“Their Most Ambitious Album Since the 1970s” – DOWNBEAT
The Legendary Headhunters’ Surprising New CD to Feature Snoop Dogg, George Clinton & Others
Owl Studios Readies ‘Platinum’ for June
In the March issue of DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE, writer Eric Fine previews ‘Platinum’, the upcoming Owl Studios release by Jazz/funk/fusion legends THE HEADHUNTERS, lead by founding members and co-leaders Mike Clark and Bill Summers. Fine describes the June CD as the band’s “most ambitious album since the 1970s” –
IODA, the global leader in digital distribution, marketing, and technology solutions for the independent music industry, and the Alan Lomax Archive announced a partnership to make thousands of traditional and vernacular music recordings available worldwide.
As part of a global grassroots campaign, Lomax and IODA will disseminate Lomax’s recordings digitally to an international network of retailers. The partnership comes on the heels of the recently released “Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World” — John Szwed’s comprehensive biography.
The recordings — many previously unreleased — are drawn from Lomax’s fieldwork from 1933 to 1991, during which time he sought out and recorded hundreds of hours of music from a huge diversity of cultures. They will be released on the Archive’s new label, Global Jukebox.
“No one has come close to Alan Lomax in illuminating the intersecting musical roots of an extraordinary range of cultures, including our own,” commented Nat Hentoff, renowned American historian, novelist, jazz and country music critic.
“Without Lomax it’s possible that there would have been no blues explosion, no R&B movement, no Beatles and no Stones and no Velvet Underground,” said Brian Eno, English musician, composer, producer, singer and visual artist, best known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.
America’s Legendary Folklorist
Alan Lomax (1915-2002) is considered America’s foremost folklorist. He dedicated his life’s work to the documentation of music and cultural traditions across the world and is perhaps best known for making the debut recordings of American legends like Lead Belly, Muddy Waters, and Woody Guthrie on behalf of the Library of Congress. But his independent explorations into the world’s traditional music took him beyond his outstanding recordings in the American South to song hunting throughout the British Isles, Spain, Italy, Morocco, Romania, the Caribbean, and the former Soviet Union, and won him a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award from the Grammy Foundation.
“It still remains for us to learn how we can put our magnificent mass communications technology at the service of each and every branch of the human family.” – Alan Lomax
A Global, Grassroots Campaign
Collaborations with folklore institutions like the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress and Spain’s Muséu del Pueblu d’Asturies, indie record labels Mississippi Records and Dust-to-Digital, among others, and university presses including those of the University of Nebraska and the University of Wisconsin will enable the Archive to make its more than 17,000 recordings available to diverse audiences worldwide. Through IODA’s international distribution network, Global Jukebox releases will be available at hundreds of digital retailers including iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, MOG and Rdio, and through mobile providers such as AT&T, Nokia, T-Mobile, Sprint, Telefonica and Verizon.
Among the most highly anticipated, never-released recordings are:
* The Newport Folk Festival Preview Concert at New York City’s Central Park was held at the height of the Civil Rights era, in the summer of 1965. Alan Lomax produced and MC’d the concert. The concert featured seminal figures of the Folk Revival era including Reverend Gary Davis, Ed Young, Bessie Jones, Mable Hillery, and the Georgia Sea Island Singers.
* Alan Lomax in Morocco, 1967. Lomax recorded the traditional music of both urban and rural Morocco, setting up his tape machine in the historic metropolises of Fes and Marrakech as well as in remote rural villages in the Atlas Mountains.
* Irish folksongs sung by famed Irish playwright Brendan Behan for Lomax in London in 1951.
“By enabling digital access to these recordings by the cultures and people whose legacies they represent, we expect this global collaboration to promote greater understanding of the diversity of the world’s music,” commented Erik Gilbert, VP of Client Strategy at IODA. “Our enthusiasm for this project is aligned with the enormous potential we believe it has to make a significant cultural contribution to the world’s music library.”
Featuring Mike Moreno (guitar), Jon Ellis (saxophones), Taylor Eigsti (piano), Joe Sanders (bass), Kendrick Scott (drums, compositions)
Drummer/composer Kendrick Scott, founder of the artist collective label, World Culture Music, leads his band “Oracle” at The Blue Note (NYC) on February 21 in preparation for leading the band into the studio, immediately following the band’s engagement, to record his third CD as a leader.
The new recording will be the much-anticipated follow up to the hugely successful release, The Source (on World Culture Music), and will feature Mike Moreno, John Ellis, Taylor Eigsti and Joe Sanders!
THE BERNIE MAC FOUNDATION
presents
A Special Valentines Day
JAZZ AND SOUL SESSIONS SERIES EVENT
Consider the songs in our hearts that inspire us toward uplifted continence; melodies that ring out in a manner that is soulful … even funky! Now think of an artist; an artist who George Benson describes as “joy filled in expressiveness” and “believable in any musical style,” topping the jazz and adult contemporary / R & B charts with his kickin’ trumpet and rich jazz melodies. That artist … is trumpeter Tom Browne.
One of Bernie Mac’s Favorite Old School Artists
Monday, Feb 14th 2011
Geo Soul
3462 Vollmer Road
Olympia Fields, IL 708-248-5502
Doors open: 5:30pm
Showtime: 8:00pm
Dinner is available before and after the show
Ticket Prices
$65.00 – Dinner & Show
$45.00 Show only
Dinner will include:
A 3 Course Elegant Meal
featuring
Delicious Starter Salad
5 Main Entree Selections:
Pork Tenderloin w/ Yellow Rice and Black Beans
Herb Grilled Tilapia w/ Corn Casserole
Creole Pasta
Steak Entree
1/2 Pan Roasted Chicken
Dessert
Sweet Potato Cheese cake
Crembulee
Lemon Pie
Pound Cake
All topped w/ Whipped Cream and Strawberries
PURCHASE TICKETS ON LINE NOW
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At age 37, bassist-composer Matthew Rybicki may have waited longer than most to make his first recording as a leader. But from a cursory listen to Driven, his auspicious debut as a leader, it would seem that he picked just the right time.
“Sometimes people get pushed out there too fast, but I really just wanted to marinate a little bit,” says the Cleveland native and longtime New York City resident who has apprenticed with the likes of Wynton Marsalis, Wycliffe Gordon, Nnenna Freelon, Victor Goines and Terell Stafford.
Back by popular demand! Smokin Hit SongWriters at the Smoke House on Monteagle Mountain! Get up close and personal with mega hit SongWriters and Music Industry pros. March 18th, 19th and 20th! Sign up online at: www.SmokinHitSongWriters.com Registration is only $150.00 for a 3 day seminar and retreat!
Newport, RI–The famed Newport Jazz Festival and Newport Folk Festival, held in Newport, RI, since 1954 and 1959 respectively, have returned to their original roots as non-profit events. The Festivals will now be produced under the umbrella of Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc., a newly-formed 501(c)(3) organization. They will still be produced by George Wein and his veteran staff.
Under Newport Festivals Foundation, each festival will continue the tradition of featuring established and emerging performers. The Jazz Festival will present musicians who follow the traditions of New Orleans, swing, bebop and modal as the heart of jazz music.
CD includes classic love ballads by Paul McCartney,
Diana Krall, Ray Charles, Rosemary Clooney, Natalie Cole,
James Taylor duet with Carole King and more!
CD available now at select U.S. post offices throughout the country
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Concord Music Group is once again partnering with the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to release a collection of holiday-related favorites. Love is in the air in the month of February, and what better way to express your affection on Valentine’s Day than with a collection of love songs by some of the most popular artists of the past several decades? USPS: Love Notes, a compilation of songs addressing all things romantic, is available until the end of February in select USPS outlets throughout the United States.
CD Features Guitarist John Hart,
Saxophonist John Ellis, & Drummer Russell Meissner
Jazz bassist/composer
Sean Smith makes a welcome return to recording with Trust — his third album as a leader, his first since 2001, and the debut release for his own imprint, Smithereen Records. Smith’s swinging, finely attuned quartet, which consists of guitarist John Hart, saxophonist John Ellis, and drummer Russell Meissner, is dedicated to exploring Smith’s original compositions. (more…)
Features Scott Kinsey, Matt Garrison, Guy Licata, DJ Logic
Live 2006 BBC Recording at New York’s Merkin Hall
Revisits Band’s Groundbreaking Concepts From
Their Grammy Nominated Blue Note Albums
Unconventional. Unheard of. Some might add unreal. Upon first listen, you’ll be struck by the startling freshness and flat-out nerve that have become hallmark sounds of Animation, the best rock & jazz mélange you’ve never heard of.
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