Free Beer 10-11 at Nujazz Fest Launch this Friday

[Jay Funk Dawg]

Join us for the Launch Party on Friday, November 5th, 2010!

Friday, Nov 05, 2010 9:00 PM EDT

Rich Medina ft. The Soul Jazz Orchestra

at The Great Hall (Main Space) - Toronto,ON

$15.00 Get Tickets >> http://bit.ly/cZzck9

Rich Medina (Jump N Funk, NYC)

http://www.richmedina.com/

SoulJazz Orchestra (Strut Records, Ottawa)

http://www.souljazzorchestra.com/

Minotaurs

http://www.staticclang.com/

dj NaNa

http://www.epresskitz.com/djNaNa

3rd Annual NuJazz Festival- Nov. 5 - 15, 2010 - Various Venues - Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The spirit of nu-jazz is to bringing jazz into a modern context by blending this essential improvisation-based art form with other styles like funk, hiphop, electronica and more. Confirmed artists this year include: DJ Shadow, Mark de Clive-Lowe, Tortured Soul, Aloe Blacc, Rich Medina, The Souljazz Orchestra, King Sunshine, DJ Jason Palma, United Soul, General Eclectic and many others!

JUMP N FUNK -THE ORIGINAL FELA KUTI TRIBUTE PARTY

w/ RICH MEDINA

For nearly a decade, JUMP N’ FUNK has been a staple on dancefloors from New York to Berlin to Japan, establishing itself as the first and most consistent DJ-based party dedicated to Fela Kuti and his message of peace and equality through music. It has had many homes from its early days at the SHRINE in NYC to THE BARBICAN MUSEUM in LONDON ENGLAND, but without fail, JUMP N’ FUNK has always packed clubs in with dancers and Afrobeat junkies of all stripes, Rich Medina controls the room with epic 4-hour DJ sets and capitvating visuals behind him, only resting to allow live Afrobeat ensembles like Antibalas or Chico Mann take the stage with a flurry of blaring horns and hard-driving percussion that raise the volume and send the dancefloor into a frenzy.

DJ RICH MEDINA(Philly):

DJ Rich Medina lives, breathes, and revels in sharing the type of music that make a listener remember his soul. It is this awareness of soul that brings listeners back time and again to hear Rich spin: heads nod, bodies sway, emotions expand and coalesce. Rich Medina holds DJ residencies at prominent venues throughout the country.

Most recently he is a defining DJ at NY’s Le Poisson Rouge nightclub as well as the prestigious Martinez Gallery. Rich was approached by Jill Scott to produce a track for what would be her multi-platinum debut release, Who Is Jill Scott? ( Sony/Hidden Beach). DJ Rich Medina, renaissance man, articulate performer and a down and dirty DJ who can go head to head with the best, is an artist who will transform the average experience of any club or venue and give his audience a night of music and words to remember.

SOULJAZZ ORCHESTRA (Ottawa):

Since their creation in Ottawa, Canada, back in 2002, the Souljazz Orchestra have become one of the most potent bands in their field. Drawing on the rough, raw grooves of the '60s and '70s and effortlessly fusing soul, jazz, afro and latin rhythms within their music, the group have moved forward the blueprint of Fela, Fania and the funk in entirely new ways, while keeping the vital analogue grit intact. As a live unit, years of relentless touring have formed the band into an in-demand fixture at venues and festivals worldwide.

Having turned heads with two fine records on the Toronto-based Do Right! label, Freedom No Go Die (2006, featuring their breakthrough single "Mista President") and Manifesto (2008), the Souljazz Orchestra have recently released the hotly anticipated Rising Sun album on London-based Strut Records. Drawing on a wider canvas of styles than ever before, touching on spiritual jazz, deep African rhythms, and cinematic soundscapes, the Orchestra take their sound to new heights with stunning musicianship and virtuoso arrangements throughout. Long-time fan Gilles Peterson (BBC Radio One) has already declared this album to be their best yet.

Read more: http://www.myspace.com/souljazzorchestra

MINOTAURS (Guelph):

Pop, folk, roots, and rock are the most common descriptors used for the music Lawr and his Minotaurs create, but none is especially applicable here. For this fourth album since the singer/multi-instrumentalist's split from Royal City, he and his comrades aim for something that leans closer to jazz and Afrobeat than anything else. It's what The Hylozoists might sound like with vocals and with horns instead of strings. If you're looking for a Canadian alternative to the music of Gayngs or The XX, The Thing might be it.

DJ NANA (Toronto) ON:

As an intensely passionate and dedicated lover of music, DJ NaNa is a forever moving, restless soul. For years he has been a member of the cutting edge of Toronto's music scene, earning himself the reputation as one of the most powerful dj's in the city. As a DJ, producer, and founder of Ear2muchconcepts, DJ NaNa tears through influences which include everything from hip-hop, soul and jazz to electronica, house, reggae and traditional African music. NaNa has always pushed himself to break boundaries and genres and often challenges his audience to go on that journey of discovery with him through music. DJ NaNa's first love has always been deejaying, consistently lugging hundreds of records around the city in an old case, simply to play at any party receptive to being rocked. This resulted in the room being filled with pounding drums and saturated bass lines where NaNa essentially carved out a space for himself and forced his way in with the rest of the world.

For more information please visit:

www.nujazz.ca

Edited November 4, 2010 by Guest

[Jay Funk Dawg]

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[Jay Funk Dawg]

holy shit...! Free Beer between 10 -11 pm!

[hipsterave]

wha? Free BEER ?

[PassedOutGuy]

for the first twelve to finish the case.

[TheAlphaNerd]

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