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    Imogen Heap to host GRAMMY awards premiere ceremony / HYPEBOT
     
    Posted At : January 18, 2020 3:12 PM

    Innovative musician and artist advocate Imogen Heap will host this year's Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony. The Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony features the many awards that will not be included in the nighttime CBS broadcast. Nicola Benedetti, Chick Corea, I'm With Her, Angélique Kidjo and Yola are among the performers to be streamed live via GRAMMY.com on Sunday, Jan. 26th from 12:30 – 3:30 PM PT Presenting the first GRAMMY Awards of the day will be current nominees Luis Fonsi, Nathalie Joachim, Kimié Miner, PJ Morton, Esperanza Spalding and former Recording Academy Chair Jimmy Jam. Cheche Alara will serve as musical director. The live stream of the Premiere Ceremony will remain on GRAMMY.com as video on demand for 90 days following the event. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #4d4d4d} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #4d4d4d; min-height: 14.0px} READ THE FULL HYPEBOT ARTICLE

  • Jesse Cook is going to get your attention with HEY! / Cashbox Canada
     
    Posted At : January 18, 2020 12:00 AM

    Award-winning and Internationally acclaimed guitarist, composer and producer Jesse Cook has swirled together Spanish guitar and Algerian violin and gumbri into an infectious musical mashup with multi-instrumentalist Fethi Nadjem for "HEY!" - a special single release, available January 10, 2020. "Some people think world music is anthropological field recordings," says Cook of the collaboration. "That's not my vibe…"Global music is the future, (and) I like it loud and bombastic!" And so sets the tone for "HEY!", the duo's global music mashup. The track was created soon after Cook and Nadjem shared the stage at the 2019 Victoria Jazz Festival; Cook's skills as a composer and producer quickly set the stage for Nadjem's remarkable talents across the guitar, oud, violin, mandole, and kora, the African harp, among many more, resulting in the stand-alone single. Also featured on "HEY!" are Matt Sellick on rhythm guitar, Dan Minchorn on bass, and percussionists Matais Recharte and Marito Marques; modern dance company Gadfly are featured in the video. READ THE FULL Cashbox Canada ARTICLE & WATCH THE VIDEO

  • Devonte Hynes' synthetic pop aesthetics blend with Third Coast Percussion's soundscape magic for 'Fields' / I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
     
    Posted At : January 18, 2020 12:00 AM

    On October 11, 2019, pop music star Devonté Hynes (a.k.a. Blood Orange) released his debut classical album Fields in partnership with Grammy-Award winning ensemble Third Coast Percussion on Cedille Records. The album features world premieres of Hynes' music performed by Third Coast Percussion, with Hynes himself on synthesizers. Hynes' synthetic sounds blend pop aesthetics with classical and ambient soundscape composition, creating a foundation over which Third Coast Percussion works its magic as virtuoso performers. Hynes' cycle For all its Fury for Third Coast Percussion in collaboration with Modern dance company Hubbard Street Dance Chicago is a collage of meditative minimalism mixed with electronic noise filtering set in a multi-movement form. Simple, clean lines executed by TCP with the utmost delicacy permeate the movements, creating microcosms of Hynes' ambient sound world. The piece oscillates between electroacoustic and electronic cells that reemerge in a post-minimalist blend of noise music and Glass-ian motives as clouds of amorphous electronic sound wash over and through the polyrhythmic textures that metrically modulate. READ THE FULL I CARE IF YOU LISTEN REVIEW

  • Downton Abbey - the film, set for release on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK / Harwich and Manningtree Standard
     
    Posted At : January 17, 2020 12:00 AM

    THE film from the hit drama created by West Stafford resident Julian Fellowes will be released on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK from January 27. It is already available to download and stream from streaming services. Downton Abbey the film (PG, 122 minutes) was an enormous hit on the big screen and a sequel is already in the works.  Downton Abbey is a crowd-pleasing frippery of froth, which assiduously ties up loose narrative threads from the acclaimed TV series and unpicks a few new ones. Michael Engler's film is comfortingly and disappointingly familiar, welcoming back most of the main cast plus Scottish composer John Lunn to underscore every twitch of a hemline with swooning orchestrations.  p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #4d4d4d} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #4d4d4d; min-height: 14.0px} READ THE FULL Harwich and Manningtree Standard ARTICLE

  • Now and then a collaboration comes along that grabs your attention - Ola Onabule and The Hazelrigg Brothers / Jazz In Europe
     
    Posted At : January 17, 2020 12:00 AM

    Now and then a collaboration comes along that grabs your attention and earlier this week this is exactly what happened when the new EP from vocalist Ola Onabule and The Hazelrigg Brothers hit our mailbox. Ola Onabule is, of course, no stranger to Jazz In Europe readers however The Hazelrigg Brothers maybe a little less known and we expect that this release will somewhat change that perspective. For those readers not familiar with Ola Onabule, a simple Google search will deliver enough material to keep your eyes and ears busy for quite some time.  However, I think it appropriate to metaphorically delve a little deeper into the Hazelriggs. The Hazelrigg Brothers consist of George and Geoff Hazelrigg, both Pennsylvania based musicians, and together with drummer John O'Reilly have formed a piano trio for several years. I first became aware of the group through pianist and producer Jason Miles who tipped me on their last album "Songs We Like". I can honestly say after the first listen I was sold and felt compelled to reach out to them to find out more. The interview with the brothers can be read here. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #4d4d4d} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #4d4d4d; min-height: 14.0px} READ THE FULL Jazz In Europe ARTICLE

  • Rachel Barton Pine discusses Dvorak & Khachaturian Violin Concertos with Central and Northern Michigan Radio
     
    Posted At : January 18, 2020 12:00 AM

    Chart-topping, international violin soloist Rachel Barton Pine, joined multi-faceted conductor Teddy Abrams and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra for a new Dvořák and Khachaturian Violin Concertos release on AVIE Records.  The album, featuring Dvořák's Violin Concerto in A minor Op. 53 and Khachaturian's Violin Concerto in D minor, highlights each composer's prominent use of his own traditional ethnic music. The recording marks Pine's 39th recording and fifth on AVIE records. Pine's previous four AVIE albums, Mozart: Complete Violin Concertos with The Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conducted by Sir Neville Marriner; Bel Canto Paganini: 24 Caprices and other works for solo violin; Testament: Complete Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violinby Johann Sebastian Bach, and Elgar & Bruch Violin Concertos with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew Litton all debuted on the classical charts. Central and Northern Michigan Radio: WCMU classicl host, DAVID NICHOLAS interviewed RBP recently for 'Mosaic where the Violinist spoke about the new recording.     LISTEN p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #4d4d4d}

  • Joep Beving says; 'peaceful music provides escape, comfort and change' / udiscovermusic.
     
    Posted At : January 17, 2020 12:00 AM

    "A lot of us are desperate to find some sort of essence and truth," says Joep Beving, the latest curator of the Peaceful Music playlist. Dutch pianist and composer Joep Beving is a 21st-century music phenomenon. His self-pressed 2015 debut album, Solipsism, quickly became a viral sensation; over the following five years, his tunes have gained more than 320 million streams. Beving, who stands 6' 10" and has a distinctive flowing beard, plays haunting, subtle music, some of which is featured on the brilliant Peaceful Music playlist he has guest-curated in partnership with Universal Music Group and Apple Music. Beving, who was born in 1976, is the fourth acclaimed composer, following Max Richter, Ólafur Arnalds and Luke Howard, to select the choices of the playlist brand co-created between Universal Music Group and Apple Music. "There is a kinship within all this music" The pianist, talking to uDiscover Music from his home in Amsterdam, says he thought long and hard about the "listening experience" he wanted on his playlist, a selection which includes picks from all four Peaceful Music curators, along with music from John Cage, Nils Frahm, Terry Riley, Sebastian Plano, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Erland Cooper, Brambles and Radiohead, who are one of his favourite bands. Photo: Rahi RezvaniShare On Flipboard Listen to the Peaceful Music playlist exclusively on Apple Music. READ THE FULL udiscovermusic. ARTICLE

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BrooklynVegan runs down what's up, for The Comet Is Coming

Posted: March 11, 2019 12:00 AM | By: Admin
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Shabaka Hutchings has quickly been becoming one of the leaders of modern jazz and specifically of the London jazz renaissance that's been spreading outside of the UK and really catching on here in the States too. He leads the bands Sons of Kemet and Shabaka and the Ancestors, he has worthy solo work, he's played as a sideman for the Sun Ra Arkestra, Floating Points, Makaya McCraven, and more, and he's one third of The Comet Is Coming (alongside keyboardist Dan Leavers and drummer Max Hallett).

Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery, The Comet Is Coming's second album and first for the legendary Impulse! Records comes out this week, and the band will be in Austin for SXSW this week where they have three official shows. After that, a show on Monday, March 18 at Mercury Lounge and they'll play some headlining US shows before hitting Knoxville, TN's Big Ears Festival. They'll also be back in North America in June for Bonnaroo.

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    The Afterlife

    "Bridging the gap between experimentation and accessibility" (Rolling Stone), The Comet Is Coming announces the digital release of the group's highly-anticipated mini-album The Afterlife, via Impulse! The Afterlife will serve as a companion piece to the group's breakout album Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery and the lead track "Lifeforce Part II."

    "The Afterlife has been a topic of deep consideration and of the keys to spiritual mythology around the world for millennia," claims kinetic keyboardist Danalogue. He continues to state "The two records can be seen as companions, that cannot exist without each other, like day and night, light and dark, creation and destruction. They were made together, at the same time, and have always been intended to be experienced together."

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    Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery

    The Comet Is Comingreleases their Impulse! Debut - Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery
    US tour starts March 12. Includes; Los Angeles, SXSW, New York, Philadelphia, DC, Big Ears, Bonnaroo

    The Comet Is Coming, "an improvisational, intergalactic mash-up" (The Guardian), will release their Impulse! debut, Trust In the Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery, on March 15. Their first-ever US tour begins in Los Angeles on March 12 and takes them through SXSW, NYC, Philadelphia, DC, Big Ears Festival and finally lands them in Bonnaroo on June 13. The first track from the album, "Summon The Fire," is available today.

    The Comet Is Coming, who in 2016 were shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize, is comprised of King Shabaka (Shabaka Hutchings) on saxophone, Danalogue (Dan Leavers) on keys/synth, and Betamax (Max Hallett) on drums. On this album, Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery, the trio envisage a 21st century take on spiritual jazz that is part Alice Coltrane, part Bladerunner.