Archive for 2009
Sunday, July 26th, 2009
Stefon Harris & Blackout - "Urbanus" cover art
Stefon Harris and Blackout to Release
Urbanus
On Concord Jazz August 25, 2009
Concord Jazz today announced the release of vibraphonist-composer Stefon Harris’s 7th album as a bandleader and Concord debut, Urbanus. The new release picks up where 2004’s Evolution left off in that it features Blackout, his scintillating ensemble that’s as versed in modern jazz as it is with rhythms, melodies and soundscapes associated with R&B, pop, hip-hop and funk. The 10-track-album will be available August 25, 2009.
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Tags: Blackout, Concord, new CDs, Stefon Harris
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Sunday, July 26th, 2009
"Things to Come" cover
Pakistani-American Guitarist Rez Abbasi
Releases Things to Come,
August 25th on Sunnyside Records
Album Features Stunning Composition and Improvisation
From Culturally Diverse Top New York Musicians
(Rudresh Mahanthappa, Vijay Iyer, Johannes Weidenmueller, Dan Weiss
+ Special Guests Kiran Ahluwalia and Mike Block)
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Tags: guitar, Rez Abbasi, rudresh mahanthappa, South Asian jazz, Sunnyside, Vijay Iyer
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Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Composer Tyshawn Sorey (who is best known as a drummer) is featured as the lead music story by music/film/travel scribe Steve Dollar in the current week’s issue of Time Out New York (see the story here). The article is pegged to Tyshawn’s upcoming month of programming during August at The Stone, John Zorn’s renowned experimental music venue in New York’s Lower East Side and an upcoming new CD release with guitarist Todd Neufeld and bassist/guitarist Thomas Morgan.
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Tags: CD, improvised music, new music, Time Out New York, Tyshawn Sorey
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Sunday, June 28th, 2009
Fully Altered client, Chris Potter was featured on this past week’s New York Times Music Popcast, the weekly music podcast from the pop critics of the New York Times. Contributor Ben Sisario invited Chris to perform in the paper’s studios. He plays a lengthy solo saxophone version of “Body & Soul,” the popular song written in 1930 by Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton and Johnny Green and popularized by tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, among others. Potter also talks about the music on his newest album, “Ultrahang” (Artistshare) with his band, Underground. You can subscribe to the New York Times Popcast in iTunes or access it from the Times’ website here.
Show Order:
1. Jon Pareles reviews “Murdering Oscar (and Other Love Songs)” by Patterson Hood
2. Ben Ratliff on “A Man’s Thoughts” by Ginuwine.
3. Chris Potter performs in [the New York Times] studio[s].
Listen here.
Sia Michel, the pop music editor is the host.
Tags: ArtistShare, Chris Potter, new media, NY Times, podcast
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
Peter Hum's informative Ottawa Citizen jazz blog
Check out the nice words Canadian journalist and blogger Peter Hum, of the Ottawa Citizen, had to say about us:
I suspect that for Indie musicians, jazz or otherwise, life was so much simpler when the only game in town for online promotion was MySpace.
Now, the Web-based methods of promoting one’s music are bewildering. Which of the many music selling/sharing/promoting websites offers bangs for the bucks and time invested? Grandaddy MySpace? Last.fm? Yahoomusic.com? Reverbnation? Mymusicsite.com? Internet radio services like AccuJazz Radio? And what about the cutting-edge webtools from outfits such as artistdata.com and bandcamp.com? Or the Web-savvy services of publicists like Matt Merewitz of Fully Altered or Ariel Hyatt of CyberPR or the folks at Topspin?
Tags: new media, shameless self-promotion, web
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Saturday, June 13th, 2009
- Vijay Iyer (photo credit: Christopher Drukker)
Friday, June 19 – 8pm (doors 7:30)
VIJAY IYER TRIO performing at Harlem’s Temple M
Vijay Iyer, piano
Stephan Crump, bass
Marcus Gilmore, drums
TEMPLE M
555 West 141st Street (East of Broadway)
New York, NY 10031
Subways: 1 train to 137 & Broadway (City College) or A/B/C/D to 145 & St-Nicholas
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Tags: Alex Cline, Alwan For The Arts, Amir Elsaffar, events, gigs, Hafez Modirzadeh, live shows, Marcus Gilmore, Mark Dresser, New York, Stephan Crump, Temple M, Vijay Iyer
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Sunday, June 7th, 2009
With Facebook and Twitter going strong these days, it’s often easy to forget to update my website from time to time with client news and such.
Magos Herrera's "Distancia"
This past Wednesday morning, I got word from my main man Patrick Jarenwattananon at NPR Music that the anticipated review of Magos Herrera‘s new disc Distancia was going to air on NPR’s All Things Considered that day, I was pretty stoked (to use the parlance of our times). While performing that day’s other tasks (organizing a mailing with Stephen, preparing press releases and advance lists), I missed the story airing live on the radio but caught it online about an hour after it aired. Reviewer Tom Moon‘s enthusiastic review of the disc catapulted the CD straight to the Top 50 in Music on Amazon.com. And as of tonight, almost 4 days later, Distancia still sits at #85 in the overall music rankings on Amazon and after a day-long reign on Thursday at #1 on the iTunes Jazz album chart (followed by most of Friday at #2), Magos is now at #6 on that chart. Not too shabby. Look out for Magos performing live at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on July 3rd and at the Montreal International Jazz Festival on July 12.
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Tags: ArtistShare, Chris Potter, Magos Herrera, Nineteen-Eight, NPR, Pi Recordings, placement, Rudder, Steve Lehman, Sunnyside
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Friday, May 15th, 2009
photo by Natalia Almada
Well, it’s been a very successful week for Fully Altered client, guitarist Marc Ribot, who if you didn’t already hear, is celebrating his 55th birthday with a retrospective of projects he has led or co-led in the past (including Rootless Cosmopolitans and Shrek featuring Sebastian Steinberg, Mat Maneri, Shahzad Ismaily, Sim Cain, Christine Bard, Jim Pugilese, Roy Nathanson and Marc as ringleader, Los Cubanos Postizos and The Young Philadelphians with Jamaaladeen Tacuma and G. Calvin Weston); projects he is presently leading or co-leading (including the Marc Ribot Trio and Spiritual Unity (an Albert Ayler tribute band) featuring Henry Grimes, Roy Campbell and Chad Taylor, and Ceramic Dog, Marc’s “power trio” with bassist Ismaily and drummer Ches Smith) and projects he may lead or co-lead in the future (most notably Sun Ship, a late Coltrane “tribute band” with Taylor, Grimes and guitarist-on-the-rise Mary Halvorson and a slightly different lineup of Ceramic Dog with Hungarian violinist Eszter Balint). All of the birthday shows have been packed so far and for that I’d like to thank some of the writers and publications who helped make these turnouts possible:
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Tags: (Le) Poisson Rouge, downtown, Marc Ribot, New York, NY Times, placement, Time Out New York, Village Voice
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