February 2012
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Columbia University presents "The Future of Jazz...
A conversation with the Center for Jazz Studies Faculty at Columbia University: Brent Edwards, Kevin Fellezs, Farah Griffin, George Lewis, Robert O’Meally, John Szwed & Chris Washburne
The faculty of the Center for Jazz Studies looks back over the first decade of the Center, its research and performance events, and discusses their current projects, the future of jazz studies, and the future of...
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Press Coverage on Grammy Protest
“The four Latin jazz musicians, who filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court in New York on Aug. 2, are Ben Lapidus, Mark Levine, Eugene Marlow and Bobby Sanabria. They are not seeking compensation, but they believe their careers are being severely harmed by the elimination of their category in a breach by NARAS’ ‘contractual obligations’ and that the elimination of Latin jazz...
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NEW RELEASE Coming soon!
Manhattan School of Music Chamber Jazz Ensemble and Tactus Justin DiCioccio, Conductor Featuring Dave Liebman, Soprano and Tenor Saxophone
Available March 13, 2012 on Amazon, iTunes and www.jazzheads.com
Pre-order now on Amazon!
January 2012
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Jazzheads News
Best of 2011 Picks:
Tito Puente Masterworks Live!!! Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra, Conducted by Bobby Sanabria
JazzWeek TOP 100 CDs of 2011 (#93) - TIto Puente Masterworks Live!!!
Best of 2011 Editor’s Picks at Descarga - TIto Puente Masterworks Live!!!
To hear samples from this album, click here
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Latin Jazz Corner Podcast Episode #3
The final...
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Jazzheads Artists Featured at Carnegie Hall!
As part of the celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday, Jazzheads’ artists Rob Derke, Carlo De Rosa and Benny Koonyevsky from the NYJAZZ Initiative were guest soloists on the world premiere of Karl Jenkin’s latest work, The Peacemakers, including a 250 voice chorale performed at Carnegie Hall. The Peacemakers, using text by Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Mandela, the...
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Jazzheads at the Jazz Education Network (JEN)...
Jazzheads started off the New Year with participation at the Jazz Education Network Conference 2012 in Louisville, KY. The JEN Conference focuses on Jazz education for both educators and students of Jazz. JEN’s mission is to attract and teach new audiences about Jazz music. And that it did! The atmosphere was inspiring, filled with clinics, presentations and performances including legendary Jazz...
June 2011
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Bobby Sanabria Big Band at the Apollo Theater
For the audience who experienced the Bobby Sanabria Big Band on June 18 at the Apollo celebrating the musical wonders of Mario Bauzá, it was a magical evening of intense Latin rhythms, improvisational highs, poetry and profound musicianship. Bobby Sanabria and his 19 piece big band, along with guests Felipe Luciano, David Amram, ‘La Bruja, Chareneé Wade, Jon Faddis, and the legendary (90 year...
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Review: O's Place Jazz Magazine on 'Tito Puente...
The late composer and percussionist Tito Puente was one of the greatest contributors to Afro-Cuban Jazz. Manhattan School of Music’s Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra celebrates Tito’s work with this live performance. The conductor and musical director is Bobby Sanabria. The program is vibrant and electrifying as is most of Puente’s music. The solos are rich and plentiful with Paul...
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May 2011
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Review: The New York City Jazz Record on 'Tito...
Manhattan School of Music on Jazzheads.com
Bobby Sanabria on Jazzheads.com
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First review of 'Mad About Thad' by NYJazz...
Twenty five years have come and gone since Thad Jones’ passing, but interest in his music has never waned. Audiences composed of faithful fans and those new to his work still flock en masse to the Village Vanguard on Monday nights to witness the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra exploring his legacy on the very stage where the trumpeter first brought many of his compositions to life. While a good...
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Drumhead Magazine reviews Bobby Sanabria & The...
Manhattan School of Music on Jazzheads.com
Bobby Sanabria on Jazzheads.com
Randy's Notes: Press Conference in Protest of... →
randyklein:
Randy Klein’s Statement at the Press Conference in Protest of Grammy Travesty:
”Over the last few weeks, I have had this reoccurring thought that I would like to share with you.
To erase, eliminate, delete and/or expunge anything makes it invisible. If something is invisible it is not seen or…
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New release on Jazzheads: NYJazz Initiative - Mad...
New release on Jazzheads, Mad About Thad showcases the astute talents of NYJAZZ artists performing their progressive arrangements of Thad Jones repertoire, whose songs are a staple for jazz education institutions. It’s time to be Mad About Thad! ‘Thad Jones had a sound that is timeless. On his horn and through his music his ideas were profound and personal, and it is evident that his...
April 2011
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Review: AllAboutJazz on CD ‘Tito Puente...
If the Latin Jazz community had its own Mount Rushmore, then Tito Puente’s face would be there, right beside the images of Machito and Mario Bauzá. All three men are viewed as patriarchs and/or key figures in the evolution of the Afro-Cuban musical movement and, despite Puente being the only non-Cuban on that list, Bauzá himself paid him the ultimate compliment when he said that “no...
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Randy's Notes: NARAS side steps Latin Jazz Grammy... →
randyklein:
April 10, 2011, the New York Chapter meeting of NARAS.
Subject: The consolidation of Grammy categories and the deletion of the Latin Jazz category.
I guess the word spread that the Latin Jazz community was upset. So much so that Neil Portnow, the president of NARAS flew in from LA and was…
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Randy's Notes: NARAS Eliminates Latin Grammy... →
randyklein:
NARAS which is the governing organization for the Grammy’s has announced today that they have eliminated the Latin Jazz category. Over the years, I have had thoughts that NARAS wouldn’t recognize a musical note if it hit them in the face. I have, up until now, given NARAS the benefit of the doubt,…
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90th Birthday Tribute to Candido Celebrated by...
Photos: Brian Hatton
Congratulations to Bobby Sanabria and Manhattan School of Music Afro Cuban Jazz Orchestra with a great concert and a standing room only event at the Manhattan School of Music on April 1!
March 2011
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Bobby Sanabria gives an interview for Jazz Latino... →
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Review: The New York Times on CD 'Tito Puente...
Bobby Sanabria and the Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra
The repertory movement came slowly to Afro-Latin music, but we’re in the thick of it now. You might know about the projects spearheaded through the last decade by Arturo O’Farrill, with his Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, and by Wynton Marsalis, with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. One that’s still a bit under the radar...
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Review: The New York City Jazz Record on Dave...
Offering an equally enjoyable, unaccompanied ode to the Big Apple is pianist Dave Frank. A co-author of two academic textbooks on instrumental improvisation - and former Berklee faculty member - pianist Frank runs the New York School of Jazz above a Midtown piano dealership. His website even offers private piano lessons that Frank conducts with his students via Skype. Upon listening to his album...
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“People have to realize that Cuban rhythm rules here in New York City and...”
– Bobby Sanabria for The New York Times - March 24, 2011
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Tito Puente Masterworks Live!!! CD Release
Thanks to everybody who came to Tito Puente CD and Book Release at Manhattan School of Music! Bobby Sanabria, Joe Conzo and David A. Perez talked on Tito Puente and his music. Bobby presented amazing new CD Tito Puente Masterworks Live!!! by Bobby Sanabria & Manhattan School Of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra.
Bobby Sanabria on Jazzheads.com
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JazzTimes reviews Mark Weinstein's Jazz Brasil!
JazzTimes, April, 2011
Mark Weinstein on Jazzheads.com
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First reviews of Bobby Sanabria & The Manhattan...
Bobby Sanabria on Jazzheads.com
February 2011
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Mark Weinstein's CD Jazz Brasil debuts at #1 on...
Mark Weinstein’s CD Jazz Brasil is at #1 on the World Music Album Chart
… and at #10 on the Jazz Album Chart!!!
Mark Weinstein on Jazzheads.com
January 2011
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Review: Downbeat on Bobby Sanabria and the...
Multi-Grammy nominated musician, conductor, drummer, educator, Bobby Sanabria leads the Manhattan School Of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra. His concerts are sellouts and it is simply because the band sounds ultra-great and Bobby teaches while he entertains. Superb!!!! Check out the recordings Big Band Urban Folk Tales and Kenya Revisited Live!!! on Jazzheads
Bobby Sanabria on Jazzheads.com
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Gabriele Tranchina 's CD 'A Song of Love’s Color' ...
Jazz journalist and writer, W. Royal Stokes called Gabriele Tranchina ‘s CD ‘A Song of Love’s Color’ one the Best Jazz Vocal CDs of 2010!
Village Voice Jazz Critics Poll 2010
Gabriele Tranchina at Jazzheads.com
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Review: Downbeat on Dave Frank's CD 'Portrait of...
Downbeat , February 2011, p.65
Dave Frank on Jazzheads
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Chris Washburne & The SYOTOS Band CD 'Fields of...
Just Jazz Radio - December, 2010
Chris Washburne on Jazzheads.com
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Two mucisians from Mark Weinstein's CD 'Timbasa'...
The Latin Jazz Corner Best Of The Year Awards is an annual event, the winners are selected through a voting process open to LJC readers, artists, fans, and the general public. This year two mucisians from Mark Weinstein’s CD ‘Timbasa’ got the Latin Jazz Corner Best Of The Year Awards! Congratulations to Axel Tosca Laugart - 2010 Latin Jazz Pianist Of The Year, and Panagiotis...
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Dave Frank's 'Portrait Of New York' - the best of...
Jazz journalist Ralph A. Miriello about the best of jazz 2010:
‘Best solo jazz pianist came from a guy based in NYC and who is amazingly flying under the radar of most critics. Pianist Dave Frank teaches in his New York studio. He has established an unbelievably consistent left hand walking bass line that defies convention and in the process has delved into territory that to my knowledge...
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Review: Midwest Record on Mark Weinstein's Jazz...
‘Flutes, Brazil and jazz seem like such a natural combination and Weinstein has found the corner to turn to make Herbie Mann smile down upon his efforts. With a different touch of special sauce this time around, adding the coloration of fellow Monk devotee Kenny Barron on piano, the cross cultural cross currents never turn into a rip tide but they draw you in big time. Slightly to the left...
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Review: Cadence Magazine on Gabriele Tranchina's...
Gabriele Tranchina at Jazzheads.com
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Review: AllAboutJazz on Mark Weinstein's Jazz...
Flautist Mark Weinstein has enjoyed impressive success with his almost yearly releases. Timbasa (Jazzhead Records, 2010), Tales from the Earth (With Omar Sosa) (Ota Records, 2009) and Straight No Chaser (Jazzhead Records, 2008) were all favorably reviewed within these sacred electrons. Weinstein belongs to an elite club of jazz flautists, a necessarily small one that includes Herbie Mann, James...
October 2010
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Three reviews from AllAboutJazz on Dave Frank's...
”Jazz and New York are like hot dogs and baseball, or peanut butter and jelly. The Big Apple has been the epicenter of so many important movements and moments in jazz, that it’s hard to think of any other place—save perhaps New Orleans—that deserves the honor of being captured in song. Pianist Dave Frank, widely recognized as a premier jazz educator and performer, pays tribute to New...
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Review: Buffalo News on Dave Frank's Portrait Of...
“Scrawl it on the walls the way they used to when Charlie Parker died: Dave McKenna Lives! And in the exact same way that “Bird Lives” was, in its way, true all those years ago. McKenna’s death in 2008 after a singular life of solo jazz piano didn’t entirely rob jazz of fearsomely virtuosic mainstream pianists with ripping left-hand basslines and right hands capable...
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Review: JazzWax on Dave Frank's Portrait Of New...
”Dave Frank plays solo piano on ‘Portrait Of New York’. I was not familiar with Frank before receiving this CD. At first thought this was just another jazz piano album—until I heard Frank’s ballad work. He has an ability to grow introspective and moody without becoming lost in a song. Much can be said for how he moves horizontally, with wide chord voicings and strong pedal tones that...
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Dave Frank - Portrait Of New York
Jazzheads is proud to announce our new release - Dave Frank’s fourth solo CD titled ‘Portrait Of New York’. This is a burnin’ recording! Dave’s concept of solo piano playing is highly acclaimed. Join Dave Frank in his whirlwind trip through the world’s greatest city!
Dave Frank on Jazzheads
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Ole Mathisen's CMA commission was recorded for NPR
Saxophonist Ole Mathisen’s composition Mirage for his group FFEAR featured in a performance at the Miller Theatre in New York City on October 23 was recorded for later broadcast on JazzSet, an NPR program hosted by Dee Dee Bridgewater. The work was commissioned with support from CMA’s New Jazz Works: Commissioning and Ensemble Development Program.
Ole Mathisen at Jazzheads.com
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September 2010
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Review: Sketches of Spain
AllAboutJazz-New York reviews Sketches of Spain, Dave Liebman and the Manhattan School of Music Jazz Orchestra album (October issue, p.18)
AllAboutJazz-New York
Dave Liebman on Jazzheads.com
Manhattan School of Music Jazz Orchestra on Jazzheands.com
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Gabriele Tranchina - 'A Song of Love’s Color'
Gabriele Tranchina’s album ‘A Song of Love’s Color’ has been featured in HIGH FIVE list / Issue # 373 by JSI Top 21 news and reviews web-site.
Gabriele Tranchina at Jazzheads.com
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New-York Times mentions two Jazzheads artists →
New York Times writes about jazz education and mentions Bobby Sanabria and David Liebman’s albums released on Jazzheads in collaboration with The Manhattan School of Music:
Dave Liebman and the Manhattan School of Music Jazz Orchestra - Sketches of Spain
Bobby Sanabria Conducting The Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra - Kenya Revisted Live!!!
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Review: Fields Of Moons, Chris Washburne And The...
Welcome to the land of brass. This is the world of Chris Washburne and the Syotos Band who have just come out with their new album Fields of Moons. Washburne, besides being a fine trombone and tuba player is an Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at Columbia University and the Director of Columbia’s Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program. He has written many articles and has even...
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Review: Fields Of Moons, Chris Washburne And The...
There are few jazz bands that have been together for long periods of time and you’ll find most of them as house bands in the various jazz venues around the country. Keeping a Latin jazz band is even more challenging and quite an accomplishment for trombonist Chris Washburne who is the leader of the Syotos band founded over twenty years ago. Known as a “Latin Jazz Institution” with the...