City, MO in 1929, Bob Brookmeyer studied composition at the Kansas City Conservatory of Music. Arriving in New York in 1952, he played with Claude Thornhill, Woody Herman, Teddy Charles, and Charles Mingus. In 1953, he joined Stan Getz, followed by stints with Gerry Mulligan, the Jimmy Giuffre Three and his own quintet with Clark Terry. Brookmeyer played and composed for the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra beginning with its founding in 1965, and after ten years in California returned as musical director for Mel Lewis and the Jazz Orchestra.

Since 1981 he has been very active as composer, conductor, teacher, and performer in Europe, working in both classical and jazz idioms. His work as a composer has been recognized with a succession of NEA jazz composition grants. In 1994 he was appointed musical director of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival Big Band, a worldwide jazz-based ensemble dedicated to new music. This ensemble served as the nucleus for Brookmeyer??€�s 18-piece New Art Orchestra, which began touring in 2001. With that band, Brookmeyer has made three CDs on the Challenge label, New Works which was CD of the year in England, Waltzing with Zo?« and Get Well Soon, which was nominated for a Grammy. Brookmeyer was commissioned by The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic to write a piece for an EMI CD, featuring the German trumpet player, Till Broenner. He is currently at work on a concert length piece, Spirit Music, for the New Art Orchestra, to be recorded in January 2006.

Brookmeyer will next lead the NEC Jazz Composers Workshop Orchestra in a concert December 13 in Brown Hall. :-<

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Long-Awaited Debut, Miri Ben-Ari: The Hip-Hop Violinist

After whetting the public's appetite with the soul stirring single Sunshine To The Rain, featuring Scarface and Anthony Hamilton and the slanguistic twist of the E 40 and Lil' Flip heater Sick With Da Flip, the long awaited major label debut Miri Ben-Ari: The HipHop Violinist, hits the streets on September 20th.

With an instrument that runs the gamut of emotions, Miri has composed inspirational instrumentals, which evoked conscious, heartfelt renderings from her assembled all-star collaborators. The artists on my album were all very talented and unique, and most have never worked with a violinist, so we pushed each other creatively, she gleefully states. The end result, a groundbreaking fusion of her crisp, soulful violin and hard-edged hip-hop production, has the streets abuzz with the new single We Gonna Win with one of the hardest lyricists in the game, Styles P. Of their creative coup, Miri says, "We Gonna Win' is a song of'triumph. It represents my personal belief that with hard work, talent and dedication, everything is possible. It's a one-of-a-kind marriage between rap and classical music, where the music doesn't accompany the vocalist, but rather stands on its own.

Adding a twist to the single is the Paul Schneider-helmed video, whichlaunches a first-of-its-kind business venture between Universal Motown Records and footwear/apparel giant Reebok. Marking Reebok's first foray into the actual creation of a music video, Ben-Ari and Styles P. wear customized RBK branded apparel, footwear and accessories. The partnership will also highlight Israeli superstar, Ben-Ari, as the newest face of the brand's global "I Am What I Am" advertising campaign, featuring print, online and retail components. As the latest celebrity endorsee to be featured in Reebok's "I Am What I Am" worldwide advertising campaign, Ben-Ari will join contemporary heroes of today's global youth including Allen Iverson, Jay-Z, Yao Ming, 50 Cent, Nelly, Donovan McNabb, Christina Ricci, and Stevie Williams.

Initially introduced to the hip-hop community by superstars Jay-Z and Wyclef Jean, joining them both onstage in front of packed houses, Miri's live performances are becoming legendary. While preparing her album, Miri has managed to share stages across the globe with Kanye West, thanks to her Grammy award-winning contributions to his multi-platinum, classic debut The College Dropout. She has also wowed thousands more at numerous athletic events with her rousing rendition of the "Star-Spangled Banner." In fact, it was her performance of the national anthem at a TJ Martell Foundation event in New York that brought her to the attention of Universal Music Group's chairman and CEO Doug Morris and eventually led to her signing with Universal Records.

[arheu]

dragute piese da prea optimiste parca....o nota colorat-religioasa...sa vedem restu!

[ronin]

Pe mine tocmai aceasta atitudine optimista ma atrage la jazz.

[Deena]

Bio: Bessie Smith



A woman has rarely had a stronger musical role model than Bessie Smith, the first blues singer to become a major name through her recordings. Alongside her bold social lyrics and clarity of vocal style, Smith's unapologetic hedonism and self-defense against racist attitudes made her the female equivalent of what Miles Davis would later represent.
Smith was born April 15, 1894, in Chattanooga, Tenn. Though both her parents died when she was a child, her older brother Clarence convinced her to take up singing and dancing. The teenager did so, and through a vaudeville job became a protege of Ma Rainey, though Smith was well on her way to becoming a viable presence in music prior to the friendship. Smith eventually moved north and spent the early '20s performing in Atlantic City. She left her successful endeavors for New York in 1923, where she pursued a recording contract. Though label heads initially disapproved of her gruff voice, Smith became a well-known figure as a result of her very first 1923 Columbia recording, Alberta Hunter's "Downhearted Blues." Smith's output was impressive enough to merit later collaborations with James P. Johnson, Coleman Hawkins, Louis Armstrong, Don Redman and Fletcher Henderson.

Smith earned several thousand dollars per week during the '20s, but due to the popularity of swing, blues fell out of favor with the public in the '30s, resulting in Columbia Records dropping her. The label has since reissued everything she cut during her too-brief recording career, a total of 160 songs recorded over 10 years. Smith continued to perform live, recording only four more songs (at the insistence of John Hammond) during the six years before Sept. 26, 1937, when she allegedly bled to death in a car crash. She was 43 years old, and would most likely have experienced a career revival had she survived.
In 1967, Smith was elected by the Critics into the D. B. Hall of Fame.

[Deena]

Bio: Nat ??€?King??€? Cole


Pianist/singer/bandleader Nat ??€?King??€? Cole may have made his name as a singer, but his work as a pianist is most musically significant. Taking the intracacies of Earl ??€?Fatha??€? Hines' right-hand lines and coupling them with the more spare, left-hand ones developed by Count Basie, Cole??€�s impact on subsequent generations of pianists is far-reaching.

Cole was born in Montgomery, Ala., on March 17, 1917. By the age of 4, Cole??€�s family had moved to Chicago, where he started playing organ and singing in his father??€�s church. Along with his jazz musician brothers Fred, Eddie and Isaac, Nat made his recording debut on Decca (1936) for the group Eddie Cole??€�s Solid Swingers. Cole left Chicago that same year, and eventually settled in Los Angeles. He formed his trio with guitarist Oscar Moore and bassist Wesley Prince, a group that would become known as the Nat Cole Trio. His trio format was to influence Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson and Ahmad Jamal, among others. Cole maintained a trio until 1951, recording for Decca, and later for Capitol.


Arguably, Cole??€�s most important recordings were from the early ??€�40s. Among them is a 1942 date with Lester Young and Red Callendar, and a later date with Young and Buddy Rich for Verve. In 1943, the Cole Trio had a hit with ??€?Straighten Up And Fly Right,??€? setting off his career as a singer. From 1944-??€�46, Cole toured and recorded as part of Norman Granz??€�s Jazz At The Philharmonic. After his No. 1 hit "Mona Lisa" in 1950, Cole soon earned his own radio and television show. He died in Santa Monica, Calif., on Feb. 15, 1965.

In 1997, Cole was elected by the Readers into the D.B. Hall of Fame.

[Kremlin]

nat king cole e prea tare...such cool songz...walking my baby back home,L.O.V.E...f fain

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[Peter Pan]

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[sunrah]

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[arheu]

sau asa...
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[Peter Pan]

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