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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Smooth Jazz Chart - Weekly Top 20 - April 29nd, 2013 #jazz


TW - LW - Artist - Album - (Label)
1 - 1 - Boney James - "The Beat" - (Concord Jazz)
2 - 3 - Vincent Ingala - "Can't Stop Now" - (vincentingala.com)
3 - 2 - Paul Hardcastle - "Hardcastle VII" - (Trippin 'N' Rhythm)
4 - 4 - Marion Meadows - "Whisper" - (Shanachie)
5 - 5 - Jonathan Fritzen - "Magical" - (Nordic Night)
6 - 6 - Euge Groove - "House Of Groove" - (Shanachie)
7 - 8 - Brian Simpson - "Just What You Need" - (Shanachie)
8 - 7 - Nils - "City Groove" - (Baja/TSR)
9 - 9 - Lee Ritenour - "Rhythm Sessions" - (Concord)
10 - 10 - Brian Bromberg - "In The Spirit Of Jobim" - (Artistry)
11 - 11 - Elan Trotman - "Tropicality" - (Woodward Avenue)
12 - 12 - Drew Davidsen - "True Drew" - (Oznot)
13 - 14 - Cindy Bradley - "Unscripted" - (Trippin 'N' Rhythm)
14 - 15 - Fourplay - "Espirit de Four" - (Heads Up)
15 - 13 - Grace Kelly - "Sweet Sweet Baby" (Single) - (Woodward Avenue)
16 - 20 - Bluey - "Leap Of Faith" - (Shanachie)
17 - 18 - The David Wells & Chris Geith Project - No Side Effects" - (Timeless World)
18 - 16 - Nicholas Cole - "Endless Possibilities" - (Cutmore)
19 - 21 - Darren Rahn - "Speechless" - (Trippin 'N' Rhythm)
20 - 23 - Walter Beasley - "Live In The Club" - (Affable)

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George Duke - "DreamWeaver" - Release on Heads Up July 16th #jazz

Out of devastating pain comes DreamWeaver, the new disc which GRAMMY® Award-winning keyboardist/composer/arranger/producer George Duke considers his “most honest album in several years.”  The making of DreamWeaver occurred after his wife, Corine, passed away.

Set for release July 16, DreamWeaver finds Duke emphasizing more instrumentals than in the past as well as concentrating more on his mastery on various synthesizers.
 
From bassist Christian McBride’s work on the funky jam tune “Burnt Sausage” to Rachelle Ferrell’s singing on “Missing You,” each tune offers something special. The powerful centerpiece of the album, the positive and politically-charged “Change the World,” spotlights several up-and-coming young singers alongside some of the most prominent funk, soul, gospel and R&B artists of the last few decades: Lalah Hathaway, Jeffrey Osborne, BeBe Winans, Freddie Jackson and Howard Hewett, among others. “Ball & Chain” features a duet with Duke accompanying the late R&B singer Teena Maria – one of the last tracks she recorded before her sudden death in 2010.

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Monday, April 22, 2013

Richie Havens, a Soulful Folk Singer Who Riveted Woodstock, Dies at 72

Richie Havens, who marshaled a craggy voice, a percussive guitar and a soulful sensibility to play his way into musical immortality at Woodstock in 1969, improvising the song “Freedom” on the fly, died on Monday at his home in Jersey City. He was 72. 

The cause was a heart attack, his agent, Tim Drake, said. 

Mr. Havens embodied the spirit of the ’60s — espousing peace and love, hanging out in Greenwich Village and playing gigs from the Isle of Wight to the Fillmore (both East and West) to Carnegie Hall. He surfaced only in the mid-1960s, but before the end of the decade many rock musicians were citing him as an influence. His rendition of “Handsome Johnny” became an anti-Vietnam War anthem. 

He moved beyond his ’60s triumphs to record more than two dozen albums, act in movies, champion environmental education and perform in 1993 at the first inauguration of President Bill Clinton. In 2003, the National Music Council gave him its American Eagle Award for his place in the nation’s musical heritage. Kidney surgery forced him to stop touring last year. 

For the baby-boomer generation, he will live forever on the stage of the Woodstock festival, which he had the honor to open because the folk-rock band Sweetwater, the scheduled opening act, was stuck in traffic. Mr. Havens and his guitarist and drummer arrived by helicopter. They had been scheduled to go on fifth. 

Mr. Havens started with “Minstrel From Gault” a few minutes after 5 p.m. on Aug. 15, 1969. He was originally supposed to play four songs, but other performers were late, so he played on. He later said he thought he had played for two hours and 45 minutes, but two bands followed him before sunset, around 8 p.m., so that was impossible. 

But Mr. Havens played 10 songs, including Beatles songs. His impassioned improvisation was pitch perfect for the generation watching him, most of whom saw it later in a documentary on the festival. His clarion encore “Freedom” — made up on the spot and interspersed with the spiritual “Motherless Child” — sounded a powerful if wistful note. 

“ ‘Freedom’ came from a totally spontaneous place,” Mr. Havens said. 

Richard Pierce Havens was born on Jan. 21, 1941, in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, where he grew up. He was the eldest of nine children. His father made Formica tables for a living and played piano with various bands. His mother worked for a bookbindery. 

He began singing with street-corner doo-wop groups when he was about 12. At 14 he joined the McCrea Gospel Singers. He was recruited by a street gang, and he dropped out of high school. He spent the rest of his life educating himself, and was proud of the results. 

In his late teens Mr. Havens migrated to Greenwich Village, where he wandered the clubs working as a portrait artist. After a few years he discovered folk music, and he was soon playing several engagements a night at clubs like Why Not? and the Fat Black Pussycat. 

His hands were very large, which made it difficult to play the guitar. He developed an unorthodox tuning so he could play chord patterns not possible with conventional tunings. The style was picked up by other folk and blues singers. 

“A person looking at him might think he was just flailing about,” the guitarist Barry Oliver said in the magazine Guitar Player. “But the way he flailed about was so musical, and it went perfectly with what he was portraying. He’s a good example of not having to have to be a technically perfect guitarist in order to come across.” 

Mr. Havens signed with the influential manager Albert Grossman and got a record deal with the Verve Forecast label. Verve released “Mixed Bag” in 1967, which featured “Handsome Johnny,” which he wrote with the actor Louis Gossett Jr.; “Follow,” which became one of his signature songs; and a cover of Bob Dylan’s “Just Like a Woman.”
 
In 1971, he released the only single that would put him in the Top 20, a soulful rendition of George Harrison’s “Here Comes the Sun.” His music had a new burst of popularity in the 1980s, and he found success as a jingle writer and performer for Amtrak, Maxwell House Coffee and the cotton industry (“The fabric of our lives”). He acted in a few movies, including “Hearts of Fire” (1987), which starred Bob Dylan. 

Mr. Havens devoted considerable energy to educating young people on ecological issues. In the mid-1970s he founded the Northwind Undersea Institute, an oceanographic children’s museum on City Island in the Bronx. He later created the Natural Guard, an environmental organization for children, to use hands-on methods to teach about the environment.

This seriousness of purpose showed in many areas of his life. “I’m not in show business,” he said. “I’m in the communications business.” 

Carrie Lombardi, Mr. Havens’s publicist, said his family wanted to keep information about survivors private, but she did say that they include four daughters and many grandchildren. He was married many years ago. 

Mr. Havens played many songs written by Mr. Dylan, and he spent three days learning his epic “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.” A man who heard him practicing it stopped him on the stairs as he headed for the dressing room of a nightclub, and told him it was the best he’d ever heard the song sung. 

“That’s how I first met Bob Dylan,” Mr. Havens said.

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Smooth Jazz Chart - Weekly Top 20 - April 22nd, 2013 #jazz


TW - LW - Artist - Album - (Label)
1 - 1 - Boney James - "The Beat" - (Concord Jazz)
2 - 2 - Paul Hardcastle - "Hardcastle VII" - (Trippin 'N' Rhythm)
3 - 4 - Vincent Ingala - "Can't Stop Now" - (vincentingala.com)
4 - 3 - Marion Meadows - "Whisper" - (Shanachie)
5 - 6 - Jonathan Fritzen - "Magical" - (Nordic Night)
6 - 5 - Euge Groove - "House Of Groove" - (Shanachie)
7 - 7 - Nils - "City Groove" - (Baja/TSR)
8 - 15 - Brian Simpson - "Just What You Need" - (Shanachie)
9 - 8 - Lee Ritenour - "Rhythm Sessions" - (Concord)
10 - 10 - Brian Bromberg - "In The Spirit Of Jobim" - (Artistry)
11 - 11 - Elan Trotman - "Tropicality" - (Woodward Avenue)
12 - 14 - Drew Davidsen - "True Drew" - (Oznot)
13 - 9 - Grace Kelly - "Sweet Sweet Baby" (Single) - (Woodward Avenue)
14 - 18 - Cindy Bradley - "Unscripted" - (Trippin 'N' Rhythm)
15 - 12 - Fourplay - "Espirit de Four" - (Heads Up)
16 - 13 - Nicholas Cole - "Endless Possibilities" - (Cutmore)
17 - 16 - Julian Vaughn - "Breakthrough" - (Trippin 'N' Rhythm)
18 - 19 - The David Wells & Chris Geith Project - No Side Effects" - (Timeless World)
19 - 24 - Greg Manning - "Dance With You" - (Greg Manning)
20 - 23 - Bluey - "Leap Of Faith" - (Shanachie)

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Thursday, April 18, 2013

"Feels Like Home - Mike MacArthur #jazz [Video interview]

“Feels Like Home” thanks to saxman MacArthur’s friends

Album “Sanctified” by the appearance of Bromberg, Braun, Lorber and Golub

“When are you going to let me make a record with you?” For years, Grammy-nominated bassist Brian Bromberg posed this question to saxophonist Mike MacArthur. Finally the saxman acquiesced. He grabbed his tenor horn, hopped a jet and camped out in Bromberg’s Los Angeles-area home studio until the record was complete. The two musicians invited a handful of their high-profile friends over to play on the album, “Feels Like Home,” Bromberg produced and plays acoustic bass on the 10-song multihued mix of contemporary and straight-ahead jazz and blues that features contributions from trumpeter Rick Braun, keyboardist Jeff Lorber and guitarist Jeff Golub. The tabernacle temblor “Sanctified,” the disc’s gospel-inspired first single, is already gracing radio playlists and ascending the charts.


 “’Sanctified’ is kind of the mack daddy track on the album because everyone is on it. It was the most labor-intensive tune to record,” said MacArthur. “The whole album, which began with Brian (Bromberg), is simply friends making music because they want to. These guys are friends and family who I’ve worked with over the years and it felt like home hanging out playing what we wanted to play. Working with players like this just makes you a better player. It was a fun and enjoyable hang.”

The circle of friends was completed by noted percussionist Alex Acuna, Ron Reinhardt (piano/B3 organ), Gannin Arnold (guitar), Frank “Third” Richardson (drums), and vocalists Janelle Sadler and Alva Copeland.

With MacArthur’s impassioned and skilled sax anchoring the album along with plenty of walking bass deftly deployed by Bromberg, each guest is given ample room to dazzle on extended improvisational solos and generous track lengths. Bromberg’s productions sound live and as one would expect from this list of friends, the level of musicianship is scholarly.

 Typical of when jazz musicians gather to jam, most of the songs on “Feels Like Home” are standards culled from legends and masters such as Miles Davis (“Jean Pierre”), Duke Ellington (“In A Sentimental Mood”), Sonny Rollins (“Blue Seven”), Joe Zawinul (“Birdland”) and Horace Silver (“Filthy McNasty”). MacArthur authored a trio of new compositions for the set, including the warm and cozy title track, “Around The Corner,” a shuffling blues cut penned with Golub’s gritty blues guitar chops in mind, and the swinging “Sydney Style.”

Raised in Rochester, NY and currently residing in Tampa, FL, MacArthur toured the U.S., Asia and Europe backing Maynard Ferguson followed by a road stint with Grammy-winner Diane Schuur. Over the years, he’s worked with Braun, Bromberg, Golub, Roger Waters, Franki Valli, Peter White, Craig Chaquico, Rick Derringer, Chieli Minucci and Jeff Kashiwa. MacArthur released his solo debut, “Paradise Point,” in 2000, which was followed by “Deal Me In” (2002), “That’s What I’m Talkin’ ‘Bout” (2006) and “Live ‘N Kickin’” (2009). “Feels Like Home” is his first collection backed by the muscle of radio promotions, marketing and publicity campaigns. For more information, please visit www.mikemacarthur.com. The songs contained on MacArthur’s “Feels Like Home” album are: “Filthy McNasty” “Birdland” “Sanctified” “Feels Like Home” “Around The Corner” “Jean Pierre” “Sydney Style” “Blue Seven” “In A Sentimental Mood” “Mo Better Blues”

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Acclaimed Documentary "The Girls In The Band" Coming to Lincoln Center in May #jazz [video]

“A vivid experience…I sat there watching and just wiping tears away… tears of joy.”
—Herbie Hancock

The Girls in the Band is a documentary about female jazz and big band instrumentalists that chronicles their inspired journeys and struggles for recognition from the late 1920s to the present day. The film will be screening for one week beginning May 10 at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center at Lincoln Center. Written and directed by Judy Chaikin and executive produced by Michael Greene, who are also the film’s producers, The Girls in the Band is being hailed as a “real crowd-pleaser” by Variety and “extraordinary” by The Hollywood Reporter. The film won the Audience Choice Awards at the Palm Springs Film Festival, the Victoria Film Festival and the Omaha Film Festival as well as the Best Music Documentary Award at DocUtah Film Festival. The film has also screened at many other festivals including the Atlanta Film Festival, the Dubai International Film Festival, the Cleveland International Film Festival and the Washington D.C. International Film Festival. Screen Daily International declared The Girls in the Band to be “a fascinating, moving and wonderfully tuneful documentary.” Tickets go on sale April 25 at http://www.filmlinc.com/pages/tickets; please see below for complete screening schedule. More info on the film can be found at: http://www.thegirlsintheband.com/home/.

The Lincoln Center screening is hosted in part by the Women in the Arts and Media Coalition and New York Women in Film and Television with support from artists and the New York business and cultural community including Woody Allen, Herb Alpert, Mercedes Ellington, Renée Fleming, Wynton Marsalis, Bette Midler, Maria Schneider and Jonathan Tisch. The host committee chair is Ann Ziff, Chairman of the Metropolitan Opera, with additional funding provided by the American Federation of Musicians Local 802, herFlix, New York Women in Film and Television and Women in the Arts and Media Coalition.

Combining archival footage and interviews with musicians including drummer Viola Smith, saxophonists Roz Cron, bassist Carline Ray and trumpeter Clora Bryant, Chaikin explores how even in the face of extreme prejudice, sexism and racism these women helped shape the history of American music and bravely challenged the racial barriers that prevented white and black musicians from working together. The film also reveals how female jazz musicians of today, including Maria Schneider, Anat Cohen, Sherrie Maricle and Esperanza Spalding, are continuing to build upon the talent and courage of their predecessors.

Judy Chaikin, a graduate of AFI’s Directing Workshop for Women, first came to recognition when she wrote, produced and directed the 1987 Emmy-nominated PBS documentary Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist. In 2004 she received her second Emmy nomination for the documentary Building on a Dream. Chaikin has also worked on the ABC series “FBI: The Untold Stories,” the CBS Movie of the Week Stolen Innocence and the PBS documentary Los Pastores. Michael Greene is President and CEO of Artist Tribe and previously served for 15 years as the President/CEO of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (GRAMMY AWARDS) where he founded the Grammy Educational Foundation and The Musicares Foundation, providing financial grants and assistance to music professionals in need.

THE GIRLS IN THE BAND LINCOLN CENTER SCREENING SCHEDULE
May 10, 11:00AM The Beale Theater at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center New York, NY
May 10, 1:00 PM The Beale Theater at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center New York, NY
May 10, 3:00 PM The Beale Theater at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center New York, NY
May 10, 5:00 PM The Beale Theater at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center New York, NY
May 10, 9:15 PM The Beale Theater at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center New York, NY
May 11 – 16, 11:30 AM The Beale Theater at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center New York, NY
May 11 – 16, 2:00 PM The Beale Theater at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center New York, NY
May 11 – 16, 4:30 PM The Beale Theater at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center New York, NY
May 11 – 16, 7:00 PM The Beale Theater at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center New York, NY
May 11 – 16, 9:30 PM The Beale Theater at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center New York, NY Premiere Screening May 10, 7:15 PM Walter Reade Theater (Invitation Only) New York, NY

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Monday, April 15, 2013

Smooth Jazz Chart - Weekly Top 20 - April 15th, 2013 #jazz


TW - LW - Artist - Album - (Label)
1 - 1 - Boney James - "The Beat" - (Concord Jazz)
2 - 2 - Paul Hardcastle - "Hardcastle VII" - (Trippin 'N' Rhythm)
3 - 3 - Marion Meadows - "Whisper" - (Shanachie)
4 - 4 - Vincent Ingala - "Can't Stop Now" - (vincentingala.com)
5 - 5 - Euge Groove - "House Of Groove" - (Shanachie)
6 - 7 - Jonathan Fritzen - "Magical" - (Nordic Night)
7 - 6 - Nils - "City Groove" - (Baja/TSR)
8 - 12 - Lee Ritenour - "Rhythm Sessions" - (Concord)
9 - 8 - Grace Kelly - "Sweet Sweet Baby" (Single) - (Woodward Avenue)
10 - 10 - Brian Bromberg - "In The Spirit Of Jobim" - (Artistry)
11 - 9 - Elan Trotman - "Tropicality" - (Woodward Avenue)
12 - 15 - Fourplay - "Espirit de Four" - (Heads Up)
13 - 13 - Nicholas Cole - "Endless Possibilities" - (Cutmore)
14 - 11 - Drew Davidsen - "True Drew" - (Oznot)
15 - 19 - Brian Simpson - "Just What You Need" - (Shanachie)
16 - 14 - Julian Vaughn - "Breakthrough" - (Trippin 'N' Rhythm)
17 - 17 - Gerald Albright/Norman Brown" - "24/7" - (Concord)
18 - 16 - Cindy Bradley - "Unscripted" - (Trippin 'N' Rhythm)
19 - 21 - The David Wells & Chris Geith Project - No Side Effects" - (Timeless World)
20 - 20 - Tak Matsumoto - "Strings Of My Soul" - (335)

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Thursday, April 11, 2013

Legendary Jazz and World Musician Hugh Masekela to Perform at Tarrytown Music Hall #jazz

Jazz great Hugh Masekela and his 6-piece band will perform at Tarrytown Music Hall, 13 Main Street, Tarrytown, NY, on Wednesday, April 17 at 8:00 p.m. The concert, which is in support of his Grammy nominated Jubalani as well as his latest recording, Playing @ Work, is presented by Jazz Forum Arts, a not-for-profit arts presenting organization.


Legendary South African trumpeter, flugelhornist and vocalist Hugh Masekela is an innovator in the world music and jazz scene and continues to tour the world as a performer, composer, producer and activist. This iconic artist is best known for his Grammy-nominated hit single, "Grazing in The Grass" that sold over 4 million copies in 1968 and made him an international star. He later played an integral role in Paul Simon's tour behind the classic album Graceland, which was one of the first pop records to introduce African music to a broader public. In April 2010, he received The Order of Ikhamanga from South African President Jacob Zuma, his nation's highest civilian honor. Masekela was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2012 in the "Best World Music Album" category for his album, Jubalani.


Articulate and brilliantly musical in any number of genres, Hugh Masekela has been a defining force in world music, the preservation of South Africa's musical heritage, the safety and well-being of it's poorest citizens as well as the struggle for freedom and human rights both in Africa, and around the world.


"Masekela has been a global legend since the '60s and has earned broad appeal among jazz enthusiasts worldwide, and we expect a large turnout for our concert," said Mark Morganelli, Executive Director, Jazz Forum Arts. "We're honored that he'll be making his Tarrytown Music Hall debut in April, and thrilled to bring exciting performances like this to Westchester."
 
Masekela's band features percussionist Francis Manneh Edward Fuster, bassist Abednigo Sibongiseni Zulu, keyboardist Randal Skippers, drummer Lee-Roy Sauls and guitarist Cameron John Ward.

For more information about tickets to the event, click here or call (877) 840-0457.
For more information about Jazz Forum Arts, visit http://www.jazzforumarts.org.


Source: 
JazzCorner.com

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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Supergroup BWB, Rick Braun, Kirk Whalum, Norman Brown Releasing "Human Nature" on Heads Up, June 18th #jazz

Individually, they are three titans of contemporary music: Rick Braun, the gifted trumpeter/flugelhornist with the golden voice; GRAMMY Award-winning tenor saxophonist Kirk Whalum, the Memphis-born wunderkind who mixes Beale Street, gospel, the blues and bop; and Norman Brown, the GRAMMY-winning guitarist who brings a Louisiana lilt to his Wes Montgomery/George Benson influenced six-string soulful strut. They came together eleven years ago as the supergroup known as BWB and their historic album Groovin’, made them one of the most sought-after groups at that time.

This terrific triad reassembles with the June 18, 2013 release of Human Nature on Heads Up. This long-awaited sequel spotlights BWB’s stupendous reimaging of eleven selections made famous by the King of Pop, Michael Jackson.


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Monday, April 08, 2013

Smooth Jazz Chart - Weekly Top 20 - April 8st, 2013 #jazz


TW - LW - Artist - Album - (Label)
1 - 1 - Boney James - "The Beat" - (Concord Jazz)
2 - 2 - Paul Hardcastle - "Hardcastle VII" - (Trippin 'N' Rhythm)
3 - 4 - Marion Meadows - "Whisper" - (Shanachie)
4 - 3 - Vincent Ingala - "Can't Stop Now" - (vincentingala.com)
5 - 5 - Euge Groove - "House Of Groove" - (Shanachie)
6 - 7 - Nils - "City Groove" - (Baja/TSR)
7 - 6 - Jonathan Fritzen - "Magical" - (Nordic Night)
8 - 9 - Grace Kelly - "Sweet Sweet Baby" (Single) - (Woodward Avenue)
9 - 8 - Elan Trotman - "Tropicality" - (Woodward Avenue)
10 - 11 - Brian Bromberg - "In The Spirit Of Jobim" - (Artistry)
11 - 10 - Drew Davidsen - "True Drew" - (Oznot)
12 - 12 - Lee Ritenour - "Rhythm Sessions" - (Concord)
13 - 15 - Nicholas Cole - "Endless Possibilities" - (Cutmore)
14 - 14 - Julian Vaughn - "Breakthrough" - (Trippin 'N' Rhythm)
15 - 17 - Fourplay - "Espirit de Four" - (Heads Up)
16 - 18 - Cindy Bradley - "Unscripted" - (Trippin 'N' Rhythm)
17 - 13 - Gerald Albright/Norman Brown" - "24/7" - (Concord)
18 - 18 - Walter Beasley - "Live In The Club" - (Affable)
19 - 23 - Brian Simpson - "Just What You Need" - (Shanachie)
20 - 16 - Tak Matsumoto - "Strings Of My Soul" - (335)

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Thursday, April 04, 2013

International Jazz Vocalist & Bassist Kristin Korb Releases New LP "What's Your Story?" And Announces Tour Dates #jazz

“WHAT’S YOUR STORY?,” the sixth album from internationally recognized jazz artist KRISTIN KORB answers that very question with 12 timeless tunes that celebrate her story as a jazz vocalist and bassist. “What’s Your Story?” will be released on Korb’s own label, Double K Music, in the U.S. and Europe on April 2, 2013. The album will be available on iTunes, Amazon, CD Baby, www.kristinkorb.com and select retail outlets.

A singing double bassist with a deep sense of swing, Korb combines the instrumental influence of Ray Brown and Charles Mingus with the vocal styling of Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald to create a sound all her own. Exhilarating to watch live, she sings and plays the bass as effortlessly as she breathes.

Korb and her All-Star trio featuring musical powerhouses Bruce Forman on guitar and Jeff Hamilton on drums, share an inspired set of popular songs using innovative arrangements. From Porter to Pinkard, Grouya to Caymmi - "What’s Your Story?" treats listeners to fresh renditions of some of the all time great compositions and introduces an original song, “Always Searching for My Baby” written by Amber Navran.

She earned her Music Education degree at Eastern Montana College and her master's in Classical Bass Performance at the University of California, San Diego. It was while she was a student at UCSD that her professor, Bertram Turetzky inspired her to sing and play bass at the same time. She also studied with Ray Brown, with whom she made her recording debut, “Introducing Kristin Korb with the Ray Brown Trio,” released in 1996.

As President-Elect of the International Society of Bassists, Korb is artistic director for the upcoming 2013 ISB Convention taking place in Rochester, NY (Eastman School of Music) June 4 through June 8.

Korb is currently touring Sweden and will be in the U.S. in May and again in September and October. She also has upcoming dates set for Spain, Germany and Montreal. Visit www.KristinKorb.com for details.

Kristin Korb U.S. Tour Dates 2013:
5/9 Claremont, CA
5/10 San Pedro, CA
5/11 Los Angeles, CA
5/12 Oceanside, CA
5/13 Santa Barbara, CA
5/15 Laguna Beach, CA
8/15 La Canada, CA

“What’s Your Story?” track listing and credits:

1. Will You Still Be Mine
2. Flamingo
3. Traveling Groove Merchant
4. Doralice
5. What’s Your Story Morning Glory?
6. Don’t Fence Me In
7. Them There Eyes
8. Moments Like This
9. Red Wagon
10. Green Dolphin Street
11. Always Searching For My Baby
12. I Wanna Be Loved

Credits:
Kristin Korb - Bass / Vocals
Bruce Forman - Guitar
Jeff Hamilton - Drums

Recorded October 23-24, 2012
Sunset Sound (Hollywood, CA)
Mixed at Cane River Studios (Sherman Oaks, CA)
Mastered at Timbre Music (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Recording & Mixing Engineer: David Rideau
Assistant Engineer: Geoff Neal
Mastering: Mikkel Nymand
Produced by Kristin Korb & Morten Korb Støve

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