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Kate McGarry Keith Ganz Duo - Aug 27 8pm

Posted by Dave Tilley on August 24, 2011 @ 12:54 am | Post a comment

Kate McGarry Keith Ganz Duo

Marsh Woodwinds August 27th, 8pm

The six years of collaboration between Palmetto Records Artist Kate McGarry and husband/guitarist Keith Ganz have produced four critically acclaimed recordings, a Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album, and live performances that crackle with spontaneity and joy. Join the “dynamic duo” for their performance at Marsh Woodwinds in Raleigh. You’ll hear a wide range of composers from Irving berlin to The Cars, with musical selections ranging from Celtic to Jazz, from Blues to Bossa Nova..    Taintradio.org will record the concert for possible future broadcast.

“This duo has figured out how to create jazz arrangements of songs by Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Stephen Stills and Ric Ocasek without compromising either the jazz or the rock’n'roll. The substitute chords, elasticized rhythms and deconstructionist solos make this satisfying jazz, while the lyrics are delivered with such forceful urgency that it’s still satisfying rock’n'roll. The songs are transformed but never obscured.” ~ Geoffrey Himes, Best CDs of 2008

With 4 critically acclaimed CDs and a 2009 Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Vocal to her credit, Kate McGarry is recognized as a jazz artist who brings authenticity and vitality to an extraordinarily wide range of material. The Wall St Journal calls her music “Austere and elegant”, New York Times pronounced her ” Astute and sensitive”. Growing up in a large Irish Catholic family in Hyannis, Massachusetts, Kate and her nine siblings were surrounded by diverse musical influences: Celtic folk songs, Mills Brothers, the Beatles, 70s funk and pop.  From singing in family talent shows to hearing her first recordings of Bill Evans, Ella Fitzgerald and later Keith Jarrett, Kate’s ear for song opened to a wide universe of music.  After studying African American music and Jazz with Dr. Horace Boyer and Archie Shepp at the University of Massachusetts, she honed her craft in Los Angeles for 8 years before ultimately relocating to New York.

Her music collaborations include projects with Jazz luminaries including Fred Hersch, Kurt Elling, Maria Schneider, and John Hollenbeck. She currently performs in many of venerated jazz clubs and festivals throughout the US and abroad, and as an educator has served on the faculty of Manhattan School of Music. Kate has represented the U.S. State Department  and Jazz at Lincoln Center as a jazz ambassador for 3 years running in the American Music Abroad program and will travel with her band to South Africa for the month of December.  McGarry has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, Marion McPartland’s Piano Jazz, and Jazz Set with Dee Dee Bridgewater. She is currently recording her 5th CD, Girl Talk, for Palmetto Records which will be released in early 2012.

Keith Ganz is a guitarist, composer, arranger, and producer. In addition to his Grammy-nominated collaborations with Kate McGarry, he has been the guitarist of choice for Harry Connick Jr., Kurt Elling, Luciana Souza, Peter Eldridge and many more acclaimed vocalists. He has also performed and/or recorded with a host of jazz legends including Christian McBride, Fred Hersch, Victor Lewis, Chris Potter, Andy Bey, Billy Drummond, Jay Anderson, and many others. He has performed on Late Night with David Letterman, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Ellen, The View and Australian Idol, and toured in four continents.

Indomitable: James Brown

Posted by Dave Tilley on June 9, 2011 @ 5:14 pm | Post a comment

Bruce Mack tells us, Yeah… it’s back… and we’re doin’ it in Brooklyn this time…

Hope to see you…  Just be sure to bring a towel…

Eugene Chadbourne & Tatsuya Nakatani concert Tues April 5

Posted by Dave Tilley on March 19, 2011 @ 12:58 pm | Post a comment

Two giants of improvised music explore classic country & western and radical free improvisation—simultaneously. Eugene Chadbourne (guitar) & Tatsuya Nakatani (percussion) will play a concert sponsored by taintradio.org and Marsh Woodwinds on Tues April 5 at 8pm at Marsh Woodwinds - 707 N. Person Street, Raleigh.   Free snacks provided. BYOB.

“Nakatani’s music is based in improvised/ experimental music, jazz, free jazz, rock, and noise, yet retains the sense of space and beauty found in traditional Japanese folk music.” All About Jazz

CHUCK LEONARD BENEFIT

Posted by Dave Tilley on March 19, 2011 @ 12:43 pm | Post a comment

CC Booker III featuring Will Scruggs Sunday, April 11th, 2010 at Marsh Woodwinds

Posted by Dave Tilley on March 26, 2010 @ 1:16 am | Post a comment

CC Booker III, a collaborative project between musicians from NYC and Atlanta, is a Hammond B3 driven SoulJazz tribute to Ray Charles, King Curtis, and Booker T and the MG’s. Their new full-length CD, CC Booker III feat. Will Scruggs, is slated to be released in July 2010, but pre-release copies will be available at this special show at Marsh Woodwinds. Fronting the band is Raleigh native Will Scruggs, a product of the Enloe Magnet Arts Program. He is an accomplished saxophonist, vocalist, and band leader who, at the age of 29, has already shared the stage with Dave Brubeck, recorded commercially with Cee-Lo, and toured and recorded with 8-time Grammy winner Natalie Cole. Keepin’ it green, CC Booker III tours in a diesel Ford van that runs on 100% recycled vegetable oil….”swingin’ hard and saving the planet.”

CD Release Party and Concert — Sunday April 11, 2010 at Marsh Woodwinds  707 N. Person St.     Shows at  7 and 9 pm —   TIX: $15

Hurray for the Riff-Raff in concert Sat Feb 27 at Marsh Woodwinds

Posted by Dave Tilley on February 8, 2010 @ 3:08 am | Post a comment

taintradio.org is bringing those purveyors of melodramatic popular song, Hurray for the Riff-Raff to Raleigh for a show at Marsh Woodwinds on Sat Feb 27th at 8pm.   This trio hails from New Orleans and their music is a blend of  blues, thrash and string-band music.

Instrumentation includes banjo, bass, accordion, guitar and autoharp.  Daytrotter described them as follows:  ”Hurray For The Riff Raff makes an odd combination of darkened folk music that contains full-bodied crooning, fascinating elements of the macabre and the kind of Americana flourishes that show up in music by contemporaries such as Dark Dark Dark, The Handsome Family and North Carolina’s The Bowerbirds. They aren’t songs of gleefulness, but they can be.”

You can check out Hurray for the Riff-Raff at their websites:

http://www.hurrayfortheriffraff.com
http://www.myspace.com/hurrayfortheriffraff

They have several videos you can watch to get an idea of what they’re like.

The show will take place at Marsh Woodwinds in Raleigh, NC on Sat Feb 27 at 8pm.  Tickets are $10 and will be available at the door.

For more info, email dave@taintradio.org or call (919)-834-8667.

The Jazz Loft Project - book/website launch

Posted by Dave Tilley on December 5, 2009 @ 8:24 pm | Post a comment

Our friend in Durham at the Center For Documentary Studies, Sam Stephenson, has spent the last 13 years studying a collection of photographs and audio recordings made by the late W. Eugene Smith. These photos and recordings documented the goings on inside a building he owned in NYC at 821 Sixth Avenue from 1957 to 1965. Smith had placed pianos and other instruments in the building, outfitted it with cameras, a darkroom, and had wired the building from top to bottom with microphones so that he could record the proceedings. He opened his building up to jazz musicians and recorded Thelonious Monk, Zoot Sims, Paul Bley, Roy Haynes, Roland Kirk, Chick Corea, and hundreds of others in jam sessions, rehearsals, and casual conversations. He recorded Martin Luther King and President Kennedy giving speeches on radio and TV, Jason Robards reading F. Scott Fitzgerald’s essay “The Crack-Up,” and late-night callers to Long John Nebel’s radio show who claimed to have seen UFOs and been abducted by aliens. Smith also kept the tapes rolling when not much was happening. He recorded mysterious voices, people hiking up and down the stairs, taxis honking, and the Sixth Avenue bus chugging by every fifteen minutes.

During this time, Smtih shot over 1000 rolls of film (40,000 images) and recorded 1704 reels of tape. Sam Stephenson and his colleagues have been studying these recordings and photos for the last 13 years, tracking down who was on them, interviewing the musicians and onlookers present at the time in an attempt to fully catalog all of Smith’s photos and recordings.  With over 2/3 of this work now cataloged, it is incredibly exciting to see the launch of a book, website and radio series on The Jazz Loft Project. In early 2010, a traveling exhibition of photographs will go on display, beginning with a show at Lincoln Center - traveling around the country.

This week in Durham, the launch of the book and website was celebrated in a party at The West End Wine Bar, featuring a speech by Sam and music by former Jazz Loft resident Ronnie Free and his trio.  You can now purchase this lovely book at your local bookstore or order it online. It is an astounding collection of images and stories.  The website is simply amazing as well - you can view untold images and listen to recordings that few have even been aware of. Check it out: jazzloftproject.org Absolutely unreal.

Hats off to Sam and his colleagues. We’ve been waiting a long time for this moment.

Bruce Mack is a Master Selector

Posted by Dave Tilley on November 26, 2009 @ 2:58 am | Post a comment

DJ Dorrumi Naidoo aka our very own Bruce Mack (host of Free World Network Radio X) will be spinning the tunes in Orange, NJ next week — so, all you NY and NJ people get out and give him a listen and shake your moneymaker. Yah man!

Thurs. Night Prayer Meeting - 09/17/2009

Posted by Dave Tilley on September 17, 2009 @ 10:00 pm | Post a comment

The Bear Comes Home

Posted by Dave Tilley on August 21, 2009 @ 1:38 am | Post a comment

NPR just ran a story Thursday evening on some good books about music “that don’t have to be boring”. The tag line was amusing and caught my attention - it turns out that the books they picked included two of my favorites - Lester Bang’s “Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung” and Rafi Zabor’s “The Bear Comes Home”.

www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105898803

When Rafi is not busy turning out books about a saxophone-playing bear, he can be found here on taintradio, putting together exquisite shows of new music during his weekly show “Updoc”, which airs Friday nights at 8pm and Tues at noon. “The Bear Comes Home” is a very unusual book from a very unusual guy — our own Rafi Zabor — give him some love and check out his book sometime if you haven’t already. Highly recommended.