不論是移民後裔或是留學生，世界各地的人才都聚集在紐約，爵士音樂家亦然。而這也是近20年來的紐約爵士樂聲音如此多元而豐富的主因....

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<div class="draft-block draft--quotesSpecial center"><div class="content">以南印度Mrudangam鼓為「主要武器」的Rajna <span style="font-style: italic; ">Swaminathan，選擇</span>在紐約的魯賓藝術博物館舉辦<span style="font-style: italic; ">專輯</span>《Of Agency and Abstraction》的發表音樂會。台上的七位音樂家中，小提琴手Anjna Swaminathan與歌手Ganavya同樣有著南印度的血統。薩克斯風手María Grand來自瑞士，吉他手Miles Okazaki有日裔血統，小號手Amir ElSaffar則是伊拉克移民二代，唯一美國本土出身的只有貝斯手Stephan Crump。雖然來自不同的地方，但是爵士樂的語彙讓他們得以在同一個舞台上對話。這樣跨越美、歐、亞，如同小聯合國般的音樂家組合，在紐約早已見怪不怪....</div></div>
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<div class="draft-block draft--p left">在2019年，紐約市人口來到8百萬，其中有36%的居民是在美國境外出生（註1）。</div>
<div class="draft-block draft--p left">如此多的移民人口，理所當然造就文化與音樂上的衝擊。</div>
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技巧不是一切，但沒有技巧根本無法好好用樂器說話。當代的音樂家在前人之上進一步開拓新的技巧，讓爵士樂的作曲與即興，又增添了更多的可能性...

原音續航#1：展粗 | 樂器技巧與音色的探索

以南印度Mrudangam鼓為「主要武器」的Rajna Swaminathan，選擇在紐約的魯賓藝術博物館舉辦專輯《Of Agency and Abstraction》的發表音樂會。台上的七位音樂家中，小提琴手Anjna Swaminathan與歌手Ganavya同樣有著南印度的血統。薩克斯風手María Grand來自瑞士，吉他手Miles Okazaki有日裔血統，小號手Amir ElSaffar則是伊拉克移民二代，唯一美國本土出身的只有貝斯手Stephan Crump。雖然來自不同的地方，但是爵士樂的語彙讓他們得以在同一個舞台上對話。這樣跨越美、歐、亞，如同小聯合國般的音樂家組合，在紐約早已見怪不怪....

在2019年，紐約市人口來到8百萬，其中有36%的居民是在美國境外出生（註1）。

如此多的移民人口，理所當然造就文化與音樂上的衝擊。

▎起源

"Offering" -- composed by Rajna & Anjna Swaminathan
Live at The Rubin Museum of Art | April 26, 2019

Album: "Of Agency and Abstraction" (Biophilia Records, 2019)
https://rajnaswaminathan.bandcamp.com/

RAJAS: Rajna Swaminathan (mrudangam, voice), Anjna Swaminathan (violin), Ganavya (voice), María Grand (tenor sax), Stephan Crump (bass), Miles Okazaki (guitar), Amir ElSaffar (trumpet)

www.rajnaswaminathan.com

Rajna Swaminathan & RAJAS - "Offering"

Terraza 7 Big Band
Ft. Troy Roberts (tenor sax)

Terraza 7 Big Band

Regional de New York playing at Beco Bar, Williamsburg (May 5th, 2013). Tune, "Caminhando" (Nelson Cavaquinho)

Anat Cohen, clarinet
Vitor Gonçalves, accordion
Jesse Appelman, mandolin
Ranjan Ramchandani, pandeiro
Kahil Nayton, cavaco
Cesar Garabini, 7 string guitar

Beco Bar Roda de Choro with Anat Cohen

Dizzy Gillespie with the Kenny Clarke / Francy Boland Big Band, Denmark - November 4, 1970.

Manteca - Dizzy Gillespie

Yosvany Terry & The Afro Caribbean Quintet

EPK video on the making of Miguel Zenon's album "Esta Plena."  Video was made by Adriana Teresa of FotoVisura (http://www.fotovisura.com/)

MIguel Zenon "Esta Plena" EPK

Edmar Castaneda is the sort of musician who isn't afraid to challenge the established order. He's carving out a place for himself in Latin jazz on an instrument you don't often hear in his chosen genre: the Colombian harp. He's adapted intricate traditional fingerpicking techniques to play jazz melodies along with the Afro-Cuban tumbao (bass line). As you can see and hear for yourself in this Tiny Desk Concert, he can switch between rural Colombian dance music and jazz with a twist of his wrist. Literally.

His musical vision is so invigorating that he's gaining fans like NEA Jazz Master Paquito D'Rivera, with whom Castaneda has performed. His Web site shows him constantly on the road as a guest artist with other forward thinkers, or with his latest touring trio, which consists of Castaneda, a drummer and a trombonist.

Castaneda recently parked himself behind Bob Boilen's desk and crafted a transporting mix of tradition and improvisation. Chances are, you've never heard anything like it.

Edmar Castaneda: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

This is a composition by Lionel Loueke from the 2004 album Gilfema.
Filmed and directed in 2005 by Jon Fine.

Lionel Loueke - Guitar
Massimo Biolcati - Bass
Ferenc Nemeth - Drums

Lionel Loueke Trio (Gilfema) - Tinmin

Découvrez le concert des 3 Cohens Sextet avec les trois frères et soeur Anat, Yuval et Avishai Cohen, au festival parisien Jazz à La Villette 2018. Ils interprètent le titre culte "The Mooch" composé par Duke Ellington &  Irving Mills.

Anat Cohen : clarinette, saxophone ténor
Avishai Cohen : trompette
Yuval Cohen : saxophone soprano
Yonathan Avishai : piano
Barak Mori : basse
Jeff Ballard : batterie

Retrouvez toutes les informations sur ce concert par ici: 
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3 Cohens Sextet - "The Mooch" - Live @ Jazz à La Villette 2018

The saxophonist's new repertoire salutes electric funk, South Indian modes and swarming improvisation. It's impressive on record, but it becomes a bug-eyed, mouth-agape experience live. Naturally, you could spot a few contorted faces when he played the NPR Music offices.

Set List: 
"Killer"
"Playing With Stones"

Personnel:
Rudresh Mahanthappa, alto saxophone
Rez Abbasi, guitar
Rich Brown, bass
Rudy Royston, drums

For more videos and to subscribe to the Tiny Desk Concerts podcast, visit npr.org/tinydeskconcerts.

Rudresh Mahanthappa: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Summertime by George Gershwin, translated to Tamil (Nithākam) by Ganavya. 

Recorded in Cut Records, Valencia, Spain. Featuring Albert Sanz on piano and Pablo Martín Caminero on double bass. Video editing by Pablo Martín Caminero. 

Dedicated to a dear and wonderful friend, Prashant Bhargava, who taught us to love without reservation, and to be unapologetically real, without fearing any consequential vulnerability.

Please look up his work. I really believed in it.
http://prashant.tv

I encourage you to reach out to someone today and offer your unconditional help in his memory.

Nithākam (Unplugged Live): Dedication to Prashant Bhargava

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Jen Shyu playing Song of Silver Geese live at Vision Festival 21 at Judson Memorial Church in New York City on June 8 , 2016. Featuring Jade Tongue, Satoshi Haga, and Mivos Quartet.

Text of "Contemplation" by Edward Cheng translated by Wendy Cheng.

Jen Shyu – co-director, composition, vocals, gayageum, Taiwanese moon lute, piano
Satoshi Haga – co-director, choreography, dance
Jade Tongue: Chris Dingman – vibraphone, Mat Maneri – viola, Thomas Morgan – bass, Anna Webber – flute & alto flute, Dan Weiss – drums
Mivos Quartet: Olivia De Prato – 1st violin, Erica Dicker – 2nd violin, Victor Lowrie – viola, Mariel Roberts – cello
Caitlin Rappoport: Lighting Design
Naoko Nagata: Costume Design

This is the second performance of a new full-length composition, Song of Silver Geese, a multilingual, ritual music drama, composed for dancer-improviser Satoshi Haga, Jen Shyu’s core ensemble Jade Tongue, and the Mivos Quartet, with Shyu on vocals, dance, gayageum, Taiwanese (Shyu’s father’s birthplace) moon lute, and East Timorese (mother’s birthplace) lakadou. The work is inspired by Shyu’s 12-plus years of study of traditional music from four specific countries: epic storytelling (Pansori) and East Coast shaman music (DongHaeAhnByeolShinGut), both from Korea; music from subdistricts Aileu and Ataúro from East Timor; Hengchun Folk Song with moon lute from Taiwan; Ledhekan, which combines Javanese dance with improvisational singing (Sindhenan) from Indonesia.

Shyu sings in 7 languages (Indonesian, Javanese, Taiwanese, Mandarin, Tetum, Korean, English), rendering ancient text from the Wehali Kingdom of Timor, as well her original texts and modern poetry by the late Taiwanese poet and mentor of Jen, Edward Cheng, and also Javanese poetry by the late Javanese wayang kulit puppeteer and friend, Sri Joko “Cilik” Raharjo.

Dancer Satoshi Haga is Shyu’s foil, as they switch and blur the roles of male and female in their portrayal of four main characters: the Timorese female warrior Ho’a Nahak Samane Oan, who disguises herself as a man to defeat a rival king; “Baridegi” from Korean folklore, known as the first shaman, whose journey story is strikingly similar to that of of Ho’a Nahak Samane Oan; the half-blind, nomadic Taiwanese moon lute virtuoso Chen Da, who defined Hengchun Folk Song, becoming a national icon for Taiwanese independence from China; a universal character, who cannot accept death and begs for rebirth, based on Javanese shadow puppeteer master and friend who, at the age of 30 in 2014, died in a car crash with his wife and 11-month old baby. Through both narrative and abstract, integrative music-movement methodologies, these four characters will interact as a microcosm of the parallels that exist in the universe and the great necessity for empathy among cultures, thereby defying assumptions that currently divide humanity.

The premiere of this work was supported by [GENERATE] and presented with Asia Society New York.

With generous support from Chamber Music America New Jazz Works, New Music USA, Roulette’s [GENERATE] Fund, Jerome Foundation, Doris Duke Foundation, and Exploring the Metropolis Choreographer + Composer Residency at Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning.

[GENERATE] Jen Shyu: Song of Silver Geese with MIVOS Quartet, Jade Tongue, & Satoshi Haga is made possible, in part, with funds from GENERATE: The Frances Richard Fund for Innovative Artists of Promise.

GENERATE, instituted in celebration of Roulette’s 35th Anniversary in 2013, aims to present ambitious, complex and often large-scale works of experimental performing art by supporting emerging and established artists with commissions, residencies, and additional production and presentation financial underwriting

To learn more about GENERATE and to make a contribution, visit our webpage: http://roulette.org/support/generate/

Jen Shyu's "Song of Silver Geese": Contemplation (Part 2 only)

We taped this Field Recording shortly after Hurricane Sandy devastated communities in and around New York and New Jersey. One of those affected was drummer Nasheet Waits, who had lost his kit in the storm's waters. Luckily, the Steve Maxwell drum store in midtown Manhattan was willing to lend a hand — and one gray morning, we found ourselves in a gem of a space, surrounded by an incredible array of instruments, including Elvin Jones' setup.

The session had the feeling of a reunion. ElSaffar — a trumpeter and santur (hammered dulcimer) player who was born near Chicago to an Iraqi father and an American mother, and who grew up immersed in both cultures — had recently moved from New York to Cairo to pursue his work with Arab classical music. But this group with Ole Mathisen on saxophone, Zafer Tawil playing oud, Carlo De Rosa on bass and Waits on drums shifted into Two Rivers gear immediately. (ElSaffar is bringing this lineup of Two Rivers to the Newport Jazz Festival on August 3, along with buzuq player Tareq Abboushi.)

The room glowed when they performed — not just from the golden wood paneling, or even from the instruments throwing off their own impressive metallic shimmers, but also from the music itself. ElSaffar has found a beautiful and singular way of pairing the sibling spirits of jazz and the classical maqam system of the Arab world, with their shared spheres of improvisation, deep knowledge of tradition and urge to keep innovating. Two rivers, but they lead to the same ocean. --ANASTASIA TSIOULCAS

Personnel
Amir ElSaffar: trumpet, santur
Carlo De Rosa: bass
Ole Mathisen: saxophone
Nasheet Waits: drums
Zafer Tawil: oud

Credits
Produced by Saidah Blount, Mito Habe-Evans, Anastasia Tsioulcas; Audio Engineer: Kevin Wait; Videographers: Gabriella Garcia-Pardo, Mito Habe-Evans, Tim Wilkins; Edited by Gabriella Garcia-Pardo; Special Thanks: Steve Maxwell Vintage & Custom Drums; Executive Producers: Anya Grundmann, Keith Jenkins

Amir ElSaffar: NPR Music Field Recording

Nuevo Jazz Latino All Stars

Ragas Live Festival October 21-22 2017

Pre-sale tickets available here!  https://igg.me/at/ragaslive  


For the first time, the Rubin Museum of Art will host the 24 hour Ragas Live Festival.  More than 50 musicians, and a very special audience, will take over the entire museum: an overnight concert of sacred sounds. 
We are inviting you to join us for an unforgettable experience.  

Thanks to those who appear in this video: Falu Shah, Rajmani Sinclair, Arun and Trina Basu, Richie, Ian Cinco Pioneer Works, Vivek Pandya, WKCR, Samarth Nagakar, Krishna Bhatt and Anindo Chaterjee, Brooklyn Raga Massive, David Ellenbogen,http://www.nycradiolive.org/amir-elsaffar-podcast-170/

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