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Comment by DAVIID MURRAY 18 hours ago -
BIRDLAND & 3D FAMILY PRESENT
M’BOOM MEETS WORLD SAXOPHONE QUARTET
"The Grand Collaboration 2010"
JANUARY 19th until 23rd 2010
BIRDLAND, NEW YORK, NY
Nearly three decades have passed since that glorious 1981 evening, when an audience of three thousand gathered in the cathedral of St. John the Divine to hear what Max
Roach called a “Grand Collaboration”: a concert by M’Boom and the World
Saxophone Quartet. For those who were there and those who weren’t, this “Great
Collaboration” is an eagerly anticipated sequel, an event that promises to get
2010 off to a roaring start. This time, the two legendary ensembles convene for
a week at Birdland, January 19-23. Roach founded M’Boom in 1970, as the first
ensemble consisting entirely of Western and non-Western percussion instruments,
ranging from vibraphone, marimba, and tympani to steel drums, timbales, and
glockenspiels. M’Boom, which has numbered as many as 10 players, now includes
three of its founding member, Joe Chambers, Warren Smith, and Ray Mantilla,
along with Eli Fountain, and Steve Barrios. The World Saxophone Quartet, founded
in 1976, is the most celebrated saxophone ensemble in jazz history, and is made
up of three founding members: David Murray, Hamiet Bluiett, and Oliver Lake,
plus James Carter in the seat originally occupied by Julius Hemphill. These two
ensembles fuse together with an almost mystical cohesion, intensity, and
flat-out joy.
M’BOOM : Joe Chambers / Warren Smith / Ray Mantilla / Eli Fountain / Steve Berrios
World Saxophone Quartet : David Murray / Hamiett Bluiett / Oliver Lake / James Carter
Birdland is located at 315 West 44th Street between 8th and 9th avenues in Manhattan
Call 212-581-3080 for reservations and information
Unless noted, show times are at 8.30 and 11 PM.
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Comment by wen mew on April 25, 2009 at 3:56pm
- my review of over 12 HOURS OF ELLINGTON STRAYHORN MUSIC AT U.C.L.A. THE WEEKEND OF APRIL 4, 5, 2009 IS ON JAZZTIMES AND WWW.WENJAZ.BLOGSPOT.COM
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- my bebop version of YES WE CAN! is the soundtrack for great documentary on HOWARD UNIVERITY ARTIST. go to www.myspace.com/wenmew1 click view all blog entries or www.youtube.com WEBEALLTV
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Comment by nicky quick on February 9, 2009 at 9:18am -
CD Baby will be selling my new 2nd guitar CD too.. there are two now on CD Baby to choose from.. maybe better.. buy them both.. :-)
rapster guitars it.. 2
rapster guitars it..
CD 2 has 12 new songs of the nu jazz guitar and vocal style that I introduced in my first CD, rapster guitars it (15 songs)..
with the help of my musical friends margot, syntopia and TLT50, I've sought again to blend all the most ambiently soulful funky heavy and ballad genres into a personal style which CD Baby describes as
"an impressive innovative blend of many genres"..
http://cdbaby.com/all/rapster
thanks for your interest in new original music.. and for supporting and inspiring mine..
joe nickerson
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Comment by nicky quick on December 15, 2008 at 3:22pm
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I've posted a new tune.. plays automatically.. please check this one out..
PLAYIN THE BLUES..
nu jazz blues.. blue jazz news..
cheers and merry christmas jazzers.. :-)
nicky
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Comment by Nailah on December 6, 2008 at 9:15am
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I'm with Lezah Entertainment...been loving JazzTimes for YEARS!!! Always look forward to seeing the latest issue. Don't ever stop!!!!
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Comment by Mz Jacqui on October 31, 2008 at 10:52am
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Comment by Mz Jacqui on October 31, 2008 at 10:50am
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LIVE JAZZ
Thursday Nights in NYC @ Sweet Rhythm
Lezlie Harrison & The Scorpions
Lezlie Harrison has a charge to all her friends in the USA, Are you registered? I know the answer is yes... NOW get out there on November 4, and VOTE PLEASE!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C315T_Pzwk
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The thing that is making jazz healthy today is that people are coming out of other backgrounds - from rock, folk, from ethnic music. It's changing the music, and for the better.~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Billy Taylor
Dear Tamm E:
Just a note to tell you that it is nice to read about you!!!
You share so much great info about others and about the music, but nice to know that you are WAILIN' yourself and getting appreciation!!
Global Jazz Network is a really important way for all of us to keep hooked up and informed and to SLOWLY BUT SURELY SPREAD THE MESSAGE AND THE PHILOSOPHY of what Jazz is in its many different forms and what the styles are/is all about.
Just played for Paquito's honoring and received gold medal
John Faddis, save Brubeck, James moody and a bunch of KILLER YOUNG players and we all played and spoke about Paquito and jazz and all fine music
and Roberta Gamborini, who was excellent.
wish you had been there!
Through you, Donald Harrison hooked me up with Pittsburgh Jazz info and I feel like i am living there just reading about all the great happenings.
As Fall is here, I am back to my normal insane schedule, but wanted to write you back BEFORE The STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS goes into effect. I am my own secretary, so I am dedicated but SLOW!
And I can't fire myself as my own secretary or I might get hit with an Age Discrimination Lawsuit (in case I decided to sue myself for clerical incompetence).
As of this moment, a new documentary film is being made about me, to be released a few months after my 80th birthday, which is coming up next year Nov. 17, 2010. (12 months from now).
The film will end with the videoing of the big 80th birthday bash at Symphony Space in NYC and then have snippets of films from the past, with all kinds of fun stuff from the 50's thru today.
It will be called "David Amram: The First 80 Years"
Fortunately, I don't have to edit the hundreds of hours of footage or do new music the score, since the film maker, Larry Kraman is also the founder of Newport Classics recordings and knows all my symphonic as well as operatic, theater, film and jazz and world music work, so I am in good hands!!
The same people at Newport Classics Recordings are also making a Spoken Word series for I-Tunes, with me reading from my three books Vibrations, Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac and Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat.
And they are also recording some of my chamber music compositions and a new jazz record,
Next Spring my opera "12th Night", with libretto by Joe Papp (all words of Shakespeare), is having its eighth production and being FILMED!! Even most dead composers aren't that lucky!!!
This last five weeks I have appeared all over the country at concerts of my music, conducting and playing, doing spoken word with music, jazz, folk and world music festivals, film festivals and readings from my books.
Just the first week of October, I played Lowell Celebrates Kerouac festival in Lowell Mass, then the at midnight , following my last concert there , drove all night to Lagaurda Airport to catch the early Sunday mornng flight for the annual Farm Aid Concert in St Louis, where i played with Willie Nelson's band. The next morning (Monday the 5th , I flew bck to NYC in tme for my monthly concert at Cornelia Street in Greenwich Village.
The next night (Tuesday the 6th) the memorial at Symphony Space for Frank Mccourt, and the next day Wednesday the 7th) the celebration of the new authorized biography of Thelonious Monk with members of his family and musicians I have known since I first arrived in NYC in 1955!!
The 11th i flew off to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates,( i got at least get a few hours sleep) and tried to catch up on over 200 e-mails during the 13 hour flight, before arriving there and performing a concert of global music in conjunction with the score I composed for Teri McLuhan's new documentary feature film The Frontier Ghandi.
Then back in the USA in time to do programs centered around a performance of my Saxophone concerto Ode to Lord Buckley, in Loudoun Virginia ..
Then I went off to Toronto Nov 1st for a concert and appearance at the Diaspora Film Festival .
Now i am back at home hiding out composing and writing!
I am starting my fourth book "David Amram: The First 80 Years", (the same name as the new doc film being made about me), which will be finished at the end of next year and will end, like the film, with the monstro birthday bash concert for my Big 80... 12 months from now....(Nov 17 2010) in New York.
And every day, still finding time to continue composing a new orchestral work, having been doing it while on the run, and now every minute when I can hide out at the Farm in between travels.
And performing whenever possible with my three kids, each of whom have their own bands.
So as the BIG 80 approaches twelve months from now, (2010) while I may be still shy, I am not yet the retiring type.
Most of my ever-changing my schedule info. when i can get my elderly secretary (unfortunately myself) to type it up, is posted on my web page www.davidamram.com under Upcoming Events.
And my e-mail amramdavid@aol.com is always the best way to reach me as I carry my laptop with me everywhere, and Facebook, MySpace, etc., is hard to deal with and not always reliable!
You might find it fun to access an old performance of my 1971 Rondo a la Turca on the Internet for FREE!!!
The person who is conducting the Chicago Symphony and playing the middle eastern flute (who looks like my grandson) is actually a much younger looking me in 1977, recording for a PBS network TV show about my music. Pepper Adams and Jerry Dodgion are also playing.
In 1977, most of members of the Chicago Symphony who appear on the recording of this performance had never heard, much less ever played, very much music from the Middle East, and since I write everything out on paper accurately to indicate the way it should be played, that's what they were playing, and they actually began to sound like the Radio Beirut Orchestra, and suddenly as the piece went on, they started feeling something different than they had ever felt before, as they played.
It is really fun to watch their faces as they started getting ingo the old time magical groove that Middle eastern music creates and takes you into.
During the first few minutes of the piece, you can see the musicians all playing up a storm but looking as if they were thinking that I was an alien from another planet in outer space, and had brought some extra terrestrial music with me for them to play.
And then as the piece progresses, you can see, as well as hear, that by the end of the piece, the idiom of this music got them excited enough to be actually enjoying playing it!!
And playing it really well!
That's what music, like film, novels, poetry, painting, dance, language and good HOME COOKING does for all of us.
It takes you to that place from where it comes, and makes you feel that you now have a new home in a new part of the world.
I send cheers from that endless road and wish you joy and energy for all you do
David
I was just saying that you knocked this out of the park with TGJN. We have needed something like this for so long and I am telling my friends about this. I said that it is sort of like a myspace for jazz but it is actually so much more. This is real. The people here truly love jazz and we know people like that are not your average people.
I have felt for a long time that straight-ahead jazz has been slipping away from us. I have hope now that there will be a resurgence (or shall I say an insurgency:-) to bring this baby back full force!
You just knocked it out of the park. Thanks again.
xoxo,
Janie
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Mel Brown Quartet
March 25, 2009 at 8pm to March 27, 2013 at 11pm – Jimmy Mak's
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New CD release
December 14, 2009 at 1pm to January 1, 2010 at 1pm – My Website
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Saturday JAZZ Nights at Chelsea Wine Bar
December 19, 2009 at 8:30pm to December 20, 2009 at 12:30am – Chelsea Wine Bar
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THE LADIES SOCIAL CLUB-New Year's Eve Party!
December 31, 2009 at 7:30pm to January 1, 2010 at 1:30am – Clarion Hotel
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BACK ALLEY PLAYERS@NUYORICAN POETS CAFE
January 2, 2010 from 9pm to 11pm – NUYORICAN POETS CAFE
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BACK ALLEY PLAYERS@NUYORICAN POETS CAFE
January 2, 2010 from 9pm to 11pm – NUYORICAN POETS CAFE
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Tish Oney - The Peggy Lee Project
January 8, 2010 from 9:45pm to 11pm – The Metropolitan Room
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Tish Oney
January 9, 2010 from 7:15pm to 7:30pm – Hilton Hotel - New York Suite
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Tish Oney - The Peggy Lee Project
January 9, 2010 from 10pm to 10:15pm – Hilton Hotel - Beekman Suite
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Tish Oney - The Peggy Lee Project
January 10, 2010 from 7pm to 8:15pm – The Triad
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