#Frank Carlberg

[joshhaden]

Vocalist Christine Correa's Ugly Beauty CD (1993, Northeastern) closes with my father's tune "First Song". Lyrics by Abbey Lincoln. w/ pianist Frank Carlberg.

[motorsportverso]

Resultado rally ERC Sweden

1-3-Olivier Solberg\Eliott Edmonssen-Skoda Fabia RS Rally 2-Toksport WRT-1:32:40.8

2-15-Mikko Heikkila\Kristian Temonen-Toyota GR Yaris Rally 2-1:33:18.8

3-1-Hayden Paddon/Jhon Kennard-Hyundai I20 N Rally 2-1:33:31.8

4-17-Frank Larssen/Lars Lundgreen-VW Pólo GTI R5-1:34:09.5

5-10-Mads Otsberg\Patrick Barth-CRT Rally Team-Citroen C3 Rally 2-1:34:14.6

ERC JR

1-30-Mile Johansson\Johan Granvall-Opel Corsa Rally 4-1:43:02.6

2-35-Cale Carlberg\Jorgen Erikssen-Opel Corsa Rally 4-1:43:35.2

3-38-Karl Sei\Martin Leotoots-ALM Motorsport-Peugeot 208 Rally 4-1:45:08.5

[theloniousbach]

HANGING OUT AT SMALL’S LIVE #29: COUCH TOUR 2-3 JANUARY 2023

JASON BROWN with Greg Glassman, Nicole Glover, Peter Bernstein, Miki Yamanaka, and Luke Sellick, SMALL’S JAZZ CLUB, 2 JANUARY 2023

FRANK CARLBERG with John Hebert and Dan Weiss, MEZZROW’S, 3 JANUARY 2023

Two shows in real time with charms and adventure.

JASON BROWN is a fine, earnest young drummer. He had a strong band (indeed that’s what I was there for) but maybe not enough time to rehearse it for his own compositions. So they dug into Sonny Rollins (Valse Hot), Charlie Parker (Chasin’ the Bird), and Thelonious Monk (Ugly Beauty, originally in 3, here in 5, a drummer’s move, right?) to open. Straightforward head arrangements, solos by the horns each getting a chance to have piano or guitar accompaniment, then piano and guitar solos, and of course drum showcases. I don’t mean to pass it off as predictable because the players were just so good.

Peter Bernstein is the veteran and he contributed the bluesy tune Bones with hard bop horns. Of course, he avoided guitar cliches while still delivering what his instrument does. But I was there because Nicole Glover is backing taking gigs. She hasn’t been a leader yet which gives her a freedom to blow and yet someone else’s structure to take some of the pressure I sense she imposes on herself. The result is her playing is direct, expressive, and less intense. She was linear with the Rollins; very tenorish and rich on the Parker; rich on the Monk; as bluesy as I’ve ever heard her on Bones.

Greg Glassman had taken a sit in during a Miki Yamanaka gig and continued to impress by, like Glover of late, not pushing things. Just solid smart solos. But it was Yamanaka who won the day with ever so mischievous accompaniments that led to clever solos. THE best moments were just before the gig when she and Glover were at ease being really clever music nerds together, modulating a tune back and forth and voicing it in terms of the styles of a variety of players. Yamanaka is usually more of a brash smart ass whereas Glover is austere, but they found a ready language and common ground. I hope they play together more.

FRANK CARLBERG has a new release based on rethinking Monk’s 1952 Prestige trio date Reflections. So I’ll gladly take four Monk tunes (Monk’s Dream, Sweet and Lovely, Reflections, and Let’s Cool One), Body and Soul, and a Herbie Nichols (!!) tune. But, the Monk’s Dream opener was so cryptic, intense, and New Music-y that I was tempted to check out an equally interesting gig led by a tap dancer with Sean Mason in a trio setting. I’ll still catch that one in the archive as I was rewarded for riding the storm. Now these were still challenging and off kilter readings of tunes that are challenging and off kilter to begin with, but the Monkness shone through. Kenny Barron and Fred Hersch generally do a Monk tune a set and they have differently wonderful approaches. Carlberg has another—a bit austere, a bit Nordic, maybe even a bit cerebral. But it worked—and the Nichols was winning. His quirkiness is a little different than Monk’s with some winsomeness. John Hebert, who has played with Hersch, and Dan Weiss contributed well though each maintained the independent streaks of the opener.

Just a couple of nights of Small’s Live streams but that they were in real time makes them kind of special.

[mostlymonk]

Friday the 13th

Clazz Ensemble

Reeds Dick de Graaf, Nils van Haften Arno Bornkamp, Werner Janssen

Trumpet/Flugel Gerard Kleijn, Charlie Biggs & Erik Veldkamp

Trombone Vincent Veneman & Koen Kaptijn -

Frank Carlberg – piano Guus Bakker – bass Joost Kesselaar - drums

[donospl]

Guillaume Tarche „Steve Lacy. (Unfinished)”

Guillaume Tarche „Steve Lacy. (Unfinished)”

Lenka Lente, 2021 Francuskie wydawnictwo Lenka Lente dysponuje niezwykle unikalnym katalogiem publikacji. Wiele z oferowany przez nie książek poświęconych jest muzyce jazzowej, w szczególności tej o bardziej awangardowym obliczu. Pełna lista książek wydawnictwa Lenka Lente znajduje się tutaj: http://www.lenkalente.com/ Latem roku 2021 francuski wydawca zaprezentował książkę poświęconą…

[moochilatv]

Salió ONTOLOGY, el nuevo álbum de Roxana Amed

Ideal para escuchar durante estos días lluviosos

Nacida en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, residente desde 2013 en los Estados Unidos, la cantante y compositora Roxana Amed representa para la escena musical argentina, audiencias y críticos, una de las voces más importantes en la fusión entre música argentina y jazz.

Editó siete álbumes y un DVD, LIMBO (2004), ENTREMUNDOS (2006) producidos con Pedro Aznar, LA VOZ MÁS ALLÁ, (DVD, 2009) conciertos o grabaciones en estudio en 5.1, CINEMATECA FINLANDESA (2010), dúo con Adrián Iaies, INOCENCIA (2011), visita al folklore argentino, LA SOMBRA DE SU SOMBRA (2013) con Frank Carlberg, música original para poemas de Alejandra Pizarnik, INSTANTÁNEAS (2019), un disco grabado en vivo en estudio, de tomas únicas, versiones íntimas y pequeños ensambles, y ONTOLOGY, un nuevo álbum de música original, fusión de jazz y música argentina.

Sus discos están actualmente editados por Sony Music y The Orchard.

Desde que se radicara en los Estados Unidos, Amed se ha presentado en los clubes más importantes de New York como Dizzy’s Club Jazz at Lincoln Center, Jazz Standard, The Jazz Gallery, The Stone, Smalls and Mezzrow con sus proyectos o como invitada de Guillermo Klein o Emilio Solla entre otros artistas.

En sus visitas regulares a Argentina, Amed ha presentado diferentes proyectos, entre los más notables, ha realizado una serie de conciertos con Orquesta Sinfónica con Adri��n Iaies bajo la dirección del maestro Luis Gorelik; en 2017 fue comisionada para un Tributo a Astor Piazzolla con el pianista brasileño André Mehmari para el Festival Internacional de Jazz de Buenos Aires y en 2018 abrió en el Teatro Colón para la internacionalmente aclamada banda americana de Jazz-Fusión Snarky Puppy.

Amed, con un postgrado en Literatura, es también autora exclusiva de Sony Music Publishing y ha compuesto para artistas de distintos géneros y recibido un premio Martin Fierro como compositora y varias nominaciones al Premio Gardel a la Música.

Becada para un Masters en Jazz vocal, Amed -coordinadora de un memorable Workshop para decenas de cantantes en el Festival Internacional de Jazz de Buenos Aires durante 10 años- se despeña también como profesora en distintas universidades de Miami y en su estudio privado, trabajando en su método de entrenamiento para cantantes de música popular.

Disponible ya en plataformas: roxanaamed.lnk.to/Ontology

[fueradefocomagazine]

ROXANA AMED presenta su nuevo álbum ONTOLOGY

Escucha Ontology en todas las tiendas digitales: ONTOLOGY ▶️ https://roxanaamed.lnk.to/Ontology

Aislamiento, nostalgia, una sensación de no pertenecer, vivir en el entremundo, son temas que habitan desde siempre las canciones de Roxana Amed. Ontology, el reciente trabajo de la cantante y compositora argentina, lanzado por Sony Music US Latin, es la culminación de un viaje de 6 años, colmado de esas mismas consideraciones, que condujo a Amed a reafirmar su identidad musical liberada de géneros o geografías.

“Conseguí finalmente encontrar un lugar desde donde observarme a mí misma como una artista argentina y también como una artista estadounidense considerando las variadas tradiciones y raíces de este país”, reflexiona Amed desde su casa en Miami. “Eso es lo que descubrí que ocurre ontológicamente con esta música. Estoy parada en la fusión, en la confluencia de esos dos mundos. En ese sentido, creo que este álbum es el que mejor me representa.”

Nacida en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Amed ha vivido fuera de su país desde 2013 y es reconocida en su país natal como una de las voces más importantes en el jazz argentino, haciendo convivir folklore argentino y rock con jazz, un lenguaje plasmado en una carrera de seis álbumes y un DVD, así como a través de múltiples presentaciones, colaboraciones y reconocimientos. Ontology, su séptimo trabajo, es una colección de música original creada e interpretada durante los últimos años. Principalmente sostenido por un quinteto, Ontology presenta unos músicos que con maestría fluyen alrededor de la cantante, que a su vez lidera con el tono rico y profundo de su instrumento. Martin Bejerano en piano y Mark Small en saxo como compositores y miembros fundadores del proyecto, y en las diferentes sesiones, Edward Perez, Lowell Ringel y Carlos De Rosa en contrabajo, Ludwig Afonso y Rodolfo Zuniga en la batería, y las guitarras eléctricas de Tim Jago y Aaron Lebos. Producido por Amed, el álbum fue grabado en el icónico estudio de Miami The Hit Factory/Criteria Recording Studios, en tres sesiones comenzando en marzo de 2019 y culminando en agosto de 2020, en medio de una pandemia global. “Fue difícil, para mí, percibir la continuidad creativa y de producción con las pausas y las distancias”, dice Amed. Sin embargo, Ontology resultó en un trabajo sin fisuras –catorce temas construidos para transitar con la aterciopelada voz de Amed como una fuerza unificadora. Amed domina el arte de disolver distinciones lingüísticas. “Mi desafío siempre fue encontrar un sonido nutrido por la tradición vocal del jazz de los Estados Unidos, pero en castellano,” dice Amed. “…donde pudiera hacer scat  fluidamente. Quería que ambos idiomas pudieran convivir en un mismo trabajo.” En el tema de apertura del disco, “Tumbleweed”, Amed teje una melodía cautivante con sus palabras en inglés, con su tono oscuro como la línea del saxo de Mark Small, compositor de la música. “Chacarera para la mano izquierda,” fue originalmente una pieza instrumental que Bejerano compuso acercándose a una chacarera, pero en la percepción de Amed, el dominio rítmico del pianista le dio una impronta sólida tanto en la música con raíces latinoamericanas así como en el swing, y decidió escribir esa letra como un tributo a ese virtuosismo. Amed re-imagina “Virgo” de Wayne Shorter, vistiendo esa maravillosa melodía con sus palabras, aprobadas por el gran compositor; incluye un arreglo original de Kendall Moore para “Blue in green” de Miles Davis con letra de Cassandra Wilson con la vertiginosa guitarra de Tim Jago, y revisita dos obras, originalmente para piano, de Alberto Ginastera –parte de la suite Danzas Argentinas- “Danza de la moza donosa”, con letra de Amed y la “Danza del viejo boyero”, una versión con agitadas improvisaciones por parte de Amed, Bejerano y del baterista Rodolfo Zuniga. El tema que lleva el nombre del álbum “Ontology” y el up-tempo “Milonga por la ausencia” traen un aire porteño y su sofisticación urbana. “Amor”, con su resonancia de jazz rock, presenta un mundo de transformaciones en su letra, acompañada por la incorporación de distintos músicos, Aaron Lebos aportando su dosis de jazz rock en la guitarra eléctrica, y la intensa improvisación de Mark Small, creando una atmósfera de exaltación épica. El tema final de este álbum “Winter”, un sigiloso dúo de voz y piano, le da cierre a una serie de preciosas piezas que consolidan a Amed como una artista políglota de jazz y a una productora audaz.

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Acerca de Roxana Amed Nacida en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, residente desde 2013 en los Estados Unidos, la cantante y compositora Roxana Amed representa para la escena musical argentina una de las voces más destacadas en la fusión entre música argentina y jazz. Editó siete álbumes y un DVD, LIMBO (2004), ENTREMUNDOS (2006) producidos con Pedro Aznar, LA VOZ MÁS ALLÁ, conciertos o grabaciones en estudio en 5.1 (DVD, 2009), CINEMATECA FINLANDESA, dúo con Adrián Iaies (2010), INOCENCIA, visita al folklore argentino (2011), LA SOMBRA DE SU SOMBRA con Frank Carlberg, música original para poemas de Alejandra Pizarnik (2013),  INSTANTÁNEAS, un disco grabado en vivo en estudio, de tomas únicas, versiones íntimas y pequeños ensambles (2019), y ONTOLOGY, un nuevo álbum de música original, donde conviven jazz y música argentina. Ya en Estados Unidos, Amed se ha presentado en los clubes más importantes de NY como Dizzy’s Club Jazz at Lincoln Center, Jazz Standard, The Jazz Gallery, The Stone, Smalls and Mezzrow con sus proyectos o como invitada de Guillermo Klein o Emilio Solla entre otros artistas. En sus visitas regulares a Argentina, Amed ha presentado diferentes proyectos, entre los más notables figuran una serie de conciertos con Orquesta Sinfónica con Adrián Iaies bajo la dirección del maestro Luis Gorelik; en 2017 fue comisionada para un Tributo a Astor Piazzolla con el pianista brasileño André Mehmari para el Festival Internacional de Jazz de Buenos Aires y en 2018 abrió en el Teatro Colón para la internacionalmente aclamada banda americana de Jazz-Fusión Snarky Puppy. Amed, con un postgrado en Literatura, es también autora exclusiva de Sony Music Publishing y ha compuesto para artistas de distintos géneros y recibido un premio Martin Fierro como compositora. Becada para un Masters en Jazz vocal en Florida International University, Amed -coordinadora de un memorable Workshop para decenas de cantantes en el Festival Internacional de Jazz de Buenos Aires durante 10 años- se despeña también como profesora en Miami Dade College y en FIU, así como en su estudio privado, trabajando en su método de entrenamiento para cantantes de música popular. Conéctate con Roxana Amed: Sigue a Roxana Amed ▶️ https://RoxanaAmed.lnk.to/Follow​ Facebook ▶️ https://RoxanaAmed.lnk.to/Facebook​ Instagram ▶️ https://RoxanaAmed.lnk.to/Instagram​ Twitter ▶️ https://RoxanaAmed.lnk.to/Twitter Official site ▶️ https://RoxanaAmed.lnk.to/Website

[brucebrubaker]

January 15, 2020, 7:30 p.m.

Jordan Hall, Boston

Ran Blake, with BB, and Frank Carlberg

cancelled

https://necmusic.edu/events/cancelled-ran-blake-frank-carlberg-and-bruce-brubaker

[jazzworldquest-blog]

CANADA: Daniel Hersog’s O Canada Jazz Orchestra July 1st Digital Release (YT FB, Insta)

Daniel Hersog’s O Canada Jazz Orchestra July 1st Digital Release (YT FB, Insta) Watch "O Canada!" Composer/trumpeter Daniel Hersog’s  O Canada Jazz Orchestra  

Formed during covid quarantine, the Daniel Hersog O Canada Jazz Orchestra is poised to release their first digital video. This video is a remotely recorded and filmed performance of Hersog’s new arrangement of O Canada.   Hersog’s 17-piece ensemble is rife with Juno Award winners, Canadian jazz heavy weights, and even a recipient of the Order of Canada. There are musicians representing all ten Canadian provinces. Formed with the intention of showcasing the comaraderie that exists amongst Canadian jazz musicians in these difficult times, this ensemble delivers a world class, high energy, and infinitely swinging performance of the Canadian National Anthem.   Hersog is currently receiving significant airplay, and international media attention for his newly released album Night Devoid of Stars on the Cellar Music Label.

Daniel Hersog’s O Canada Jazz Orchestra   Christine Jensen – BC/QC Remi Bolduc – QC Phil Dwyer – BC Joel Miller – NB/QC Ben Henriques – BC Mike Herriott – NL Brad Turner – BC Bria Skonberg – BC Al Muirhead – AB William Carn – ON Dale Sorensen – PEI Andrew Jackson – NS Sharman King – BC Jocelyn Marie Gould – MB Amanda Tosoff – BC/ON Gent Laird – SK Mark Kelso – ON   Audio and Video Edited by Ben Henriques  

© Robert Iannone

Daniel Hersog Born in 1985 and raised in Vancouver and Victoria, Hersog has become a vital voice as a trumpeter, composer and arranger. He has toured North America leading large ensembles with such notable musicians as Terry Clarke, Kevin Turcotte, Remy Le Boeuff, Billy Buss, Stuart Mack, Jason Palmer and Kim Cass, as well as Brad Turner, Noah Preminger and Frank Carlberg. Hersog is often featured at the Vancouver International Jazz Festival, in addition to performing regularly in his hometown at Frankie’s Jazz Club and Pat’s Pub. As a sideman, he performs with the Vancouver Legacy Jazz Orchestra, Jaelem Bhate Jazz Orchestra, Super Trumpets and Sonny’s Cousin. A 2016 graduate of New England Conservatory, Hersog won the school’s prestigious Gunther Schuller Medal. He studied with a who’s who of jazz at NEC. Composition teachers included Carlberg, John Hollenbeck, Dave Holland, Ken Schaphorst and Rakalam Bob Moses; he studied trumpet with masters John McNeil, Ralph Alessi and Steve Emery. An instructor himself now, Hersog teaches jazz trumpet at Capilano University, where he also writes for the school’s big band and leads a trumpet ensemble.

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Walmart wants to monitor shoppers' facial expressions

via Dangerous Minds

“Parrhesia is a kind of verbal activity where the speaker has a specific relation to truth through frankness, a certain relationship to his own life through danger, a certain type of relation to himself or other people through criticism (self-criticism or criticism of other people), and a specific relation to moral law through freedom and duty. More precisely, parrhesia is a verbal activity in which a speaker expresses his personal relationship to truth, and risks his life because he recognizes truth-telling as a duty to improve or help other people (as well as himself). In parrhesia, the speaker uses his freedom and chooses frankness instead of persuasion, truth instead of falsehood or silence, the risk of death instead of life and security, criticism instead of flattery, and moral duty instead of self-interest and moral apathy”

― Michel Foucault

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[rich4a1]

Frank Carlberg Large Ensemble Elegy for Thelonious

Frank Carlberg Large Ensemble Elegy for Thelonious Sunnyside Pianist, composer, educator and now conductor Frank Carlberg continues his ongoing homage and fascination with the music of Thelonious Monk by leading a large ensemble replete with two vocalists on the ambitious Elegy for Thelonious. As alluded to, this is not Carlberg’s first Monk ‘rodeo.” He played piano on the lauded 2017 release,…

[mccormick1942-blog]

Frank Carlberg's Big Band Takes Extended Flights On Familiar Monk Themes

[mostlymonk]

Thelonious

Clazz Ensemble

 Rhythm Section: Frank Carlberg – piano & arranger Guus Bakker – bass Joost Kesselaar – drums

 Reeds Dick de Graaf, Nils van Haften, Arno Bornkamp & Werner Janssen -

  Trumpet/Flugelhorn Gerard Kleijn, Charlie Biggs & Erik Veldkamp

  Trombones Vincent Veneman & Koen Kaptijn

[williamchasterson]

NPR News: Fresh Air Weekend: Jordan Peele; 'Monk Dreams'; Novelist Sebastian Barry

NPR News: Fresh Air Weekend: Jordan Peele; ‘Monk Dreams’; Novelist Sebastian Barry

Fresh Air Weekend: Jordan Peele; ‘Monk Dreams’; Novelist Sebastian Barry Get Out Director Jordan Peele discusses his love of horror films. Kevin Whitehead reviews Frank Carlberg’s new tribute to Thelonious Monk. Barry’s novel, Days Without End, features Irish immigrants.

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Frank Carlberg's Big Band Takes Extended Flights On Familiar Monk Themes http://www.npr.org/2017/03/13/519999565/frank-carlberg-s-big-band-takes-extended-flights-on-familiar-monk-themes?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=storiesfromnpr Stories from NPR : NPR | Mario Millions

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recommended digital releases, january 13th

a large majority of the music i listen to these days is done at work through a premium spotify subscription. the hardest part seems to be trying to remember when an album i’ve been anticipating finally comes out on whatever random friday.

i figure i’m not the only one so every friday i’m aiming to post five new releases from the past week (or so) as well as five recent releases from the past couple months that are available through spotify (and presumably the other streaming platforms).

new releases from the past week (or so):

stanley brinks and the old time kaniks "vieilles caniques et nouvelles caniques" on fika [spotify, bandcamp] reissue of two cd-r's each of which was recorded in a single day at a norwegian lighthouse in july 2014. with the kaniks stripped back to just banjo and fiddle it reminds me of alasdair roberts singing pop songs.

chavez "cockfighters" ep on matador [spotify] after twenty years there's finally a new release from matador records cult band chavez. admist the current 90s revivalist trend it's refreshing to see a band that remembers the 'heaviness' of the period. to be fair chavez have a bit of a head start since they were actually there for the 90's. no clue if this means there's more in the works from the band but it certainly bring me back to being a teenager when i saw them open for dinosaur jr.

half japanese "hear the lions roar" on fire [spotify, bandcamp] jad fair of half japanese likes to spread himself out and work with lots of different people in a similar fashion to bob pollard of guided by voices. also like pollard, the releases from his main project tend to be the most consistent and satisfying. the new half japanese album finds jad preaching his strange tales of love and monsters like a nerdy ian svenonius over jangly indie pop.

lilys "in the presence of nothing" on frontier [spotify, bandcamp] one of the highlights of american shoegaze gets an expanded reissue. the first lilys album from 1992 certainly lives in the shade of "loveless". it also shares some of the early chime of velocity girl due to the presence of VG guitarist archie moore.

matthew e. white and flo morrissey "gentlewoman, ruby man" on glassnote [spotify] white and morrissey first collaborated together in the fall of 2015 when they performed a duet of 'some velvet morning' at a lee hazlewood tribute show in london. the song went well enough that last summer morrissey flew over to record an entire album of duets with white's spacebomb crew. great choices in source material (velvet underground, little wings, frank ocean, leonard cohen) and arrangements that verge from funky to psychedelic make for a fantastic start to 2017.

slightly older stuff:

john bender "plaster falling" on superior viaduct [spotify] a surprisingly warm, electronic album from 1981 with gurgling synths, programmed drums and vacant vocals. i imagine if you played your devo 7"s at 33rpm it might sound something like this.

kadhja bonet "the visitor" on fat possum [spotify, bandcamp] psychedelic electro-soul that reminds me a lot of the gorgeous and soulful natalie prass album from 2015 without the preciousness.

family fodder "forever and ever" on jungle [spotify] "forever and ever" was originally issued in 1996 under alig fodder's "johnny human" pseudonym. it's been revised for it's 20th birthday and graduated to a proper family fodder album. a peculiar blend of avant punk, french chanson and dub with guest vocals by viv corringham.

the finks "middling" on milk! [spotify, bandcamp] great australian indie pop band that comes off like a forlorn lucksmiths, aden or pelle carlberg. i impulse ordered everything on their bandcamp from them last weekend after discovering them on the finest kiss' best of 2016 list.

evan parker, daunik lazro and joe mcphee "seven pieces- live at willisau 1995" on clean feed [spotify] the trio of british, french and american saxophone players have paired up for various duo CDs over the years but only released a single CD as a trio in 1996. twenty years later someone discovered a forgotten tape of another performance from the same month granting us additional evidence of the trio's patient intensity.

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