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Good Morning  @ Jazz Photos and Chronicles,

 

Just a short reminder that Alan Broadbent’s new solo piano CD has its official release date tomorrow.

This quote by the German Jazz Magazine “Jazzpodium” is a good summary:

"...Alan Broadbent, ..., counts both as a pianist and as an arranger to the first division of Jazz.... . Also as a pianist Broadbent has an orchestral approach, like McCoy Tyner in his best times, he is able to let the piano sing in a formidable way, but less percussive, and instead with more of a European classical music approach."

 

Alan is playing a few CD release solo concerts during a short East Coast tour in May/June: http://janmatthies.com/blog/en/?page_id=241

before heading off to a 5-week tour in Europe in October/November.

 

2-time Grammy Award winning jazz pianist, composer and arranger Alan Broadbent, born April 23, 1947 in New Zealand now living in New York, has long been a major force behind the scenes in jazz, whether it was accompanying Irene Kral on some of the most exquisite vocal albums ever recorded, contributing arrangements to Diana Krall, Natalie Cole, Jane Monheit and Sir Paul McCartney or playing piano with Charlie Haden's Quartet West.

 

14 CD‘s released under his own name are proof that he is not only working in the background. 4 of his own recordings earned Grammy Nominations, „Best Improvised Jazz Solo“ in 2010, 2006 and 2005 and „Best Composition“ in the year 1997.

 

Alan has just been mentioned in the French magazine “JAZZMAN” as having given the best concert of the year 2012 for his solo jazz piano performance at the St. Emilion Jazz Festival.

It’s 22 years ago that Alan recorded his first solo jazz piano album “Live at Maybeck Recital Hall, Vol. 14” and as it has been the only one so far, it is time for the successor called “Heart to Heart”.

 

Official Release Date: May 21, 2013

Radio Add Date: May 21, 2013

Label: Chilly Bin Records

 

Distribution: CD Baby

Retail: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/alanbroadbent3

 

CD Liner Notes and artwork: http://www.janmatthies.com/img/alanbroadbent/cdcover/AlanBroadbent_HeartToHeart_Artwork.pdf

CD Cover: www.janmatthies.com/img/alanbroadbent/cdcover/2013_Heart_to_Heart_Cover_Alan_Broadbent_1428x1428.jpg

Susanne Abbuehl, voix
Wolfert Brederode, piano
Olavi Louhivuori, batterie, percussions
Matthieu Michel, bugle 20 francs (plein tarif) 15 francs (membres AMR, AVS, AI, AC, Abonnés annuels UNIRESO) 12 francs (carte 20 ans)
 Susanne Abbuehl - chanteuse et compositrice suisso-néerlandaise - suit sa propre voie depuis le début. Avant chaque enregistrement elle travaille en solitaire, dans le silence, pour développer sa musique et un son de groupe très spécifique. Elle explore la découverte intérieure, la beauté intense du moment présent, et la spontanéité d‘une voix qui reste vraie et directe.  Pour „The Gift“ , son troisième enregistrement pour ECM, elle a choisi les mots de trois poétesses singulières du 19ème siècle: Emily Dickinson, Sara Teasdale et Emily Brontë.  Ses compositions créent des prairies ouvertes pour ces mots hors du temps. La voix danse librement sur une musique qui vibre à la  recherche d'un équilibre en perpétuel mouvement. Un jazz de chambre pur et sans concession.Nouvel album „The Gift“, ECM 2322, printemps 2013, produit par Manfred Eicher. www.susanneabbuehl.com

Congrats to Bob Koester, indie owner and producer of Chicago’s Delmark Records, on the label’s 60th anniversary, which it celebrated over the weekend — and lucky are listeners to jazz beyond jazz for the broad yet niche-like taste that has informed his Quixotic efforts from the start.

Not that I was there in 1953. No — I discovered Koester’s Jazz Record Mart (the old location on Grand Ave.) the day after Christmas 1967, becoming quickly, completely absorbed in the vast, vivid, unexpected worlds of music and culture the tiny shop seemed to open into, and I hung out there constantly, even racking up one post-college year of clerking there circa 1972.

It was a narrow, dusty place between a currency exchange and a steam-table restaurant for down-on-their-luckers, but absolutelythe center of info on who was playing where and when in Chi environs — we used to advance that info weekly to the newspapers’ listings writers. Stacks of 78s sat there priced at a dime or a dollar; musicians associated with Delmark such as Jimmy Dawkins, Big Joe Williams and Junior Wells, as well as those passing through town including Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Betty Carter and Dave Holland used to visit, too.

Those five years gave me plenty of time to soak up the pleasures, rare and often obscure, of the Delmark catalog in the significant developmental phase during which it grew unlike any other jazz record venture before or since. This is no small thing, since at the time jazz and blues were recorded and issued (on vinyl lps) by labels including Arhoolie, Argo, Arista, Atco, Atlantic, Beehive, Bet-Car, Biograph, Black Jazz, Bl