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  3. Northern Heads Interview/Preview Billy Martin & Wil Blades

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    "He'll be the first person to tell you, the last thing on his mind was to start another project with an organ player." For his part Martin freely admits "the chemistry was undeniable. It was something fresh I had not experienced with anyone else. I wasn't looking to play with another organist, but it really is special the way we play together on the stage. It couldn't be denied and when that happened I had no choice but do dive in!" - full interview with Wil Blades and Billy Martin

    http://northernheads.blogspot.ca/2012/11/wil-blades-billy-martin-interview-shimmy.html

  16. Nov. 23 NuJazz Fest Hypnotic Brass Ensemble w/ Heavyweights @ Opera House

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    www.nujazz.ca presents...

    Friday, November 23, 2012

    NuJazz Festival Gala with

    Hypnotic Brass Ensemble (NYC)

    www.hypnoticbrassensemble.com

    w/ The Heavyweights Brass Band

    www.heavyweightsbrassband.com

    and Jazz Amnesty Soundsystem (Montreal)

    Opera House, 735 Queen St. E

    Tickets $22.50-$25: www.tktwb.tw/UPFgud

    Facebook: www.on.fb.me/Sh00rZ

    The first NuJazz Festival was launched on the strength of our first booking of Hypnotic Brass Ensemble in 2008. At the time, videos of Hypnotic’s performances in Times Square and in the subways of New York City were making them an Internet sensation. Word of mouth lead to the release of a handful of 10†records which introduced the band to a wider global audience and radically altered popular conception of what a horn & drum combo could sound like. They had just began touring internationally and were hot off a hugely successful tour of Europe. President Obama had won his epochal election two weeks before their Nujazz Festival show. It was nothing less than the perfect storm, and over 600 people came out to the Opera House for Hypnotic’s first Toronto club concert. Back now after crisscrossing the globe on their own and with Gorillaz, collaborating with the world’s finest musicians such as Tony Allen and releasing string of acclaimed full-length albums & singles, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble is touring behind a new release which they recorded with their father and mentor Phil Cohran (the trumpet player from epochal experimental music ensemble Sun Ra Arkestra) entitled Kelan Philip Cohran and the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble. And we couldn’t be happier to present them once again at our milestone fifth edition of the Nujazz Festival!

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    Hypnotic Brass Ensemble (aka HBE, or Hypnotic) is a 8-piece, Chicago-based brass ensemble consisting of 8 sons of jazz trumpeter Phil Cohran. Renowned for their ability to capture an audience with only horns and a drum set, "Hypnotic" has traveled the world doing just that. Their musical style is a combination of all the better parts of many different musical genres, ranging from hip-hop to jazz tofunk and rock. You can even find traces of calypso and gypsie music in their eclectic blend of sound they call "now music", or "Hypnotic". Reared in the teachings of music since they were children, some of them as young as 3 years old, they grew up on the stage playing as the "Phil Cohran Youth Ensemble". In many circles, theirs has been labeled the best live show and a definite must see.

    Collaborations:

    They have performed with Mos Def, Aquilla Sadalla, Phil Cohran, The Recipe, Nomadic Massive, Tony Allen, Wu Tang Clan, De La Soul, Prince, Femi Kuti, Gorillaz, B52's, Flea and more. They have recorded with names ranging from Erykah Badu to Ghostface Killah of the Wu Tang Clan to Maxwell and many more. They supported Blur for their Hyde Park reunion concerts on the 2nd and 3rd of July in 2009. They are also collaborators on a number of tracks from the third Gorillaz studio album, Plastic Beach. Their hit song "War" was featured in the box office smash The Hunger Games as the theme song for Caesar Flickerman.

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    Heavyweights Brass Band

    www.heavyweightsbrassband.com

    With a fresh & fun take on the classic New Orleans style, The Heavyweights Brass Band is one of the most promising jazz acts to emerge from Canada in years. And while their sound and energy may be rooted in the NOLA second-line brass tradition, what these talented young musicians are doing is anything but traditional! Blending jazz, funk, soul, and R&B, the band performs a stock of fiery originals, pop and retro hits, and classic New Orleans repertoire that make the old accessible and new again. Fresh off their first cross-Canada tour, the HBB regularly delivers these swampy grooves and infectious horn blasts with quality, humour, virtuosic chops & incredible collective improvisation.

    "Blown away by this thoroughly fresh piece of cultural collaboration. Never heard anything like this before!" (re: "Nueva Orleans feat. Oggeure"). -Gilles Peterson, DJ, Record Collector/Producer, BBC Radio 1 Personality

    "The Heavyweights Brass Band" is a breath of fresh air on the Toronto music scene and are destined for big things any minute now!" - Jaymz Bee, JAZZ.FM91

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    Jazz Amnesty Soundsystem

    The Jazz Amnesty Sound System (or J.A.S.S.) is run by Montreal DJs Andy Williams and Sweet Daddy Luv. With an honest admiration, appreciation and awe for the dedication and skills of its honored players, these veteran selectors delve deep into the rich history of jazz in an attempt to weave its story. There is the idea of what 'jazz' is that follows it through the changes over the years. The Jazz Amnesty Sound System play the classics that helped define all these jazz sub-genres as well as prime examples of sheer beauty created by artists that often get overlooked.

    more info:

    www.nujazz.ca

    jay@360degreesartists.com

  18. Frankenstorm NYC

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    lol, for some reason that's what Mayor Bloomberg is suggesting, maybe less we know the better. I want to watch, but the wife is keeping to the orders.

    It's really windy here, but no floods or rain. We're up in Morning side Heights, we're still pretty North Manhattan on the edge of Harlem. Looks like we're going to get through this without a hitch.

  22. Frankenstorm NYC

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    Greetings from NYC.

    Ok so this photo is probably a fake, but I do think it's going to be a major storm that's going to hit us tonight with unpredictable consequences. My lady is a climate scientist at Columbia U and she says it's an unprecedented situation with two storms; Extra-Tropical Storm and Tropical Hurricane colliding creating a rare 'perfect storm.'

    The streets of NYC are empty, everyone is huddled indoors. We're prepared yet still worried to what could happen. Will keep you posted as long as the power stays on.

  23. Nov. 9 NuJazz Fest Launch Souljazz Orchestra CD Release @ Wrongbar

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    www.WorldFamousMusic.net & www.nujazz.ca presents

    Souljazz Orchestra CD Release Party for "Solidarity"

    www.souljazzorchestra.com

    Launch Party for NuJazz Festival www.nujazz.ca

    plus DJ John Kong and more

    Adv. $16 Tix http://bit.ly/Pb0IIn

    Tickets at Soundscapes, Rotate This

    & Play De Record

    Facebook Link: http://on.fb.me/RU7KhD

    The Souljazz Orchestra's new album "Solidarity" comes out this month and the band will be having a massive release party at Wrongbar, in Toronto, on Friday November 9th, 2012.

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    "Solidarity" is an eclectic collaborative album featuring a slew of unique artists from Canada's underground scene, including Senegalese-Canadian artist Élage M'baye, Brazilian-Canadian singer-songwriter Rômmel Ribeiro, and Jamaican-Canadian vocalist Slim Moore, better known for his work with the Mar-Kays. We recorded this one pretty hot to tape, and it's got a wicked ruff-and-tuff analog sound to it, with a lot of old dusty organs and pawnshop guitars, along with the usual arsenal of mighty horns and percussion. The album comes out once again on London UK-based Strut Records, a label responsible for unearthing lost gems from around the world, including afrobeat legend Fela Kuti, hip-hop pioneer Grandmaster Flash, salsa powerhouse Fania All-Stars, to only name a few.

    So what are people saying about "Solidarity"? Well, National Geographic in Washington DC called it "beyond badass". The Paris DJs collective in France described it as "ridiculously exceptional". Jeune Afrique, one of the most widely read magazines in francophone Africa, declared it "an essential album". Heavyweight DJs like Laurent Garnier and the BBC’s Gilles Peterson have already started spinning it regularly, and the album has been getting airplay as far off as Mali, Brazil and Greece. We've got some early reviews up here: http://www.souljazzorchestra.com/reviews.html

    The show also kicks off the band's first-ever World Tour, a grueling three months on the road, from New York to London, Paris to Montreal, Chicago to Athens, Amsterdam to Detroit, and that's not even mentioning South Bohemia! Tickets are already on sale, you can find more info here: http://www.souljazzorchestra.com/shows.html

    We're offering a free download of one of the top tracks, "Cartão Postal". It's a gritty mix of semba and samba styles, sung in Portuguese by our man Rômmel Ribeiro: it doesn't really sound like anything we've ever done before, you should really check it out. Get it here:

    Check the new videos:

    The Souljazz Orchestra - Bibinay (feat. Élage Mbaye)

    The Souljazz Orchestra - Ya Basta

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bblmS-Ga-9o

    So come see the band live, and check out what the fuss is all about. Expect a lot of fresh new tunes, some Souljazz classics, and a couple surprises too. Oh, and a packed dancefloor full of sweaty people going nuts doing their best watusi popcorn.

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