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March 18, 2014To: Listings/Critics/Features
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ONE NIGHT ONLY

Jane Ira Bloom ALL BALLADS
live at Kitano

w/ Dominic Fallacaro   piano
Cameron Brown   bass
Matt Wilson   drums

Friday, May 9
sets at 8 & 10pm

Jazz at Kitano
Kitano Hotel
66 Park Avenue (E. 38th St.)
New York City
Reservations advised; tel 212-885-7119

$30 cover, $15 minimum food/beverage per person
early arrivals (7 pm) receive preferred seating

Award winning soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom returns to Kitano with her quartet to perform an evening of ballads from her 2014 Grammy nominated CD Sixteen Sunsets. Longtime band-mates Matt Wilson (drums), Cameron Brown (bass), and Dominic Fallacaro (piano) join Bloom for an evening of long lines and deep edges playing songs from the American songbook and beyond. Sixteen Sunsets has been receiving critical acclaim since its release in January. Come and hear what all the excitement is about.

Don’t miss this special one night engagement.

Friday, May 9, sets at 8 & 10 pm
Jazz at Kitano
66 Park Avenue (E. 38th St.)
New York City
Reservations advised; tel 212-885-7119

$30 cover, $15 minimum food/beverage per person
early arrivals (7 pm) receive preferred seating

What Critics Are Saying About Sixteen Sunsets…

2014 Grammy nominee for Best Surround Sound Album

“Jazz Mastery, Undiluted…In nearly 78 minutes of intensely concentrated playing, Jane Ira Bloom’s album offers some of the greatest ballad performances I have ever heard.”
– Steve Elman, The Arts Fuse

“Bloom has one of the prettiest, clearest tones around on soprano. She never sounds better than on ballads….you can tell she knows the words.”
– Kevin Whitehead/ NPR

“Sidney Bechet…John Coltrane…Steve Lacy….The name Jane Ira Bloom can be added to that list of icons. Bloom has used the soprano saxophone to give voice to fertile and uncompromising artistic spirit. ”
– Dan McClenaghan, All About Jazz

“Bloom has achieved something many more-famous players never find: an instantly identifiable sound based in intense lyricism and striking melodies.”
– Steve Smith, TimeOut NY

Sixteen Sunsets is available on Amazon.com

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The Jazz Journalists Association Launches

Grassroots JazzApril Initiative

“Jazz Heroes” To Be Honored in 21 Cities

MARCH 17, NEW YORK CITY — The Jazz Journalists Association today announced the start of its third annual JazzApril campaign, concurrent with the Smithsonian’s Jazz Appreciation Month culminating in UNESCO’s International Jazz Day (April 30). JazzApril supports JAM and Jazz Day by working with grassroots jazz activists to celebrate their local jazz scenes through imaginative use of media and strengthened collaborative networking.

In at least 20 U.S. cities and Toronto, Canada, jazz community activists will honor local “Jazz Heroes,” people of extraordinary devotion and service described by the JJA as “activists, advocates, altruists, aiders and abettors of jazz.” The JJA will announce the names of all 2014 Jazz Heroes and details of each city’s presentation parties on its JazzApril website on April 1.

The cities are Baltimore, the Bay Area (Oakland), Bloomington, Boston, Chicago, Columbia MO, Detroit, Durham NC, Hartford CT area, New Orleans, New York, Newark, Pittsburgh, Portland OR, Santa Cruz, Seattle, Schenectady, Tallahassee, Toronto, Washington DC, and Woodstock NY. More may be added before April 1. Organizations and institutions including A Place for Jazz, The Art of Cool, Elastic Arts, JazzBoston, Jazz from Bloomington, Jazzstock, Kuumba Jazz Workshop, the Litchfield Jazz Festival, Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, PDX Jazz Portland Jazz Festival, and Yoshi’s are participating in JazzApril and the Jazz Heroes program.

Past year’s Heroes have been jazz club owners, health care providers, philanthropists, record company executives, arts administrators and musicians whose personal influences have gone beyond the sounds of their performances to improve quality of life even for people out of earshot. Jazz Heroes receive engraved statuettes from the JJA, presented at free public parties. In many locales, Jazz Heroes have been covered by local media and mentioned in mayoral proclamations endorsing local jazz.

The JJA’s JazzApril campaign, conducted annually since 2012, has provided concepts, contacts, suggestions and support for publicizing the creative vitality and economic viability of America’s indigenous “classic” yet contemporary music. Jazz fans, businesses, arts organizations, musicians, journalists, presenters, educators and government officials are invited to participate using any of the wide variety of low or no-cost ideas posted at JazzApril.com, Usable graphics for Jazz April, JAM and IJD can be downloaded from there, too.

Sponsors of JazzApril 2014 include the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation, North Coast Brewing, Century Media Partners LLC, JazzBoston and the Jazz Institute of Chicago. The Jazz Education Network and JazzWeek have signed on as 2014 Media Partners. Support is still sought and welcomed.

The Jazz Journalists Association is a 501 (c ) (3) nonprofit organization of writers, photographers, broadcasters, videographers, new media producers and their affiliates professionally involved with jazz.

Further information from Howard Mandel, President@JazzJournalists.org,
or www,JazzApril.com.

Jazz Journalists Association /151 1st Avenue

New York, New York 10003

212-533-9495 www.JJANews.org

March 19, 2014To: Listings/Critics/Features
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Guitar x2 Series this Wednesday with
Rale Micic & Paul Bollenback

Guitar master George Benson, has described Bollenback’s work as “bona-fide playing, unambiguous, up-front and powerful,” calling him “a versatile dynamo on guitar.”“Micic is bringing an intriguing new perspective to the
jazz guitar.” – LA TIMESUpcoming Guitar x2 Series shows:

April 2 – Rale Micic & Lage Lund
April 16 – Rale Micic & Vic Juris
April 30 – Rale Micic & Dave Stryker

All Shows @ 9 pm

WhyNot Jazz Room

14 Christopher Street
Between Waverly Pl & Gay Street

New York, NY 10014

(646) 756-4145

show times 9pm
$10 cover, no minimum

Rale Micic music video:
http://youtu.be/cxGvPXuNPhs

www.ralemicic.com

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Presented by the Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium. This music series is New York City’s longest continuously running grassroots festival dedicated to jazz. More than 500 artists performing in nearly 50 events at various venues throughout Brooklyn. The festival is sponsored, in part, by the Municipal Credit Union (MCU). This celebration is financially accessible and open to all. For information contact CBJC at 718.773.2252 x 103 orinfo@cbjcjazz.org.

Go to www.cbjcjazz.org:
Mar 28, 8-11 PM – Keisha St. Joan Quartet, hosted by Harold Valle-Keeper of The Secrets, JAZZ966, 966 Fulton St. @ Grand Ave., $15, info: 917.593.9776, www.jazz966.com
Mar 28, 8-1:00 AM – Lezlie Harrison w/ Eric Lemon Ensemble, 8-11 PM, open mic-$10 / 11-1 AM, BrownstoneJAZZ, 107 Macon St. @ Nostrand Ave., $30 fish fry incl., info: 917.704.9237,brownstonejazz@aol.com

Mar 28, 10-2:00 AM – Open Jam Session featuring Gerry Eastman Quartet, Williamsburg Music Center, 367 Bedford Ave., @ Williamsburg Bridge, no cover-2 drink minimum, info: 718.607.4296, www.wmcjazz.org

Mar 29, 3-9 PM – When Art Meets Jazz!, visual artists: Al Johnson/Jimmy James Green & The Jeff King Band, For My Sweet Garden and Event Space/Kalahari Gallery, 1103 Fulton Street, FREE-wine, food, music, info 917.753.9695

Mar 29, 8-1:00 AM – Ty Stephens w/ Eric Lemon Ensemble, 8-11 PM, open mic-$10 / 11-1 AM, BrownstoneJAZZ, 107 Macon St. @ Nostrand Ave., $30 fish fry incl., info: 917.704.9237, brownstonejazz@aol.com

Mar 29, 9-10 PM – The New Cookers w/ Kenyatta Beasley, Keith Loftis, Anthony Wonsey, Chris Smith), Hip/Hard Bop Jazz, BAMcafe, Brooklyn Academy of Music, 30 Lafayette Pl., Free, info: 718.636.4100, www.bam.org

Mar 29, 9&10:30 PM – Lil Phillips-Tribute to Nancy Wilson, Sistas’ Place, 456 Nostrand Ave @ Jefferson St., $20-advance, $25-door, info: 718.398.1766, www.sistasplace.org

Mar 30, 3-5 PM – “The Swingmachine” w/ Mike LeDonne, Vincent Herring, Jazzmeia Horn, Brandon Sanders, Peter Berstein, Jazz Vespers @ Emmanuel Baptist Church, 279 Lafayette Ave., suggested donation $20, 718.622.1107, www.ebcconnects.com/jazzvespers

Apr 1, 12-1 PM – Jazz Day in America, TBA

Apr 1, 5:30-7:30 PM – Brooklyn Jazz Hall of Fame ceremony (Herbie Mann, Bill Lee), Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont St., Donations, 718.773.2252 x103, www.cbjcjazz.org

Apr 3, 7-8:30 PM – Emeline Michel, Brooklyn Public Library-Central library, Dweck Center, Grand Army Plaza, FREE, info:718.230.2100, www.bklynpubliclibrary.org

Apr 4, 8-11 PM – Jeff King Septet, hosted by Harold Valle-Keeper of The Secrets, JAZZ966, 966 Fulton St. @ Grand Ave., $15, info: 917.593.9776, www.jazz966.com
Apr 4, 8-1:00 AM – Eric Lemon Ensemble, 8-11 PM, open mic-$10 / 11-1 AM, BrownstoneJAZZ, 107 Macon St. @ Nostrand Ave., $30 fish fry incl., info: 917.704.9237, brownstonejazz@aol.com

Apr 4, 10-2:00 AM – Open Jam Session featuring Gerry Eastman Quartet, Williamsburg Music Center, 367 Bedford Ave., @ Williamsburg Bridge, no cover-2 drink minimum, info: 718.607.4296, www.wmcjazz.org

Apr 5, 8-1:00 AM – Eric Lemon Ensemble, 8-11 PM, open mic-$10 / 11-1 AM, BrownstoneJAZZ, 107 Macon St. @ Nostrand Ave., $30 fish fry incl., info: 917.704.9237, brownstonejazz@aol.com

Apr 5, 9&10:30 PM – Neil Clarke, Sistas’ Place, 456 Nostrand Ave @ Jefferson St., $20-advance, $25-door, info: 718.398.1766, www.sistasplace.org

Apr 11, 8-11 PM – Cynthia Scott Quartet, hosted by Harold Valle-Keeper of The Secrets, JAZZ966, 966 Fulton St. @ Grand Ave., $15, info: 917.593.9776, www.jazz966.com
Apr 11, 8-1:00 AM – Eric Lemon Ensemble, 8-11 PM, open mic-$10 / 11-1 AM, BrownstoneJAZZ, 107 Macon St. @ Nostrand Ave., $30 fish fry incl., info: 917.704.9237, brownstonejazz@aol.com

Apr 11, 10-2:00 AM – Open Jam Session featuring Gerry Eastman Quartet, Williamsburg Music Center, 367 Bedford Ave., @ Williamsburg Bridge, no cover-2 drink minimum, info: 718.607.4296, www.wmcjazz.org

Apr 12, 8 PM – Dr. Mambo and the Experience Ensemble, The Gallery, 293 Van Duzer Ave., Staten Island, NY 10304, food available, BYOBB, $25-advance, $35-door, info: 347.776.1089

Apr 12, 8-1:00 AM – Eric Lemon Ensemble, 8-11 PM, open mic-$10 / 11-1 AM, BrownstoneJAZZ, 107 Macon St. @ Nostrand Ave., $30 fish fry incl., info: 917.704.9237, brownstonejazz@aol.com

Apr 12, 9&10:30 PM – Winard Harper, Sistas’ Place, 456 Nostrand Ave @ Jefferson St., $20-advance, $25-door, info: 718.398.1766, www.sistasplace.org

Apr 13, 6-9 PM – Steve Cromity and his band, open mic set, Two Steps Down, 240 DeKalb Ave., cover $10, $5 performers, info: 917.685.3508, www.stevecromity.com

Apr 18, 8-11 PM – Jazz Master Lou Donaldson, JAZZ966, hosted by Harold Valle-Keeper of The Secrets, 966 Fulton St. @ Grand Ave., $20, info: 917.593.9776, www.jazz966.com

Apr 18, 8-1:00 AM – Eric Lemon Ensemble, 8-11 PM, open mic-$10 / 11-1 AM, BrownstoneJAZZ, 107 Macon St. @ Nostrand Ave., $30 fish fry incl., info: 917.704.9237, brownstonejazz@aol.com

Apr 18, 10-2:00 AM – Open Jam Session featuring Gerry Eastman Quartet, Williamsburg Music Center, 367 Bedford Ave., @ Williamsburg Bridge, no cover-2 drink minimum, info: 718.607.4296, www.wmcjazz.org

Apr 19, 1-4 PM – Jazz The Women’s Viewpoint!, Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation-Skylight Gallery, Donations, 1368 Fulton St., info: 773.2252, www.cbjcjazz.org

Apr 19, 8-1:00 AM – Eric Lemon Ensemble, 8-11 PM, open mic-$10 / 11-1 AM, BrownstoneJAZZ, 107 Macon St. @ Nostrand Ave., $30 fish fry incl., info: 917.704.9237, brownstonejazz@aol.com

Apr 19, 9&10:30 PM – Akua Dixon, Sistas’ Place, 456 Nostrand Ave @ Jefferson St., $20-advance, $25-door, info: 718.398.1766, www.sistasplace.org

Apr 24, 8:00 PM – Laurence Holder’s play, MONK starring Rome Neal, music by Brooklyn Jazz Hall of Fame member Bill Lee, For My Sweet Garden and Event Space/Kalahari Gallery, 1103 Fulton Street, $20, one performance, 917.757.0170

Apr 25, 4-5 PM – William Spaulding Quintet, New York Aquarium at Coney Island, FREE, info: 718.741.3836

Apr 25, 8-11 PM – Ahnee Sharon Freeman Quartet, hosted by Harold Valle-Keeper of The Secrets, JAZZ966, 966 Fulton St. @ Grand Ave., $15, info: 917.593.9776, www.jazz966.com
Apr 25, 8-1:00 AM – Eric Lemon Ensemble, 8-11 PM, open mic-$10 / 11-1 AM, BrownstoneJAZZ, 107 Macon St. @ Nostrand Ave., $30 fish fry incl., info: 917.704.9237, brownstonejazz@aol.com

Apr 25, 10-2:00 AM – Open Jam Session featuring Gerry Eastman Quartet, Williamsburg Music Center, 367 Bedford Ave., @ Williamsburg Bridge, no cover-2 drink minimum, info: 718.607.4296, www.wmcjazz.org

Apr 26, 12-5 PM – Youth Jamboree/Wellness Day, Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Plaza, 1368 Fulton St., info: 718.773.2252, www.cbjcjazz.org

Apr 26, 3-8 PM – Jazz Africa Heritage Movement celebrates South Africa’s Freedom Day, Historic Claver Place @ Fulton Street, cultural entertainment, food, beverages, info: 718.753.3302, jazzafricanheritage@gmail.com

Apr 26, 8-1:00 AM – Eve Cornelious w/ Eric Lemon Ensemble, 8-11 PM, open mic-$10 / 11-1 AM, BrownstoneJAZZ, 107 Macon St. @ Nostrand Ave., $30 fish fry incl., info: 917.704.9237,brownstonejazz@aol.com

Apr 26, 9&10:30 PM – Vanessa Rubin w/ Don Braden, Sistas’ Place, 456 Nostrand Ave @ Jefferson St., $20-advance, $25-door, info: 718.398.1766, www.sistasplace.org

Apr 28, 7-10 PM – Jazz Africa Heritage Reunion Night, For My Sweet Garden and Event Space/Kalahari Gallery, 1103 Fulton Street, $10, info: 718.857.1427, jazzymondays@gmail.com

Apr 30, evening – Gala Festival Concert, TBA

info@cbjcjazz.org New York’s longest running Grass Roots Jazz Festival 718.773.2252

March 18, 2014To: Listings/Critics/Features
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Dave Wilson
Upcoming Live AppearancesThe Dave Wilson Quartet
Dave Wilson-Tenor and Soprano Saxophones
Featuring, from the Dave Liebman Group
Bobby Avey-Piano
Tony Marino-Bass
Alex Ritz-DrumsNew York, NY
SOMETHIN’ Jazz Club

Thursday, March 20th

7:00-8:45 PM.Delaware Water Gap, PA

The Dave Wilson Quartet

Friday, April 11th
@ The Deerhead Inn
7:00-11:00 PM

I’ll appearing at a few choice spots with a great band, (who have been playing with the great Dave Liebman), and I want you all to know about it. I’m getting ready for a long awaited trip back into the studio to record with these guys, and I’m really excited about the new tunes we’ve been working on! If you can, stop out and check us out at one of these venues. Thanks for supporting live music.

-Dave Wilson, davewilsonmusic.org.
-Dave Wilson on Facebook
-Dave Wilson on YouTube

Thursday, March 13: 7:00-10:00 PM. $10 for adults, $5 for students. THE Dave Wilson Quartet (Featuring, from the Dave Liebman Group, Bobby Avey-Piano, Tony Marino-Bass, Alex Ritz-Drums). Back live at CHRIS’ JAZZ CAFÉ. Located at 1421 Sansom Street in center city, Philadelphia, Chris’ (http://www.chrisjazzcafe.com/ 215-568-3131) is the top venue for jazz in this city of brotherly love.

The Dave Wilson Quartet
CHRIS’ JAZZ CAFE
Thursday, March 13th
7:00-10:00 PM

Dave Wilson-Tenor and Soprano Saxophones
Featuring, from the Dave Liebman Group, Bobby Avey-Piano, Tony Marino-Bass, Alex Ritz-Drums

CHRIS’ JAZZ CAFÉ
1421 Sansom Street in center city
Philadelphia PA
215-568-3131

$10 for adults, $5 for students

Thursday, March 20th: Dave Wilson All-Star Quartet -Featuring Bobby Avey on Piano; Tony Marino on Bass; Alex Ritz on Drums, (members of the Dave Liebman group); at the SOMETHIN’ Jazz Club 7:00-8:45. 212 E. 52nd St. 3Fl. (b/2nd & 3rd Ave.) New York, NY 10022. TEL：(212) 371-7657; http://www.somethinjazz.com/ny/. Directions: E/V train to 53rd St./ Lexington, 6 train to 51st. 7:00-8:45. $10 cover. Check out davewilsonmusic.org

The Dave Wilson Quartet

Thursday, March 20th

7:00-8:45 PM.

@SOMETHIN’ Jazz Club

212 E. 52nd St. 3Fl.
(b/2nd & 3rd Ave.)
Directions: E/V train to 53rd St./ Lexington, 6 train to 51st.

(212) 371-7657
$12 Cover charge

Dave Wilson-Tenor and Soprano Saxophones
Featuring, from the Dave Liebman Group, Bobby Avey-Piano, Tony Marino-Bass, Alex Ritz-Drums.

Friday, April 11th: Dave Wilson All-Star Quartet, (Featuring Bobby Avey on Piano; Tony Marino on Bass; Alex Ritz on Drums), at the famed Deerhead Inn, 5 Main St, Delaware Water Gap, PA 18327. (570) 424-2000. www.deerheadinn.com/. 7-11. $7 cover charge

The Dave Wilson Quartet

Friday, April 11th
@ The Deerhead Inn
7:00-11:00 PM

Deerhead Inn

5 Main St
Delaware Water Gap, PA 18327.

(570) 424-2000
$7 Cover charge

Dave Wilson-Tenor and Soprano Saxophones
Featuring, from the Dave Liebman Group, Bobby Avey-Piano, Tony Marino-Bass, Alex Ritz-Drums.

Bio:

Dave Wilson is a leading jazz saxophonist and composer in the Central PA/ Delaware Valley area, with a very active venue and festival schedule as both a leader of his own groups and as a sideman. Born and raised outside of New York City, Dave has been living in the Lancaster, Pa area since 1983. He heads up the Dave Wilson Trio and Quartet and as well as the Dixieland music group the Rampart Street Ramblers, playing in restaurants and at concerts and festivals alike, and as well freelancing with both big bands and small groups in the area and as well in Philadelphia, Washington DC, Pittsburgh, and New York City. For over 20 years, Dave has averaged over 150 music performances a year! Past Festival Performances: 2013 Penns Woods Winery Wine and Jazz Festival/”Wine and Jazz Under The Stars”, 2013 1st Annual Pittsburgh Cider & Mead Festival, 2013 Jazz Bridge Sponsored “Neighborhood Concert Series” at the Kennett Flash in Kennett Square (Philadelphia), 2012 Lebanon Jazz Festival, 2012 People’s Choice Festival (State College), 2012 Berks Jazz Festival, 2011 & 2012 Harrisburg Jazz and Multicultural Music Festival, 2011-2013 Harrisburg Kipona Festival, 2011-2013 Moondancer Winery Jazz Festival, 2013 Reading Museum Concert Series, 2011 Scranton Jazz Festival, 2013 Olde York Street Fair, Headlined the 2009 and 2010 York Jazz Fest, 2011 Bethlehem Musikfest (w/ Ben Mauger’s Vintage Jazz Band), 2007 and 2010 Media (PA) ‘Jazz by Night’ Festival Long’s Park Arts and Crafts Festival (Lancaster), Lancaster Summer Arts Festival,

He has recorded three CD’s under his own name, all of which received nationwide airplay as well as critical acclaim, as well as two Traditional Jazz recordings for first the Canal Street Hot 6 and then the Rampart Street Ramblers. The CD “My Time” was released in 2006 on Dreambox Media out of Philadelphia, and received significant airplay on WRTI-FM in Philadelphia as well as radio stations nationwide, reaching a “Chartbound” high of #55 in Jazz Weekly national airplay ranking. His last CD “Spiral” was released on Summit Records in 2010 and featured greats Phil Markowitz on Piano, Tony Marino on Bass, and Adam Nussbaum on Drums. It went “Chartbound” in the Jazz Weekly countdown, staying in the Top 55 for some six weeks in the summer of 2010, and received great reviews nationally, including both Jazz Times and Downbeat magazines (3 & 1/2*’s!). At present he is preparing to go into the studio for his 4th recording under his own name, which he is very excited about. In his recordings Dave has strived, and been recognized for his striking original compositions along with unique treatments of sometimes contemporary standard material. His All Star concert appearances feature the likes of such nationally and internationally jazz notables as, on piano-Mark Soskin, Jim Ridl, Bobby Avey, Kirk Reese, Matt Hochmiller; Bass-Tony Marino, Steve Varner, Frank Gravis; Drums-Marko Marcinko, Adam Nussbaum, Alex Ritz, Larry Marshall, Butch Reed. Wilson was also long standing member of the trumpet giant Dave Stahl’s Big Band and Dave Stahl Sacred Orchestra . With the big band he played alongside such Jazz luminaries as Wynton Marsalis, Tom Harrell, Lou Soloff, the late Steve Marcus, John Fedchock, Conrad Herwig, Gary Smulyan, Steve Smith (from Journey), John Riley, among others. Dave Wilson resides in Lancaster, PA with his wife and their four cats. He teaches privately on woodwinds, and also has a business buying and selling used musical instruments. You can check out his music and business at davewilsonmusic.org.

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Pat Philips patmusic2@gmail.com
www.jazzpromoservices.com

Delta Air Lines
presents

“BossaBrasil”
featuring
MARCOS VALLE & ROBERTO MENESCAL
“Together for the first time in NY”
@Birdland May 27 – 31

Legendary Brazilian Composers
A Bossa Nova Lovefest direct from Rio!
Patricia Alvi/vocals, Renato Massa/drums, Jesse Sadoc/trumpet
Itaiguara Brandao/bass & Jorge Continentino/sax&flute

It is with great pleasure that Producers Pat Philips & Ettore Stratta, known for their passion for Brazilian music, bring together for the first time in New York two of Brazil’s most important pop/jazz composers, MARCOS VALLE/pianist-vocalist and ROBERTO MENESCAL-guitarist. The performance will highlight many of their famous hit songs as well as some gems of JOBIM. They will bring vocalist Patricia Alvi, the great drummer Renato Massa, and Trumpeter Jesse Sadoc, with them from Rio.Joining them will be two other native Brazilians living in the US, Itaguara Brandao on bass and Jorge Continentino on sax and flute. BossaBrasil is an annual event going into its 8th year.

MARCOS VALLE, major songwriter of Brazilian Popular Music has written over 300 songs recorded by industry luminaries Sarah Vaughan, Chicago, Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Ramsey Lewis, Dave Brubeck Toots Thielemans, Joe Pass, Bebel Gilberro, Sergio Mendes, Eumir Deodato, João Donato, Jay Z ,Kanye West and the list goes on and on. Most recently he recorded on Sony with American jazz singer, STACEY KENT, Celebrating 50 Years of ‘The Career of VALLE’ with a world tour as well. He has
received a most prestigious award from BMI for his music, SAMBA DE VERAO.

ROBERTO MENESCAL, Composer of bossa nova classics VAGAMENTE, RIO, VOCE…is Composer/Producer/guitarist and one of the ‘founding fathers of bossa nova’. His best-known composition is “O Barquinho” and he is known for his work with Carlos Lyra, Nara Leao, Wanda Sa and many other important artists. In 2013 he received The LATIN GRAMMY SPECIAL HONOREE AWARD for his great importance and contributions to the great music of Brazil.

Together they will make musical history at the legendary Birdland surrounded by other master musicians. The combination of Pop and Bossa Nova with songs by VALLE, MENESCAL and highlighting the great JOBIM as well will bring the best of Brazilian music to the forefront with Valle on keyboards and vocals joined by singer Patricia Alvi,
alongside master guitarist Menescal and a band with renowned musicians. It’s Bossabrasil at its best.The Producers thank their presenting sponsor DELTA AIR LINES for their support!

BIRDLAND 351 W. 44^TH Street, bet. 8^th and 9^th Avenues
Reservations: 212 581-3080 or www.birdlandjazz.com
Shows: 8:30 and 11 – Full Dinner Menu – Parking Nearby

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NYC Film Premiere
“The Breath Courses Through Us”
at Anthology Film Archives
Sunday, May 18th 7:30 PM$10 General Admission
$8 Students, seniors, and children (12 & under)
$6 AFA Members

Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue at 2nd Street

New York City 10003
(212) 505-5181

THE BREATH COURSES THROUGH US:
A NEW DOCUMENTARY FILM
ABOUT THE NEW YORK ART QUARTET
DIRECTED BY ALAN ROTH

The Breath Courses Through Us (2013) is a new documentary film about the early 1960s avant-garde jazz group, the New York Art Quartet.Directed by Alan Roth, the film focuses on the group’s 35-year reunion, while reaching back through their recollections of their foundations and innovative musical ideas. The year 2014 is the 50th anniversary of this group, and a revolutionary period in jazz music, which declared its existence in the October Revolution in Jazz, in October 1964.

The New York City premiere will take place on Sunday, May 18, 7:30 P.M. at Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Ave. Preceding the premiere will be Michael Snow’s rarely screened 1964 film New York Eye and Ear Control, with the music and images of Albert Ayler, Roswell Rudd, John Tchicai, Don Cherry, Sunny Murray, Gary Peacock. This NYC premiere takes place almost 50 years to the month when the group was officially formed after Tchicai and Rudd met Milford Graves in Michael Snow’s loft.

The U.S. premiere took place on January 31, 2014 at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. with filmmaker Alan Roth and bassist Reggie Workman in attendance (see photo). The world premiere took place at the FIDMarseille-Festival International de Cinéma (http://www.fidmarseille.org) in Marseille, France, in July 2013.

The Breath Courses Through Us mirrors the newly open improvisationary style “free jazz” that subverted the traditional structure of jazz. Unfolding in free time and enveloped in their music, the film helps the viewer better understand the human element of the creative process, by focusing on their interactions in the present.

The New York Art Quartet was a pioneering jazz group in the early 1960s. Consisting of John Tchicai (saxophone), Roswell Rudd (trombone) and Milford Graves (percussion), the group formed in 1964 and lasted only until the end of 1965. This core of three worked with many bass players, including Reggie Workman. Poet Amiri Baraka often read his poetry at their gigs, and read his famous poem, Black Dada Nihilismus, on the group’s first album. Both Workman and Baraka joined the New York Art Quartet for the group’s reunion and are featured in this film as well.

The Breath Courses Through Us brings the viewer directly into the artists’ lives, their exchanges, and discussions with each other during the reunion dinner and on tour. The members of the New York Art Quartet—along with other musicians and a jazz historian—recount their individual history, early group development, and their new musical ideas. Saxophonist Steve Lacy, guitarist Pierre Dørge from Denmark, and jazz historian Ben Young are also featured in the film.

Director Alan Roth explains, “the story of the New York Art Quartet is not only found in the historical details, but in the interplay between artists, the joy they feel in being with each other and performing, and the transcendent nature of their live performances.”

Jazz journalist Francis Davis wrote in the New York Times “Collective improvisation was a cherished ideal in early free jazz, but …this was often just talk. For the New York Art Quartet, collective improvisation was a raison d’etre, the band’s musical starting point.”

The Breath Courses Through Us is the second of Roth’s examination of free jazz. His first film, Inside Out In The Open (2001), is one of the few documentary films on free jazz. It features interviews with 11 free jazz musicians along with live performances and continues to be screened worldwide.

[A deeper examination of the New York Art Quartet is complemented by a 2013 project (not affiliated with this documentary film) by Triplepoint Records(www.triplepointrecords.com. The New York Art Quartet: call it art, contains the uncirculated recordings of the New York Art Quartet (1964-65) in a collectors set of 5-LPs and a detailed book]

Alan Roth is based in Brooklyn, New York. His filmmaking career began in mid-life, after a career in the U.S. Postal Service in Cleveland, Ohio. Besides these two feature documentary films, he is the video director for Women’s Power Against HIV/AIDS: Love, Sex, & Choices, an innovative on-line project that uses soap opera stories to educate urban Black women about HIV prevention.
Roth also creates shorter video works, with an emphasis on culture and geographic place.

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Rob Derke & the NYJAZZ Quartet
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Rob Derke – soprano sax, Aruan Ortiz – piano
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Bertolt Brecht famously said that “art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.” With this in mind, the NYJAZZ Quartet takes on a number of pieces heard on Blue Divide that offer a musical discussion or debate on numerous issues from past and present. The improvisations that compliment these tunes tell a story by exploring issues in a way that can only be accomplished by members of an ensemble who have performed together for over two decades. Our first priority is creating and sharing some good music. If our treatment of this music inspires listeners to begin their own debate, then we will successfully hold true to Brecht’s vision for shaping reality, and our own vision for future audiences to experience this music as an evolving art form inspired by the present day while still keeping the traditions of this music alive.

Recorded the day after returning to New York City from a West Coast tour, we began the recording session by simply conversing. The short open improvisation that begins the recording, and is aptly named Prelude, is a visceral example of what this music is about – four friends gathering together, exchanging initial ideas with each other and the listener, and tuning themselves up both literally and figuratively for the musical discussion soon to follow. This improvisational section segues into our bassist Carlo De Rosa’s Pasillo Azul, Spanish for “blue hallway”. It was inspired by a piece taught to Carlo by guitarist Jim Hall. It captures the essence of a blues but also offers an unsettled feeling through the use of altered chord changes.

Davey’s Dreams is a piece I wrote for Davey Schildkraut, a saxophonist most known for his recorded work with Miles Davis on the tune Solar, and as the lead alto player with Stan Kenton. There are many artists who never reach a position of mass acceptance or popularity for any number of reasons. Despite his time spent with Charlie Parker, Buddy Rich, and Tito Puente, Davey is one of those artists whose story never really made it into the history books. However, his long lasting influence on the first generation of Bebop musicians and those to follow is beyond measure. I spent countless afternoons with Davey over years of study and friendship that lasted well into the evenings, and I consider myself incredibly lucky to have been able to get inside the music and the mind of this unsung hero and genius of Jazz.

Dispossession is a piece I wrote based on travels to the Middle East where I experienced both sides of a conflict that has either simmered or raged for decades. The term dispossession means the act of depriving an indigenous population of their land either by removal or occupation. The conflicts that emerge from these actions can be felt by the unsettling use of varied time signatures used in the beginning of the piece and by the constant trading of ideas between the soprano saxophone and piano during improvised sections.

Knowing is another piece written by bassist Carlo De Rosa and it offers us a chance to explore a more introspective space. It was composed to reflect the first time something is deeply known to a person. This can be translated or applied to many circumstances depending on each individual listener. Yet wherever this is felt, it is a universally held truth that is beyond a mere feeling or fleeting thought, and it tells us just as much about ourselves as how it relates to those around us.

G’s Waltz was written for my daughter Gabriella and included on this CD as a stark reminder of why we need to examine the issues of the day explored on some of the other pieces on this recording. These issues will have countless repercussions on our future generation, and it is important to recognize that our children will have to face the consequences of our actions. I wrote this piece as a playful waltz that simply reflects a childlike simplicity and curiosity to the world around us.

The 1986 film Round Midnight that included Herbie Hancock’s Still Time marked a significant time in my life as a student of Jazz. It was also released in the same year that I first met fellow NYJAZZ Quartet member Eric McPherson. Before the days of YouTube, we either saw our heroes live on stage or on film. Round Midnight provided the definition of how music could be used to tell a story, especially as the wonderful musical performances shared the starring role with the complex challenges experienced by the people who created it. Dexter Gordon, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, and all the other artists in Round Midnight made a tremendous impact on many young artists of my generation and on future audience members to follow.

Taksim reflects how a park protest in Istanbul quickly grew into a nationwide movement speaking out against government policy. I was in Turkey in 2013 during these protests and had firsthand experience of what defined this movement and how it was misrepresented in local and international media. Out of the many countries I have visited, I have rarely felt so welcomed and connected to a culture as I felt in Turkey, whether among their artistic world or while speaking with the wide cross-section of people I met on Taksim Square and in Gezi Park. Interestingly, the Turkish word Taksim means division, and it can also refer to the Arabic word Taqsim, which means melodic improvisation before a musical composition. The concept that I explore in this piece reflects the universal divide occurring in many parts of the world. This includes the divide between the priorities of the people and their ruling party; the divide between knowledge and ignorance brought on by financial or ideological interests; and how these interests permeate the divide that many are currently experiencing in the economy, in politics, in education policy, and in the arts.
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